Athapaskan woman at her camp with sleeping baby and dogs, Southcentral Alaska. Photo is property of Cook Inlet Historical Society. Photographer's number 900. 1902. Photographer: Miles Bros.
Bow and arrow replaces shot gun for duck hunting to save ammunition. Title and description taken from photographer's notes. Personal description courtesy of Woody Salmon.
The collection includes images of a 2,500 mile inspection trip to northern and interior Alaska which Governor Parks, Malcolm Elliott (President of the Alaska Road Commission) and R.J. Sommers (Territorial highway engineer) took in 1928.
Collection notes: Mavdehiah Rasmuson (1896-?), Dena'ina Athapaskan who married Tommy Rasmuson (1875-1918) Norwegian Bristol Bay fisherman. Child is Stephenata Rasmuson (1912-?) Most likely taken on Lake Clark. Image reversed. ...
Cyanotype photograph of Alaska Native men, women, and children at the Dena'ina village of Tyonek on Cook Inlet in 1898. Several log buildings and a cache are visible in the background. Photograph taken during the 1898 Cook's Inlet Exploring...
Cyanotype photograph of inhabitants of the Dena'ina village of Tyonek, Cook Inlet in 1898. Several log buildings and a cache are visible in the background. Photograph taken during the 1898 Cook's Inlet Exploring Expedition, led by Edwin F. Glenn on...
Cyanotype photograph of Tyonek, Alaska, with Cook Inlet visible in the distance. Wooden buildings, tents and caches are lined along the bluff, with fish drying on fences and dogs walking near the stream. Photograph taken by Walter Mendenhall during...
Description: feathers; fur; yarn; cloth; sewn
Descriptive Narrative: Doll size chief's coat made of what appear to be the feathers from three different bird species. Male mallard duck feathers are used on the top of the shoulders and on the...
Description: metal; copper; leather; moosehide; glass beads
Descriptive Narrative: A) typical Athapaskan knife is made of metal, often native copper by cold hammering. It is made in one piece with a fluted double edged blade. The metal handle...
Description: moose hide; smoked; beads; leather; string; sinew; thread; sewn; glass beads
Descriptive Narrative: Pair of round-toed moccasins with large vamp and high ankle flaps, made of smoked moose hide and decorated with spot stitch...
Description: smoked moosehide; beaded; glass beads; sewn; sinew
Descriptive Narrative: Three piece smoked moosehide mittens with beaded floral designs on the backs in the finger area and on the back of the thumb. The seams are welted and...
Descriptive Narrative: Pair of adult (men's) smoked moosehide center seam moccasins with smoked caribou ankle flaps all sinew sewn. The vamp is covered with blue wool cloth edged with red and green commercial piping. The long caribou thong ties...
Fish hooks made from reindeer shin bone, bent nail and bit of red yarn, barbless - used for hooking pike through ice. Title and description from photographer's notes. Photographer's number 68.
Full blood Indian, daughter of old Moses, snow shoe maker of Steven's Village. Title and descripton from photographer's notes. Photographer's number 152.
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Dzax Dina Xudhoy = Spruce-pitch man story : a traditional story told in Holikachuk Athabaskan / by Hannah Maillelle ; transcribed by Chad Thompson ; translated by Hannah Maillele, Alta Jerue, and Chad Thompson ; illustrated by...
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Gitsighiy = Marten : an original story told in Deg Hit'an Athabaskan / by John Paul ; transcribed by Chad Thompson ; translated by John Paul and Chad Thompson ; illustrated by Cindy Davis.
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Marten
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