Artisan Handmade Wooden Alaskan Arctic 3-Leg Desk Easel with Photographic Images

These wooden easel's are handmade and have a center folding leg for displaying on your desk, mantle or anywhere you have a flat surface...enjoy the Last Frontier right in your living room. The easel dimensions are approx. : 6-1/2 inch height x 6-1/8 inch width and have six unique photographic images of the area. The photo's are:

(1) Summer Camp: Barrow youngsters and their camp counselors deplane the Arctic way- onto a riverbank's gravel, complete with all their usual camping equipment for a few weeks of fun and frolic. Studies in their native Inuit way of life are threaded among daily chores where all participate.

(2) Polar Bear: An October den-up visitor rambles by the warehouse at Lonely, an outpost along the Arctic Coast as remote as it's name implies. These royal denizens are most curious, batting at anything that flaps in nearly constant winds but rarely attacking anything which does not smell like seal, their favorite meal.

(3) Village Youngster: Warmly padded in furs against the bitter cold, this toddler ambles across a village lake in the low light of winter. Children's parkas are made from the hides of local game often fur-lined for added warmth. In temperatures below freezing for many months, fur parkas keep the little ones safe and healthy.

(4) Pow Main DEWline Station: The northernmost U.S.A.F. defense facility with its misplaced totem stands adjacent Barrow's spit hooking north to divide the Chukchi Sea on the west from the Beaufort Sea to the east. Totems, this specimen admittedly the northernmost, are not of Inuit creation but integral to Alaska's southern coastal people.

(5) Meat and Fish Drying Rack: At old Pt. Lay village, caribou strips dry quickly in the deep arctic freeze. This drying rack stands mute evidence of what once was a thriving community. Forced to rebuild away from the encroaching Chukchi Sea, a new inland village lies safely about 3 miles over the tundra by 4-wheeler - nearly 1 mile by snowmachine across the frozen bay during winter.

(6) Arctic Fox: Ragged in his early spring coat mottled by leftover tufts of white winter fur, this arctic fox is out scrounging for a meal. An unsuspecting lemming perhaps. The arctic fox's very large ears are exceptionally suited for hearing lemmings skitter along snow-buried paths in the winter or rustling through tall grasses in the summertime.