Title taken from label on matting. View of five duck figures carved out of ivory at Gambell on Saint Lawrence Island displayed in Juneau, Alaska. Photographer's number 8310. 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 8 1/4" x 10".
Title taken from verso. Andrew Ooseva cutting piece of ivory for umiak, Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. Photographer's number McM 13453. May 1961. Original photograph size: 7" x 5".
Title taken from label on matting. Cigarette resting in ivory ashtray with figure of polar bear carved at Saint Lawrence Island, on display in Juneau, Alaska. Photographer's number 8316. 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 8"...
Title taken from label on matting. Ivory ashtray with figure of polar bear carved at Saint Lawrence Island, on display in Juneau, Alaska. Photographer's number 8315. 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 8 1/8" x 10".
Title from verso. Eskimo carver - - Using a hand-fashioned drill "powered" by bow and leather tong device, and Alaska Eskimo carves figures of rare elegance from chinks of bare ivory.
Attached: Andrew Ningealook, President of the Ki-Kat-Ta-Muet Cooperative at Shismaref, an Eskimo community located on the Seward Peninsula, shows how he carves ivory at the 3rd annual Cooperative Crafts Exhibit - an October Co-op Month event held...