33 second film clip, color/silent. Film show the forward operating base on Adak during the Aleutian Camapign of WWII, consisting of tents erected on a grassy field.
"After sorting, the grass blades are gathered in neat bundles and hung out to cure. Whenever a rain shower came along all the curing grass bundles throughout the village were whisked out of sight as if by magic." (Olaus J. Murie, Circa 1937)
Christina Salmon standing behind the Nelson's house before the "Big Mountain" access road was built. The road will one day be lead to the "barge landing".