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Athabascan Family Lodges and Cabins Marker
Photographer: Don Morfe
Taken: September 11, 2009
Caption: Athabascan Family Lodges and Cabins Marker
Additional Description: Photo Captions:
Photo in the lower right: Anvik: log cabin, caches, semi-subterranean winter house, c. 1923.

Women and children slept in small compartments beneath platforms running along interior walls, warmed by hot rocks borrowed from the central hearth.
Submitted: December 10, 2013, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p262220
File Size: 2.705 Megabytes

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