Inupiat man outside his house, Point Hope, Bering Strait, Alaska
During her Alaskan-Canadian Arctic journey in 1933-34 the Scottish botanist-explorer Isobel Wylie Hutchison sailed round the Alaskan coast from Nome to Barrow, a sea-voyage of 500 miles, in the ten-ton motor-vessel M.S. Trader. A stop was made at the archaeologically interesting Inupiat village on the long flat headland at Point Hope (Tikigaq), at the northern extremity of the Bering Strait, about 200 miles north of Cape Prince of Wales. The origins of this settlement are ancient, but its graveyard, with a spectacular whalebone fence, was modern. The local Anglican mission was making an effort to collect the previously scattered human remains from the surrounding tundra for "decent" burial here. This photograph shows the doorway of a sod house, with whale-ribs. Further information about Tikigaq and the Inupiat people can be found on Point Hope homepage.
