Title taken from caption. From verso: "May, photographing our cache of chipped knives, June 8th." View of Alan May photographing a set of six chipped knives. He is using a tripod and wearing a heat net. From May's journal, dated June 8th: "The...
Title taken from label on matting. View of knives carved of walrus ivory displayed at Nome, Alaska. Images on knives portray rabbit and bears, and handles are shaped as person, seal, fish, and bear. Also from label: "Nome." Photographer's number...
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
Title from caption. Caption reads "Along the Yukon in [the] good old days." Five men, each wearing different headgear and carrying an assortment of knives, pose while holding bottles. One of the men has a cooking pot on his head and is drinking...
Title from caption. Caption reads "[Along] the Yukon in the good old days." Five men, each wearing different headgear and carrying an assortment of knives, pose while holding bottles. The man on the far right is also holding a jug. Four of...
Title taken from caption. Image of artifacts described by May as knives, scrapers, drills and points of green-stone as well as whale teeth, alws, and a foreshaft. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition...
Title taken from label on matting. View of butter knives carved from walrus ivory displayed in Nome, Alaska. Two knife handles are carved into figures of seal and walrus. Photographer's number 7917. July 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original...
48 second, color/silent, film clip of people engaged in various forms of handiwork. Women are working with leather, perhaps crimping soles with their teeth. Another woman is sitting on a semi-subterranean building grinding something with a...
Title taken from the back of the photograph. Dried meat and blubber are stored in " meat cellars " in the ground. This woman is climbing down to get some meat for her dogs. " Property of Dorothea Leighton, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore MD.
Title taken from caption: "Sayre taking soil sample on Katmai ash flat." View of National Geographic expedition member Jasper Dean Sayre using small torch and knife to take soil samples. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National...
Title taken from caption. View of a woman, three children, and a man near a rack of drying salmon at Naknek, Alaska. Pawik is a variant name for Naknek. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area, 1919.
Title taken from caption. View of a woman dressing a salmon and preparing it for drying at Naknek, Alaska. Caption also says: "Native woman dressing salmon. Note the chopping knife used for the purpose." Photo taken during National Geographic...
Title taken from caption. View of two children, a man, and a woman at Naknek, Alaska. The woman is dressing a salmon and preparing it for drying and there is a pile of prepared salmon in the center of the photo. Photo taken during National...
Title taken from caption. View of a man, a woman, and three children at Naknek, Alaska. The woman is dressing salmon for drying and there is a pile of prepared salmon in the center of the photo. Caption also says: "Native woman dressing salmon....
Title taken from caption. View of a woman dressing a salmon and preparing it for drying at Naknek, Alaska. Caption also says: "Native woman dressing salmon. Note the chopping knife used for the purpose." Photo taken during National Geographic...