The Laughing Woman

This photo is from the Dawson City Museum and Historical Society Collection and is available from the Yukon Archives for a few dollars. I have always wondered what her story was, certainly she laughs with her wrinkled dress as if she doesn’t have a care.  Laugh on Lady – worthy of a bard’s ballad.

Chilkat Native costume

A photo taken by Frank H. Nowell in 1906.  It could be Louis Kah-kaka-klah because the next photo was of him with Susie Kah-kaka-klah (his wife) that I blogged on before:

http://www.skagwaystories.org/2012/01/ayp-photographer.html

They both were in the 1900 census. He was born in 1881 and was a hunter. She was born in 1884.