This color slide depicts an unidentified Alaska Native woman holding braided walrus intestines in either Kotzebue or Barrow, Alaska in 1962. The woman ins wearing a kuspuk with a fur-trimmed hood and has a scarf over her hair. The photographer is...
Title from verso Two Native women work over pale coils of intestines; note on verso identifies one woman as Pooboolook Toon, blowing up seal intestines
Title taken from the back of photograph. "The dried intestines are carefully slit, and then sewed together in strips to make a raincoat like our oiled-silk ones". Property of Dorothea Leighton, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore MD.
Title taken from the back of photograph. " Even walrus intestines are useful. This woman is gathering up some she has scaped, inflated, and dried ". Property of Dorothea Leighton, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore MD.