Jerry and Sue McLain at Fairbanks

Left:  Our Athabascan guide holds up the pelt of a wolverine.
Inset:  Another Athabascan guide models a fur coat made by Dixie Alexander, renowned Athabascan beadworker.

     In Chena Indian Village, traditional buildings and native crafts were exhibited.  The cabin on stilts, where tanned pelts of silver fox, red fox, ermine, and wolverine are kept out of the reach of bear and wolves, is accessed by a removable ladder .

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