Box PCA 303
Contains 142 Results:
A frosty George Attla Jr. having just finished the Huslia race.
It was so cold we had to place our cameras inside our jackets.
Cue Bifelt with his trophy after winning in Anchorage.
He had just returned a few months earlier from treatment for tuberculosis, which included the removal of one lung so this was a real triumph. He had also won the seal parka he is wearing.
Richard Derendoff with a load of winter wood
Dogs were very utilitarian and necessary as well as used in racing. Within a few years snowmobiles replaced dogs for many people as working vehicles.
Sidney and Carl Huntington "parked" at a beaver set., February-March 1958
Sidney is digging and chopping down to the set itself. Title and description courtesy of Mrs. Keller.
Having retrieved a set with beaver, Sidney removed his gloves to work on retrieving beaver., February-March 1958
The parka Sidney is wearing was made for him by his wife, Angela from wolf skins he had acquired in a poker game with several white wolf hunters who were weathered in at Huslia.
Sidney "wipes" the beaver in the snow to clear ice and water from the pelt., February-March 1958
Sidney clowning with a good sized beaver., February-March 1958
Sidney at rest in his sled as he moves to the next trap., February-March 1958
Sidney retrieving a blackfish trap., February-March 1958
The homemade traps were placed in lakes.
A good view of the blackfish trap as it was removed from the hole., February-March 1958
You could clearly see the piece of canvas which had been turned back from its covering place over the trap.