Cyanotype portrait of Luther Sage Kelly (left), guide for the 1898 Cook's Inlet Exploring Expedition, with two other unidentified men in 1898. Luther Kelly and the man on the right both hold rifles and wear waterproof boots. Photograph taken...
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 from caption. "ARC dog team climbing Walla Walla Hill. Route 18. 3/24/33 Nome Dist." A man in a white parka and mukluks with a dog team on a trail. He appears to have knee-length waterproof mukluks. The freight sled is covered with a...
Title taken from caption. He appears to be wearing a waterproof parka and leggings made from gut. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from verso. View of Eskimo dancers performing walrus hunting dance in northern Alaska, with spectators in background. Also from verso: "These masked Eskimo dancers are doing a walrus hunting dance. Note the masks have representations of...
Children, two dressed in parkas made of seal gut, standing on beach at Mekoryuk, Nunivak Island, Alaska. From information with photo: [Photo used in article entitled] "Nunivak Island Reindeer Story - August 1954. By Howard Kosbau and Ward W. Wells,...
Caption: "Seals can be caught all the year round. This woman is stretching a seal skin to dry. After it has dried it will be used in making waterproof boots."
Title from image. Treadwell Club Band poses on boarded street in front of downtown offices and U. S. Land Office.Signs in windows: Mens, Ladies, Misses, Childrens, & Infants, Shoes,
Mercantile Co., Thompson, Glove fitting, Corsets, H&W...
His waterproof boots are made of bearded sealskin bottoms and hairless seal skin tops. He carries a staff called an Unaaqpauraq in Iñupiaq with a point on one end and a hook at the other, used to test the strength of the ice before walking on it....
Putting cover on umiak. After they are sewn together using special waterproof stitch, men will stretch skin cover across wood frame and lash them to it. This unusually large boat requires 7-8 skins. Five women work outside, standing. Now about ten...
Topp, Roger (photographer). Video, 36 seconds MPG format. The northern fur seal is an eared seal similar to the sea lion. They have a thick waterproof underfur with over 350,000 hairs per square inch. Their fur appears gray or brown when dry, and...
Topp, Roger (photographer). Video, 27 seconds MPG format. The northern fur seal is an eared seal similar to the sea lion. They have a thick waterproof underfur with over 350,000 hairs per square inch. Their fur appears gray or brown when dry, and...
Topp, Roger (photographer). Video, 30 seconds MPG format. The northern fur seal is an eared seal similar to the sea lion. They have a thick waterproof underfur with over 350,000 hairs per square inch. Their fur appears gray or brown when dry, and...