The 4th of July is the biggest event of the year here but this year was extra special. The next three days brought the Kattivik, the Northwest Native Trade festival. It also brought some special Eskimo guests from Chukotka, Russia. I believe this is a region rather than a village or town. Some of the delegation can be seen in the three left hand pictures in the second row on this page.
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/100_3691.JPG "The health education float with a representative you won't see down there in health ed-a caribou costume.")
/100_3693.JPG "Some local ladies in hand made fur parkas.")
/100_3698.JPG "The ariel with Miss Arctic Circle and Miss Teen Arctic Circle aboard with Carlo riding shotgun.")
/100_3700.JPG "Some of our Russian Guests ride engine 12.")
/100_3707.JPG "Our Russian visitors.")
/100_3709.JPG "A couple or Russian kids with \"Bear\", the fire chiefs dog.")
/100_3714.JPG "The Arctic Lights dancers.")
/100_3715.JPG "Salad made with vegatbles, whale blubber (muktuk), and seal oil dressing.")
/100_3718.JPG "Cooking steaks for the fire department.")
/100_3728.JPG "The \"booths\" at the fair.")
/100_3729.JPG "Christy in front of a booth selling Pizza Hut pizza imported from Anchorage for $5.00 a slice.")
/100_3735.JPG "John cooking while trying to keep the rain off.")
/100_3741.JPG "Patty and Christy in front of Swan Lake.")
/100_3742.JPG "A snowmachine racer just before his machine sank.")
/100_3744.JPG "The boat towing the sunken machine to shore.")
/100_3746.JPG "The soggy machine being dragged up from the depths.")
/100_3788.JPG "The Eskimo \"seal hop\". Done the palms down with the fingers curled with the first knuckles of the fingers down, and the toes only touching the ground.")
/100B3751.JPG "A racer that did not sink.")
/100B3761.JPG "This is a snowmachine running on water.")