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110-Ye*tr-Old . . .(Continued from Page 1)long in rivers. The traps were operated year around, she said, under the ice in the winter.Mrs. Komakhuk's husband, Charles, died about 15 years ago.They moved to Anchorage from Nome in 1950.One of her grandsons, Peter, about 37, works at the machine shop, Alaska Railroad, in Anchorage. Anathdr grandson, William, about 39. works for the Hammond Mining Co. in Nome.A daughter, Mrs. Mary Johnston, 66, lives in Now Jersey, She mar- I ried a non-native miner who is nowretired.Mrs, Komakhuk’s father was On-initchek. She remembers his telling about the time before the Russian people came to Alaska.Ancient TradeAt that time she said her people traded with Russia but had to goover the ice of the Bering Sea todo so. Sh® said it was a long, longway and took a long, long time tomake the trip.
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Tundra Times
Fairbanks, Alaska, US
Mon, Feb 04, 1963
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