Title taken from verso. View of women boarding Wien Alaska Airlines Pilatus Porter airplane in Ambler, Alaska, with man at right and village in background. Also from verso: "River Bar Airport" and "Pilatus Porter." Printed on airplane: "Wien Alaska...
Title from sleeve. People identified as (left-right): Elenora Cleveland Marina, Sidney Cleveland (son of Catherine), and Steven Cleveland (son of Mamie). Photographer's number: 12838. 2 1/4 B&W negative.
Title taken from verso. Mamie Cleveland stands in front of fish drying rack holding birch bark basket, Ambler, Alaska. Photographer's number Ambler 217-3. July 25, 1962. Photographer: Steve McCutcheon. Original photograph size: 7" x 5".
84 cm long x 17.7 cm wide; made of braided sinew and braided root; side stakes of birch or willow twigs; five floats of a very light wood attached to top of net; sinkers of pieces of antler and stone; twig used for stake; two rock sinkers have...
Made from birch fungus; round with wire loop inserted for hanging on the net which it is being constructed; "och-kumay-lo-torak"? is the native name given in Inupiaq in the field collection notes, however it is also followed by a question mark....
Fishhook made of Dall sheep horn; double barbless hooks set in. "Michak"
Collected in the field for the Modern Alaskan Material Culture Project undertaken by the UA Museum. 12/6/2011: In the field notes and paper file the "place" is listed...
Large, folded birch bark container found floating in the Ambler River. Willow rim rods and lashing of spruce root, and a rope, possibly cotton, tied along one of the long sides of the basket, possibly a handle. 20cm x 40cm x 28cm.
Birch bark over frame - 14' long with one end decked over with bark (23" w x 46 1/4 long); sewn with spruce root and seamed with spruce pitch; paddle of birch 68" long - lashed to 2 of 5 crosspieces. Piece of bark 33 1/2" x 15 3/4" lashed down for...