Nikolskoye, Kamchatka Krai
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Nikolskoye is a rural locality and the administrative center of Aleutsky District of Kamchatka Krai, Russia, located on Bering Island in the Commander Islands chain. Population: 676; 808; 1,356. It is
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Aleuts
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Aleuts are the Indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands, which are located between the North Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea. Both the Aleuts and the islands are politically divided between the U.S.
Nikolskoye, Kamchatka Krai
…2010 Census); 808 (2002 Census); 1,356 (1989 Soviet census). It is the only remaining inhabited locality in the district. It was founded in 1826 by Aleut (Unangan) settlers from Atka Island in the Aleutian Islands who were brought there by Russian fur traders. While engaging to some extent in the traditional…
Attu Aleut mother and child, 1941
Customary Aleut dress
Aleuts. Ethnographic description of the peoples of the Russian Empire by Gustav-Fyodor Khristianovich Pauli (1862)
Men's chagudax, or bentwood hunting visor, Arvid Adolf Etholén collection, Museum of Cultures, Helsinki, Finland