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....
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...
Material: Ivory Harpoon Weight, decorated, with a large drill hole at the base that is 4cm long and 1.1cm wide. Piece is 7.4cm long and 4.5cm wide at the base. Several engraved lines decorate the piece. Culture: Punuk
Material: Ivory Realistic human head, overly oblong and slightly pointed at top. The face is fully carved including eyes, nose, mouth, small ears on sides, and tattoo lines on forehead, cheeks and chin. Object is broken at neck. Drilled hole at...
Material: Ivory Represents Eskimo wearing armor made of walrus hide such as was used when fighting with bows and arrows, or lances; base square for insert into board; possibly recent; orange yellow. Culture: Punuk
Material: Ivory Ivory head. Large round hole through neck into head; face shows many tattoo marks; eye slits deep, narrow; nose unformed, nostrils indicated by shallow drill holes; slit for mouth rather deep; face part dark brown, top of head...
Material: Wood Little Diomede Island; possibly used in connection with whale worship; triangular cavity at bottom which formerly had lid in which were probably kept whale harpoon and lance blades. Secured without lid or blades.