Seals' Month, Kittiwakes' Season

• John Abraham and George Chimugak, Toksook Bay seal hunters, study ice conditions.
• Nelson Island hunters push through the ice toward open water.
• Thomas Akerelrea, Scammon Bay, seal hunting.
• Simeon and Paul John pull a bearded seal onto an ice pan, Nelson Island.
• Prevented from seal hunting by ice conditions, Willie Hanson, John Chikigan, and Richard Agayar, all from Alakanuk, fish for tomcod.
• Successful seal hunters return home to Tununak.
• Martina Phillip skins her husband Joe’s seal, Alakanuk.
• Women of a Tununak family conduct a seal party, in which a young man’s first bearded seal is distributed.
• Blaise Tinker and Tom Tunutmoak in a firebath. Scammon Bay. The grass mothpieces filter the smoke.


• Leonard Raymond of Stebbins butchers a walrus.
• Frances Usugan holder dried seal gut, Toksook Bay.

Birds Have Young, Breakup

• Spring flooding at Oscarville on the Kuskokwim River.
• Melvin Tony, James Tony, and John Chikigak, all from Alakanuk, traveling on the Yukon.
• Frank Woods hunting, Toksook Bay.
• Mona and George Washington gathering firewood on the beach at Stewart Island near Stebbins.

Smelt Running Season

• Phillip Foxie mending a salmon net, Kotlik.
• Hauling water from snow melt, Umkumiut.
• John Joseph and Joe Lincoln pulling nets in bad weather, Toksook Bay.
• Clifford and Bernie Tom pulling in a plugged herring net, St. Michael.
• Sophie Amadeus covering fish, Umkumiut fishcamp.
• Louise Kanrilak braiding herring with grass, Tununak.
• Wearing a seal gut parka, Jesse Paul from Kipnuk collects herring eggs deposited on seaweed, Nelson Island.
• Herring on dring racks, Toksook Bay.
• Ella Tulik taking down dried herring, Umkumiut fishcamp.
• Clara Akagtak storing dried herring, Umkumiut fishcamp.
• Simeon Tulik watches Sam Anthony play Lappball. Umkumiut.
• Pulling barrles of rendered seal oil to the boat, Umkumiut fishcamp.
• Evening clouds over Nelson Island.

King Salmon

• Salmon drying at the Hoover fishcamp near Bethel.
• Charles Hanson salmon fishing on the Yukon River, Alakanuk.
• Cutting and drying salmon, Black River fishcamp
• Repairing a salmon net, Black River fishcamp.
• "Scare-gull" made of a qaspeq on a fish rack, Bethel.
• Pulling a beluga whale onto shore, Black River fishcamp.
• Mike Uttereyuk butchering beluga, Black River fishcamp.
• Mike Kaganak and his daughter Alice at Black River fishcamp, talking by VHF radio to Scammon Bay.
• Marie Hoover with her niece and nephew, Samantha and Nicholas, at fishcamp.
• Store workers offloading supplies, Sheldon’s Point.
• Byron Hunter, Elia Charlie, and Oscar Rivers, Fourth of July at Black River fishcamp.
• Helen, Maggie, and Shirley Wasuli picking salmonberries, Kotlik.
• Harvey Alexie, Mountain Village.
• Charles Phillip, Kuskokwim river pilot.


• Harpoon tip.
• "Chuki" (Lucy) George, Umkumiut fishcamp.

Ponds Freeze, Worst of the Moon

• Alan Hanson and Joseph Smith resetting a blackfish trap, Alakanuk.
• Bringing in firewood, Bethel.
• Storm in Bethel.
• Elvina Turner, a nurse, visiting Lucy Link, Bethel.
• Watching dancing at the Tundra Fest, Chevak.
• Kwethluk Health Aide Betty Guy with Molly Owens of Akiak, at Kwethlu.
• Pete Abruska and Sinka Sakar at winter trapping camp.
• Father Guest blesses the waters for a prosperous fishing season in the coming year, Napaskiak.

Time of Going Around, Time of Drumming

• St. Mary’s men receiving potlatch gifts of akutaq and frozen salmon, Pilot Station.
• Jimmy Paukan of St. Mary’s and Raphael Jimmie and Gregory Joe, Sr. of Mountain Village, drumming at the Pilot Station potlatch.
• Edward Aguchak with Scammon Bay dancers.
• Magdalene Hoelscher of Hooper Bay joins Joe Ayagarak, Jr. and the Chevak dancers, Mountain Village
• Martina John, Paul Agimuk, and Francis Usugan, Toksook Bay dancers, at the St. Mary’s dance festival.
• Kirt Bell from Hooper Bay sings "Goodnight, Ladies" as he leaves an evening of dancing.
• Mary Ann Sundown (left) of Scammon Bay dances with Helen H. Smith, Katherine Bell, and Magdalene Hoelscher, all of Hooper Bay, at Cama-i (greetings) Dance Festival. Bethel.
• Andrew Evan and Robert Joe watch dancers, Mountain Village.
• Norbert Beans, Mountain Village.
• Theresa Charles, Cama-i Dance Festival, Bethel.

Additional Images from the Book

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• Al and Helen Wasuli, Kotlik.
• Richard Long, Betty Guy, Molly Owens, and host David Nicolai, Kwethluk.
• Kuskokwim River, below Bethel.


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• Mary and Jack Stewart flying home to Goodnews Bay.

Images not included in the Book