Kobuk: Images

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	Bishop Rowe with Delatuck and Maggie	Bishop Rowe photographed with Delatuck, an Kobuk Eskimo, and Maggie, an Athabascan Indian (Koyukuk).	Walter and Lillian Phillips Photograph Collection
	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;
	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;
	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
	Woman standing in water.	Title by indexer.	Richard and Florence Collins Papers
	Dog teams pulling freight on sleds.	Title from accompanying note.	Richard and Florence Collins Papers
	Houseboat.	Title from accompanying note.	Richard and Florence Collins Papers
	Damaged airplane.	Title from accompanying note.	Richard and Florence Collins Papers
	Ice floe.	Title by indexer.	Richard and Florence Collins Papers
	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
	Camp with temporary dog yard.	Title by indexer.	Richard and Florence Collins Papers
	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
	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
	Ice floe.	Title by indexer.	Richard and Florence Collins Papers
	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
	Line of women in atikluks, back view.	Title from accompanying note.	Richard and Florence Collins Papers
	Man wearing mosquito net.	Title by indexer.	Richard and Florence Collins Papers
	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
	Arctic hare.	Title from accompanying note.<br><br>Full note reads: "Arctic hare [man showing hare to dog; next to Northern Air Service plane of Fairbanks, Alaska]."	Richard and Florence Collins Papers
	Ice floe.	Title by indexer.	Richard and Florence Collins Papers
	Old Civil Aeronautics Administration Station in Koochak.	Title from accompanying note.<br><br>Full note reads: "The location was an area between Kobuk and Shungnak called Koochak - Old CAA station, Civil Aeronautics Administration. The white building is possibly where Richard and Florence Collins lived or the white building was a store. Edna Commack in Shungnak may now own the area."	Richard and Florence Collins Papers
	Martha (Harvey) Smith.	Title from accompanying note.<br><br>Full note reads: "Martha (Harvey) Smith. Currently lives in Noorvik. The location of this picture is Kobuk."	Richard and Florence Collins Papers
	Airplane on skis.	Title by indexer.	Richard and Florence Collins Papers
	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
	Edna Commack with daughter Susie.	Title from accompanying note.Full note reads: "Both Edna Commack and Susie (Lee) Sun (Edna's daughter) currently live in Shungnak."	Richard and Florence Collins Papers

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