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 taken from the back of photograph. Notes with photo. " A collection of baleen displayed against an overturned boat. The man is identified as Nolan Silook ". Property of Dorothea Leighton, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore MD.
The sides are made one piece of shaped wood; 2.375 in. tall; base fitted in; each side has 3 pieces that are 2.375 in. long in ivory; sewn on with baleen; strip of twisted root across container holds sides in; 6 small pieces of ivory 1.375 in. sewn...
Title taken from album caption. Blurred view of a group of Eskimo people holding baleen and standing next to a whale carcass. Large tackle in the foreground.
The dish has a wooden rim, and it is bent and lashed in two places with root. The new bottom has been made and glued in; a small baleen whale is glued in middle of dish and the handle is a high loop of baleen lashed to sides of dish with baleen;...
Title taken from verso. View of man loading whale baleen into Wien Alaska Airlines Cessna 195 in Barrow, Alaska. Sigurd Wien stands behind door wearing plaid shirt. Also from verso: "Sig in plaid shirt." Photographer: Noel Wien. Original photograph...
Title taken from verso. Boat made from baleen from Gambell, Alaska on display. Jan. 14, 1963. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
Title taken from information with photo. View of man cutting baleen from whale with axe while others look on after successful whale hunt at Gambell on Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska, with dog partially visible in left background and sled partially...
Title taken from information with photo. View of man cutting baleen from whale with axe while others look on after successful whale hunt at Gambell on Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska, with dog in left background. April 20-29, 1966. Photographer: Ward...
Title taken from information with photo. View of man cutting baleen from whale after successful hunt in Gambell on Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska, with people gathered around carcass and dog partially visible in background. April 20-29, 1966....
Title taken from information with photo. View of men removing baleen from whale after successful whale hunt at Gambell on Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska, with dog at right near whale and dog with sled in right background. Also from information with...
View of Eskimo Museum in Fairbanks, Alaska, surrounded by snowshoes, baleen, and other items. Next to the museum there is a cache and a pole with numerous antlers attached to it. A mounted dall sheep stands atop a sign on top of the museum. Sign...
View of villagers gathering around a whale being cut up, Barrow, Alaska, with children climbing on it and baleen visible at right. n.d. Original photograph size: 3 1/8" x 4 5/8".
Title taken from verso. Group of people standing with whale baleen at Point Barrow, Alaska. Also from verso: [beginning back row, second person from left], "l[eft to] r[ight], Margaret Pausanna Brower, Esther Aiken, Rose Aiken." 1960's?...