Sitka Tribal Enterprise June 2007 tourist season. The Sheetka Kwaan Naakahidi Dance group performers are being introduced by the Dance Show Coordinator-Angie Ketah. The dancers are from left to right: Leonty Williams, Shante Rice, Unknown, Unknown,...
Shop interior with sign, "Sitka Photo Co. Table and floor laden with artwork including bentwood boxes, copper daggers, and a painted hide. Title taken from image. Photographer's number 45-N.
During the 1920's, many of the original totem poles in Kake were burned. After many years of not having totem poles, the residents of Kake, Alaska organized to acquire and place a 132-foot pole in the town. Alaska Indian Arts, Inc. of Haines,...
Descriptive Narrative: Carved wooden mask by Nathan Jackson with earrings by Emma Marks. The natural color of the wood shows through on most of the mask except where hair, eyebrows, and eyes are painted in black, and nostrils and lips in red. A...
5 pages of hand written notes, taken by James Wickersham during a conversation with Taku chief Aanahalaash, and 2 photographs. Subjects include: Chilkat Blanket weaving,including the origin of the design and the manner of dying the wool; the Swan...
Title and identification courtesy of Harold Jacobs. During the 1920's, many of the original totem poles in Kake were burned. After many years of not having totem poles, the residents of Kake, Alaska organized to acquire and place a 132-foot...
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"An unusual record of achievement has been established by eight native Alaskans, who were graduated August 10 by the RCA Institutes in New York. Members of a pilot group, sponsored by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, they scored a notable success in...
Contents: Letter of transmittal. Testimony of Chief Kah-du-shan from Wrangel; Chief Johnson (Yash-noosh) from Juneau; Chief Koogh-see fom Hoonah; Chief Kah-ea-tchiss from Hoonah; Chief Shoo-we-Kah from Juneau; Chief Ah-na-tlash from Taku;...
Notes on the Tlingit and Kad'iak languages and some on others within the Russian-American possessions, with appended Russian-Tlingit dictionary. Compiled by Ivan Veniaminov in Sitka. 1st ed. St. Petersburg, 1846.
An attempt to...
Governor Swineford collected the photographs during the 1887 voyage he and his wife, Minnie Swineford, took aboard the Thetis. Included are views of the Thetis and its crew,Alaska Natives from various regions of the State of Alaska, seal...
Verso: Eighteen months of demanding study in electronics ended successfully August 10 for eight native Alaskans when all were graduated by the RCA Institutes in New York. They are members of a pilot educational program sponsored by the Bureau of...
Verso: An experiment in adult education was concluded successfully with the graduation August 10 of eight native Alaskans from the RCA Institutes in New York. All completed an 18-months course in Industrial and Communications Electronics. Here,...