The hook is made in two pieces of wood, lashed together with root and a rusty nail lashed on with root and string. The top piece of wood has a figure holding a creature by the legs. This symbolizes the story of Blackskin (see remarks), a man of the...
The dish has a wooden rim, and it is bent and lashed in two places with root. The new bottom has been made and glued in; a small baleen whale is glued in middle of dish and the handle is a high loop of baleen lashed to sides of dish with baleen;...
Spear used by women for self-defense; birch shaft; rusty steel blade (two prongs at end, one broken off); set in slit; lashed with babiche around slit and interlaced all the way to other end of shaft; blade brought from Ft. Yukon. Measures 67.5 in....
Spear used by women for self-defense; birch shaft; rusty steel blade (two prongs at end, one broken off); set in slit; lashed with babiche around slit and interlaced all the way to other end of shaft; blade brought from Ft. Yukon. Measures 67.5 in....
Birch bark over frame - 14' long with one end decked over with bark (23" w x 46 1/4 long); sewn with spruce root and seamed with spruce pitch; paddle of birch 68" long - lashed to 2 of 5 crosspieces. Piece of bark 33 1/2" x 15 3/4" lashed down for...
Title from front. Four men with a dog team and sled fully loaded in Seward, Alaska. A stove is lashed onto the back of the sled. 1905-1910. Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original size of photograph: 5 1/2 x 3 1/2".
Three riverboats appear to have been lashed together. Oarsmen are on each end of the boat. Presumably the boats are taken downriver by the current and the oarsmen are able to steer the assemblage of boats so as to...
Slim Williams and John Logan operate two motorcycles connected together which allows them to haul their dog. The film clip shows the two men loading and unloading the dog as well as traveling on the road and leaving a gas station.
Title from verso. "A cargo frame containing barracks bags and personal effects of military personnel and crates of supplies is pictures inside a C-47 (Douglas Skytrain) at the Army Air Base, Alaskan Division, Air Transport Command. The barracks...
Title from verso. "Edmonton, Alberta - The powerful cargo hoist is shown here lifting a 2,300- pound aircraft engine up to the door of a C-46 (Curtiss Commando). The frame on which the engine is lashed will be deposited inside the transport,...
Title from caption. "ARC dog team climbing Walla Walla Hill. Route 18. 3/24/33 Nome Dist." A man in a white parka and mukluks with a dog team on a trail. He appears to have knee-length waterproof mukluks. The freight sled is covered with a...
Title by indexer. Trains of freight wagons or sledges, one pulled by a team of horses and the other pulled by a tractor. The wagons have large loads lashed down with chains. There are possible horse feed buckets at left.
Title taken from caption. From verso: "U.S.C.G. Shoshone, with wheel-barrows akimbo, Lieut. Greeley and Johnson, who is not going to hit anybody." View of several uniformed men aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Shoshone. Photograph taken by Alan...
Article describes the events of February 5, 1945; debate on the floor of the Alaska Territorial Senate regarding the "Equal rights" bill, House bill 14. Roy and Elizabeth Peratrovich testify about conditions in Alaska, along with statements from...
Title taken from image. Several crew members are on the deck of the fishing vessel Shakan, which is lashed to a barge laden with fish. Smaller boats are in tow behind the barge. Photographer's number 34.
Title from image. Several crew members are on the deck of the fishing vessel Shakan, which is lashed to a barge laden with fish. Smaller boats are in tow behind the barge. Photographer's number 547.
Title from image. Crew members are on the deck of the fishing vessel Shakan, which is lashed to a barge laden with fish. Smaller boats are in tow behind the barge. Photographer's number 533.
Article describes the events of February 5, 1945; debate on the floor of the Alaska Territorial Senate regarding the "Equal rights" bill, House bill 14. Roy and Elizabeth Peratrovich testify about conditions in Alaska, along with statements from...