Title taken from caption. Alan May poses for the camera in front of the cut in the diggings on Amaknak Island showing strata. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Portrait of Alan May taken after his return from the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Alan May stands in front of the archaeological excavation site. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. An unidentified Alaska Native boy watches the excavators make plans. Alan May is in the light colored jacket, Ales Hrdlicka to the right. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition...
Title taken from caption. From verso: "Compulsory coffee." View of the expedition party. Alan May on right in light colored jacket. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Portrait of Alan G. May at the dig site. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. From verso: "May, photographing our cache of chipped knives, June 8th." View of Alan May photographing a set of six chipped knives. He is using a tripod and wearing a heat net. From May's journal, dated June 8th: "The...
Title taken from caption. From May's journal, dated June 1st: "Amother [sic] beautiful day, delightfully warm and was able to work all day stripped to the waist."--p. 39. View of Alan May shoveling dirt into a wheelbarrow, with a shovel and pickaxe...
Alan May poses in front of Mendenhall Glacier. From May's journal, dated May 27th: "The glacier is indeed a very wonderful sight - stupendous and magnificent. ...The blue and green coloring of the icy depths has to be seen to be believed."--p. 12....
Title taken from caption. Alan May poses for a photograph during at a dig site wearing full rain gear, including a hat, jacket, pants and boots. There is a wheelbarrow full of dirt next to him, and he is holding a shovel. Photograph taken during...
Title taken from caption. Alan May poses for a photograph wearing a kamlayka, and holding a pair of snowshoes and mukluks. May explains receiving these gifts in the following journal entry, dated July 20th: "Agefangle Prokopioff brought in a pair...
Title taken from caption. View of Alan May excavating a site. He is holding a brush and there is a wooden specimen tray in the foreground. Photograph taken during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Alan May aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Shoshone en route from Unalaska to Seattle. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. View of Alan May on a beach surrounded by whale bones. There is a wheelbarrow in the background. Photograph taken during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Men walking along a path on Kagamil Island. From left: Alan May, William Laughlin, William Clemes, and Harold Cowper. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian...
Title and spelling taken from caption. View of Alan May sitting near a whale vertebrae, and eating a sandwich. There are shovels propped up next to him. From May's journal, dated July 11th: "Turned out the grandaddy [sic] of all whale vertabrae...
Title taken from caption. From verso: "Uyak 1936, the “gang”." From May's journal, dated May 24th: "Today the Doctor spent quite a time taking pictures of the "gang", - we should look pretty tough as none of us have shaved since arriving...
Title taken from caption. Alan May, William Clemes, and William S. Laughlin excavating. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "Wineman, Gebhard, Guggenheim, Connor, May and Seashore." Portrait of the 1937 expedition members. From May's journal, dated June 18th: "We landed from the launch... and as it was fairly bright the...