This color slide depicts an unidentified Alaska Native man holding a skin kayak and a paddle on the beach at Kotzebue, Alaska, in 1962. He is wearing a parka with a fur-trimmed hood and mukluks. The photographer is unidentified.
This color slide depicts an Alaska Native man in a kayak in the ocean near either Kotzebue or Barrow, Alaska in 1962. He is wearing a coat with a fur-trimmed hood, holding a paddle, and waving at the photographer. The photographer is unidentified.
This color slide depicts an unidentified Alaska Native man in a skin kayak in the ocean near Kotzebue, Alaska in 1962. He wears a parka with a fur-trimmed hood and a paddle. The photographer is unidentified.
From verso: "The Aleuts used a light skin boat that greatly resembled the Eskimo kayak but was usually built to carry either two or three people instead of just one."
Deering on a spit of land surrounded by water [mouth of Inmachuk River at Kotzebue Sound]; dark, low clouds in sky; a kayak on water in foreground; Fairhaven Mining Company buildings on right
Kayak frame and willow tent poles are stored on rack. These racks were used to hang caribou skins on for drying in the sun, and to store food on in the winter to keep it away from the dogs. Occasionally polar bears were still able to get into the...
[Northern Native camp along coast, possibly near the village of Tanuak; an animal hide is stretched between posts of a frame; a kayak rests on a support, which may be a tusk; a sailing ship is visible offshore.] Photographer’s number 343.