Title taken from caption. Caption also says: "A section of the bank of one of the craters in Knife Creek Valley, showing the fan shaped stratification due to the fall of detritus around the edge of the crater. The strata of Katmai ash at the base...
Description: metal; copper; leather; moosehide; glass beads
Descriptive Narrative: A) typical Athapaskan knife is made of metal, often native copper by cold hammering. It is made in one piece with a fluted double edged blade. The metal handle...
This steel knife was ground down from filing. The split and coiled handle is wrapped in cloth and sinew (9.75 in. long). The sheath is of moosehide, beaver fur, dentalia shells, and blue, yellow and red trade beads. The shoulder strap is dentalia,...
Title taken from caption. View of Knife Peak near the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. It was later renamed Mount Griggs for Dr. Robert Fisk Griggs (1881-1962), botanist, whose explorations of the area, after the eruption of Mount Katmai in 1912,...
Title taken from label on matting. View of men castrating reindeer with knife in corral at Lomen Reindeer Corporation reindeer processing plant in Golovin, Alaska. Photographer's number 7911. July 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original...
Title taken from label on matting. View of workers castrating reindeer with knife in corral at Lomen Reindeer Corporation reindeer processing plant in Golovin, Alaska. Photographer's number 7910. July 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original...
This knife has a bone handle and steel blade attached with two brass bolts and a piece of wood inserted under root lashing for better grip. Measures 9.5 in. long.
Steel blade from a saw blade; 2 screw holes; antler handle much stained and polished from use; held on with wooden peg inserted through top of handle. Blade is 8 3/4". Ulu is 5 3/8" x 8 3/4".
Curved bone (rib) handle; curved steel blade with visible file marks; made from a file; fastened to handle with two metal bolts; three serrations on tip of handle; vertical scratches across front of handle where it joins blade; 9 7/8"...