Gwich'in

Gwich'in family outside home.jpg
Han or Gwich'in family outside home

American Memory from the Library of Congress

Han or Gwich'in family outside home, Forty Mile City, Yukon, ca. 1899

PHOTOGRAPHER Hegg, Eric A., 1867-1948

NOTES Family group, Han or possibly Gwich'in Indians, outside house, ca. 1898-1900. Beside them is dogsled, tent next to building, possibly sod-house.

Caption on image: An Indian family at home, Forty Mile City, Dawson

Copied by Webster & Stevens 265.A

Photographer's reference number: B168

SUBJECTS Group portraits--Yukon Territory Indians of North America--Yukon Territory--Structures Families Fortymile (Alaska) Dawson (Yukon) Canada--Yukon Territory--Dawson Photographs

REPRODUCTION NUMBER NA2450

REPOSITORY University of Washington Libraries

SOURCE COLLECTION Eric A. Hegg Collection no. 274

DIGITAL ID http://content.lib.washington.edu/cgi-bin/htmlview.exe?CISOROOT=/loc&CISOPTR=1319

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