First Nations packer

Studio portrait of a First Nations packer, ca. 1898. For countless years the coastal Tlingit controlled the routes to the interior. The Raven clan of the village of Chilkoot, south of Dyea, had a monopoly on the Chilkoot Pass until the 1880s; they subsequently allowed miners to use the route.

Yukon Archives, Eric Hegg fonds, #2561