5 pages of hand written notes, taken by James Wickersham during a conversation with Taku chief Aanahalaash, and 2 photographs. Subjects include: Chilkat Blanket weaving,including the origin of the design and the manner of dying the wool; the Swan...
View of dancers performing in Barrow, with drummers and spectators in background. Identified on photo verso as an Alaska Federation of Natives convention, but subsequently identified as the box drum or Wolf Dance at Christmas time or at Kivgiq...
Title from verso. View of Kiana from a hillside. A young woman wearing a parka is visible walking across the hill near the center of the photo. Several wooden houses and buildings are visible below her. Two caches can be seen on the right side...
The George A. Llano Collection consists of 111 photographs relating to Llano's lichen research and the Anaktuvuk Pass and Wainwright areas, circa 1948. Subjects include plant collecting and identification, people and village activities in...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of three men in canoes with a fourth canoe on the shore. Narrative in the photo album reads: "Henry, Johnnie and David on the Yukon in their self-made birch-bark canoes."
Title by cataloger. Photograph of two women sewing bark on a birch bark canoe. Narrative in the photo album reads: "Next as shown below, the women sew the pieces of birch together, sewing over and over. For thread they use the small roots of...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of the construction of a birch-bark canoe. Narrative in the photo album reads: "Below is shown the next step. The large sheets of birch bark are pinned in position with wooden pins, and the ribs are also placed."
Capt. Zeisler performing a marriage on board the USCG Spencer 1939. One of three Alaska Native couples are being married during a triple wedding on a coast guard vessel.
Title from donor notes. Photograph shows David Frankson sitting at a kitchen table, weaving a baleen basket. Several finished baskets and some tools can be seen on the table.
Title from donor notes. Photograph of women at a rummage sale. Additional donor note reads: "The church often received contributions of used clothes, which were in fact helpful to cash-poor Point Hope families. All these contributions...
Title by donor notes. Photograph of women at a rummage sale in Point Hope, Alaska. It appears to have been held in a gymnasium; note the basketball hoop on the wall. Additional donor notes read: "The church often received contributions of...