This color slide depicts an unidentified Alaska Native woman holding braided walrus intestines in either Kotzebue or Barrow, Alaska in 1962. The woman ins wearing a kuspuk with a fur-trimmed hood and has a scarf over her hair. The photographer is...
84 cm long x 17.7 cm wide; made of braided sinew and braided root; side stakes of birch or willow twigs; five floats of a very light wood attached to top of net; sinkers of pieces of antler and stone; twig used for stake; two rock sinkers have...
Title from verso. Photograph of two men standing outside of a log building. They are identified as Justin Frank and William Jimmy. Indexer's note: One of the men is wearing a dentalium [dentalia] necklace and has a beaded bag or pouch over...
Title taken from accompanying note. A studio portrait of a woman in profile. Her hair is parted on the side of her head, curled, and braided or put in a bun in the back.
Title taken from accompanying note. A three-quarter-length tinted color portrait of a newly wed couple. The bride is wearing a white wedding dress and a veil. She wears small beads or ribbons braided around her forehead. She is holding a...
Full-length view of woman outside a wooden building; in addition to the button-trimmed robe, she also wears a scarf with a large feather attached, and there is a braided rope draped across her shoulder
Simeonoff, Jacob (artist). This bentwood visor has a decorative painted surface. The visor has an open-crown design, a long squared-off front, and two overlapping pieces at the nape that are stitched together with imitation sinew and reinforced...
This bow is made from spruce wood, sinew, and shell or horn. Made from one piece of spruce, broad, flat and tapered at ends forming rounded knobs. Its backside is flat with belly side keeled from end to end with a furrowed center on about 3/4 of...
This bow is made from spruce wood, sinew, and shell or horn. Made from one piece of spruce, broad, flat and tapered at ends forming rounded knobs. Its backside is flat with belly side keeled from end to end with a furrowed center on about 3/4 of...
This bow is made from spruce wood, sinew, and shell or horn. Made from one piece of spruce, broad, flat and tapered at ends forming rounded knobs. Its backside is flat with belly side keeled from end to end with a furrowed center on about 3/4 of...
This bow is made from spruce wood, sinew, and shell or horn. Made from one piece of spruce, broad, flat and tapered at ends forming rounded knobs. Its backside is flat with belly side keeled from end to end with a furrowed center on about 3/4 of...
This bow is made from spruce wood, sinew, and shell or horn. Made from one piece of spruce, broad, flat and tapered at ends forming rounded knobs. Its backside is flat with belly side keeled from end to end with a furrowed center on about 3/4 of...
Ayek, Sylvester (artist). Signed and dated. Size: 48 x 63 x 6 in. Sculpture: wood, ivory, and braided nylon. This work was part of The Smithsonian Institution's "Crossroads Of Continents" exhibit.
Twined spruce root three-legged kettle with braided carrying handle; 3-3/4 in. tall; 4-1/2 in. across; top and bottom designs Half the Head of a Salmon Berry, center - Butterfly; orange, yellow, brown-dyed grass.