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.
Title taken from caption. "Anchorage at Kyak." [May be either Southcentral or Southeast Alaska; see note for UAF-1959-866-46.] Caption in album reads: "35 mm neg. 75-747". 5 x 8 cyanotype (blue) print.
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