30 second excerpt shows men catching salmon from a pier adjacent to unidentified buildings on the Ketchikan waterfront. Man hauls in fish on line; a second man clubs the salmon on the pier deck. This excerpt is from an original motion picture...
30 second excerpt shows the roadhouse built, owned and operated by Italian immigrant Maurice Morino (1870-1937) at McKinley Park (later called Denali National Park and Preserve); the backside of the entrance sign to McKinley Park; the McKinley Park...
Alexander, Selina (artist). Video, 1minute MPG format. Selina Alexander is an Athabascan who grew up along the Yukon River between Ruby and Galena and now lives in North Pole. She learned beading and skin sewing from her mother, grandmother, and...
Gross-Hope, Margaret (artist). Video, 1 minute MPG format. Margaret Gross-Hope is a Tlingit sewer and beader from Sitka. She learned to sew as an early age with her mother and grandmother. She sews and beads a variety of contemporary and...
Hewson, Wayne (artist). Video, 57 seconds MPG format. Wayne Hewson is a Tsimshian carver from Metlakatla, Alaska. Hewson's carving career began in 1967 in a boarding school in Wrangell, when he used a pocketknife and a bar of soap to carve a...
Joseph, Tommy (artist). Video, 55 seconds MPG format. Tommy Joseph is a Tlingit carver whose hometown is Ketchikan. The first piece he carved was a halibut hook when he was 8. His works now include small items such as bentwood boxes, rattles,...
Pook, Cathleen (artist). Video, 1:02 minutes MPG format. Cathleen Cass Pook is from Sitka and is known for her traditional Tlingit beadwork and basketry. She is a member of the Eagle Clan and the Killer Whale House. She learned her art from her...
Pullock, Charles (artist). Video, 1:02 minutes MPG format. Charles Pullock is an Inupiaq artist living in Nome, Alaska. He carves wood and ivory and is a traditional dance performer. In addition to his carving, he works in construction and lives...
Rofkar, Teri (artist). Video, 58 seconds MPG format. Teri Rofkar is a Tlingit master weaver from Sitka in Southeast Alaska and of the Raven Clan and Snail House. She learned weaving and basketry from classes in college and at museums, and was...
Ryan, Abel (artist). Video, 1:05 minutes MPG format. Born in Ketchikan, Abel Ryan now lives in Metlakatla. This Tsimshian carver learned basic flat design techniques from a master carver while in high school, and has now been carving for 14...
Senator John F. Kennedy speech. November, 10th, 1958
at Gross 20th Century Theatre, Juneau, AK. Introduction by Ernest Gruening. Recorded on ¼” reel-to-reel.
Silook, Susie (artist). Video, 58 seconds MPG format. Susie Silook is a St. Lawrence Island Yupik ivory carver. She began her work by using the whole tusk of the walrus, as she didn't have tools to cut it into small pieces. Instead of the animals...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute and 1 second, MPG-1 format. Kunnaan makes a special delicacy from the seal blubber and seal intestine. She gets a slab of blubber ready and rinses...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute and 11 seconds, MPG-1 format. Everyone has reached Tuapakusuk and set up their tents as a new storm is brewing out on the ocean. The three boats...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute and 11 seconds, MPG-1 format. Pauyuueraq shoots a seal, then with Nak driving, they race towards the seal to throw the harpoon. The animation...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute and 12 seconds, MPG-1 format. A few of the campers return from a hunting trip. Katherine and Charise season the meat on the grill while Fannie...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute and 12 seconds, MPG-1 format. Kunnaan and Katherine Gaudet prepare the caribou skin by removing the fat.
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute and 13 seconds, MPG-1 format. Because of the storms and the need to ground the boats, Paul Bodfish's boat suffered from a clogged waterline....