The history, beginning with primitive Alaska Eskimo life, includes some "book facts," personal anecdotes, and stories told by others. It describes life in the northern regions from early times until ca. 1937-1940 when the history was written. ...
Caption reads: "Eskimo and his kiak [kayak]." Two Eskimo men sit in their kayaks on the sea. Written on the bottom left corner of the photo is possibly a photographer's initials or photo number: "[FSL?][F82?]."
Photograph shows a smiling Eskimo girl wearing a colorful head scarf tied under her chin and a flower print calico kuspuk with a fur lined hood. The hood is down.
Title from caption. Postcard shows an infant sleeping at the base of a totem pole. Caption on postcard reads "1923 - An Eskimo Teddy Bear". Despite title, photograph appears to be from Southeast Alaska, and therefore the infant may not be...
Title taken from caption. Clipping from a publication with the caption: Four Eskimo girls near Cape Nome, Alaska. The dress of the Eskimo consists entirely of skins of seal, reindeer, bear, and fox, the first two being the most common. The...
View of man on stage speaking into a microphone to a group of spectators at the Eskimo Olympics in Fairbanks, Alaska. A whalebone arch can be seen to the right of the photo. Signs on either side of the stage read: "Eskimo" and "Olympics"....
View of Eskimo Museum in Fairbanks, Alaska, surrounded by snowshoes, baleen, and other items. Next to the museum there is a cache and a pole with numerous antlers attached to it. A mounted dall sheep stands atop a sign on top of the museum. Sign...
Title taken from front. Three Eskimo women and two Eskimo children holding buckets filled with berries in Nome, Alaska. Also from front: "B.B. Dobbs." ca. 1902. Photographer: Beverly Bennett Dobbs.
Eskimo hunter wearing fur parka standing next to kayak with seal and harpoon, near Nome, Alaska. From verso: "Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society. He took the seal home in the back of his "kayak". Chapter 10, page 69, par[agraph] 3. Here are...
Title taken from label on matting. Pair of hard sole moccasins with beading made by Cape Prince of Wales Eskimo and on display in Juneau, Alaska. Photographer's number 8324. 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 8 1/8" x 10".
Title taken from verso. Eskimo woman and child fishing for spider crab, near Nome, Alaska. From verso of original photo: "A close view of an Eskimo woman fishing for spider crabs. Her boots - the wrinkles [on the edges of her boots] are bit with...
Caption: "An Eskimo dance. . .is done by making all kinds of motions with the arms and keeping time with the feet by stamping to the beating of the Eskimo drums. There [are] always five or more drums in the hands of men being struck with a slender...