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Rainey (Skarland) Cabin 1940 |
The Rainey Cabin was built in 1936 for
Froelich Rainey, the first professor of anthropology at the University
of Alaska, a pioneer in Arctic arcaeology. After Rainey, the cabin was
occupied by a series of well-known arctic researchers including, J. Louis
Giddings, Ivar Skarland, David Hopkins, Lydia Black and Richard Pierce.
The cabin is now on the National Registry of Historic Places and is used
as a residence under the custiodianship of the Department of Anthropology.
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Partial list of publications by previous inhabitants of the Cabin This page last updated: |