Title taken from caption. View of Alan May on a beach surrounded by whale bones. There is a wheelbarrow in the background. Photograph taken during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. From verso: "Log of the Smithsonian: walking it, with overland freight, the Major-- toward fisherman houses and the wooden Barabra-- Kodiak Island." View of Alan May carrying supplies to the expedition site. Photograph...
Includes notes by Otto Wm. Geist. Components: Plan view of excavation -- Elevation of excavation Sec. A-A -- Plan view of recent house -- Sketch of excavation after completion - September 16, 1933). Map is 35 x 138 cm. or smaller on sheet 96...
Title taken from caption. View of Alan May excavating a site. He is holding a brush and there is a wooden specimen tray in the foreground. Photograph taken during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
The collection consists of 42 photographs and brief descriptions, taken during an archaeological dig in Fairbanks. Photographs depict fossils, artifacts, rock and soil formations, gold mining operations and equipment, and landscapes. Persons...
Title taken from caption. From verso: "Amoknak – 1936. Last exposures." Two members of the expedition work on the Amaknak dig site. Photograph taken by Alan May during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian...
Title taken from caption. From verso: "U.S.C.G. Shoshone, with wheel-barrows akimbo, Lieut. Greeley and Johnson, who is not going to hit anybody." View of several uniformed men aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Shoshone. Photograph taken by Alan...
"Bone diggers from U. of Alaska dug this up. It is part of an eskimos village 2000 years old. (Point Hope)." Wood and bone from an excavation unit at the prehistoric village, Point Hope, Alaska.
Title taken from caption. The Captain of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Shoshone assisting with excavations at Amaknak. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Material: Bird Bone 47.75 mm in length, 9.20 mm wide, elongated oval shape of human face with topknot-like decoration at of head, base of item broken beneath chin of face. Culture: Aleut
Material: Ivory Culture: Aleut Human face, oval in shape, thin in cross-section. Face has open round mouth, incised lines on forehead, cheeks and chin suggest tattoos.