Title taken from caption. From verso: "In Unalaska’s churchyard. Greek crosses for departed Aleuts." View of the Russian Orthodox Greek Church in Unalaska. Photograph taken by Alan May during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological...
Title taken from caption. From verso: "Larson’s Bay: Dr. H. and the major seen thru bug nets, uncovering a fireplace, June 9." View of Ales Hrdlicka and Alan May cleaning out a fireplace. Both men are wearing head netting, and May is smoking a...
Title taken from caption. From verso: "May, photographing our cache of chipped knives, June 8th." View of Alan May photographing a set of six chipped knives. He is using a tripod and wearing a heat net. From May's journal, dated June 8th: "The...
Title taken from caption. From May's journal, dated June 1st: "Amother [sic] beautiful day, delightfully warm and was able to work all day stripped to the waist."--p. 39. View of Alan May shoveling dirt into a wheelbarrow, with a shovel and pickaxe...
Title taken from caption. From verso: "Log of the Smithsonian: walking it, with overland freight, the Major-- toward fisherman houses and the wooden Barabra-- Kodiak Island." View of Alan May carrying supplies to the expedition site. Photograph...
Title taken from caption. View of Alan May excavating a site. He is holding a brush and there is a wooden specimen tray in the foreground. Photograph taken during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Alan May, William Clemes, and William S. Laughlin excavating. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. View of expedition members walking along a path on Kagamil Island. From left to right: William Laughlin, William Clemes, Harold Cowper, and the Ariadne's photographer. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian...
Title taken from caption. The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Ariadne tied up at the dock at Kanaga Island. Photograph taken from the hills above the Kanaga Trading Company's buildings during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to...
Title taken from caption. View of a driftwood and whalebone fence overlying a portion of a cave's entrance. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Dr. Hrdlicka looks on while Lt. Lazerof, a Soviet officer, tries to read the inscription on the cross marking Vitus Bering's grave. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to...
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "Myself, Clemes and the Doctor." Mrs. Pedlar and members of the 1938 expedition work at the excavation site on Unalaska. From left to right: Ales Hrdlicka, William Clemes, Alan May, and Mrs. Pedlar....
Title and spelling taken from caption. View of Alan May sitting near a whale vertebrae, and eating a sandwich. There are shovels propped up next to him. From May's journal, dated July 11th: "Turned out the grandaddy [sic] of all whale vertabrae...
Title taken from caption. Five members of the expedition team pose for a photograph during lunch. Alan May is on the far right, and Ales Hrdlicka is seated next to him. Photograph taken during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological...
Title taken from caption. Alan May poses for a photograph during at a dig site wearing full rain gear, including a hat, jacket, pants and boots. There is a wheelbarrow full of dirt next to him, and he is holding a shovel. Photograph taken during...
Title taken from caption. View of Alan May on a beach surrounded by whale bones. There is a wheelbarrow in the background. Photograph taken during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "Myself, Johnson, Corner, the Doctor, Zweigood and Connor." Alan May, Johnson, George Corner, Ales Hrdlicka, Zweigood and Sidney Connor pose for a photograph outside a cave on Kagamil Island. Photograph...
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "Part of bidarka frame found, shown in centre foreground." View of Alan May and another expedition member at the entrance to a cave on Kagamil Island. Photograph taken during the 1936 Smithsonian...
Title taken from caption. Alan May poses for a photograph wearing a kamlayka, and holding a pair of snowshoes and mukluks. May explains receiving these gifts in the following journal entry, dated July 20th: "Agefangle Prokopioff brought in a pair...
Title taken from caption. From verso: "Uyak 1936, the “gang”." From May's journal, dated May 24th: "Today the Doctor spent quite a time taking pictures of the "gang", - we should look pretty tough as none of us have shaved since arriving...