31 second, color/silent, film clip of processing and preserving salmon along the Yukon River. Women, using ulus and knives, are cutting fish for drying. A man, using what appears to be a spear, tosses fish into a hole, probably to prepare...
a snap shot of an adorable Alaskan Native child. He is bent down on the floor to wash his hands or just to splash around in a small pan. He is looking up at the camera with a huge smile. Strips of meat or fish are hanging in the background.
Beluga whale carcasses lined up along beach after hunt at Nome, Alaska, with women and children nearby and boat and drying racks in background. 1950's? Photographer: Frank Whaley. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
Caption from cataloger. This photograph shows reindeer carcasses hanging on heavy frames. Four people also appear in the picture. The mission referred to is probably the Society of Friends (Quaker) Mission in Kotzebue. "Here is a picture of...
Caption reads: "Squaw wanted." Photographer's number: D3. Cataloger's note: An Alaska Native youth is seen here washing clothes on a wash board; drying clothes are hanging on the tent ropes behind him.
Child [George O'Connor?] stands next to large wooden frame upon which eight reindeer carcasses have been hoisted; wooden table in foreground holds reindeer parts
Fourteen men and one dog pose in outdoor workshop; partially completed boat hull on one side and a rack with lumber on the other; possibly in Chisana Mining District
Mary Olympic standing in front of her old smoke house. As of 2012, this smoke house is no longer standing because of the erision. The Kvichak River bank is now behind the smokehouse.
Numerous racks for drying fish and grasses; smokehouse and Russian Orthodox Church on left side of image; and, on hillside behind are grave crosses No. 9
Poles support radar equipment on hillside; Little Kiska Island in background; operating board in cave in small hill to right; on hillside are two 155mm shells removed from booby traps inside caves Photographer's number 5628