- INDIAN ARTISAN DISPLAYS WORK—Hannah Solomon of Fort
Yukon. Is shown displaying a model of a fishwheel, food cache and
varieties of head work for which she Is well known. The bead work
includes a purse, ash tray, earrings, bracelet, place mats, neckpiece,
and a lady’s belt. Hannah is a happy grandmother of many children,
many of whom she takes care of herself. “I like to dance for them,”
she once said. If anyone wishes to order any of Mrs. Solomon’s art
pieces, he may contact the Tundra Times, Box 1287, Fairbanks,
Alaska, or call 452-2214.
Pi. Hope Also
Flooded by Storm
Point Hope was flooded on Octo
ber 3 by heavy northwest winds.
The storm coincided with the one
that caused heavy damage at Bar
row.
Point Hope was flooded up to the
air strip that borders the east end
of the village. There were no in
juries and only slight damage to
personal property. The flood got in
to seme meat caches at the old
village site.
The flood was similar to the one
on August 30, 1962.
The village has started a rural
development project to build a sea
wall by filling oil drums with
gravel.
Whatever happens politically, too
1 many of us are apt to nut the blame
1 on the politicians . . . We talk a lot
about “they." But what we should
j be talking about is “we.” . . . Po
' litical action is something you help
I create—by action or inaction—no
matter where you live in this coun
try.
Arthur H. Motley
WRECKED GYM—This was the former gymnasium
four miles from Barrow village. It was destroyed
worst damage done in the camp, which was built
However, other buildings were damaged, when 15
lage. A blizzard followed close behind the storm,
drifts.
, a large quonset hut, at the construction camp about
in last Thursday’s severe Arctic storm. This was the
for Navy oil drilling, and DEWIine construction,
foot waves and 80 mile an hour winds struck the vil
and by Sunday, much of the damage was under snow
—Photo by Ed Parsons. Wien Alaska Airlines
WRECKED AIRCRAFT—This Lockheed Lodestar, twin engine transport owned by the Arctic Research
Lab at Barrow was damaged when waves washed over the top of it, while parked on the Navy airfield
near Pt. Barrow. Water also washed away the ground under the plane, causing it to sink down on
one wing. Four other planes, privately owned single engine craft, were also lost, and two have not yet
jPJjSL u°Und M fe PresuJnfd the wind and water roiled them out in the tundra behind town, and snow
drifts have now covered them. _Photo by Ed Parsons, Wien Alaska Airlines j
Wiley Post
Memory Lost
Tom Brower, Browcrville busi
nessman, who lives adjacent to Bar
row village, had one wall of his
restaurant tore off,, and it is dis
appeared in last Thursday’s Arctic
Storm, that did more than $1 million
damage in the Barrow area.
Many souvenirs were on the wall.
About the most valuable, now pre
sumed gone, were the numbers
from the plane in which Wiley Post
and Will Rogers died near Pt. Bar
row in a 1935 crash.
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Asks Furrier School . . .
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learned skills to others. Thus making
the school self-perpetuating.
“I believe I can handle 3-10 per
sons in each section. I would not
recommend that an individual
study more than one section at a
time," he says.
The six sections are: cleaning,
blocking, machine operating, cut
ting, patterns and design, and lin
ings.
“I wouldn’t have to teach many of
the Natives how to sew," he says.
“Most Native women do excellent
work already.”
Victor says purpose of his plan is
to center a complete fur industry
in Alaska, and create a demand for
Alaskan products and skills,
“Now we send furs from Alaska
for finishing, and at the most only
do sewing of finished garments
here.”
He particularly pointed to the
hair seal, which is in demand all
over the world.
Hair Seal Important
"We could make Alaskan hair
seal a name to be reckoned with
in the fur trade,” Victor says. He
AAIA Opens Art
Center in N.Y.
The Association on American In
dian Affairs opened ’.he American
Indian Art Center in New York on
September 27. The Slew York Times
in announcing the opening, head
lined, “New Center to Sell Art Of
the Nation’s Tribes.”
Along with the work of the low
er states Indians, the shop carries
a great many items made by the
natives of Alaska. These include
moccasins, mukluks, sealskin prints,
ivory jewelry and figurines of wal
rus, seals, polar bears. Also includ
ed are Eskimo dolls and birch
baskets.
Most of the items were purchased
through ANAC, Alaska Native Arts
and Crafts, Juneau. Alaska.
“The center, which will be the
only shop of its scope in the Unit
ed States, cime into being largely
through the efforts of two house
wives, Mrs. Carl Muschenheim and
Mrs. Walter S. Mack, who are en
ergetic volunteer workers in this
field,” reported The New York
Times.
uses as an example the MacKenzie
River mink, which by law cannot
be shipped live from that district
of Canada so commercial fur farms
cannot copy the strain, noted for its
beauty and durability.
“This has made the mink valuable
in that area, as the seal could be
to Alaska, if we only allowed well
finished products to leave the state.”
Victor says he would set up his
basic schools in Fairbanks where
his primary shop is now located,
and in Anchorage, where he re
cently purchased the Alaska Fur
Factory and its equipment from Ed
Shepherd.
He says from seal he would like
to branch into black bear, which
is unque among fur, and becoming
more and more popular.
No Limit
Victor notes that once the indus
try is going, there is no limit. "We
could eventually go into tanning, a
very complex procedure that needs
well trained and excellent crafts
men,” the furrier said.
He told the Tundra Times that it
would be a waste of time and effort
to begin with a tannery, as has been
proposed from some quarters.
"We’re not ready for that yet.” It
would require an enormous invest
ment, and without trained operat
ors, we would have to ship to the
lower states for those with the
skills, thus defeating the purpose
. . . “creating an industry for Alas
kans,” he said.
Victor said the secret cf his pro
posal is to get as many villages and
as many individuals involved as pos
sible through his teacher teaching
program. “I could then follow my
students back to their respective
areas, and by circulating could fol
low their progress.”
He noted that his plan would ben
efit all established, and even new
fur outlets in Alaska. ‘‘I would be
glad to buy well handled fur from
villages, and I'm sure others would
also. This would create the kind of
competition a businessman would
not fear,” he said.
Victor noted he is slowly turning
his business over to his two sons,
also expert furriers, and would be
able to devote a great deal of his
time and talent to the school.
"If the BIA can see the way to
send me some students, then we
can get started very soon,” he said.