The bag is made of netted babiche and the top has band of moosehide. It is decorated with hide rickrack and blue seed beads. The drawstring is of hide. Green trade are beads woven into netting at intervals; four clumps of hide fringe on bottom;...
(A) Woman's sewing kit made with a hollowed-out bone and bleached sealskin. At the end is a polar bear head made from mineralized walrus ivory. This secures the bleached sealskin, which is folded lengthwise and slides through the bone. A hole is...
(A) Woman's sewing kit made with a hollowed-out bone and bleached sealskin. At the end is a polar bear head made from mineralized walrus ivory. This secures the bleached sealskin, which is folded lengthwise and slides through the bone. A hole is...
Kimoktoak, Freida (maker). This zip-front parka is made with squares of various species of birds caught in the Norton Sound area. Lined in black fabric, it has a metal zipper, and the zipper is covered on the PL side with a strip of otter fur. The...
Kimoktoak, Freida (maker). This zip-front parka is made with squares of various species of birds caught in the Norton Sound area. Lined in black fabric, it has a metal zipper, and the zipper is covered on the PL side with a strip of otter fur. The...
Kimoktoak, Freida (maker). This zip-front parka is made with squares of various species of birds caught in the Norton Sound area. Lined in black fabric, it has a metal zipper, and the zipper is covered on the PL side with a strip of otter fur. The...
Kimoktoak, Freida (maker). This zip-front parka is made with squares of various species of birds caught in the Norton Sound area. Lined in black fabric, it has a metal zipper, and the zipper is covered on the PL side with a strip of otter fur. The...
Simeonoff, Jacob (artist). This bentwood visor has a decorative painted surface. The visor has an open-crown design, a long squared-off front, and two overlapping pieces at the nape that are stitched together with imitation sinew and reinforced...
A large, squarish mask with a face and 3 spirit rings framing it on all sides except bottom. The fish heads protrude above face with carvings on them. The face has goggles painted on it and whiskers in a black stain. The head is blue paint and the...
Amason, Alvin (artist). Audio, 2:36 minutes MP3 format. Alvin Amason talks about how he named his painting "Oscar Scared Him with His Icon" at a UA Museum of the North Geist lecture
The dish has a wooden rim, and it is bent and lashed in two places with root. The new bottom has been made and glued in; a small baleen whale is glued in middle of dish and the handle is a high loop of baleen lashed to sides of dish with baleen;...
The box is kurfed and lashed with root (13.5 in. wide, 15 in. long, 16.5 in. high), and with red corners. It is in good condition. The bottom is set in with wooden pegs; marks on box where rope net was stretched over it for fastening; loops on...
The box is kurfed and lashed with root (13.5 in. wide, 15 in. long, 16.5 in. high), and with red corners. It is in good condition. The bottom is set in with wooden pegs; marks on box where rope net was stretched over it for fastening; loops on...
Florence (maker). The top part of this sealskin hassock is of bleached sealskin with four beadwork butterflies, one in each corner; done in several colors. It carries a strap of bleached seal hide sewn tight against one side. All sides are furred...