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1964 Betty Jo Goddard's Ambler Photos
Mabel Cleveland with a mid-summer catch of Chum Salmon. Mabel stands by the drying racks erected to hang fish to dry.
Maude Cleveland bruning the quills of of a porcupine before skinning it to cook.
Dan and Joyce Denslow setting out lunch on a gravel bar of the Kobuk River.
Inside of the Ambler church. oil barrell wood stove for heat, wooden pews.
Griests vegetable garden and racks of fish drying.
Mamie Cleveland with gathered birch bark for basket making. Birch Bark is stored in the siglok (storage cache).
Cabin built with vertical split poles, cache with ladder, firewood rounds in the yard
Stanley and Lillian Johnson's house built with planked lumber, likely from local trees. fenced garden
Kobuk River with Jade Mountains in background.
Joyce and Dan Denslows tent camp on asandbar.
Joyce and Dan camping on sandbar
Maude Cleveland by fish racks near Kobuk River
Dora Douglas under fish racks keeping a smudge going to deter the flies.
Joyce Denslow with friend (likely Betty Jo Goddard) displaying a catch of fish.
Dog yard on the beach in front of Ambler, oil barrel dog house,
1964. Ambler, Alaska. Olive and Mark Cleveland, Ambler Village residents displaying handcrafted birchbark baskets.
Old style house with garden in front, Perhaps the Foxglove's house. Ambler in summer.
Fish nets drying on racks along the Kobuk River in front of Ambler
Three beautiful girls with assorted footwear. Summer in Ambler.
Dan Denslow on beach in front of Ambler. Bucky Bee in the background anchored to shore.
Meeting the weekly mailplane on the beach, everyone in town wants to see the activity.
Two boys sitting on a hill in Ambler
A photo of Kobuk River from above the post office.
1964, Ambler Alaska, Children, fenced garden and high cache in the background
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