Shungnak: Images

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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 Summer at Shungnak. Title from accompanying note.Full note reads: "1949 06 Summer @ Shungnak, AK." Charles Crabaugh papers
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 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 Spring 1944 - Shungnak, reindeer calving time. Title from accompanying note. Richard and Florence Collins Papers
image thumbnail Snow-covered house. Title by indexer. A building after a heavy snow fall. The sign next to the door reads "Kobuk Post Office". To the right of the stairs, a spade sticks from the snow; to the left, a snowshoe. A box (or rectangular can) labeled "Blazo" sits on the porch, and barrels can be seen at the far left and right. Identifications made by Sally Custer, Neal and Margaret Sheldon, Edna Commack, Josie Woods, Robert Lee, and Mildred Black, elders from Shungnak, Alaska: This is Harry Brown’s store and PO in Kobuk. Kay J. Kennedy Aviation Photograph Collection;
image thumbnail Log cabin church in Shungnak. Title from accompanying note.Full note reads: "Log cabin church in Shungnak. Some people present were George Cleveland, Florence Collins, Charlie Sheldon, Evans Commack, Pauline Harvey, Johnny Cleveland, Amelia Grey."See UAF-2003-24-244, UAF-2003-24-246, UAF-2003-24-247. Richard and Florence Collins Papers
image thumbnail Singing Inupiaq hymns in church. Title from accompanying note.<br><br>Full note reads: "Singing Inupiaq hymns in church. L-R: Irene Douglas, Annie Lee, Bertha Jack "Napik"(?), Alegaq Gray, Susie (?) Lee, Susie Commack, Flora Cleveland, Laura Sun."<br><br>See UAF-2003-24-232, UAF-2003-24-244, UAF-2003-24-246. Richard and Florence Collins Papers
image thumbnail Shungnak. Title from sleeve. View of the buildings of Shungnak, seen from the Kobuk River. Small boats are tied up along the shore. 2 1/4 B&W negative. AMRC. Steve McCutcheon Collection
image thumbnail Shungnak. Title from sleeve. View of the buildings of Shungnak, seen from the Kobuk River. Houses from left to right identified as Ola Gray, Albert and Edna Commack, Irene and Johnny Douglas, Herman Tickett, Carl Tickett, Robert Cleveland and Evans Commack. Photographer's number: 13357. 2 1/4 B&W negative. AMRC. Steve McCutcheon Collection
image thumbnail Shungnak Village. Title from sleeve. Phyllis McCutcheon stands in front of a log cabin in Shungnak next to a metal barrel. Cabin identified as the Jade Shop. 2 1/4 B&W negative. AMRC. Steve McCutcheon Collection
image thumbnail Shungnak school. Title from accompanying note.Full note reads: "1949 05 Shungnak, AK. School. This was taken on the north side of the building." Charles Crabaugh papers
image thumbnail Shungnak generator. Title from photo caption.<br><br>Full note reads: "Shungnak generator SKVA gas." Richard and Florence Collins Papers
image thumbnail Shungnak from the river with school house on hill. Title from accompanying note.Full note reads: "1949 06 Shungnak, AK from the river with school house on hill." Charles Crabaugh papers
image thumbnail Scoop, Model Wooden model of fish scoop. The basket of the scoop is made from a thin piece of bent wood with cotton twine webbing woven in a diamond pattern. The handle is a long thin piece of wood attaced to the basket with cotton twine. See remarks field. Measures 2.5 x 5.7 x 25.9 cm.Note from donor included with object: "Seine for lifting fish from water into boat - made by a 4-Her - Shungnak area" Ethnology;
image thumbnail School House at Shungnak. Title from sleeve. Multi-story white school building, with brick chimney. 2 1/4 B&W negative. AMRC. Steve McCutcheon Collection
image thumbnail Break up on Kobuk River at Shungnak. Title from accompanying note.Full note reads: "1949 05 Break up on Kobuk River @ Shungnak, AK." Charles Crabaugh papers
image thumbnail Eskimo family at home in Shungnak. Title from accompanying note.Full note reads: "1949 11 Eskimo family at home in Shungnak, AK." Charles Crabaugh papers
image thumbnail Eskimo boys of the school. Title from photo label.Full label reads: "Eskimo boys of the school in their fur parkas (except my son who is second from the left)." Charles Crabaugh papers
image thumbnail 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
image thumbnail Dog team on Kobuk River. Title from accompanying note.Full note reads: "Another shot of a dog team on the river." Charles Crabaugh papers
image thumbnail Dog and dog sled in front of log houses. Title from accompanying note. Charles Crabaugh papers
image thumbnail Diaper Child's diaper made from spotted sealskin fur and edged with caribou fawn skin with ties of spotted seal ties. Inside the diaper is sphagnum moss. Sewn with sinew. Measures 25 x 19.5 x 9 cm. Field number 262. -Value has been based on a conversation with Joe Crusey at 09/10/2005 opening when he stated that "all his appraisals that were done in '98 and prior should be double now". Because last appraisal was done on these objects in 7/10/01, these values are now 150% rather than 200%. CRS. Ethnology;
image thumbnail Chester Cone, Eskimo guide, and Quentin Crabaugh with lake trout. Title from accompanying note.Full note reads: "1949 07 Chester Cone, Eskimo guide - Quentin Crabaugh with lake trout caught in Lake Selby near Shungnak, AK." Charles Crabaugh papers

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