Juan Muñoz Sr. took hundreds of photos of the people of King Island in the early 1950s. His son donated them to the Katirvik Cultural Center in Nome.
Yaayuk Bernadette Alvanna-Stimpfle was born to a King Island family in 1955. She wasn’t raised on the Bering Sea island, but her family kept it as close as they could in her upbringing.
“They would tell me who the names of the people were on that island,” she said. “They would explain things to me. They would use the pictures.”Late last month in the Rie Muñoz Gallery in Juneau, Juan Muñoz Jr. pointed to a photo high on the wall. “They’d get seal and walrus, and then they would keep all their meat in different sections, and different families would have their stash of meat and blubber rooms,” Juan Jr. said. “If one family didn’t have very much, of course they’d share it.”
Rie Muñoz signaling a plane onto Ukivok’s runway on King Island in the early 1950s. Juan Jr. had thought that all of his father’s King Island photos were in that 1954 issue of National Geographic. Juan Jr. has since digitized all the photos with the help of Jerrick Hope-Lang, his longtime friend and a cultural preservationist.
Hope-Lang says he thinks the photos are an opportunity to look back at what happened to King Island and the people who were made to leave.
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