Photos

Anore’s photo on plane going to noatak with Tuva

Ambler, fish nets drying, from Joyce

Haloween at Wiks

from Joyce

Caribou hunt by boat. Kobuk River in the fall.

Wild mushroom near caribou lichen.

Blackberries, blueberries, cranberries

Moose

Ulus

Mike Jones, Sally (Jones) McDaniels, Ole Wik playing guitar. Sitting on caribou skin bed matress

Caribou From Joyce

Mrs. Tickett from Joyce

Sasha and Corie playin Lemmi sticks game

Dora Johnson jigging

1966. Ole’s brother Gary (left) and Dan at Katmai national park in 1966.

Tommy Lee from Joyce

Clara Lee from Joyce

Ole & Sasha’s garden

Kobuk River at breakup.

ice block crumbling

Kalle & Willow (Sasha’s photo)

From Joyce

Dan & Joyce’s igloo

Kobuk River at breakup.

Wik’s tent, probably Sasha’s photo

Left to Right: Wilber Mills, Arunya, Ole, Kalle in Joyce’s house.

cranberries

Kalle Wik picking cranberries

Left to Right Joyce, Sasha, Ole, Keith, Kalle, Willow on Keith’s birthday in Anore and Keith’s dome in Ambler

Tommy Lee by SnowTraveler

filling a water bucket from a water hole, Kobuk River. Dora Douglas, a tuk is behind her standing upright.

Clara Lee washing camp dishes by a stream. from Joyce

birch bark baskets sitting on the snow

Art and Dora Douglas 's son

Ambler from Joyce, trail created by the landing airplane, across the frozen Kobuk River, Bucky Bee partially buried under the snow.

early 1960's, meeting the mail plane which landed weekly on a gravel bar in front of the village.

From Joyce -Nellie Johnson

early 1960's Memorial Day picknic at the small cemetary above Denslow's; Cleveland family and Cameron family

Perhaps ken Ross dipping water from the river for drinking and household use

Salmon and roe drying, Buckie Bee, Dan Denslow from Joyce

1963, kids in the Ambler School. Rosa Downey facing on Left, Sugu (Charlie Douglas's son), Helena Lee, Tony Jones, ??, Molly Griest on right. This group did not have a school available to attend for one or two years, and attended lower grades even while more advanced in years.

Dora Douglas with two kids, Maude Cleveland on the right

Ambler Church built around 1962

Dan Denslow cutting rounds of firewood with a chainsaw, in front of a white wall tent.

digging with a shovel

Corie admiring garden flowers

Playing Munumanha on the old Ambler airstrip just above the church in Ambler. Often played late into the night during the summer light. Mabel Cleveland is at bat.

Early 1960's Arthur and Minnie Gray sitting by Dan's airplane, Kobuk river has just broken up with chunks of ice remaining along the shore

Dan Denslow placing frozen blocks of sod on a two person carrier to move it

Kalle in Sasha’s garden

Playing ball in the spring, Harriet Douglas in red jacket, Mercy Cleveland behind her.

early 196x Tickett family. Auarluk on left, Sarah standing with three boys

Amber School with kids playing in the snow at recess

Ambler Garden

Minnie Gray from Joyce

butchering a caribou head

Airplane

Don Williams with dog team, plane floats buried under snow behind, tent cache on the hill above

wall tent

196x Eating together, likely Memorial Day at the small cemetary used by Clevelands upriver from the Cameron house. Olive and Mark Cleveland with kids and grandkids. Also Lorene on the right, Dorene and Richard facing.

Ole left, Dan right standing on their heads in the snow. Wearing snowshoes!

log chinking of moss

aerial photo of the Kobuk River

Don William’s photo (guk) Maude Cleveland burning the quills off of a porcupine,

Shield Downey standing by fish racks

dog race on the frozen river in front of Ambler

Robert Cleveland facing and Nelson Griest on the far right, Mina Gries to left of him Kenny Griest front right, Cindy Williams center front, Mary Douglas ? center back facing camera

Aerial photo of new school in Ambler. The church can also be seen

Dan Denslow standing on a float of his float plane on the river

Town Activity on the ice in front of Ambler at Christmas time, log church on the hill. Willows line the race track. Canvas shelter

Two boys sittin on the bank under a cache in Ambler, fish drying,

Maude Foxglove fileting salmon to dry, sitting on the ground, cutting fish laid out on grass

Meeting the Wien mail plane landed on the frozen river in front of Ambler, a highlight of the week for which many turned out. Mark Cleveland is second from left.

Dan cutting firewood with a chainsaw

Joyce and Dan camped on a sandbar

Dan's first airplane , Champ, after a snow storm. Parked on the river in front of their house. Denslow house on the house.

Dan Denslow and Betty Jo ?? in tent

Dan Denslow cutting wood in the snow

Dan Denslow butchering a freshly hunted caribou on tundra

Freshly hunted caribou being butchered on river rocks near the river. Wilbur Mills on the right ?, Molly McCammon on the right ?

Arrunya, Seth or Kole Alvin, Willow, and Kalle outside of Anore and Keith's yurt tent

setting a trap

Freshly hunted caribou being butchered to cool and be taken back home by dog sled. from Joyce

ski racing

Rein and Heidi from Rein, butchering caribou on the river bank overlooking the frozen Ambler river

ski racing

Trees being cut and trimmed. Fur parkas and fur mukluks being worn, Mark Cleveland facing camera in fur parka with wolf ruff, Charlie Douglas on the left