Caption reads: "Squaw wanted." Photographer's number: D3. Cataloger's note: An Alaska Native youth is seen here washing clothes on a wash board; drying clothes are hanging on the tent ropes behind him.
Title taken from verso. People watching hunters leave for whale hunt in skin boats. Photographer's number McC 14108. n.d. Photographer: Steve McCutcheon. Original photograph size: 5" x 5".
Title taken from verso. Group of people in top floor of building watching whale hunters with binoculars, Northern Alaska. Photographer's number E2.3. May 20, 1960. Photographer: Steve McCutcheon. Original photograph size: 7" x 5".
Title taken from caption. View of two Alaska Native men aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Morris. En route to Nikolski. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Taken in the 1930s at Weeks Field, Fairbanks, springtime. "My girls have their rubber boots on." Left to right: Noel Wien, Alice Tobuk, Florence Ulen, Mary Ulen. No name for...
Caption: Clad in one piece water proof suits two butchers get into a hole cut in the whales stomach and proceed to carve the meat and throw it to the women on the ice on shore.
S.R. Bernardi photographs formerly known as The Gertrude Lusk...
Title taken from verso. Whales hunters sleeping in their clothes in tent, Point Barrow, Alaska, with a walrus hide for a mattress. From information with photo: "Whale hunters sleap [sic] in their clothing using a walrus hide for a mattress. Barrow...
Title taken from caption. Several men stand on the ice beside their boat at Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. A whale is floating in the water just offshore, held up by seal floats and secured by a rope leading to the ice. 1938-1941. Original...
Title taken from caption. A series of boats with whaling crews maneuver around ice floes during a whale hunt near Gambell, Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska. Many of the men are wearing white parkas. The boat nearest to the camera carries seal floats....