Spirit Angasan sitting near Mike Andrew Sr's old bow picker boat, which lays down from "The Creek". The creek is the boundary that lays between Mary Olympic and Mike and Dallia Andrew's fishcamps.
Caption: Eskimos are not Indians, but Mongoloids. Both have all inherent reverence for their ancestors, the Japanese possessing the characteristic a degree stronger than the Eskimos. The Japanese serve fish raw. ...
Five young women identified as left to right: Kuzrere or Grace (Mrs. Percy Blatchford of Nome), Koot egweena, Angnohok, Oo me eeuk, Ang arolok or Bessie (Mrs. Henry Miller of Teller).
Two women identified as Nora (left) and Angnolok (right).
Caption: Eskimos are not Indians, but Mongoloids. Both have all inherent reverence for their ancestors, the Japanese possessing the characteristic a degree stronger than the...
Caption: Eskimos are not Indians, but Mongoloids. Both have all inherent reverence for their ancestors, the Japanese possessing the characteristic a degree stronger than the Eskimos. The...
View of people visiting Native spirit houses on graves in cemetery in Eklutna, Alaska. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. 1970-1971? Photographer: William L. McNutt.
A large, squarish mask with a face and 3 spirit rings framing it on all sides except bottom. The fish heads protrude above face with carvings on them. The face has goggles painted on it and whiskers in a black stain. The head is blue paint and the...
Hoover, John (artist). Sculpture: red cedar, paint, beads, wire. Cedar bird figure composed of base, body and hanging array. Signed, titled and dated on bottom of base. Size: 77.5 x 45 x 16.75 in. Artist Information: Born: 1919, Cordova, Alaska,...
Hoover, John (artist). Sculpture: red cedar, paint, beads, wire. Cedar bird figure composed of base, body and hanging array. Signed, titled and dated on bottom of base. Size: 77.5 x 45 x 16.75 in. Artist Information: Born: 1919, Cordova, Alaska,...
Descriptive Narrative: Carved wooden mask by Nathan Jackson with earrings by Emma Marks. The natural color of the wood shows through on most of the mask except where hair, eyebrows, and eyes are painted in black, and nostrils and lips in red. A...
(4:51 min) (02 of 25) Personal background
office work; Valdez; Ketchikan; steamship company -- like family; spirit of adventure; Alaska Steam -- important community; changes; Fairbanks; Alaska Railroad; competition; freight
Title taken from caption. "11539 -- (41) In thinly-populated Alaska, the native villages are to be found along the streams. This is readily accounted for by the fact that the water affords the Indian natives almost their only source of...
Title taken from caption. View of a woman dressed as a clown with two kids and a man dressed as Uncle Sam in the bed of a truck. The truck is a float participating in the Grotto Lunker parade held in Palmer, Alaska. Banners read: "Businessmen for...
Title taken from border of photo. View of Sitka, Alaska, with Indian Valley and Native spirit houses marking graves in background. Also from border: "No. 6. Scenes in Alaska. Photographed for the Northwest Trading Co. by H.H. Brodeck."...
Cyanotype photograph of three fenced graves marked by Russian Orthodox crosses and spirit houses. Photograph takenduring the 1898 Cook's Inlet Exploring Expedition led by Edwin F. Glenn on behalf of the U.S. Army. The photographer is unidentified.