This round wood mask (16 x 13 x 5 cm) has arched eyebrows stained darker than the rest of the wood. The left eyebrow curves down to become the nose, which is triangular, with two round nostrils, and slightly flaring nostril arches. The face is...
Description: wood; carved; abalone; inset; painted Descriptive Narrative: Headdress frontlet carved in a close grained hard wood. The slightly rectangular back plaque is convex vertically and concave horizontally. The face of a young woman is...
Title from cataloger. Photograph of the village of Wrangell with the wharf prominant. Visible are two advertisements: one for merchandise and the other a cure for head aches. Narrative in album states that: "Wrangel was our first Alaskan city, as...
Title from caption. Photograph of a woman standing on what may be a moose hide as she prepares it for smoking. Narrative from photo album reads: "Here is Mrs. Luke working on a moose skin. It has stood for days in a a stinking mess of rotten...
Title from cataloger. Postcard of a young woman in a parka. She is standing in front of a wood pile stacked against a building. Verso of post card reads: "This is [Esther?] Barryman, a half-breed. The father is one of Kotzebue's...
Title from caption. Photograph of the steamer Santa Clara covered in ice, with Ben Moore standing on the bridge deck. Either the ship is in port at Juneau, Alaska or the ship's home port is Juneau, Alaska and is currently at dock in Skagway,...
Title taken from caption. "11560 -- (38) The Klondike district, as well as other camps in the interior of Alaska, has a method of placer mining different from that which prevails in other sections of the United States. The ground, which is...
Title taken from caption. View of the deck aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Patrol Boat Alert. The life preserver reads: "U.S. Coast Guard Alert." From May's journal, dated June 28th: "The Alert is about 120 feet long and has five hundred tons...
Title taken from caption. Actually the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter William J. Duane (later shortened to "Duane"). From May's journal, dated August 9th: "The Duane is 328 feet long with a 40 foot beam, but only draws 12 feet of water, which seems almost...