Accession Number: 98-7-213 Description: ivory; carved Descriptive Narrative: Cribbage board carved from a walrus tusk. The tusk sits on a base with freely-turning wheels. Attached to the top side of the tusk are carved sculptures of a man...
Description: wood; carved; abalone; inset; painted Descriptive Narrative: Headdress frontlet carved in a close grained hard wood. The slightly rectangular back plaque is convex vertically and concave horizontally. The face of a young woman is...
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...
Accession Number: 260 Description: ivory; carved Descriptive Narrative: Carved walrus ivory figurine in the form of a sea otter reclining on its back with the front paws touching on the sides of the head. The eyes are drilled holes. There...
Description: Argillite; carved; bone; inset Descriptive Narrative: Carved of carbonaceous shale (slate or argillite). A canoe with oblong insets of bone on the gunwales and a figure of the sea monster engraved on both sides- front and back. 8...
Accession Number: 431 a
Description: wood; carved
Found: Valdez
Descriptive Narrative: Carved wood spoon. Bowl and most the back is "natural" or light tan color. Red pigment has been painted onto the bowls rim, handle and on the...
A piece of a tree that had burls growing on it has been carved so that two of the burls were transformed into busts. The artwork has been placed outside the Hudson Stuck Memorial Hospital, Fort Yukon, Alaska.
A piece of a tree that had burls growing on it has been carved so that two of the burls were transformed into busts. The artwork has been placed in front of the Hudson Stuck Memorial Hospital, Fort Yukon, Alaska.
Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
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Title taken from label on matting. View of cribbage boards carved from walrus ivory displayed at Nome, Alaska. Images on boards include reindeer and sled, people, bears, seals, and walrus. Photographer's number 7916. July 1938. Photographer: Ray B....
Title taken from label on matting. Cigarette holders made from walrus ivory and carved with figures of walrus, seal, and fox displayed at Nome, Alaska. Photographer's number 7925. July 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 8...
Title taken from label on matting. Four polar bear figures carved from walrus ivory and displayed in Nome, Alaska. Photographer's number 7922. July 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 10" x 8 1/8".
Title taken from label on matting. Three necklaces carved from walrus tooth and tusks displayed in Nome, Alaska. Photographer's number 7927. July 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 10" x 8 1/8".
Title taken from label on matting. Ashtray with figure of bird and possibly bear and pipe with bowl carved as bear made from walrus ivory display in Nome, Alaska. Photographer's number 7925. July 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph...
Title taken from label on matting. Four bracelets carved from walrus tooth and tusks and mastodon ivory displayed in Nome, Alaska. Photographer's number 7929. July 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 10" x 8 1/8".
Title taken from label on matting. Three figurines of birds carved from walrus ivory with hand-etched designs displayed in Nome, Alaska. Photographer's number 7923. July 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 10" x 8 1/8".
Title taken from label on matting. Paperweight with figures of Eskimo hunter and polar bear carved from walrus ivory displayed in Nome, Alaska. Photographer's number 7924. July 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 10" x 8 1/8".
Title taken from label on matting. View of salt and pepper shakers carved with figures of bears and bird made from walrus ivory displayed in Nome, Alaska. Photographer's number 7921. July 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size:...
Title taken from label on matting. Figure of man in kayak holding paddle and spear carved from walrus ivory displayed in Nome, Alaska. Photographer's number 7919. July 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 10" x 8 1/8".
Title taken from label on matting. Figure of people with sled dog team carved from walrus ivory displayed in Nome, Alaska. Also from label: "Nome." Photographer's number 7918. July 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 9 5/8" x...