59 second film clip, color/silent. From title frame: "Stevens Collection, 1968?". Film shows a Yupik family entering and exiting a sod house on Nunivak Island, with a close-up of the enterance.
"The home of a Sea Adder hunsher [sea otter hunter]" Two children sit outside of a home. House is constructed of milled lumber, driftwood, and turf. A cache is behind and right of the house, which is also constructed of mixed construction...
A group of Inupiaq, mostly children, are sitting in the grass as a walrus skin is stretched and dried. Visible in the background are several buildings and a semi-subterranean sod house (far left on horizon). On the right side of the photo are two...
Caption: "Young married couple outside their sod house. The house is made by making the frame out of drift wood and then covered with sod to keep the cold wind out during the winter days. In summer they move out into tents."
The George A. Llano Collection consists of 111 photographs relating to Llano's lichen research and the Anaktuvuk Pass and Wainwright areas, circa 1948. Subjects include plant collecting and identification, people and village activities in...
Note on verso in Russian written by Tikhon Vinokouroff Oct. 12, 1920: On
Kumakh- Surt
120 v[ersts] from Buluna (Siberia)
All [illeg.] "without ceremony"
-- without changing clothes
Sept. 15, 1926