Album of 53 photographs from the Swain family's 12-day trip to Alaska aboard the S. S. ALASKA. Beginning at Pier 42 in Seattle, the images show highlights of travel through the Inside Passage to Seward and then to Anchorage by train. Shore...
The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute and 45 seconds, MPG-1 format. Amid the ice floes, the ocean is calm as the wave action is damped by the ice. With little wind, the only sounds are...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 2 minutes and 9 seconds, MPG-1 format. The outboard hunting boats are piloted quickly but carefully around the ice floes to spots where the boat captains...
Title from caption. Photograph of the early construction phase of a birch bark canoe. Narrative in photo album reads: "At the left is the beginning of a birch bark canoe: the framework of straight grained white birch. The ribs are made from...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of two women sewing bark on a birch bark canoe. Narrative in the photo album reads: "Next as shown below, the women sew the pieces of birch together, sewing over and over. For thread they use the small roots of...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of the construction of a birch-bark canoe. Narrative in the photo album reads: "Below is shown the next step. The large sheets of birch bark are pinned in position with wooden pins, and the ribs are also placed."
Title by cataloger. Photograph of a recently constructed birch-bark canoe. Narrative in the photo album reads: "After the sewing, all seams are covered with a mixture of pitch, gathered from the trees, cooked with grease. This hardens but is...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of a boy standing in front of a canoe being built by a man. Narrative in photo album reads: "At the left and below are two of Mr. Shultz's pictures of the same canoe shown on the opposite page."
Title from photo album. Photograph of Lawyer Rivenburg in a birch-bark canoe. Narrative in the photo album reads: "These canoes weigh but fifty to sixty pounds and are from fifteen to eighteen feet long and about eighteen inches to two feet...
Narrative in photo album reads: "At the left and below are two of Mr. Shultz's pictures of the same canoe shown on the opposite page. "Mrs. Albert, Mrs. Luke and Mrs. Jennie Pitka working on a canoe in a little dry slough just back of the...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of Mrs. Albert, Mrs. Luke and Mrs. Jennie Pitka helping in the construction of a birch-bark canoe. Also visible is another canoe being worked on by a man and a child being held by one of the women. Narrative in...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of a man in a birch-bark canoe. Narrative in photo album reads: "I learned to go about in these canoes very well, altho not many white men care to use them. One sits on the bottom, or doubled-up on the knees as...