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...
Hunter doll made by Dolly Spencer of Homer, Alaska. Information from photo: "Dolly Spencer, Homer, originally from Shishmareff. 1977. Hunter doll "Epeelick". Outer parka - oogruck [bearded seal] gut and seal skin trim. Willow bark dyed draw string...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute and 4 seconds, MPG-1 format. The camp ladies begin to separate the blubber from the skin, all the while being sure that the ulus are kept sharp....
42 second, color/silent, film clip of King Islanders attaching a skin hull to an umiak frame. The film opens with men dragging the wooden umiak frame across the snow. Then one of the people cuts the skin and several lace it onto the frame.
This color slide depicts boats on the beach at Barrow, Alaska in 1962. In the foreground is a long boat with skin sides, and two Alaska Native men standing at its stern. There are two other boats pulled up on the beach in the background,...
This color slide depicts an unidentified Alaska Native man in a skin kayak in the ocean near Kotzebue, Alaska in 1962. He wears a parka with a fur-trimmed hood and a paddle. The photographer is unidentified.
This color slide depicts an unidentified Alaska Native man holding a skin kayak and a paddle on the beach at Kotzebue, Alaska, in 1962. He is wearing a parka with a fur-trimmed hood and mukluks. The photographer is unidentified.
Title taken from verso. View of community building made of walrus skin and driftwood in Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, with walrus skin umiak on rack at left. April 1969. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
The drum's wooden rim is one piece, fastened with root where the handle joins the gut skin with a picture of a man in a kayak, a bird and a harpooned seal in a trap or net, all done in black with red line under the kayak and across the drum skin....
The drum's wooden rim is one piece, fastened with root where the handle joins the gut skin with a picture of a man in a kayak, a bird and a harpooned seal in a trap or net, all done in black with red line under the kayak and across the drum skin....
High-knee caribou boots with a strip of beaver fur along the
top of the boots. These boots have soft soles probably
caribou skin. The draw string at the top of the boots is
probably caribou skin with blue and white yarn ends. There
are two strips...
"Natives at Wainwright preparing to race us. We used one of their boats which are covered with walrus skin. They won by a boat length." A large group of people prepare for an umiak race, several other boats are visible on the beach and just off...
Title from cataloger. Photograph of two men and a boy wearing winter gear. Narrative in the photo album reads: "Charlie Luke, Dick Williams and Archie Moses. Taken in winter village costume. Notice beaver skin caps, moose skin mittens beaded...
Title from caption. Photograph of a woman standing on what may be a moose hide as she prepares it for smoking. Narrative from photo album reads: "Here is Mrs. Luke working on a moose skin. It has stood for days in a a stinking mess of rotten...