Photograph of Nowadluk/Nowadlook (Nora) Ootenna wearing a coat with a fur collar. Ootenna was an Inupiat woman who was a popular subject for Alaskan photographers around the time - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. She was has been mentioned as the daughter of James Keok8 (.doc) (though their recorded birth dates makes this unlikely 9) and she was married to George Ootenna10 who were natives of Cape Prince of Wales11 and worked as reindeer herders12 (a business in which Lomen Bros was the main investor in Alaska)13. The Glenbow archive places most of the photos of her Nora was born in 1885 and as of
Photograph of Nowadluk/Nowadlook (Nora) Ootenna wearing a coat with a fur collar. Ootenna was an Inupiat woman who was a popular subject for Alaskan photographers around the time - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. She was has been mentioned as the daughter of James Keok8 (.doc) (though their recorded birth dates makes this unlikely 9) and she was married to George Ootenna10 who were natives of Cape Prince of Wales11 and worked as reindeer herders12 (a business in which Lomen Bros was the main investor in Alaska)13. The Glenbow archive places most of the photos of her Nora was born in 1885 and as of the 1910 Census she lived in Port Clarence (essentially Cape Prince of Wales).15
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