Hitchen

Hitchen Collection

1948

This color photo shows several Native burial houses, sometimes referred to as "spirit houses", located in the Eklutna Village cemetery as they appeared in 1948. Two houses in near foreground are painted white as are two associated free-standing crosses in the Russian Orthodox fashion. Some other houses are painted tan and brown. The three larger houses in front exhibit roof ornamentation. Two weathered houses behind the others appear to be older and unmaintained. Mixed heavy birch and spruce forest provide the backdrop in middle ground.

Eklutna, Alaska

35mm color slide

Eklutna Cemetery#s3x-Hit