Solid piece of wood; knob handle on top; flared, flat base; stained red; 5" tall; shows much use. Used for mashing up salmon eggs, cranberries, eskimo ice cream etc. "Koch'sin"
Collected in the field for the Modern Alaskan Material Culture...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 44 seconds, MPG-1 format. Driftwood was collected continually throughout the time at camp, starting near the fire and then ranging farther and farther to...
The competition was open to Alaska schoolchildren between grades 7 and 12. Benson was a 13 year old student at the Jessie Lee MIssion Home in Seward. The competition was organized by the American Legion, who collected a total of 142 entries from...
This dome shaped type of tent is called a Qalluvik in Iñupiaq. Willows for the frame were collected inland, around Atqasuk, then bent into curved shape and tied together to make tent frame. It was then covered with canvas. (Early Iñupiaq tents...
Title from caption. Photograph of Moore's Wharf showing five steamships. An advertisement for Moore's Wharf Co. is attached. Caption reads: "Moore's Wharf Skaguay Alaska 4 years after completion. July 4th 1904 date of this photo. No. 1....
Title from cataloger's notes. Image has Fairbanks Daily News Miner property stamp and news clipping on verso. News clipping on verso reads: "TOYS FOR BARROW CHILDREN - Six members of Brownie Troop 102, Island Homes show some of the stuffed...
The collection consists of 42 photographs and brief descriptions, taken during an archaeological dig in Fairbanks. Photographs depict fossils, artifacts, rock and soil formations, gold mining operations and equipment, and landscapes. Persons...
Title from image. Tlingit artifacts collected by Lt. George T. Emmons and sold to the American Museum of Natural History, New York, where it still resides. Included in the photograph are bentwood boxes, bowls, aprons, masks, shamans grave...
Title taken from caption. "9299 -- (39) Here we see the miners digging loose the bank and shoveling the dirt into the stream. Sometimes blasting is used to loosen the bank. The stream carries the soil with the gold which is in it to a sluice...
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Clipping from a publication with the caption: The water wagon is a literal fact in Alaska. In many of the camps it is very hard to obtain good drinking water owing to the fact that wells are difficult to dig or drive...
Title taken from front. Collection of mosses mounted with label, Nome, Alaska. From label front: "Nome, Alaska, April 17, 1908. Tundra moss collected by Mrs. ... Dessung." April 17, 1908. Photographer: O. D. Goetze.
Topp, Roger (photographer). Video, 32 seconds MPG format. The range of the Tufted Puffin in Alaska closely overlaps that of the Horned Puffin, but it is more than twice as numerous in the state as a whole, and 12 times more numerous in the...