Kobuk: Images

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image thumbnail Eskimo baby. Title from accompanying note. Richard and Florence Collins Papers
image thumbnail Eskimo grade school girls with Brooks Range in background at Shungnak. Title from accompanying note.Full note reads: "1948 11 Eskimo Grade school girls with Brooks Range in background @ Shungnak, AK. This was taken on the playground on the north side and the Kobuk River is on the right side of the picture." Charles Crabaugh papers
image thumbnail Eskimos from native village Noorvik on Kobuk River, 25 miles distant come to Kotzebue to shop for groceries and gasoline and to sell furs. Here readying to leave Kotze[bue] for home. Title from sleeve. 2 1/4 B&W negative. AMRC. Steve McCutcheon Collection
image thumbnail Esk[imo] Kids at Ambler Village on Kobuk River. Title from sleeve. 2 1/4 B&W negative. AMRC. Steve McCutcheon Collection
image thumbnail Football on Kobuk River below the school house at Shungnak. Title from accompanying note.Full note reads: "1949 03 Football on Kobuk River below the school house @ Shungnak, AK. This was a favorite pastime for all of the kids. We would play on the river in the winter until well after midnight most nights." Charles Crabaugh papers
image thumbnail Frank Glover Qutvuq 1952. Title taken from caption on slide. "Frank Glover Qutvuq 1952, born Salmon river Kobuk." A profile close-up shot. Charles V. Lucier Collection 1936-1953
image thumbnail Group of people wearing parkas. Accompanying note identifies people as: top row - Bert Harvey, Pauline Harvey, Mable Brown, bottom row - Martha (Harvey) Smith, Daniel Harvey (?). Richard and Florence Collins Papers
image thumbnail Harry and [Mable] Brown. Title from accompanying note.Full note reads: "The location of this picture is Kobuk. Harry and Mable Brown. Harry learned Inupiat." Sign behind reads "Kobuk post office". Richard and Florence Collins Papers
image thumbnail Harry Brown's boat. Title from photo caption.<br><br>Lettering on boat reads: "RUTH 31E842". Additional comments from village presentations read: "Harry Brown (white man) came up to the Upper Kobuk in the early 1940s. He owned the first store in Kobuk. He married Mable Brown (Eskimo) and they adopted Mae Bernhardt. This boat went down to Kotzebue and hauled back supplies to the upriver communities. The boat also took people who were sick down to Kotzebue. The name of the dog on the boat is Buffy. When the dog passed away, Mable dressed up the dog and laid it to rest." Richard and Florence Collins Papers
image thumbnail Houseboat. Title from accompanying note.<br><br>Additional comments from village presentations read: "Harry Brown's 2-nd boat. Harry Brown is to the left of the picture. The boat was called the Bucky B. barge and it hauled barrels of fuel for the upriver communities from Kotzebue." Richard and Florence Collins Papers
image thumbnail Houseboat. Title from accompanying note. Richard and Florence Collins Papers
image thumbnail Ice floe. Title by indexer. Richard and Florence Collins Papers
image thumbnail Ice floe. Title by indexer. Richard and Florence Collins Papers
image thumbnail Ice floe. Title by indexer. Richard and Florence Collins Papers
image thumbnail Iñupiam u*kalhi = Eskimo reader Full Title: Iñupiam u*kalhi = Eskimo reader / by Wilfried Zibell ; illustrated by C.E. Platts. Publication: Fairbanks, Alaska : Summer Institute of Linguistics, c1968. Physical desc: 41 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. General Note: Reader for the Kobuk River-Kotzebue Sound area. Added title: Eskimo reader. Alaska State Library. Alaska Native Language Materials. ASL.
image thumbnail Jennie Lloyd. Title by indexer. Description from cataloger's notes. Jennie Lloyd "... in the Kobuk [area]." Identifications made by Sally Custer, Neal and Margaret Sheldon, Edna Commack, Josie Woods, Robert Lee, and Mildred Black, elders from Shungnak, Alaska: Jennie Lloyd was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd (the magistrate in the area) from Mildred Black’s family in the late 1940s. They lived in Dahl Creek. She died in the hospital in Norvik. Her Inupiat name was Anugaaq. Tishu V. Ulen collection;
image thumbnail Kiana School House. Title from verso. Image shows a side view of two white buildings and several log cabins next to a river, probably the Kobuk River. Smoke is coming from the chimney of the building on the right, which is identified in other Reuel Griffin Collection photos as the Kiana Post Office. A white building with a flag above its roof in the background is identified as the Kiana School. Wildflowers are shown in the foreground and a mountain is faintly visible in the distance. Vertical File--Locations--Kiana; Reuel Griffin Photograph Collection;
image thumbnail Kobuk Lake. Title from photo caption.Additional comments from village presentations read: "L-R: Harry Brown, Herbert Custer (?), unindentified person, Stanley Johnson, Charlie Sheldon, Jean Collins, Richard Collins." Richard and Florence Collins Papers
image thumbnail Kobuk leading dog team on Nelchina plane recovery. Title supplied by cataloger. Frozen river seen in background. Slide box labeled, 'Mushing early.' Original format: 35mm color slide AMRC. Redington Family Collection
image thumbnail Kobuk Post Office. Title from accompanying note.Full note reads: '1949 04 Kobuk Post Office. The guy on the right I believe was named "Brown" and the lady in the middle was his wife.' Charles Crabaugh papers
image thumbnail Kobuk Valley Jade Co., Kotzebue, Alaska. View of Kobuk Valley Jade Company in Kotzebue, Alaska, with large pieces of jade in front of building. 1950's? Photographer: Frank Whaley. Original photograph size: 8" x 10". AMRC. Wien Collection;
image thumbnail Ladle Wooden ladle or scoop; broad, shallow bowl; one piece of spruce wood; stained dark red on outside; used; hole pierced in end of handle for hanging; 12 7/8" long.Label put on by donor: "CL- 3 Salmon River Kobuk Frank Glover 1952" See letter in file from donor. Acc. to Lucier: "I painted the dipper with mineral ochre paint according to directions given me by a Buckland man, in 1951. The dipper was ordinarily painted in this manner at Salmon River, if I understood Qutvaq correctly." Originally made as part of a dipper set. Ethnology;
image thumbnail Lieut. J. C. Cantwell, Kowak R., Hotham Inlet, [ca. 1880-1890]. Title taken from image (in Thomas W .Benham's handwriting). Formal portrait of John C. Cantwell, a lieutenant in the Revenue Cutter Service. He is wearing a beaded jacket. He explored the Kobuk River (also known as the Kowak River) in 1884-1885. Original photograph size: 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inch. Thomas W. Benham photographs, circa 1880-1890. UAA-HMC-0069
image thumbnail Line of women in atikluks, back view. Title from accompanying note. Richard and Florence Collins Papers
image thumbnail Mac shows weights made by Eskimo at Ambler Village, Kobuk River. Title from sleeve. Photographer's number: 12841. 2 1/4 B&W negative. AMRC. Steve McCutcheon Collection

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