This delicate, crayon drawing was created by Skye and scanned into the computer. The floral border resembles the beadwork patterns on the border of picture frames traditionally made from moose skin. They are built high to keep things dry and safe from animals. Koyukuk still has a few old style caches. Caches are seen commonly at fish camps and winter camps in the Interior where the storage areas were vital to the mobility of the Athabaskan way of life.
Wood is plentiful, so today, houses are made of logs.
To obtain the straight logs good for houses, a team of people goes logging some distance from the village and rafts the logs back to Koyukuk when the river is open. Logging and house building are often extended family projects. Initially, houses had few windows to keep the cold out. Today, though, with triple pane windows, it is more common for village houses to have more and larger windows. Koyukuk is build on a flood plain, so houses are built up high.