Kivetoruk Moses drawings, ca. 1969.

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Kivetoruk Moses drawings, ca. 1969.

The five pen and pencil drawings show views from the back, front, side, and interior of the house Kivetoruk Moses has sketched for the Alaska State Housing Authority. The drawings are annotated with descriptive details and signed, Eskimo Artist, Kivetoruk Moses, Nome, Alaska, P. O. Box 814.

1 folder (2 letters, 5 drawings)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7575390

Alaska State Library

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Moses, James Kivetoruk.

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James Kivetoruk Moses was born in 1900 near Cape Espenberg at the southern entrance to Kotzebue Sound. Moses spent his youth and middle years hunting seal, reindeer, and polar bear; trading furs and sled dogs in Siberia and his native Cape Espenberg on the Seward Peninsula. In 1954, when injuries from an airplane crash ended his hunting days, Moses taught himself to paint. Moses used several recurring themes in his drawings, including shamans, the advent of white men in northern Alaska, and Eski...

Moses, Bessie L.

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Alaska State Housing Authority

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