Wooden scoop with short, thick handle and wide, deep bowl part; used for scooping or knocking berried into a birch bark basket. Wood; stained red; used; oil stain in bowl; smells of smoke; 11 1/2" long 0 bowl is 5 5/8" x 6 3/4". Same type of...
Wooden ladle or scoop; broad, shallow bowl; one piece of spruce wood; stained dark red on outside; used; hole pierced in end of handle for hanging; 12 7/8" long.
Label put on by donor: "CL- 3 Salmon River Kobuk Frank Glover 1952" See letter...
View of Kobuk Valley Jade Company in Kotzebue, Alaska, with large pieces of jade in front of building. 1950's? Photographer: Frank Whaley. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
Title taken from verso. On item: Mary Powers, a Kobuk Eskimo, taken in front of Post Office, Anchorage. Woman later identified (Dec. 2011) as Mary Brown. 4x5 contact print, 4x5 neg
Title taken from verso. On item: Mary Powers, a Kobuk Eskimo, taken in front of Post Office (3rd from left) Anchorage. Alaska Native woman stands with a group of young women in downtown Anchorage. Woman later identified (Dec. 2011) as Mary Brown. ...
Title taken from image (in Thomas W .Benham's handwriting). Formal portrait of John C. Cantwell, a lieutenant in the Revenue Cutter Service. He is wearing a beaded jacket. He explored the Kobuk River (also known as the Kowak River) in 1884-1885....
Title taken from caption on slide. "Child's bow and arrow. Qutvuq, Kobuk man Sishoalikroaq 1952." [Compare with UAF-1966-80-15 for Frank Glover's identification. This location name is also spelled Sishoalikrauq.]
Title from verso. Photograph of two young women on the bank of the Kobuk River. Several people are loading wood on a boat to take back to Kotzebue. Verso reads: "I [took a?] trip on this boat up the Kobuk River, a distance of 300 miles. ...
Title from verso. "[The little Eskimo girl in the left foreground watches the big girls board a Polatis porter bush plane at Kobuk.] Wien Air Alaska photo by Frank Whaley Fairbanks, Alaska."
Title from verso. "[Dressed in their mail order catalogue finery, these self confident Eskimo teenagers board a Wien Air bush plane to head south to attend high school.] "Students leaving for school from a sand bar airport of the Kobuk...
Title from verso. "[All aboard for school. From the Alaska arctic, nearly 600 students are gathered from 40 remote villages and fish camps, each fall to fly to Fairbanks and Juneau, heading for high schools and colleges.] "Students boarding...
Title from verso. "[This Wien bush plane takes off from a sand bar on the Kobuk river with a load of Eskimo students headed for high schools and colleges. The village of Shungnak is too small to support a high school. Shungnak, Alaska]. Wien Air...
Title from verso. Image shows a side view of two white buildings and several log cabins next to a river, probably the Kobuk River. Smoke is coming from the chimney of the building on the right, which is identified in other Reuel Griffin...
Title from sleeve. View of the buildings of Shungnak, seen from the Kobuk River. Houses from left to right identified as Ola Gray, Albert and Edna Commack, Irene and Johnny Douglas, Herman Tickett, Carl Tickett, Robert Cleveland and Evans Commack....