Title taken from verso. Photograph of the Ice carnival house built by Pietro Vigna, March 1934. Otto Geist on far right in bird feather parka. Visible in the photograph are many examples of native hunting and fishing equipment such as seal poke...
Title taken from caption. "Roosevelt John (left) and John Evan standing over a Grizzly bear that was just killed by them with their spears. Minchumina area." (Folder 39)
No original caption. Photo loose in album. Later caption notes: "Far left: Fred Sanders. Bottom smoker: Sundvik. Just above him: Spears. Next to Sundvik: unknown. Next to unknown is Hlavaty. Leaning on towing bit is Berto. Berto seems to be talking...
Title taken from caption. Photo loose in album. Group portrait of several crewmembers from the U.S.C.G. Bittersweet. Probably in the Bristol Bay region.
Title taken from caption. Photo loose in album. Portrait of 5 members of the crew of the U.S.C.G. Bittersweet in a small boat used for lightering to shore or for traveling up rivers.
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...
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. 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...
Title taken from verso. View of house constructed of ice and a seal float. Six people dressed in traditional Native Alaskan clothing stand in front of the house. Also from verso: "Natives 'college kids' dressed as Eskimos. Otto Geist (the...
Title taken from label on matting. Paperweight with figures of Eskimo hunter and polar bear carved from walrus ivory displayed in Nome, Alaska. Photographer's number 7924. July 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 10" x 8 1/8".
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".
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....
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.