Four women dancing on blanket made of bearded sealskin outside during Nalukataq (spring whaling celebration). Well-dressed women dance with babies on their backs. The metal bucket near drummers is filled with water used to keep drums moist for...
Title from donor notes. Additional donor notes read: "The jeep got a lot of summer use, even [left center] when the engine didn't work. The younger male Point Hopers who had been away from the village were enthusiastic but inexpert drivers. ...
Title taken from label on matting. Group of King Island dancers drumming and singing at Federal Building cornerstone laying ceremony in Nome, Alaska, with dancer partially visible and spectators at left. Photographer's number 7960. Aug. 2, 1938....
Title taken from information with photograph. View of men playing skin drums in Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska. Men identified from information with photograph as: "Unknown, Arctic John, Elijah Kakinya, Frank Rulland, Simon Paneak." May 1970. Photographer:...
Group of children dancing to drums in Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska, with drummers seated on floor in background. Drummers include: Arctic John, Elijah Kakinya, Frank Rulland, and Simon Paneak. May 1970. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph...
Title from verso Soldiers of Company B, 1st Battle Group, 23rd Infantry, unloading 55 gallon drums and rolling them down a prefabricated ramp to HARRIS COUNTY (LST-822) Signal Corps Photo 576652 (1st. Lt. Charles Beresford, photographer)
Caption: "Under the skin canoe there can be seen six drums which are used in our native dance; the man is doing a dance after a successful season of whaling."
These are the Chilkat Dancers from Haines or Port Chilkoot as it was called at the time. The man using the drum on the far left is Carl Heinmiller. Identification courtesy of Blythe Carter, Sheldon Museum & Cultural Center.
Caption: For twenty-four hours previous to launching the first whale boat, all members of the whaling crews fast, dance and sing of former deeds of bravery at sea.