The ball is made from assembled pieces of scraped, bleached and dyed sealskin sewn with sinew and stuffed with caribou hair. The exterior consists of six dark brown main panels: four rectangular central pieces with slightly convex lengths and...
Title taken from caption. "35 mm 79-68." Cataloguer's note: This is an aerial view of the University of Alaska, sometime in 1938-39; the colors of the leaves, suggests that this image was taken during the fall season. This scenic picture is...
Title supplied by cataloger. Dogs using a dog carousel, a large wheel with spokes. Sled dogs are harnessed or tied to the spokes, and walking in circles. Covered platform visible on right. Slide sheet labeled, 'Dog Walker.' Slide printed 6/1989....
Title supplied by cataloger. Dogs using a dog carousel, a large wheel with spokes. Sled dogs are harnessed or tied to the spokes, and walking in circles. Wooden building in background. Slide sheet labeled, 'Dog Walker.' Slide printed 6/1989....
Title taken from verso. Verso: President Harding, while seated on the porch of the schoolhouse at the Indian Village of Metlakatla, with Mrs. Harding, Governor Scott Bone and Secretary Wallace, sights an aviator cutting circles in the Alaskan Skies...
(A) Woman's sewing kit made with a hollowed-out bone and bleached sealskin. At the end is a polar bear head made from mineralized walrus ivory. This secures the bleached sealskin, which is folded lengthwise and slides through the bone. A hole is...
(A) Woman's sewing kit made with a hollowed-out bone and bleached sealskin. At the end is a polar bear head made from mineralized walrus ivory. This secures the bleached sealskin, which is folded lengthwise and slides through the bone. A hole is...
Earring base - two flat pieces of ivory with concentric circles; (not mates); ear hooks missing; each attached to 12.7 cm long strands (8) of red, white, blue, pink, light green, dark green seed beads with some larger beads scattered throughout;...
Ivory earring bases 1 cm with concentric circles; ivory hook on one only; attached to 10.7 cm strands (6) of seed and small trade beads - blue, black, and white, few pink and green; one strand broken near center divide; three sealskin dividers;...
Earring bases of ivory with concentric circles; not a pair; ivory hooks broken off; attached strands of beads (7) gold and pink seed beads and very thin white seed beads, larger white beads at bottom; two strips of sealskin for dividers; 6.5 cm...
Lincoln, Bertha (artist). Cross made from six coiled grass basketry circles which are then attached with dyed grass. The central circle is made of grass that is dyed blue. The single section of grass that connects the six pieces is dyed red. The...
Round; 1.5 in. across; replica of pocket watch in walrus ivory; "stem" is broken and once had hole through it for suspension. The numerals are done in fair approximation of the regular ones - the watch has 12 hours but they are not correctly...
Accession Number: 96-61 a-k
Made: New York
Description: cardboard; printed; ink; wood; metal; paint
Title: Horsman's Game of Klondike
Descriptive Narrative: A board game, "Horsman's Game of the Klondike", consisting of a...
Description: wood; carved; abalone; inset; painted Descriptive Narrative: Headdress frontlet carved in a close grained hard wood. The slightly rectangular back plaque is convex vertically and concave horizontally. The face of a young woman is...