The wooden mask is carved in an elongated oval shape, with a polished smooth surface. The wood is very dark in color. The face shows arching brows and a small ridge running vertically on the forehead from between the eyes to the top of the mask....
Title from verso. Photograph of an artillery unit as they watch U.S. aircraft pass over their position. Verso reads: "Attu -- All eyes focus anxiously on the Aleutian skies as American fighting men watch their air arm fly into battle. ...
Title by cataloguer. This is a half length photograph of a woman wearing a light colored blouse; she has rather sad eyes. A man, possibly a brother (he has similar eyes) is seated next to her.
Third volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 15, 1917-May 18, 1917. [97] pages ; 15 cm.
Full title:
Ciin qutraam qiurlignek Iingellrullra = Why the crane has blue eyes / story related by Matt Andrews and his class ; translated by Andrew Paukan ; illustrated by Leonard Savage.
Parallel title:
Why the crane has blue eyes
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A leaf shaped, wooden mask (28 x 17 x 6.5 cm), with distinctive horizontal ridges as forehead/top of head and chin, and three concentric circular ridges ringing central facial features. Eyes are leaf-shaped slits below one of the ridges, slightly...
The sides are made one piece of shaped wood; 2.375 in. tall; base fitted in; each side has 3 pieces that are 2.375 in. long in ivory; sewn on with baleen; strip of twisted root across container holds sides in; 6 small pieces of ivory 1.375 in. sewn...
Material: Ivory Face carved at upper side; eyes, nose, mouth indicated; right cheek has round hole; 3 straight tattoo lines indicated each side of face below eyes, running down cheek; 2 horizontal tattoo marks upper head with half moon shaped...
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
Title taken from caption. "9208 -- (26) The White men who made packing a business on the Dyea trail in 1898 carried from 75 to 150 pounds at a time, while the Indian packers carried from 100 to 250 pounds each. At short intervals on the left of...
Title taken from caption. "9358 -- (36) We frequently see published statements to the effect that the aborigines are rapidly disappearing, but the scene here depicted contradicts such an assertion. The eleven youthful Esquimaux who make up the...
Title taken from caption. "11539 -- (41) In thinly-populated Alaska, the native villages are to be found along the streams. This is readily accounted for by the fact that the water affords the Indian natives almost their only source of...
Title taken from caption. Photographer's number: D8." Cataloguer's note: A portrait of a woman with deep set eyes, and a grave expression which seems to reveal a life of hardship.
Title taken from caption. " Portrait of a women. [sic]Cataloguer's note: A shoulder length portrait of a young women with dark eyes, her hair is parted in the middle and pulled back. She is wearing a white blouse, loose fit with elaborate...