| Summary: | Ruth and Louis Kirk start the program at the Burke Museum on the University of Washington campus, Seattle, Washington and briefly interview Wendy Arundale, Arctic Anthropologist [not included in clip]. Louis introduces the episode describing the Kirks trip to Kotzebue, Alaska. Footage of Kotzebue includes Alaska Airlines Arctic Tours buses parked, buried under snow drift; a snowmobile traveling through village past a parked plane equipped with snowshoes; men ice fishing. Ruth attempts to fish through hole in the ice. Louis describes Kotzebue, with a population of 1900, and notes wolf, fish and caribou hides curing on roofs and oil drums throughout the village. Boys play basketball. Ship locked in by ice, moored by a dock. People traveling across frozen Kotzebue Sound on a snowmobile with a sled loaded with supplies pulled behind. Title of clip supplied by cataloger. Aired on Kirks' Camera: March 3 and 13, 1976. Episode 3, Clover Park School District, KCPQ-TV Channel 13, Tacoma Washington Narrator: Louis Kirk Seated at Burke Museum: Ruth Kirk, Wendy Arundale Content focuses on: Alaska, Travel To order a reproduction, inquire about permissions, or for information about prices, see: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/reproduction/reproduction
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