Menadelook : an Inupiat teacher's photographs of Alaska village life, 1907-1932 /

Menadelook showcases nearly one hundred photographs taken by the Inupiat photographer Charles Menadelook that document life in Wales in the Bering Strait between Alaska and Russia, in the early 1900s. Photographs of Inupiat life in the early twentieth century are rare, and photographs taken by an in...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Menadelook, Charles, 1892- (Photographer), Norbert, Eileen (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Seattle : Juneau : University of Washington Press ; Sealaska Heritage Institute, [2017]
Subjects:	Menadelook, Charles, > 1892- Inupiat > Alaska > Wales > Biography. Teachers > Alaska > Biography. Photographers > Alaska > Biography. Inupiat > Alaska > Wales > Social life and customs > 20th century > Pictorial works. Eskimos > Alaska > Social life and customs > 20th century > Pictorial works. Villages > Alaska > History > 20th century > Pictorial works. Alaska > Social life and customs > Pictorial works. Documentary photography > Alaska > History > 20th century.

Table of Contents:

1. Menadelook's family
2. Growing up. Marriage customs ; Reindeer fairs ; Western influences
3. Menadelook's teaching career. Diomede ; Kotzebue ; Noatak ; Gambell ; Unalaska ; Shishmaref ; Shaktoolik ; Sinuk ; Nome
Epilogue
Notes
Photograph restoration.