Inside of the Ambler church. oil barrell wood stove for heat, wooden pews.
Dan and Joyce Denslow setting out lunch on a gravel bar of the Kobuk River.
Maude Cleveland bruning the quills of of a porcupine before skinning it to cook.
Joyce and Dan Denslow in front of white wall tent. Ambler River in the background, small wood stove beside the tent.
Photo taken from the bank looking down on the Ambler River by Betty Jo. Fireweed in full bloom.
Regina Tickett is the tallest girl, Mabel Johnson is the second tallest,
Summer flowers
Two boys sitting on a hill in Ambler
Cabin built with vertical split poles, cache with ladder, firewood rounds in the yard
Dog yard on the beach in front of Ambler, oil barrel dog house,
A photo of Kobuk River from above the post office.
Joyce Denslow with Maude Foxglove cutting fish to dry on the beach in front of Ambler.
Three boys in front of Art and Dora Douglas' cabins. This cabin housed the post office for many years. fish drying in the foreground, tent pitched on the right.
Dogs resting at their stakes in front of a new squared log cabin. Charlie douglas, snow machine. First in town! One of the original snow machines among the summer plants
Joe Cleveland, Catherine Cleveland's son playing in the net repair area on the beach in front of Ambler. Fish racks down by the river, fenced garden and cache on the left. Also an wall tent. with the flap thrown open. A small outboard motor on a stand.
Stanley and Lillian Johnson's house built with planked lumber, likely from local trees. fenced garden
1964. Ambler, Alaska. Olive and Mark Cleveland, Ambler Village residents displaying handcrafted birchbark baskets.
1964, Ambler Alaska, Children, fenced garden and high cache in the background
Mabel Cleveland with a mid-summer catch of Chum Salmon. Mabel stands by the drying racks erected to hang fish to dry.
Joyce and Dan Denslow by a village cabin. This log cabin is typical of village housing of this time.
1964. Dora Douglas Dora by the fire pit with an untanned moose skin, Ambler, Alaska,
Baby Cleveland's gravesite. This graveyard is on a hill about a mile upriver from the village of Ambler.
Friends Church built by Tommy Douglas, village leader, along with other Ambler villagers. Built in 1960.
Mamie Cleveland with gathered birch bark for basket making. Birch Bark is stored in the siglok (storage cache).
Inside of the Ambler church. oil barrell wood stove for heat, wooden pews.
Dan and Joyce Denslow setting out lunch on a gravel bar of the Kobuk River.
Maude Cleveland bruning the quills of of a porcupine before skinning it to cook.
Joyce and Dan Denslow in front of white wall tent. Ambler River in the background, small wood stove beside the tent.
Photo taken from the bank looking down on the Ambler River by Betty Jo. Fireweed in full bloom.
Regina Tickett is the tallest girl, Mabel Johnson is the second tallest,
Summer flowers
Two boys sitting on a hill in Ambler
Cabin built with vertical split poles, cache with ladder, firewood rounds in the yard
Dog yard on the beach in front of Ambler, oil barrel dog house,
A photo of Kobuk River from above the post office.
Joyce Denslow with Maude Foxglove cutting fish to dry on the beach in front of Ambler.
Three boys in front of Art and Dora Douglas' cabins. This cabin housed the post office for many years. fish drying in the foreground, tent pitched on the right.
Dogs resting at their stakes in front of a new squared log cabin. Charlie douglas, snow machine. First in town! One of the original snow machines among the summer plants
Joe Cleveland, Catherine Cleveland's son playing in the net repair area on the beach in front of Ambler. Fish racks down by the river, fenced garden and cache on the left. Also an wall tent. with the flap thrown open. A small outboard motor on a stand.
Stanley and Lillian Johnson's house built with planked lumber, likely from local trees. fenced garden
1964. Ambler, Alaska. Olive and Mark Cleveland, Ambler Village residents displaying handcrafted birchbark baskets.
1964, Ambler Alaska, Children, fenced garden and high cache in the background
Mabel Cleveland with a mid-summer catch of Chum Salmon. Mabel stands by the drying racks erected to hang fish to dry.
Joyce and Dan Denslow by a village cabin. This log cabin is typical of village housing of this time.
1964. Dora Douglas Dora by the fire pit with an untanned moose skin, Ambler, Alaska,
Baby Cleveland's gravesite. This graveyard is on a hill about a mile upriver from the village of Ambler.
Friends Church built by Tommy Douglas, village leader, along with other Ambler villagers. Built in 1960.
Mamie Cleveland with gathered birch bark for basket making. Birch Bark is stored in the siglok (storage cache).