This photo is from the Dawson City Museum and Historical Society Collection and is available from the Yukon Archives for a few dollars. I have always wondered what her story was, certainly she laughs with her wrinkled dress as if she doesn’t have a care. Laugh on Lady – worthy of a bard’s ballad.
Chilkat Native costume
A photo taken by Frank H. Nowell in 1906. It could be Louis Kah-kaka-klah because the next photo was of him with Susie Kah-kaka-klah (his wife) that I blogged on before:
http://www.skagwaystories.org/2012/01/ayp-photographer.html
They both were in the 1900 census. He was born in 1881 and was a hunter. She was born in 1884.
Hang in there!
I will be on a historical sleuthing trip for the next two weeks – wish me luck!
Tlingit couple
This couple was photographed in dancing costume by Case & Draper in 1906.