"South Kotzebue, looking 'south' towards Choris Peninsula, Alaska. Notice that the beaches are both right and left on this peninsula affording a great opportunity of camping and beach combing. Many variety of Woolly Mammoth tusks have been discovered along both sides of these coastlines as the entire area is a Pleistocene Ice Age deposit. This region is laced with ancient dwellings of historic, prehistoric and paleoInuit sites that have never been archaeologically disturbed. I have spent years in these areas and never have as yet view it all. The discovries is a life long quest, and never disappointed."

"Chukchi Sea coastal camping and explorations will display a variety of marine mammals vertebrates and other bones in rather abundance. Sometimes an entire whale with Toklat Grizzly Bears hanging around their free lunch...a good time to circumvent the area in passing. All of the little rocks and in different colors can actually be a walrus tusk section, or an Orca whale tooth and once in a while an entire skull. It is my desire to discover the many Pleistocene fossils that are lying on these beaches from the permafrost erosin caused by storms...such as Woolly Mammoth Tusks, Mastodon Tusks, and in a rare occasion a 'Saber Tooth cat tusk."

"Kotzebue village, with the airport on the far lower right of the photograph, and thus begins the many past expeditions from this point, to the left of the photograph is 'north' to Cape Krusenstern' of three thousand ancient house sites of prehistoric Inuit (extinct) and as I go further north, as it goes to Point Hope, to parts greater in distance.  To the south is Choris Peninsula and Buckland River to the west towards Deering village.  All of this region is ancient in every description, from the Ice Age to occupants of paleo-Inuit...for hundreds of coastal miles."

"Beach combing for five months along the Chukchi coast near Kotzebue, Alaska, had wonderful natural experiences, life changing and challenging.  During this 'storm' I was stranded along the coast for three days due to winds and some rain.  I was surprised to discover that the storm brought artifacts and ivory from the ocean, deposited them on the beaches and reclaimed them again. It was so all day and night as the waves brought bones, shells, mammoth ivory, artifacts, and small stones back and forth to the beach sands."  "I spent the entire time walking the beaches discovering." "Even though I was stranded I was well entertained!"

"Creek 'cut bank' as it erodes from season to season from thousands of years of  'those whom walked this way.'  Up and down the river systems I traverse, are feeder creeks that harbor ancient settlements, villages, of Inuit, nomads, moving up and down the tributaries, in search for seasonal migrations, of caribou, and fish.  It is common to discover artifacts about these systems, it is however uncommon to discover such sculptures of ancient folks that lived here, especially in the creeks they often camped.  Their children, especially the girls, carried their treasured dolls about for their joy, as the boys carried toy...bows with arrows and harpoons."

"Unusually red colored sand mixed with fine gravel, and with close observance, there is sod deposited in the creek, as the roots and peat moss shows.  As fortune goes, there is a ancient ivory carving just lying in the ancient house sod...that dropped into the creek from above...especially not covered in debris...but for my discovery."

"From an ancient house of perhaps 1200 years in age, and deposited on a gravel and sand river bar.  A prize of a discovery, ancient walrus ivory 'Doll' more than four inches in length.  If one looks long enough and covers enough ground, this is what it takes to discover such objects of ancient art."