Alaskan History Magazine Jan-Feb, 2021

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Alaskan History

Joseph Herman Romig, M.D., Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, wearing a buckskin costume like those worn by medicine men of interior Alaska. Pluming the cap are feathers of the raven, thought by the Eskimos to be the great creative spirit of the human race. The picture was taken in 1922.

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