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Photos & Terms
Birch Baskets – The Dena’ina Way
Respected Dena’ina elder Helen Dick from Lime Village, located near Lake Clark National Park and Preserve (Alaska), teaches the traditional Dena’ina process of making a birch bark basket. This video is recorded at Qeghnilen ‘current flows through (canyon)’.
National Park Service
Types of Boats
ADF&G (Alaska Department of Fish & Game) has a great little 2 page PDF about commercial fishing boats. You can download it here:
Anchorage International Airport
Among many other things, Anchorage Airport has a real floatplane suspended in it. Next to it is the frame for a traditional kayak.
Aurora
Aurora and the Big Dipper
Weir
Pronounced exactly like the contraction of ‘we are’ (we’re), the best definition is in Wikipedia here.