Caption: Clad in one piece water proof suits two butchers get into a hole cut in the whales stomach and proceed to carve the meat and throw it to the women on the ice on shore.
S.R. Bernardi photographs formerly known as The Gertrude Lusk...
Elevated cache with Kayak with skin shell removed and two dogsleds among items stored. The ladder leading up into the cache has one rung replaced with a metal rod.
S.R. Bernardi photographs formerly known as The Gertrude Lusk whaling album.
Caption: Eskimos are not Indians, but Mongoloids. Both have all inherent reverence for their ancestors, the Japanese possessing the characteristic a degree stronger than the Eskimos. The Japanese serve fish raw. ...
Five young women identified as left to right: Kuzrere or Grace (Mrs. Percy Blatchford of Nome), Koot egweena, Angnohok, Oo me eeuk, Ang arolok or Bessie (Mrs. Henry Miller of Teller).
Two women identified as Nora (left) and Angnolok (right).
Caption: Eskimos are not Indians, but Mongoloids. Both have all inherent reverence for their ancestors, the Japanese possessing the characteristic a degree stronger than the...
Caption: Eskimos are not Indians, but Mongoloids. Both have all inherent reverence for their ancestors, the Japanese possessing the characteristic a degree stronger than the Eskimos. The...
Photograph of Arthur Nagozruk Jr. Charles E. Bunnell, the University President. Written on the back of the photograph is the following: "Arthur Nagozruk Jr., first full blood Eskimo to be graduated from the University of Alaska, and President...
Portrait photograph of Brenda Itta with the note: To our great and wonderful Senator of Alaska-Senator Gruening. Thank you for all you have done for the Eskimos. Sincerely, Brenda Itta.
Verso: William Earnest Beltz, a 47-year-old native of the Eskimo Village of Unalakleet, is president of the Alaskan State Senate as Alaska makes the complicated transition from territorial to State government. Beltz's father, a native of...
Verso: Taking the rank off the white man and putting it on the Eskimo. This was one of the best decisions I made. The white man in this picture turned out to be Bishop Gordon and the Eskimo's name David Frankson of Pt. Hope.