Northwest History. Alaska. Science. United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1934
• Subjects: Alaska; Wild Life; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th Century; United States. > Alaska > 20th Century; Fairbanks; Greenland; Indian; Pacific; muskox
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/102462

Scratches Up A Living SCRATCHES UP A LIVING Itchy Muskox Furnishes Trade for Alaskan Co-Eds. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 17. (AP) —When the ungainly muskox stops scratching his back, some Alaskan co-eds will have to find new ways to earn an education. The muskox, late of Greenland, has hair too tough to cut, but he scratches his back on bushes and leaves enough of his coat to make wool-gathering a profitable business. Using an Indian process hundreds of years old, the college girls weave the wool into scarfs, mufflers and mittens. Even President Roosevelt has received muskox wearables from the coeds of the Alaska college of agriculture, which owns the animals.