Title taken from the back of the photograph. " Seal skin pokes and walrus skin swings ". Cataloguer's note: The grils are playing on the swing, as the suspended sealskin hangs overhead.
Among the indigenous people of Alaska, the seal...
Title taken from caption on slide. "Drying ugruk skins and full seal oil pokes Yaiyuk Harris and wife Sishoalikroaq 1952." [The name Yaiyuk is also spelled Yiyuk in this collection. Ugruk means seal, probably bearded seal.]
Title taken from verso. Hunter putting away seal skin floats (pokes) after whale hunt in Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. April 1969. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 10" x 8".
Dogsled team on the Chena River near the Cushman Street Bridge in Fairbanks, Alaska. Many onlookers are present. Visible in the background is Samson Hardware with a sign advertising Good Year Tires. The steeple of the...
Title taken from verso. Lloyd Oovi with floats (pokes) made from seals slung over his shoulder at Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, with people in background. From information with photograph: "Eskimo man with two seal floats over his...
Title taken from verso. View of hunter carrying seal skin floats (pokes) approaching building in Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. April 1969. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
Woman demonstrates butchering method or skins a reindeer while others watch. Bag on ground behind her may be made from a whole sealskin (poke). Caribou meat was stored in sealskin pokes. Person in foreground at left is wearing a squirrel skin...