Using wood on King Island, Alaska

• Published in: Études/Inuit/Studies
• Main Author: Alix, Claire
• Other Authors: Archéologie des Amériques (ArchAm), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2012
• Subjects: [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory; Arctic; Bering Strait; King Island; Seward Peninsula; Alaska
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01841876; https://doi.org/10.7202/1015955ar

International audience Ugiuvak, or King Island, off the coast of the Seward Peninsula in the Bering Strait, is among the few Arctic villages with stilt houses in an environment where wood is essentially lacking. In 1899, Edward W. Nelson, describing the island’s architecture, noted that wood was abu...