Accession Number: |
TT.00094 |
Date of Photo: |
1970-1997 |
Caption: |
"Seventy-nine-year-old Joe Field of Noorvik was a tugboat skipper in the Kotzebue Sound area for many years until he recently retired. When feild learned that a barge being towed by tug was about to leave Kotzebue, he journeyed down to the water front to wath and relieve a few memories."
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Description: |
Portrait of a man, identified as "seventy-nine-year-old Joe Field of Noorvik", a former tugboat skipper in the Kotzebue Sound area. He is standing on a boardwalk by the ocean’s edge, leaning on a wooden railing. Beyond him, several miles out to sea, a barge is visible being towed by a small tugboat.
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Name: |
Unknown Photographer |
Ethnicity: |
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Role: |
Photographer
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Name: |
Joe Field (aka Qatukraluk (spelling uncertain)) |
Ethnicity: |
Inupiat |
Role: |
Subject
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State: |
Alaska
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Region: |
Nana
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Community: |
Kotzebue
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Indigenous Group: |
Inupiat |
CD Number: |
010
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Annotations: |
Seventy-nine-year-old Joe Field of Noorvik was a tugboat skipper in the Kotzebue Sound area for many years until he recently retired. When feild learned that a barge being towed by tug was about to leave Kotzebue, he journeyed down to the water front to wath and relieve a few memories. 35X52 |
Keywords: |
People:Elders People:Men Portraits Transportation |