35 second, color/silent, film clip of a whale hunt, 1951-1959. The men look for whales with the aid of a telescope, shoot a small white whale, pull it to shore with some type of grappling hook, and eventually pull it onto shore with ropes. A...
42 second, color/silent, film clip of women fishing through the ice. First the hole is dug and cleared of slush, using a chisel and an ice scoop, then the women sit and jig for fish using a hand-line.
52 second, color/silent film clip of a man hunting seal. He scratches a tool across the snow to make various sounds; the curious seal investigates and becomes vulnerable to the hunter's attack. The same tool serves as a brace for his rifle as he...
66 second film clip, color/silent, of people gathering and transporting fire wood.
A woman, working in front of a semi-subterranean house, is chopping kindling; another woman appears to be setting a small snare; men are using dog sleds to...
70 second film clip, color/silent, of fishing near Deering, Alaska. A man and a boy in a small rowboat set the net and haul it in. People on shore help pull it in and pick the fish out.
84 cm long x 17.7 cm wide; made of braided sinew and braided root; side stakes of birch or willow twigs; five floats of a very light wood attached to top of net; sinkers of pieces of antler and stone; twig used for stake; two rock sinkers have...
A man examines a crab trap at the Alaska-Fresh Crab Plant on Homer Spit, Homer, Alaska. The crab cooking vats are visible in front of the processing plant in the background at right. Aug. 1952. Original photograph size: 3" x 3".
A. 35" long, peeled willow or alder branch, with fishing line, lead sinkers and brown fishing fly wound around one end. ; B. 38" long, peeled willow ar alder branch with brown line, lead sinker and fly snap, aplit in wood repaired with strapping...
Almer J. Peterson holding rifle, spruce hens, and ptarmigans after hunting, in Palmer, Alaska. From verso: "Palmer. A[laska] R[ural] R[ehabilitation]. Oct. 1936. My limit in spruce hens and phtarmigans [sic]. Daddy."