Alaskan Eskimos

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Tony Weyiouanna, eskimo dog musher. His office job involves the relocation of the community of Shishmaref. Alaska. 2003
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Aerial view of the Eskimo Village of Shishmaref which is threatened by coastal erosion.Seward Peninsula, Alaska. 2003
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Eskimo, Tony Weyiouanna takes his racing dogs out for a training run. Shishmaref, Alaska. 2003
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Eskimo, Tony Weyiouanna takes his racing dogs out for a training run. Shishmaref, Alaska. 2003
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Eskimo elder Clifford Weyiouanna with his rifle and sled outside his house in Shishmaref. Alaska. 2003
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Pair of Racing huskies out for a training run, pulling hard. Shishmaref, Seward Peninsula, Alaska. 2003
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Tony & Fannie Weyiouanna's family and their friends watch TV from the sofa. Shishmaref. Alaska. 2003
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Tony Weyiouanna's boys play basketball in the house in the evening. Shishmaref. Seward Peninsula. Alaska. 2003
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Eskimo, Tony Weyiouanna with one of his racing dogs outside his father's house. Shishmaref. Alaska. 2003
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Eskimo elder, Molly Tocktoo sews traditional mukluks in her home in Shishmaref. Seward Peninsula. Alaska. 2003
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Eskimo children are collected from school on a snowmobile, Shishmaref. Alaska. 2003
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Clifford Weyiouanna, an eskimo elder, serves hotcakes in his kitchen . Shishmaref. Alaska. 2003
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Eskimo, Karen Sinnok, chairperson of the Erosion & Relocation Coalition. Shishmaref. Seward Peninsula. Alaska. 2003
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Karen Sinnok serves an elderly shopper in the Shishmaref Native Store. Alaska. 2003
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Karen Sinnok serves a young couple in the Shishmaref Native Store. Alaska. 2003
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Portrait of an Eskimo boy in a warm hat. Shishmaref. Alaska. 2003
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Tomcod (Microgradus proximus) hanging outside on a rack to dry in the cold. Shishmaref. Alaska. 2003
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Clifford Weyiouanna checks the location of his reindeer herd on his computer. 5 of his reindeer have satellite collars. Shishmaref. Alaska. 2003
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Eskimo Elder, Dan Olanna wearing sealskin trousers and a white anorak at Dog sled races in Shishmaref. Alaska. 2003
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Dog teams line up at the start of the Sunday dog races in Shishmaref. Alaska. 2003
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Eskimo elder, Clifford Weyiouanna watches dog sled races on the sea ice by Shishmaref. Alaska. 2003
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Inupiaq woman, Lela Oman, shows the calf skin trim on her traditional coat. Nome. Alaska. 1997
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Low light from midnight sun on the timber buildings on Front St. Nome. Alaska. 1997
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Inupiaq (eskimo) woman cuts sealmeat with an ulu(Woman's knife). Barrow. North Alaska. 1997
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Inupiaq girl, Dorean Donovan, in traditional clothing dances an old dance Barrow. North Slope. Alaska. 1997
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Eskimo hunters secure the Bowhead whale from their Umiak. Point Hope. Alaska
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Eskimo hunters secure the Bowhead whale from their Umiak. Point Hope. Alaska
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Eskimo whale hunters cut lumps of skin & blubber, muktuk, from a Bowhead Whale Point Hope. Alaska
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New Umiak made from wood and split Walrus? skins. It rests high on a rack. Point Hope. Alaska
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Eskimo whale hunters paddling an Umiak, made from wood & skin. Point Hope, Alaska.
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