Title taken from verso. Photograph of Don Foote standing on his house at Point Hope, Alaska. Visible is Don Foote's home with several 55 gal. drums and other equipment out front.
Caption: For twenty-four hours previous to launching the first whale boat, all members of the whaling crews fast, dance and sing of former deeds of bravery at sea.
Handwritten note reads "Native Dance, Nikolai." Because this image includes the building, a paved area that might be a sidewalk, and people also present in UAF-1997-108-239 and UAF-1997-108-328, the...
Title from verso. Verso: Jumping For Joy-When the news of statehood reached the arctic village of Kotzebue, the town started jumping. Here pretty Laura Mae Beltz goes aloft, via walrus hide blanket toss, carrying a flag that will soon have a...
Title from cataloger's notes. Image shows an elderly man wearing glasses and a parka with fur ruff, standing near a dirt road and holding a baseball cap. Power lines, buildings, an automobile, oil drums and boating apparatus are visible in...
Title from caption and verso. Verso reads: "$3.50. #30. Galena AFB. 1955." Image shows an African American man in military uniform and hat leaning out the door of a large fuel truck. Letters painted on the truck identify it as "U.S.A....
Title from verso. Verso reads: "Benson. $1.50. Galena, Alaska." Image shows a military flat-bed truck loaded with oil barrels next to a yard full of similar barrels. The oil drums on the ground are shown laying on their sides. Some of...
The George A. Llano Collection consists of 111 photographs relating to Llano's lichen research and the Anaktuvuk Pass and Wainwright areas, circa 1948. Subjects include plant collecting and identification, people and village activities in...
Title from verso. Photograph of a load of gasoline drums being lowered into an umiak. Verso reads: "Four of 16. Gasoline for Pribilofs -- A slingload of gasoline-filled drums is lowered into a waiting bidar, a 40-foot canvas covered...
Title from indexer. Photograph shows some men standing near two Stinson Detroiter airplanes. The snow around the airplanes is littered with boxes, supplies, and fuel drums. The photograph appears to have been torn.
This photograph is from...
Title from donor notes. Additional donor notes read: "The jeep got a lot of summer use, even [left center] when the engine didn't work. The younger male Point Hopers who had been away from the village were enthusiastic but inexpert drivers. ...
Title from donor notes. Postcard of Kotzebue dancers.
Further information was supplied by George Taylor at the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) Convention held at the Carlson Center in Fairbanks, October 2005. He knows the people and...
Title from donor notes. Postcard of Kotzebue dancers.
Further information was supplied by George Taylor at the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) Convention held at the Carlson Center in Fairbanks, October 2005. He knows the dancers and...
(3:10 min) (03 of 04) Trying to organize in the wake of the earthquake. supplies -- washed out\ fishing -- nets\ gas drums\ fish trucks\ Akwe River\ Dry Bay\ steam -- sand flats\ Geddes, Bill\ foam -- insects