Description: metal; copper; leather; moosehide; glass beads
Descriptive Narrative: A) typical Athapaskan knife is made of metal, often native copper by cold hammering. It is made in one piece with a fluted double edged blade. The metal handle...
Descriptive Narrative: 1 certificate attesting the giving of a Christina name to Naushket, a Sitka chief. Bears red seal which is disintegrated. Descriptive Narrative: A Russian certificate presented to a Tlingit leader of Sitka,...
Relief shown by hill shading and spot heights. Shows U.S. post offices in Alaska. Includes ancillary descriptive text and maps: Map of Great Northern Railway Coast Lines and connections for Alaska -- Key map showing routes to Alaska. In color....
Descriptive Narrative: Playing cards (all original 52) and leather case. White Pass & Yukon Route. Different scenes.
History: Gift of Caryl Sale Krug and John W. Krug, 1998. Collected by William W. Sale and Neeta Tobey Sale, residents of Nome,...
Descriptive Narrative: Carved wooden mask by Nathan Jackson with earrings by Emma Marks. The natural color of the wood shows through on most of the mask except where hair, eyebrows, and eyes are painted in black, and nostrils and lips in red. A...
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...
Accession Number: 92-57 Descriptive Narrative: Bronze sculpture "The Hiker" by Louis Potter; depicts a man with walking stick, walking uphill, with tumpline around forehead supporting pack on back. Inscription: Louis Potter/Alaska/1904
Accession Number: 96-26 Descriptive Narrative: Paper cut-out in the shape of a paulownia leaf, printed in gold, black and green. Background printed on each side is a photographic reproduction of a leaf in gold and black. In the center is a...
Accession Number: 98-1 Model: 4.2" Dahlgren projectile Descriptive Narrative: Explosive shell casing made of a steel (rusted); approx. 4" in diameter and 8.25" from end to end. One end is rounded, the other tapering. The rounded end has...
Accession Number: 72-96-16
Description: spruce root; grass; black; orange; blue-green; woven; decorated
Descriptive Narrative: One large Tlingit spruce root basket. Three bands of false embroidery in several different colors of dyed...
Description: wool; brass; braid; piping; serge; cotton; silk; ribbon Used: Chief Kowee; Kaawa.ee Descriptive Narrative: a). Jacket - navy blue wool, double breasted, w/row of 7 brass navy type buttons & 7 buttonholes up each side of the...
Descriptive Narrative: Small Chilkat robe. Design is an eagle. Notes: Per Maria Miller 1/12/1987: All yarn in this piece is commercial yarn. The fringe is wool and jute twine. Dimensions: W: 19 5/8 in, H: 22 1/2 x 14 in Accession...
Descriptive Narrative: Watercolor painting showing Haida community houses and totem poles from the beach at Old Kasaan, on Prince of Wales Island Exhibition: ASM 7-10/84; ASM Gentle Craft Exhibit 3-10/90 see exh. catalog Dimensions: H: 10...
Accession Number: 73-40-5 Descriptive Narrative: Watercolor painting depicting Tlingit houses at Wrangell, with canoes on beach in foreground, totem poles and clan houses in middle, and forested mountain in background. Exhibition: The...
Descriptive Narrative: watercolor showing interior of Tlingit clan house. May be the same house depicted in another Richardson painting in the ASM collection (V-A-335). Exhibition: ASM Friends Art Exhibit 12/82-1/83; ASM 7-10/4; ASM Gentle...
Descriptive Narrative: Watercolor on paper, depicting totem poles at Old Kasaan. Signed "Katherine Delaney Abrams" in lower left corner. Dimensions: H: 18.25 in, W: 14 in