View of a row of houses in Kotzebue, Alaska. A family stands in front of the first house. From verso: "Kotzebue." Ca. 1930-1939. Original photograph size: 2.75" x 4.5".
View of six girls dressed in kuspuks sitting on a pile of lumber at Point Barrow, Alaska. From verso: "Pt. Barrow." Ca. 1930-1939. Original photograph size: 2.75" x 4.5".
View of seven officers in uniform standing on the deck of the ship, North Star, in Alaska. From verso: "7 of the North Star officers (Bowersox second from right) L[eft] to R[ight] Sundt, Greenfield, Whitlam, Sanwick, Lystad, Bowersox, and...
Title taken from verso. View of Glenn H. Bowersox holding an industrial whale harpoon at the whaling station in Akutan, Alaska. Ca. 1930-1939. Original photograph size: 2.75" x 4.5".
Full portside view of the C.S. Holmes with its sails set in Alaska. From verso: "Johnny Backlund's [John Backland] schooner C.S. Holmes. Ca. 1930-1939. Original photograph size: 2.75" x 4.5".
Title taken from verso. View of a number of kayaks, some manned, some unmanned, alongside the ship, North Star, near Hooper Bay, Alaska. Ca. 1930-1939. Original photograph size: 2.75" x 4.5".
View of women and children standing outside barabaras in Hooper Bay, Alaska. Several dogs are chained to a post and a drying rack can be seen at the top of the hill. From verso: "Hooper Bay." Ca. 1930-1939. Original photograph size: 2.75" x 4.5".
View of a women holding a baby and children standing in front of a barabara in Point Hope, Alaska. From verso: "Pt. Hope." Ca. 1930-1939. Original photograph size: 2.75" x 4.5".
View of eight girls posing for a photograph on board the ship, North Star, in Alaska. From verso: "Native girls on North Star - going to Wrangell Institute, an Alaska Native Service advanced school." Ca. 1930-1939. Original photograph size: 2.75" x...
Title taken from verso. View of three ship's officers standing on the ice pack near open water with a ship in the background. Original photograph size: 2.75" x 4.5".
Title taken from verso. Full portside view of the ship, Boxer, aground on a sand spit near Ugashik Bay, Alaska. Also from verso: "The sand spit we were on was the only visible land for 10 miles around." 1935. Original photograph size: 2.75" x 4.5".
View of men standing on the ice pack with the ship, Boxer, in the background near Wainwright, Alaska. From verso: "Boxer against ice pack about 25 miles off Wainright in 1931. Note hose over bow getting fresh water." 1931. Original photograph size:...
View of Glenn H. Bowersox standing next to a dead polar bear being hoisted onto the deck of the ship, Boxer, near Wainright, Alaska. From verso: "Bowersox with polar bear shot by Natives on ice pack about 25 miles off Wainright, 1931." 1931....
Title taken from verso. View of Glenn H. Bowersox standing on the snow covered deck of the ship, Boxer, in the Bering Strait. 1931. Original photograph size: 2.75" x 4.5".
Title taken from verso. View of the starboard rear of the ship, Boxer, covered in ice, with several men in parkas standing on the deck looking over the side. 1931. Original photograph size: 2.75" x 4.5".
Title taken from verso. View of storefronts along the main street in Seward, Alaska, including Brown & Hawkins store at left. From verso: [erroneously identified as] "Nome, 1937, after the fire of 1935." Signs on building read: "B & H Corp." and...
View of men being served food in a chow line on the deck of a ship on their way to the Matanuska Valley in southcentral Alaska. From verso: "Dinner is served. Destitute farmers from Minnesota sent by gov't. to [be] relocated in the undeveloped...
Title taken from front. Group of people enjoying watermelon, Barrow, Alaska. From photographer's notes: "Picture taken at midnight in Pt. Barrow, Alaska, 1921. Sandy Smith? second from left came over land and bought a watermelon. No. 1 from left,...
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....