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ALASKA...IN THE WAKE OF THE NORTH STAR

The first priority for this site is to make available to readers some of my pictures from the trip that do not appear in the book. So here for starters are my color pictures.

For interested photographers these were taken on 35mm Kodachrome with a Voightlander camera. This is fortunate because these old Kodachrome slides have retained their color for more than fifty years. As much cannot be said for many old 35mm slides.

Nearly the entire deck space of the North Star is filled with cargo at the beginning of the trip.
Port (left) side of the deck cargo..
The village of Akutan .
The ship's birdsnest.
Ship's rigging with the Aleutian coastline in the background.
A freshly varnished dog sled sits on oil drums in Kivalina.
Point Hope women and children gather to unload the barge from the North Star
Boarding at sea.
Kotzebue boat towing a barge to be loaded.
Kivalina youngsters playing in skin boats.
"The Weeping Widows" of Cape Wales.
Northern Sky.
Alaskan sunsets are not only gorgeously profligate but they go on for hours and encompass 360 degrrees.
An umiak (skin boat.)
Cape Deceit. Enroute to Deering.
Beluga whale meat spread out to cure in Elim.
Skin boats being towed out to the North Star to be loaded. Wainwright.
Charlie Blatchford swinging on the rope railing of the ship's ramp and chewing bubble gum.
Various passengers mingling on the deck.
Unloading the barge at Deering.
King Island children on shipboard.
Approaching King Island and the village of Ukivok from the Bering Sea.
Ukivok village is built on the nearly perpendicular side of King Island.
King Island houses built on stilts and connected by stairways.
King Island Kids.
Entrance to the ice cave (food storage place) on King Island.
Rie Munoz's painting capturing the North Star's appraoch to King Island
The Blind Woman oil portrait.
M. Petersen water color
Pixie pastel portrait.

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