Title from caption. Photograph of the early construction phase of a birch bark canoe. Narrative in photo album reads: "At the left is the beginning of a birch bark canoe: the framework of straight grained white birch. The ribs are made from...
Title from caption. Photograph of Theodore and his son Robert in a birch bark canoe on the Yukon River. Narrative in photo album reads: "Theodore and son Robert. This shows well the beautiful, graceful lines on the birch-bark canoe. A single...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of a recently constructed birch-bark canoe. Narrative in the photo album reads: "After the sewing, all seams are covered with a mixture of pitch, gathered from the trees, cooked with grease. This hardens but is...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of Mrs. Albert, Mrs. Luke and Mrs. Jennie Pitka helping in the construction of a birch-bark canoe. Also visible is another canoe being worked on by a man and a child being held by one of the women. Narrative in...
Title from caption. Photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Rice in a canoe on the Yukon River. Narrative in the photo album reads: "Above are Mr. and Mrs. Jack Rice in a canoe which he made, having only a saw, hammer, and plane for tools. He sawed...
Title taken from label on matting. View of Mrs. Tom Adams rowing dugout canoe at Klawock, Alaska, with girl sitting in canoe at right. From verso: "Steve Langdon 'Little girl in canoe is Clara Peratrovich (Mrs. Robert George)." Photographer's...
A large party of non-natives in formal dress, in painted Tlingit canoe on Sitka waterfront. Several hold traditional canoe paddles. A smaller boat is seen just behind canoe. Probably photographed by Elbridge W. Merrill.
Canoe on beach, two people sitting by canoe, with coffee pot and eating utensils, perhaps taking their mid-day meal. One man standing inside canoe holding an adz. Probably photographed by Elbridge W. Merrill.
This birch bark canoe has a wooden frame painted red and one end decked over. There is a design on the deck and a pad on the bottom of the canoe. The frame is lashed with root and the rims have black and tan check pattern woven on. Measures 13 x 70...
This birch bark canoe has a wooden frame painted red and one end decked over. There is a design on the deck and a pad on the bottom of the canoe. The frame is lashed with root and the rims have black and tan check pattern woven on. Measures 13 x 70...
Description: Argillite; carved; bone; inset Descriptive Narrative: Carved of carbonaceous shale (slate or argillite). A canoe with oblong insets of bone on the gunwales and a figure of the sea monster engraved on both sides- front and back. 8...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of a man and a boy in a canoe headed toward Stevens Village. Narrative in photo album reads: "Below are Old Jacob and a boy in an extra large canoe. They paddled fast so I could not get a picture of their faces."
Title by cataloger. Photograph of a boy standing in front of a canoe being built by a man. Narrative in photo album reads: "At the left and below are two of Mr. Shultz's pictures of the same canoe shown on the opposite page."
Narrative in photo album reads: "At the left and below are two of Mr. Shultz's pictures of the same canoe shown on the opposite page. "Mrs. Albert, Mrs. Luke and Mrs. Jennie Pitka working on a canoe in a little dry slough just back of the...
Title from caption. Photograph of Eutatalbat in a canoe with Stevens Village in the background. Narrative in photograph album reads: "Below is the 'dummy' Eutatalbat, in a particularly large and well-built canoe."
Title from caption. Photograph of Cora Rivenburg standing in front of a Tlingit war canoe with the Russian Orthodox Church behind. Narrative in photo album reads: "Mrs. Rivenburg standing by an old Indian war canoe at Sitka, Alaska. Old Greek...
Title from caption. Photograh of Jack Rice pushing off a canoe for trip. Jack is holding a rifle and what looks like several grouse. Narrative in photo album reads: "Two views of the Rice's traveling in canoe & by boat in which the brush...