Cruise to Alaska
June 30 to July 10, 2000
Page 6, The Chena Indian Village

The Chena Indian Village
HEY SAM! Turn off that damn TV and mow the roof!

This Yupik Eskimo winter parka was hand-sewn by the renowned Athabascan beadwork artist Dixie Alexander (seated at table on the left) and is being modeled by one of the guides. At the right is a cache (on stilts) used for storing supplies and fur pelts.
(Many of the young native guides who work in the village during the
summer are also students at the University of Alaska. Also during the
summer months, Dixie makes her home here in the village where she
also operates the fish wheel.)


A beaded moose hide jacket which Dixie made a few years ago has been
purchased by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington for its permanent
collection of traditional native American art. Shown above is a demonstration
and exhibit of some of her famous beadwork.

Silas and Dixie Alexander
(From the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner)

This is the jacket that is now in the Smithsonian. It is shown here being modeled by Dixie's brother, Silas Alexander, Jr. Dixie is on the right. (Photo by Sam Harrel)


Spruce bark huts such as this were used by the
Athabascans as primitive shelters.


Moose hide and reindeer antlers drying on racks


Caribou were introduced into Alaska in the 1890s as a source of food for the native Alaskans. Although, today, the size of the herds are greatly diminished from what they were fifty years ago, some natives are still dependent on them for their subsistence.
To hell with Donner and Blitzen, I ain't pullin' no sled!
Reindeer (domesticated caribou)
(Photo below by Jan)
Chomp, chomp.


OK, back on the boat!
We're sailing back to Fairbanks, flying to Anchorage, bussing to Seward,
and then, finally, we'll meet our cruise ship!
Go to:
  • Page 1, Anchorage
  • Page 2, Denali - The Lodge
  • Page 3, Inside Denali National Park
  • Page 4, Going to Fairbanks
  • Page 5, Ride the Discovery III
  • Page 6, The Chena Indian Village
  • Page 7, The Sun Princess and College Fjord
  • Page 8, Glacier Bay
  • Page 9, Skagway
  • Page 10, Juneau
  • Page 11, Ketchikan

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