Title taken from back of photograph. Cataloguer's note: Otto W. Geist came to Alaska in 1923. Born in Bavaria Austria, he was a veteran of the German army as well as the U.S. Army. He was a mechanic and a skilled truck driver before he...
Title taken from verso. Photograph of the Ice carnival house built by Pietro Vigna, March 1934. Otto Geist on far right in bird feather parka. Visible in the photograph are many examples of native hunting and fishing equipment such as seal poke...
Title from accompanying note. "'After the Tragedy - This group of men, all of whom figured prominently in the life of Ben Eielson, are shown as they stood together at an unidentified location in Fairbanks after Eileson's and Borland's bodies had...
Title taken from verso. View of house constructed of ice and a seal float. Six people dressed in traditional Native Alaskan clothing stand in front of the house. Also from verso: "Natives 'college kids' dressed as Eskimos. Otto Geist (the...
Shows existing and ancient village sites, soil types, and trails. Includes legend. Relief shown by hachures. "Compiled from data secured by Otto Wm. Geist and information obtained from St. Lawrence Island Eskimos during the Bunnell-Geist...
Ms., ink on draft vellum. Relief shown by hachures. Oriented with north to the upper right. With, on same sheet: Sketch map of Punuk Island Group, Bering Sea, Alaska. Annotation: Map by Geist and K.W. Kola [Kukkola?]. Bottom right corner:...
Relief shown by hachures. Includes notes on archaeological findings and geographical features. Maximum height corrected 1933 by Otto Geist. Map size 25.2 x 32 cm.
From 1932 until 1941, when she was transferred to the Coast Guard, the NORTH STAR, sturdy service vessel of Office of Indian Affairs, sailed from Seattle to points north, making 50 stops on the outbound journey to Barrow and also stopping in St....
Otto Geist's personal charm belt. Commercially made leather belt with steel tongue and buckle; covered with ivory charms and trade beads; has whetstone, steel-bladed knife in sheath, and pouch and tobacco box also attached. Measures approximately...
Amason, Alvin (artist). Audio, 2:36 minutes MP3 format. Alvin Amason talks about how he named his painting "Oscar Scared Him with His Icon" at a UA Museum of the North Geist lecture
Title taken from photograph description. Photograph of children at the U.S. Bureau of Education's orphanage at Kanakanak, Alaska. Related description reads: "A group of sturdy native orphans at the Kanakanak Government orphanage. These...
Title taken from verso. Photograph with the following description: "Mrs. Andree Brems, Mr. Herman Sanvick, Mrs. Irene Savage (chief nurse) Capt. Whitlam of the Bureau of Education ship Boxer and Miss Flora Marshal (in charge of the hospital...