Shungnak: Images

Results below are from the Alaska Digital Archives which includes material from institutions all over the state. You can sort by clicking on the column header.

Thumbnail Object Titlesort descending Description Collection
image thumbnail Spring 1944 - Shungnak, reindeer calving time. Title from accompanying note. Richard and Florence Collins Papers
image thumbnail Students at Shungnak leaving for school. Title from verso. "[The little Eskimo girl in the left foreground watches the big girls board a Polatis porter bush plane at Kobuk.] Wien Air Alaska photo by Frank Whaley Fairbanks, Alaska." Identifications made by Sally Custer, Neal and Margaret Sheldon, Edna Commack, Josie Woods, Robert Lee, and Mildred Black, elders from Shungnak, Alaska: L-R: little girl?, George Cleveland Sr., Lena Commack Coffee, Wynita Woods Lee, Virginia Douglas Commack, Genevieve Douglas Norris. Kay J. Kennedy Aviation photograph Collection;
image thumbnail Students leaving for school. Title from verso. "[Dressed in their mail order catalogue finery, these self confident Eskimo teenagers board a Wien Air bush plane to head south to attend high school.]"Students leaving for school from a sand bar airport of the Kobuk river. Shungnak village in background." Identifications made by Sally Custer, Neal and Margaret Sheldon, Edna Commack, Josie Woods, Robert Lee, and Mildred Black, elders from Shungnak, Alaska: L-R: George Cleveland Sr., Lena Commack Coffee, Angeline Douglas, Genevieve Douglas Norris, Wynita Woods Lee, Virginia Douglas Commack and Harold Barry. This photo was taken on the sandbar near Shungnak. They would then fly to Dahl Creek near Kobuk where there was a bigger airstrip. They were going to Chemawa, Oregon for boarding school. Kay J. Kennedy Aviation photograph Collection;
image thumbnail Summer at Shungnak. Title from accompanying note.Full note reads: "1949 06 Summer @ Shungnak, AK." Charles Crabaugh papers
image thumbnail Summer camp on Kobuk River at Shungnak. Title from accompanying note.Full note reads: "1949 Summer camp on the Kobuk River @ Shungnak, AK." Charles Crabaugh papers
image thumbnail Summer camp on Kobuk River at Shungnak. Title from accompanying note.Full note reads: "1949 Summer camp on the Kobuk River @ Shungnak, AK." Charles Crabaugh papers
image thumbnail Two men and dog herding reindeer. Title by indexer. Richard and Florence Collins Papers
image thumbnail Two young girls in their home at Shungnak. Title from accompanying note.Full note reads: "1949 11 Two young girls in their home @ Shungnak, AK." Charles Crabaugh papers
image thumbnail Williams, H. O. (Red) interview (03/07/1985) 09 of 17 (5:27 min) (09 of 27)Flying for fur buyers Leo Kay member of the Koslosky family. Fairbanks, Ruby, Hughes, Kobuk, Shungnak, Kiana, Kotzebue then Nome. Maime Wig's Roadhouse ran into Jim McGoffin, & (Muskrat) Johnnie Schwagler. Took off early to make sure and get the furs. Doiminic Vernetti, had an attractive wife. Furbuyer kept flirting, Did same thing in Shungnak with the teachers wife. Red Williams was worried that their hosts would kick them out into the cold. Oral History Interviews, Alaska & Polar Regions Collections;

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