This eagle-headed dagger has a tapered copper blade with a medial ridge running down the front of the blade. The reverse is a flat surface showing marks of the original working of the material. The carved head and hand grip are one piece of wood...
This eagle-headed dagger has a tapered copper blade with a medial ridge running down the front of the blade. The reverse is a flat surface showing marks of the original working of the material. The carved head and hand grip are one piece of wood...
Title from verso. Verso: Jumping For Joy-When the news of statehood reached the arctic village of Kotzebue, the town started jumping. Here pretty Laura Mae Beltz goes aloft, via walrus hide blanket toss, carrying a flag that will soon have a...
Further information was supplied by Marjorie Attla of Galena, Alaska, during the Denakkanaaga Elder and Youth Conference held June 6-10, 2005, in Grayling, Alaska: Peggy Simon [girl in front...
Title from donor notes. Postcard of Kotzebue dancers.
Further information was supplied by George Taylor at the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) Convention held at the Carlson Center in Fairbanks, October 2005. He knows the people and...
"An unusual record of achievement has been established by eight native Alaskans, who were graduated August 10 by the RCA Institutes in New York. Members of a pilot group, sponsored by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, they scored a notable success in...
Verso: Ann Chambers, Nome's Midnight Sun Festival Queen, snips the ribbon at the dedication ceremonies held at the Federal Aviation Agency's new Flight Service Station building at the Nome airport. Assisting with the ribbon cutting are (L) James...
Photograph of the ceremony held at the completion of the Alaska Highway. Probably the ribbon-cutting ceremony held on Soldiers Summit on November 20, 1942.
Slavery was an accepted custom in many Native tribes. On May 8, 1886, District Judge Layfayette Dawson in Sitka decided that the Thirteenth Amendment and the 1866 Civil Rights Act abolishing slavery applied to the "uncivilized tribes" of Alaska. ...
From text of document: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, - That the territory ceded to the United States by Russia by the treaty...
Round birch bark basket, made with strips of birch bark, woven together along the sides. The walls of the basket are formed by placing the bark in diagonal strips, with the light side going in one direction, the dark in the opposite, and weaving...
Peter Da Apokedak guiding Georgette Wilson to the finish line. This was an one-dog race "Pee-Wee Race". The dog was named "Pretty Ulgy", and was owned by the Wilsons. The race was held on the lake. The race was held during Kokhanok Carnival.