Title taken from caption. View of National Geographic expedition a member holding up a salmon still attached to the spear he used to catch it. Photo probably taken near Naknek Lake in what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve...
Title taken from caption. View of a member of the National Geographic Society expedition holding a spear with a salmon impaled on the end. The man is wearing a hat with mosquito netting hanging down from it. Caption also says: "Spearing our supper...
Spear used by women for self-defense; birch shaft; rusty steel blade (two prongs at end, one broken off); set in slit; lashed with babiche around slit and interlaced all the way to other end of shaft; blade brought from Ft. Yukon. Measures 67.5 in....
Spear used by women for self-defense; birch shaft; rusty steel blade (two prongs at end, one broken off); set in slit; lashed with babiche around slit and interlaced all the way to other end of shaft; blade brought from Ft. Yukon. Measures 67.5 in....
From text of document: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of protecting and conserving the fisheries of the United States...
Handwritten note reads "Fishing." Person standing near a hole in the ice holding a round fishing net. Nearby in the snow is what appears to be a shovel and a type of spear.
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a man and a woman standing with a Native Alaskan man holding a spear. They appear to be in downtown Fairbanks. Behind them is the Model Cafe and a drugstore can be seen.
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a man and a woman standing with a Native Alaskan man holding a spear. They appear to be in downtown Fairbanks. Behind them is the Model Cafe and a McIntosh and Kubon's Drug Store and Brick's Mens Shop can be...
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a man and a woman standing with a Native Alaskan man holding a spear. They appear to be in downtown Fairbanks. Behind them is the Model Cafe and a McIntosh and Kubon's Drug Store and Brick's Mens Shop can be...
Title from image. Photograph of Front Street, Tanana, Alaska with advertisements for Pinkiert's, Vachon's, The Tanana Com Co (Tanana Commercial Company) and Spear head.
31 second, color/silent, film clip of processing and preserving salmon along the Yukon River. Women, using ulus and knives, are cutting fish for drying. A man, using what appears to be a spear, tosses fish into a hole, probably to prepare...
35 second, color/silent, film clip of a whale hunt, 1951-1959. The men look for whales with the aid of a telescope, shoot a small white whale, pull it to shore with some type of grappling hook, and eventually pull it onto shore with ropes. A...
Title taken from caption. "Ustensiles et armes des habitans du detroit de Behring". A display of native weaponry, spear heads, arrows and other artifacts. There also appear to be some plates and baskets.
Eskimo hunter wearing fur parka standing next to kayak with seal and harpoon, near Nome, Alaska. From verso: "Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society. He took the seal home in the back of his "kayak". Chapter 10, page 69, par[agraph] 3. Here are...
Title taken from label on matting. Figure of man in kayak holding paddle and spear carved from walrus ivory displayed in Nome, Alaska. Photographer's number 7919. July 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 10" x 8 1/8".
Top image shows Aleut man in single baidarka with spear and paddle; bottom shows three Aleuts in one baidarka From: Sarychev, Gavriil Andreevich, "Atlas of the Northern Part of the Pacific Ocean," compiled by the Imperial Navy Department, 1826