Bettles Evansville: Images

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	Chief Ivan of Coschaket.	Title taken from caption on Album. "Bella, Bettles Chief Ivan of Coschaket. [The Chief was one of the head council during the Tanana Chiefs Conference (first conference of Native land rights, held on July 5, 1915). See UAF-1989-166-384, UAF-1989-166-385, and UAF-1968-12-9.]	Frederick B. Drane Collection;
	Yukon Order of Pioneers 40 Mile 1895.	Title taken from image. Image: Back row: Gordon Bettles, Pete McDonald, Barney Hill, Frank Buteau, Geo. Matlock, Al. Mayo, John Nelson, Billy Loyd, J. O'Donnel, L. LaFlem Center: Jas. Kenedy, H. Scales, Pete Nelson Front row: H. Hamilton Hart, Bill McPhee, N. Picotte, L.N. McQuestion, Frank Boker, Harry Rivers, Jo. Navarro.	Alaska State Library Portrait File. Photographs. ASL.
	Demientieff, Claude interview (05/17/1985) (04 of 09)	(9:17 min.) (04 of 09) Business history Crooked River; Talkeetna; oil company; haul fuel; Bettles; Hanson Brothers; Evans, Charlie; Walker, David; Brown, Chuck; railroad; retirement; President Reagan; construction; North Slope; Anchorage; business loan; self-employed; Cushman Street; Nobel Street; Wendell Street Bridge; 1970; Nulato store;	Oral History Interviews, Alaska & Polar Regions Collections
	Dog team outside of Bettles	Photograph of a dog team and musher on the outskirts of Bettles, Alaska.	Dr. Ernest A. Cook Photograph Collection
	Doll	Female Doll with wood stand. ! (A) Doll. Wood face, lightly carved with black ink for eyes and red ink for mouth. Plastic black hair across face. Large red fox ruff, shaved beaver parka, white cloth with flower decoration around bottom edge with red fox trim. Mittens and boots made of smoked moosehide with yellow, blue and red bead decoration (flower?). Legs are made of a felt? wool? material. 29 x 17 x 8 cm. ! (B) Wood Stand. Circular (not perfect circle) slice of Birch tree trunk with bark attached. Large nail nailed in center. Doll slips over nail to hold it upright. 16 x 10 x 10 cm.<br><br>03/06/2007: See paper file for article written by donor on her trip to Bettles, on which she purchased the doll. CRS. ! 5/21/2007: See Donor Questionnaire in file. "The doll was made by the new chief of the Clan of the Bear [Wolf, acc. to Elders; 11/12/2009 AJL] - Bettles, Alaska - related to "Tabook"[Tobuk is the correct spelling of this, acc. to Elders. AJL 11/12/2009]." AJL! 11/12/2009: According to Florence Nictune, an Elder from Bettles who visited the museum today, her daughter Mabel Shanahan was most likely the maker of this doll, not her as described by the donor/collector. As a result, the attribution of maker is changed to Mabel Shanahan today. AJL!	Ethnology;
	Eyeglasses Case	Oval shaped, 6 3/4" x 3 1/2", smoked moose hide, white flannel on inside of case, beadwork sewn to white felt, pink and green beaded edging, white beaded background with fluorescent pink and burgundy flowers, and green beaded leaves, the beads are "seed beads". For storing eyeglasses.<br><br>Exhibit label:! Eyeglass Case! Smoked moosehide, textiles, glass beads, thread! Koyukon Athabascan! Maker: Lill Fickus! Bettles!1983-84! UA84-003-0043! 11/12/2009: According to Elders from Bettles, Lill Fickus was originally from Arctic Village and her beadwork designs reflect this. AJL!	Ethnology;
	Frank and Dora Tobuk in front of their house in Bettles.	Title by indexer. Description from cataloger's notes. Frank and Dora Tobuk in front of their house in Bettles in 1978. Photo by Curt Madison. It appears on the back of Frank's biography by Curt Madison and Yvonne Yarber written for the Yukon Koyukuk School District.	Bertha Moses Collection;
	Grading the ice road from Four Corners to Bettles - on the Hickel Hiway [sic].	Title taken from verso. View of grading machinery working on ice road (also called Hickel Highway) between Four Corners and Bettles, during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction in Interor Alaska. March 1970. Photographer: Steve McCutcheon. Original photograph size: 8" x 10 1/8".	AMRC. McCutcheon Collection;
	Green's Camp at 4 Corners on the ice road.	Title taken from verso. View of airplane, manufactured buildings, and trucks at Green's Camp at Four Corners on ice road (Hickel Highway) near Bettles, Alaska, during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction. Also from verso: "West to Bettles, north to Wiseman and east to Prospect Camp site." March 12, 1970. Photographer: Steve McCutcheon. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".	AMRC. McCutcheon Collection;

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