(4:46 min.) (06 of 24) 06 Other tasks Besides doing the cooking and cleaning, the steward was baker, butcher, nurse, waiter, and, on some trips, musician. Cargo handling included shipping the dead; some wouldn't touch the coffins. Was...
Title taken from verso. View of Eskimo grave with coffin supported above ground by rack in Kiwalik, Alaska. Also from verso: "Because of frozen ground, coffins are erected like this; Natives never return to grave." Photographer's number 8236. Sept....
The John W. Chapman Family Papers consist of material relating to John Wight Chapman and May Seely Chapman and their work as Episcopal missionaries at Anvik, Alaska (1887-1930), as well as family correspondence, genealogical information,...
Title taken from accompanying material. Note from the cataloguer: The people seen in this photograph and their corresponding names are not as clear as one might wish. The names provided are as follows. Back Row (l. - r.): Harry Shirai,...
Title taken from caption on Album. "Burial of Chief David of Tetlin May 17th, 1919". [From the Archdeacon Drane's (travel) journal: "Just after the death of the benevolent and much loved Chief David, the men and women of the village...
Title taken from caption on Album. "Burial of Chief David of Tetlin. May 17th, 1919". Several men carry a coffin with ropes; one seems to read a book. Compare UAF-1991-46-573.
Title taken from verso. View of marker for grave on cliff overlooking Bering Sea at Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. Marker reads: "Edward Tjmka[?]. Born in March 9, 1932. Died in March 6, 1968." April 1969. Photographer: Ward W. Wells....
Title taken from verso. Hand tinted photograph. Seven men and a woman gathered around a coffin in front of a painted screen and important clan artifacts. Thunderbird House, Wooshketaan Clan. Verso: John Fawcett (caretaker) 4th from left.
Title taken from interview notes: Masks and other pieces of Tlingit art are displayed with the coffin. The coffin lid stands against the carved and painted screen of the Thunderbird House. Interview notes: (l. to r.): Edith Valle, Helen...