Preserving fish

Alaska Natives from various parts of Alaska demonstrate methods for preserving fish, circa 1940s. Salmon are cut and hung to dry, buried for freezing or fermentation, or are hung for smoking. (Color/Silent/16mm film).

This film sequence is an excerpt of AAF-1548 from the Marston collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska & Polar Regions Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks.

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