Author: [ALASKA]
Title: CPA lot de 23 cartes postales ALASKA BERING INUIT MISSION POSTCARDS
Description: LEVENQ & COTTIN, ca 1900. bel ensemble de 27 cartes postales, scènes de la mission MARY'S IGLOO en Alaska, [Phototypie Levenq & Cottin] non circulées (liste sur demande). The Inupiat village of Kauwerak was located about 25 km (15 mi) downriver from Mary's Igloo. By 1900, Kauwerak was abandoned and most of its residents moved to Teller or Nome because of schools and employment opportunities. A few settled at the site of Mary's Igloo, which they called Aukvaunlook, meaning "black whale."During the gold prospecting period of the early 1900s, non-Natives named the village "Mary's Igloo," after an Inupiat woman named Mary, who welcomed miners, trappers and others into her home for coffee. During that period, Mary's Igloo was a transfer point for supplies for the gold fields upriver on the Kuzitrin and Kougarok rivers. The supplies were offloaded from ocean boats onto barges, which were towed to their destinations. A post office and store were opened at Mary's Igloo in 1901. By 1910, Mary's Igloo was a large community of Inupiat and Anglo-Americans, who were miners, innkeepers, missionaries and support crews for the barges. It had schools, a post office and other services.. Lyon, très bon

Keywords: inuits, alaska, behring, arctic, arctique, cartes postales