View of entrance to U.S. Mercantile Company in Nome, Alaska, with whale bones surrounding doorway. Sign above doorway reads: "U.S. Mercantile ..." Small sign on building reads: "... Coffee." July 4, 1951. Photographer: Robert Mounteer. Photograph...
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...
This knife has a bone handle and steel blade attached with two brass bolts and a piece of wood inserted under root lashing for better grip. Measures 9.5 in. long.
Carving of a man standing with his arms extended out at his sides, palms down, wearing mittens, a hooded parka, and boots. Made from old whale bone, the carving is a medium brown color and still has a lot of beach sand left in the pores of the...
Made of bone; tapered at both ends with an eye in the middle; used for making snowshoe webbing. Around the eye there are grooves on either end, on both sides of the piece, which extend out 1cm on either side of the eye in the same direction as the...
Left to right: Earl ?, Roy King (with the flat hat - note the human mandible on top of his hat), Joe Stickman (rear), Mrs. Mabel Massan? Mersan?, Ron Green. In the right...
At the massacre site at Nulato - see also #'s 25 and 31; Mrs. Mersan (Massan?), the woman in the photo, married "this guy Ike Speaks after" the man to her right; on the far...
Title taken from collection notes. Notes: Little Eskimo boy leans on Bone Bank material that will soon be used in helping one of his friends. Accompanying materials indicate that this boy is the son of Frankie Scott, one of the mushers...
Title taken from collection notes Notes: Arrival of Bone Bank via air Aircraft is a Wien Alaska Airlines Douglas DC-3 from the late 1940s or early 1950s
Title taken from collection notes. Notes: Dr. Rabeau removing container with frozen bone therein. Lettering on box: Refrigerated bone bank, fragile, this side up, Mt Edgecumbe Medical Center, Mt Edgecombue Alaska.
A bone engraved with different animals. There are fish and bubbles along with an otter. There also seems to be some foxes along the bottom right hand corner. The bone has an outline along the sides and the animals are standing along the edges of...