Ukivok stilt village, early 20th century. This settlement is located on King Island, Alaska, in the Bering Sea. It was inhabited by around 200 Inupiat

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Ukivok stilt village, early 20th century. This settlement is located on King Island, Alaska, in the Bering Sea. It was inhabited by around 200 Inupiat people who called themselves the Ukivokmiut (people of the sea). They engaged in subsistence hunting and fishing, and lived in this stilt village, abandoned by 1970. Photograph from the Lomen Brothers Studio, dating from around 1900 to 1927.

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