Kobuk River , Alaska, approximately 1976

• Other Authors: Kirk, Ruth Kirk, Louis Jackobs, Ike
• Format: Moving Image (Video)
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1976
• Subjects: XYZ; Eskimos > Alaska; Eskimos > Alaska > Ambler > Social life and customs; Eskimos > Alaska > Kobuk River Region; Eskimos > Alaska > Kubuk River; Transportation > Alaska; Transportation > Arctic regions; Bush pilots > Alaska; Arctic; Redstone River; Brooks Range; eskimo*; Alaska
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/filmarch/id/203

Ruth and Louis Kirk fly 150 miles up the Kobuk River to a small village, Ivishak-pa, on the south side of the Brooks Range. Small airplane is greeted by a group of townspeople and schoolchildren. Snowmobiles pull sleds. Hides drying around the village, children sledding, playing on a boat frozen in the lake. Man brings two fish caught 80 miles down the river home on snowmobile. Using snowmobile to get water from the community watering hole. 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: Ruth Kirk, Louis Kirk Member of the Village: Ike Jackobs According to email correspondence with Ruth Kirk in March 2011, a friend in Kobuk, Alaska, wrote Ivishak-pa is the Eskimo name for Ambler. Ivishak means red, and pa means mouth.� So, Mouth of the Red River. We call it the Redstone River, which is now regarded as a tributary of the Ambler. The video shows some scenes of folks fishing tomcod through the ice in front of Kotzebue, and then a stop in a village on the way to Ambler. I am guessing that your plane stopped in Noorvik or Kiana, or maybe both, before coming on up to Ambler.� Content focuses on: Alaska, Environment, Native Americans To order a reproduction, inquire about permissions, or for information about prices, see: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/reproduction/reproduction