Title from donor notes. Full donor notes read: "Milton Swan, long the lay leader of the Kivalina congregation, as the first Inuit ordained deacon by the Episcopal church. He was later ordained priest, again a first for the church."
Title from donor notes. Full donor notes read: "Milton Swan, long the lay leader of the Kivalina congregation, as the first Inuit ordained deacon by the Episcopal church. He was later ordained priest, again a first for the church."
Note: 1893, written on image is probably incorrect date; Fr. Ioann (John) Bartnovskii (or Bartnovsky) was ordained in 1894, the same year the church was consecrated Photographer's number 289.
Title taken from image. Thirteen men in formal dress. Orthodox priest in center.
Verso, notes of Anna Katzeek: Archie Demetris White, chief of Raven tribe of Hoonah is in tall hat beside priest. Additional information about Archie...