A group of Inupiaq, mostly children, are sitting in the grass as a walrus skin is stretched and dried. Visible in the background are several buildings and a semi-subterranean sod house (far left on horizon). On the right side of the photo are two...
Title from verso. Image shows a Native man, woman and two young boys, seated near houses built of sod and wooden planking. They are dressed in European clothing. Photo may have been taken by Calvin F. Townsend, a U.S. Bureau of Fisheries...
Title from accompanying notes. Six ships are at anchor off this shoreline. Onshore there are several semi-subterranean structures, including one that has a fish drying rack on the roof.
Title from accompanying notes. While visiting Western Alaska, two men closely inspect fish drying on racks built between a cache and a semi-subterranean home.
William Pitka is sitting in an old wooden chair in front of the ruins of what was once a sod-covered log cabin, at a place called Purgatory along the Yukon River.
Title taken from verso. View of abandoned barabaras at Point Lay, Alaska. One of the structures has its frame exposed. Ca. 1930-1939. Original photograph size: 2.75" x 4.5".
Title taken from verso. View of a large two-story wood frame house at Point Barrow, Alaska. A barabara can be seen in the right foreground and more wood frame buildings can be seen in the distance. Ca. 1930-1939. Original photograph size: 2.75" x...
Title taken from verso. View of barabara with church in background in Tununak, Nelson Island, Alaska. Ca. 1930-1939. Original photograph size: 2.75" x 4.5".
View of two men and three young boys sitting next to a barabara at Mekoryuk, Nunivak Island, Alaska. Ca. 1930-1939. Original photograph size: 2.75" x 4.5".
View of a women holding a baby and children standing in front of a barabara in Point Hope, Alaska. From verso: "Pt. Hope." Ca. 1930-1939. Original photograph size: 2.75" x 4.5".
View of men, women, and children standing around entrance to barabara in Mekoryuk, Nunivak Island, Alaska. From verso: "Mekoryuk, Nunivak Island." Original photograph size: 4.25" x 6.5".
Title taken from label on matting. View of log home with sod roof belonging to Mary Koutchat in Unalakleet, Alaska, with fish dring on racks at right. Photographer's number 7972. July 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 8...
Title taken from label on matting. View of home made from logs with sod roof belonging to Lapps (Sami people) in Unalakleet, Alaska. Photographer's number 7978. July 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 8 1/8" x 10".
Three children pose in front of barabaras near U.S. Government Reindeer Project complex in Mekoryuk, Nunivak Island, Alaska, with other buildings in background and salmon drying on pole at right. From information with photo: [Photo used in article...
View of sod house at Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska, with animal skins hanging on racks at right. 1962. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".