Bean, Augustus (maker). This is an open, shallow wooden dish with two frogs (as seen from above) on the bottom of bowl. Ten pieces of bone or ivory are inset around the top rim; round white seed beads are inset around the inner second rim, which...
Bean, Augustus (maker). This is an open, shallow wooden dish with two frogs (as seen from above) on the bottom of bowl. Ten pieces of bone or ivory are inset around the top rim; round white seed beads are inset around the inner second rim, which...
Title taken from front. Baleen (bone) from whale on ship, Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska. From verso: "780 pieces of whale bone. Whale 78 ft. long. Longest slab 9 1/2 ft. Value of bone $12,600. Cape Prince of Wales." Aug. 1902. Original photograph...
Caption: Commercial whale bone is suspended from the upper jaw bone of the whale instead of teeth this whale had #10,600 worth of bone - five men stood abreast between its jaws. The longest...
Title taken from caption. View of items removed from site on Agattu. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "We found that it had been covered with sea-lion skins." View of a fence of driftwood and whale bone covering a portion of a cave. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's...
Atchak, Earl (artist). Large whale bone assemblage with rib acting as an umiak with a group of 6 human figures inside, one of whom is a baby in the arms of an adult. Three figures have wooden paddles. Figures wear parkas of caribou and rabbit fur....
Atchak, Earl (artist). Large whale bone assemblage with rib acting as an umiak with a group of 6 human figures inside, one of whom is a baby in the arms of an adult. Three figures have wooden paddles. Figures wear parkas of caribou and rabbit fur....
Atchak, Earl (artist). Whale bone kayak with a single figure inside, holding an upraised harpoon. Figure has parka made from rabbit skin. The face is carved from wood.¬ulture: Cup'ik
May 9, 1903 THE FAIRBANKS MINER Fairbanks, Alaska 26 26.May 1903 Vol. 1. No. 1. James Wickersham Editor ORIGINAL of THE FAIRBANKS MINER Written by James Wickersham and typed by Geo. Jeffery at Fairbanks in May, 1903 & sold by Jeffery and Stevens...
Title taken from caption. Image of an item removed from a dig site on Umnak Island. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Description: Argillite; carved; bone; inset Descriptive Narrative: Carved of carbonaceous shale (slate or argillite). A canoe with oblong insets of bone on the gunwales and a figure of the sea monster engraved on both sides- front and back. 8...
Title taken from accompanying note. "[Sign for Utkeagvik Presbyterian Church, established 1898 (Barrow & N.A.R.L., 1973); photo has negative]." Two pieces of what may be whale bone support a sign, itself carved in bone.
Title taken from accompanying note. "[Sign for Utkeagvik Presbyterian Church, established 1898 (Barrow & N.A.R.L., 1973); photo has negative]." Two pieces of what may be whale bone support a sign, itself carved in bone. See identical photo at...
(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...