Photo caption reads "Left to right: Ford Bectel, Russ Dow, Fritz at Fishhook [Inn]." View of three men standing in front of a tractor with three cars and a bus behind it. The bus has the logo "Pioneer Line" printed above the back window. There are...
Title taken from verso. View of Fishhook Road, Matanuska Valley, Alaska. Also from verso: "Matanuska Valley." 1940's. Original photograph size: 5" x 4".
Fishhook made of Dall sheep horn; double barbless hooks set in. "Michak"
Collected in the field for the Modern Alaskan Material Culture Project undertaken by the UA Museum. 12/6/2011: In the field notes and paper file the "place" is listed...
Title taken from caption. View of the mountain side with a ski lift near the bottom. Around the base of the lift is a crowd of people and a dog. Three people can be seen being pulled up the slope and two skiers are returning for another run.
Bow and arrow replaces shot gun for duck hunting to save ammunition. Title and description taken from photographer's notes. Personal description courtesy of Woody Salmon.
Brass with barbless nail hook set in; wire loop wound with string. One circular eye has been carved out of the brass on one side of the piece. Another eye hole can be seen, but is obscured by the inset nail. 18cm x 2.7cm.
Mammoth ivory sinker tapered on both ends. On the top of the sinker there is a darkened area (outter core). The sinker has one circular hole drilled into each end for line attachments. Looped through the bottom hole in the sinker is wire (picture...
Ivory shank tapered at both ends, the top end more so than bottom. The smaller tapered end has two holes drilled through it to accomadatethe picture wire wound through for leader. Attached to the loop made at the opposite end of the picture frame...