Alaska's Digital Archives

Add or remove other collections to your search:



Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association
Alaska State Archives
Alaska State Library - Document Collection
Alaska State Library-Historical Collections
Alaska State Museums-Alaska State Museum-Juneau
 

Narrow your search by:



You've searched:

All Collections
  • All fields: Ethnology
(380 results)



Display: 20

    • Wood Mask

    • Wood Mask

    • This round wood mask (16 x 13 x 5 cm) has arched eyebrows stained darker than the rest of the wood. The left eyebrow curves down to become the nose, which is triangular, with two round nostrils, and slightly flaring nostril arches. The face is...

    • UAMN85
    • University of Alaska Museum of the North
    • Wood Mask

    • Wood Mask

    • A leaf shaped, wooden mask (28 x 17 x 6.5 cm), with distinctive horizontal ridges as forehead/top of head and chin, and three concentric circular ridges ringing central facial features. Eyes are leaf-shaped slits below one of the ridges, slightly...

    • UAMN86
    • University of Alaska Museum of the North
    • Knife and Sheath

    • Knife and Sheath

    • This steel knife was ground down from filing. The split and coiled handle is wrapped in cloth and sinew (9.75 in. long). The sheath is of moosehide, beaver fur, dentalia shells, and blue, yellow and red trade beads. The shoulder strap is dentalia,...

    • UAMN87
    • University of Alaska Museum of the North
    • Skin Ball

    • Skin Ball

    • The ball is made from assembled pieces of scraped, bleached and dyed sealskin sewn with sinew and stuffed with caribou hair. The exterior consists of six dark brown main panels: four rectangular central pieces with slightly convex lengths and...

    • UAMN88
    • University of Alaska Museum of the North
    • Sewing Kit

    • Sewing Kit

    • (A) Woman's sewing kit made with a hollowed-out bone and bleached sealskin. At the end is a polar bear head made from mineralized walrus ivory. This secures the bleached sealskin, which is folded lengthwise and slides through the bone. A hole is...

    • UAMN89
    • University of Alaska Museum of the North
    • Sewing Kit

    • Sewing Kit

    • (A) Woman's sewing kit made with a hollowed-out bone and bleached sealskin. At the end is a polar bear head made from mineralized walrus ivory. This secures the bleached sealskin, which is folded lengthwise and slides through the bone. A hole is...

    • UAMN90
    • University of Alaska Museum of the North
    • Parka Trim

    • Parka Trim

    • Lane, Daisy (artist). Parka trim piece made primarily of white and black calfskin. Top and lower borders are white calfskin, with blue felt designating a break for the primary design field along one side, red bordering the other. Red-orange felt...

    • UAMN91
    • University of Alaska Museum of the North
    • Parka Trim

    • Parka Trim

    • Lane, Daisy (artist). Parka trim piece made primarily of white and black calfskin. Top and lower borders are white calfskin, with blue felt designating a break for the primary design field along one side, red bordering the other. Red-orange felt...

    • UAMN92
    • University of Alaska Museum of the North
    • Coiled Willow Tray

    • Coiled Willow Tray

    • Dutchman, Matilda (maker). Single-rod, coiled willow root tray with star and floral design. The tray is large and circular. The interior is decorated with multi-colored, aniline-dyed grass in yellow, red, green and purple in a seven-point star and...

    • UAMN94
    • University of Alaska Museum of the North
    • Beaded Moccasins

    • Beaded Moccasins

    • Smoked moosehide beaded moccasins with a caribou hide ankle wrap. The bottom of the slipper is smoked moosehide. Only the upper ankle area is of caribou hide. There are two long caribou lacings coming from the tongue area of the slipper. The glass...

    • UAMN95
    • University of Alaska Museum of the North
    • Nepcetaq Mask

    • Nepcetaq Mask

    • Large wooden shield-shaped mask with a round face in the center with pegged teeth. Several fish protrude through the shield of the mask. "No. 1" is written in pen on the back of mask. Blue, red and white pigment are used on the surface.¬ulture:...

    • UAMN96
    • University of Alaska Museum of the North
    • Feather Parka

    • Feather Parka

    • Kimoktoak, Freida (maker). This zip-front parka is made with squares of various species of birds caught in the Norton Sound area. Lined in black fabric, it has a metal zipper, and the zipper is covered on the PL side with a strip of otter fur. The...

    • UAMN97
    • University of Alaska Museum of the North
    • Feather Parka

    • Feather Parka

    • Kimoktoak, Freida (maker). This zip-front parka is made with squares of various species of birds caught in the Norton Sound area. Lined in black fabric, it has a metal zipper, and the zipper is covered on the PL side with a strip of otter fur. The...

    • UAMN98
    • University of Alaska Museum of the North
    • Feather Parka

    • Feather Parka

    • Kimoktoak, Freida (maker). This zip-front parka is made with squares of various species of birds caught in the Norton Sound area. Lined in black fabric, it has a metal zipper, and the zipper is covered on the PL side with a strip of otter fur. The...

    • UAMN99
    • University of Alaska Museum of the North
    • Feather Parka

    • Feather Parka

    • Kimoktoak, Freida (maker). This zip-front parka is made with squares of various species of birds caught in the Norton Sound area. Lined in black fabric, it has a metal zipper, and the zipper is covered on the PL side with a strip of otter fur. The...

    • UAMN100
    • University of Alaska Museum of the North
    • Bentwood Visor

    • Bentwood Visor

    • Simeonoff, Jacob (artist). This bentwood visor has a decorative painted surface. The visor has an open-crown design, a long squared-off front, and two overlapping pieces at the nape that are stitched together with imitation sinew and reinforced...

    • UAMN101
    • University of Alaska Museum of the North
    • Beaded Mittens

    • Beaded Mittens

    • Pair of moosehide mittens in excellent condition; they have bands of beaver fur around the wrists and at the edge of the gauntlets. The backs of the mittens and the areas between the fur bands are very elaborately beaded in floral patterns; the...

    • UAMN126
    • University of Alaska Museum of the North
    • Baby Carrier

    • Baby Carrier

    • Shallow birch bark with spruce root sewing and willow rimrod all the way around with 2 willow side braces. No trim on back but has leather band attached at lower rim. Two sets of leather tying straps attached to band - trimmed with blue rick rack...

    • UAMN143
    • University of Alaska Museum of the North
    • Birch Basket

    • Birch Basket

    • Alexi, Emma (maker). Wastepaper basket shape with a square base rising to a round mouth; made of a large piece of birchbark with two small pieces inserted and sewn on either side; sewn with spruce root; rim rod of willow; the outer bark is on the...

    • UAMN154
    • University of Alaska Museum of the North

QuickView

Display a larger image and more item information when the pointer pauses over a thumbnail
on off
 

Layout options:

Thumbnail with title
Grid with smaller thumbnails and more detail
Select the collections to add or remove from your search
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
 
OK