Nacaq—Beaded Headdress Arya’aq nacartumauq.—The girl is wearing a beaded headdress. Alaska Natives in communities from interior Alaska to the southeast coast once wore beaded headdresses. Among the Alutiiq people, headdresses were an important item of ceremonial regalia, worn at festivals for dancing, feasting, and visiting. Women’s headdresses were typically made from hundreds of glass beads […]
The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center helicopter has accessed a crash site reported yesterday by a pilot south of Gold Creek outside Fairbanks and located the remains of two people in the wreckage. The burned aircraft has positively been identified as the aircraft owned by 45-year-old Timothy Sonnenberg and reported overdue on Friday. The duo had […]
The search for missing Fort Wainwright man, 22-year-old Mason Heimer when his vehicle and remains were located at the Harding Lake Campground on Saturday afternoon. Heimer was reported unaccounted for by military personnel on September 18th, and reported that he had been last seen on last Sunday, September 16th during the early morning hours at a […]
KODIAK, Alaska – A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-65 Dolphin helicopter aircrew medevaced a man from the 1,099-foot bulk carrier Ever Living 57 miles southeast of Dutch Harbor, Alaska, Saturday. The Dolphin aircrew hoisted and transported a 28-year-old crew member from the Ever Living to awaiting LifeMed personnel in Dutch Harbor for further care and […]