48 second, color/silent, film clip of people engaged in various forms of handiwork. Women are working with leather, perhaps crimping soles with their teeth. Another woman is sitting on a semi-subterranean building grinding something with a...
Curved bone (rib) handle; curved steel blade with visible file marks; made from a file; fastened to handle with two metal bolts; three serrations on tip of handle; vertical scratches across front of handle where it joins blade; 9 7/8"...
Description: metal; copper; leather; moosehide; glass beads
Descriptive Narrative: A) typical Athapaskan knife is made of metal, often native copper by cold hammering. It is made in one piece with a fluted double edged blade. The metal handle...
Group of people gathered around table as woman prepares to cut cake during party for 714th Railway Operating Battalion, United States Army, in Anchorage, Alaska. From caption: "The cake says: 714 RRB 714 Railway Batallion [Battalion]." ca. 1944....
Group portrait of eleven men outside an Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Co.building; several of the men smoke pipes Identified on the verso are the last two men in the back row: J. Kerkes and Samuelson; and, in the front row: J. Leavitt, unknown,...
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...
Shop interior with sign, "Sitka Photo Co. Table and floor laden with artwork including bentwood boxes, copper daggers, and a painted hide. Title taken from image. Photographer's number 45-N.
Steel blade from a saw blade; 2 screw holes; antler handle much stained and polished from use; held on with wooden peg inserted through top of handle. Blade is 8 3/4". Ulu is 5 3/8" x 8 3/4".
This color slide depicts two unidentified Native women skinning and dressing a walrus in either Kotzebue or Barrow in 1962. Both women are dressed in kuspuks with fur-trimmed hoods and mukluks on their feet. The woman on the left is braiding...
This knife has a bone handle and steel blade attached with two brass bolts and a piece of wood inserted under root lashing for better grip. Measures 9.5 in. long.
This steel knife was ground down from filing. The split and coiled handle is wrapped in cloth and sinew (9.75 in. long). The sheath is of moosehide, beaver fur, dentalia shells, and blue, yellow and red trade beads. The shoulder strap is dentalia,...
Title from caption. Caption reads "[Along] the Yukon in the good old days." Five men, each wearing different headgear and carrying an assortment of knives, pose while holding bottles. The man on the far right is also holding a jug. Four of...
Title from caption. Caption reads "Along the Yukon in [the] good old days." Five men, each wearing different headgear and carrying an assortment of knives, pose while holding bottles. One of the men has a cooking pot on his head and is drinking...
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...