Shungnak: Images

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image thumbnail Chester Cone - Nancy (Cone) Crabaugh at Shungnak. Title from accompanying note.Full note reads: "1948 10 Chester Cone - Nancy (Cone) Crabaugh @ Shungnak, AK with puppies behind the school with Brooks Range behind them." Charles Crabaugh papers
image thumbnail Charlie Lee pulling logs for Collins' cabin. Title from accompanying note.Full note reads: "Charlie Lee pulling logs for Collins' cabin up Quikcherk Creek with CAA tractor. Kobuk River." Additional comments from village presentations: "Quicksherk (misspelled). It might be spelled Koochak? This was an area between Shungnak and Kobuk. Charlie Lee was Margaret (Lee) Sheldon's dad. He boated w/Harry Brown's boat as a guide because he knew the river well." Richard and Florence Collins Papers
image thumbnail Cache to keep animals out of the meat. Used on the trail. Title from accompanying note.Full note reads: "1949 02 This is another cache to keep the animals out of the meat. Used on the trail." Charles Crabaugh 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 Bobby Jo Crabaugh, Nancy Crabaugh, and dog Kobuk on the school grounds at Shungnak. Title from accompanying note.Full note reads: "1948 10 Bobby Jo Crabaugh - Nancy Crabaugh with our dog, Kobuk on the school grounds @ Shungnak, Alaska. With the Brooks Range in the background." Charles Crabaugh papers
image thumbnail Belt Old style woman's belt made of wolverine paws; claws left on; strap for tying; 44" long. Ethnology;
image thumbnail Baskets, Birch Bark Pair of small, folded birch bark baskets with unstripped willow trim and side fold reinforcements. (A) The larger of the two has spruce root stitching. (B) The smaller basket has sinew stitching and cotton thread stitching at interior fold seam. See remarks field. Measures (A) 5.3 x 6.1 x 6.0 cm (B) 4.0 x 6.1 x 4.1 cm.According to donor, baskets were made by 8 to 9 year-old kids as 4-H projects for learning how to make things. Sold for $0.50. Ethnology;
image thumbnail Basket, Birch Bark Folded birch bark basket with spruce root stitching and willow trim. Top rim has woven pattern using black goose grass. The exterior of the basket has four seperate pieces of interior exposed birch bark sewn into the top rim. Willow has been stripped and sewn on with spruce root. On underside of basket, written in blue ball point ink, there is a name written which appears to be "Alexandra". Measures 8.4 x 16.3 x 16.1 cm. Ethnology;
image thumbnail Basket, Birch Bark Folded birch bark basket with unstripped willow trim and side reinforcement and spruce root stitching. Bark panels showing dark interior bark surface have been attached to exterior surface of bakset, which show the pale exterior bark surface, creating an alternating pattern of brown sides and white corners. On exterior bark panel, the words "Mildred Black / Shungnak, Alaska" are written in pencil. Measures 7.7 x 37.2 x 31.4 cm. Ethnology;
image thumbnail Basket, Birch Bark Deep, oval shaped birch bark container. Double layered and sewn with split spruce root. Rim rods of green willow branches. 6" h x 11" l x 7 1/2" w. OR 12.5 cm x 28.5 cm x 19.5 cm.12/6/2011: In the paper file the "place" is listed as Shungnak, but it is unclear if this was the place of collection, and use, or if this is only place of origin. MES Ethnology;
image thumbnail Aluniq born upper Kobuk half Kobuk Eskimo half Noatak, [Sheshalik]. Title taken from caption on slide. "Aluniq born upper Kobuk half Kobuk Eskimo half Noatak, Shishoalik." Identifications made by Sally Custer, Neal and Margaret Sheldon, Edna Commack, Josie Woods, Robert Lee, and Mildred Black, elders from Shungnak, Alaska: Ashby – Beatrice Mouse (Anausuk is her Inupiat name) Charles V. Lucier Collection 1936-1953
image thumbnail All aboard for school. Title from verso. "[All aboard for school. From the Alaska arctic, nearly 600 students are gathered from 40 remote villages and fish camps, each fall to fly to Fairbanks and Juneau, heading for high schools and colleges.] "Students boarding a Wien Air Alaska at Shungnak Alaska. Polatis [Polat is?] porter. The airport is a river sand bar in front of the town. 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: Lena Commack Coffee (climbing into plane), George Cleveland Sr., Genevieve Douglas Norris, Lottie Tickett, Virginia Douglas Commack. 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.Charles Mac Kay has identified the model and manufacturer of many aircraft on our website he has identified this one is a Pilatus Turbo Porter PC-6, and it has production number 569. Kay J. Kennedy Aviation photograph Collection;
image thumbnail Alaska Airlines Norseman travels from Shungnak to Fairbanks. 53 second film clip, color/silent. From title frame: "Doore Collection, 1960-1965". Film shows people boarding a plane in Shungnak and disembarking in Fairbanks. Alaska Film Archives, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; Doore Collection
image thumbnail George A. Morlander Photographs (Part 1, 1-500) Formerly known as Fritzie Franck Papers. The George A. Morlander Photographs consist of 826 photographic transparencies taken by Franck’s father, George A. Morlander, who worked as a teacher for the Alaska Native Service. The bulk of the images were taken from 1948 to 1950 in various villages and towns all over Alaska. Subjects include school children, village residents including Native Alaskans in traditional dress, dances, fishing activities, reindeer herding, dogs and dog teams, landscapes and scenic views.Locations include Akiachak, Akiak, Aniak, Bethel, Birch Bay, Chaniliut, Chevak, Chitina, Deering, Eek, Egegik, Elim, Fort Yukon, Haines, Holy Cross, Homer, Hooper Bay, Kalskag, Kasigluk, Ketchikan, King Island, Kipnuk, Kotzebue, Kwethluk, Kwigillingok, Lake Clark, Marshall, Metlakatla, McGrath, Mekoryuk, Moose Pass, Mountain Village, Naknek, Napaskiak, Nelson Island, New Knockhock, Nikolai, Noatak, Nome, Noorvik, Northway, Nyac, Old Harbor, Palmer, Platinum, Quinhagak, Rainy Pass, Selawik, Seldovia, Shageluk, Shungnak, Sitka, Sleetmute, Stevens Village, Tanana, Togiak, Tuluksak, Tuntutuliak, Valdez, Whitehorse (Yukon), White Mountain.George Morlander and his wife, Lona, left Minnesota in 1925 and moved to Alaska to teach for the Alaska Native Service. Their first station was Kivalina and thereafter they were transferred to other ANS schools on the Yukon and Kuskokwim Rivers, as well as southeastern Alaska. In the early 1940s, Morlander was transferred to Eklutna, Alaska, where he was the Superintendent of the ANS boarding school. After World War II, the school was moved to Seward and then to Mt. Edgecomb, Alaska. Morlander, suffering from a leg injury sustained while traveling by dog team, decided he preferred not to undergo more transfers. He moved to Bethel, where he worked as Administrative Assistant until his retirement from ANS in 1952. Upon retirement, Morlander moved to Ferndale, Washington. He died in 1986 at the age of 92.See George A. Morlander Photographs (Part 2, 501-968) for more photographs:http://vilda.alaska.edu/u?/cdmg11,12309 George A. Morlander Photographs
image thumbnail Local Shungnak Eskimo students with Brooks Range in background at Shungnak. Title from accompanying note.Full note reads: "1948 11 Local Shungnak Eskimo students with Brooks Range in background @ Shungnak, AK. I was the second person on the left in the spotted parka." Charles Crabaugh papers
image thumbnail Local reindeer herd at Shungnak. Title from accompanying note.Full note reads: "1948 10 Local Reindeer herd @ Shungnak, AK. This was taken a couple of miles from the school on the tundra." Charles Crabaugh papers
image thumbnail Local reindeer herd at Shungnak. Title from accompanying note.Full note reads: "1948 10 Local Reindeer herd @ Shungnak, AK. This was taken a couple of miles from the school on the tundra." Charles Crabaugh papers
image thumbnail Local reindeer herd at Shungnak. Title from accompanying note.Full note reads: "1948 10 Local Reindeer herd @ Shungnak, AK. This was taken a couple of miles from the school on the tundra. Charles Crabaugh papers
image thumbnail Local Eskimos in around general store waiting for the mail plane from Kotzebue. Title from accompanying note.Full note reads: "Local Eskimos in around the general store waiting for the mail plane from Kotzebue @ Shungnak, AK." Charles Crabaugh papers
image thumbnail Lake Selby - family group with Eskimo guide. Title from accompanying note.Full note reads: "1949 07 Lake Selby - The family group with Eskimo guide. This was the boat we used for the vacation up river." Charles Crabaugh papers
image thumbnail Knife, Man's Curved bone (rib) handle; curved steel blade with visible file marks; made from a file; fastened to handle with two metal bolts; three serrations on tip of handle; vertical scratches across front of handle where it joins blade; 9 7/8" long.Collected in the field for the Modern Alaskan Material Culture Project undertaken by the UA Museum. 12/6/2011: In the field notes and paper file the "place" is listed as Shungnak, but it is unclear if this was the place of collection, or if this is only place of origin and use. MES Ethnology;
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 Hot lunch program at the school at Shungnak. Title from accompanying note.Full note reads: "1948 Hot lunch program at the school @ Shungnak, AK." Charles Crabaugh papers
image thumbnail Group of school children in front of school. Title by indexer.Comments from village presentations: "Taken in front of the school. Pictured here Larry Custer, Carryl Sun, Ruth Tickett, Sarah Tickett, Vera Cleveland, Walter Douglas?, Colonel Riley, Margeret (Lee) Sheldon, Eleanor (Cleveland) Marina, Evelyn Gray and Catherine Cleveland." Charles Crabaugh papers
image thumbnail After a caribou kill and preparing the meat. Title from accompanying note.Full note reads: "This is after a caribou kill and preparing the meat to store in the cache." Charles Crabaugh papers

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