Cache on tributary of Inglutalik River. Shaktolik district, Seward Peninsula region, Alaska. 1915.
Dates
Date Taken
1915
Summary
Album caption: Cache on tributary of Inglutalik River. Handwritten notes on album caption: Alaska - Seward Penin. - Shaktolik dist. Norton Bay quad. Showing bear proof method. General collection album caption: Frequently during exploratory work like that of the Geological Survey it is impossible or undersirable to carry all of the expedition's supplies. At such times it is necessary to protect the material left behind against destruction by the weather or by animals. Explorers have adopted the word "cache" from the old French voyageurs for the articles thus "hidden" or for the places in which they are stored. Caches may be of many kinds from temporary to semi-permanent. In the cache shown in this picture the 200 or 300 pounds [...]
Summary
Album caption: Cache on tributary of Inglutalik River.
Handwritten notes on album caption: Alaska - Seward Penin. - Shaktolik dist. Norton Bay quad. Showing bear proof method.
General collection album caption: Frequently during exploratory work like that of the Geological Survey it is impossible or undersirable to carry all of the expedition's supplies. At such times it is necessary to protect the material left behind against destruction by the weather or by animals. Explorers have adopted the word "cache" from the old French voyageurs for the articles thus "hidden" or for the places in which they are stored. Caches may be of many kinds from temporary to semi-permanent.
In the cache shown in this picture the 200 or 300 pounds of material to be left were securely wrapped in the canvas and hoisted 10 feet in the air where it would be out of the reach of even the largest animals on the ground in this part of Alaska, or of climbing animals. For the
great Kodiak (brown) bear a higher cache is necessary. The bundle thus suspended swings in the wind or with the movement of the trees and thus tends to scare animals away from it. This cache was left by a Geological Survey party on the divide in western Alaska that separates the drainage of Bering Sea from that of the Arctic Ocean.
Index card: Cache, showing bear-proof method, on tributary of Inglutalik River. Norton Bay quadrangle, Shaktolik district, Seward Peninsula region, Alaska. ca. 1915.
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