Remainder of title: Thomas Riggs, Jr., Member Alaskan Engineering Commission, and C. W. Richie and H. J. Atwell, Acting Register and Receiver of the United States Land Office, at Fairbanks, Alaska.
Title taken from caption. Portrait of Anastasia Hodikoff of Attu in 1936. From May's journal, dated July 26th: "After church I got the Chief's wife to let me take a picture of her making an Attu basket. I think she rather liked the idea, for she...
Title from caption on image Buildings in Akutan, Eastern Aleutians: 1. White man's store; 2. Russian Church; 3. Chief's house; 4. Farther huts Photographer's number 3888c
Title and description from accompanying materials. Sasha is the daughter of John and Vera Kalmakoff. She was 21 years old at the time of this photograph. Photographer's notes: Chief's wife. Photographer's number 484.
Title taken from image. Twelve men and youths wearing spruce root hats, carved helmets, masks, one man in Chilkat blanket shirt, and another in fur trim shirt with beaver design; wood carving of man's head in foreground by Chief Klart-Reech's...
Interior of Klini's House, the Frog House of Klukwan; Cannibal giant with child totem, Frog totem, spruce root baskets and cookware, ca. 1895. Double caption.
Title taken from image. Interior of Klini's House, the Frog House of Klukwan; Cannibal totem, frog totem; a child in button blanket sits with feet resting on a carved mark. Photographer's number 202.
Title from image. Chief's grave. Photographer's number 460. According to Louis Shotridge’s notes, this was designed and carved by a Dakl’aweidí carver named Naakushtáa. The same carver made the screen and houseposts inside the Frog House...
Totem pole with winged raven, two grave monuments, covered grave; One monument states "At rest, Chief's Son, David Andrew - born December? 1871? - Drowned in Tongass Narrows, March 15, 1903?" Grave probably at Ketchikan or Saxman.
Title from accompanying materials. Man on steps of house which has panel with Tlingit designs running up center of house. Taax’ Hít (Snail House), Hoonah. Identification courtesy of Harold Jacobs.
Exhibition: ASM 7-8/70 Descriptive Narrative: A certificate presented by Mathew Murav'ev, Chief Manager of the Russian-American Company, to Matvei Naushketl, a Tlingit chief. The certificate was given along with a silver medal "Soiuznye...
Title taken from caption. View of barabaras, or semi-subterranean homes, and the chief's house in the village of Attu. Photograph taken by Alan May during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Two Unangax^ basket weavers with several baskets and the grass they use to make it. They are standing in front of a rounded structure (maybe a barabara?) with a window between them.
A duplicate of the photograph in UAA's Alan May papers...
Title taken from caption. View of the chief's house in the village of Attu. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.