Presentation of the first installment of the Frederica De Laguna: 1) Opening Remarks by Gladi Kulp, Head of Historical Collections; 2) Introduction of Dr. Guedon by James Simard, Curator of Historical Collections; 3) Remarks on the Collection and...
Audio recording of lecture presented Friday, August 17, 2007: 1) Opening Remarks by Gladi Kulp, Head of Historical Collections; 2) Introduction of Paul Jacskon Sr. by James Simard, Curator of Historical Collections; 3) Speech and thanks by Paul...
Audio recording of lecture presented Friday, August 17, 2007: 1) Lecture on Native Cultures and Anthropological work of Dr. De Laguna by Dr. Marie-François Guédon, professor of religious studies at the University of Ottawa; 2) Closing remarks by...
Senator John F. Kennedy speech. November, 10th, 1958
at Gross 20th Century Theatre, Juneau, AK. Introduction by Ernest Gruening. Recorded on ¼” reel-to-reel.
Topp, Roger (photographer). Video, 33 seconds MPG format. Male northern fur seals in the water and on the rookeries and haul-outs of St. Paul Island, Pribilofs.
Topp, Roger (photographer). Video, 36 seconds MPG format. The northern fur seal is an eared seal similar to the sea lion. They have a thick waterproof underfur with over 350,000 hairs per square inch. Their fur appears gray or brown when dry, and...
Topp, Roger (photographer). Video, 1:07 minutes MPG format. About 350 miles off the western coast of Alaska, in the Bering Sea, lie the Pribilof Islands. The more northerly of these windswept, treeless, volcanic islands is St. Paul Island. Clouds...
Gross-Hope, Margaret (artist). Video, 1 minute MPG format. Margaret Gross-Hope is a Tlingit sewer and beader from Sitka. She learned to sew as an early age with her mother and grandmother. She sews and beads a variety of contemporary and...
Hewson, Wayne (artist). Video, 57 seconds MPG format. Wayne Hewson is a Tsimshian carver from Metlakatla, Alaska. Hewson's carving career began in 1967 in a boarding school in Wrangell, when he used a pocketknife and a bar of soap to carve a...
Joseph, Tommy (artist). Video, 55 seconds MPG format. Tommy Joseph is a Tlingit carver whose hometown is Ketchikan. The first piece he carved was a halibut hook when he was 8. His works now include small items such as bentwood boxes, rattles,...
Pook, Cathleen (artist). Video, 1:02 minutes MPG format. Cathleen Cass Pook is from Sitka and is known for her traditional Tlingit beadwork and basketry. She is a member of the Eagle Clan and the Killer Whale House. She learned her art from her...
Rofkar, Teri (artist). Video, 58 seconds MPG format. Teri Rofkar is a Tlingit master weaver from Sitka in Southeast Alaska and of the Raven Clan and Snail House. She learned weaving and basketry from classes in college and at museums, and was...
Ryan, Abel (artist). Video, 1:05 minutes MPG format. Born in Ketchikan, Abel Ryan now lives in Metlakatla. This Tsimshian carver learned basic flat design techniques from a master carver while in high school, and has now been carving for 14...
Alexander, Selina (artist). Video, 1minute MPG format. Selina Alexander is an Athabascan who grew up along the Yukon River between Ruby and Galena and now lives in North Pole. She learned beading and skin sewing from her mother, grandmother, and...
Pullock, Charles (artist). Video, 1:02 minutes MPG format. Charles Pullock is an Inupiaq artist living in Nome, Alaska. He carves wood and ivory and is a traditional dance performer. In addition to his carving, he works in construction and lives...
Silook, Susie (artist). Video, 58 seconds MPG format. Susie Silook is a St. Lawrence Island Yupik ivory carver. She began her work by using the whole tusk of the walrus, as she didn't have tools to cut it into small pieces. Instead of the animals...
Topp, Roger (photographer). Video, 31 seconds MPG format. Except for a small population on the Commander Islands, U.S.S.R., the entire breeding population of the Red-faced Cormorant occurs in southwestern and south coastal Alaska. An estimated...
Topp, Roger (photographer). Video, 31 seconds MPG format. The breeding distributions of the northern Thick-billed Murre and the more temperate Common Murre overlap broadly in this region. The two closely related species are about equally abundant...
Topp, Roger (photographer). Video, 32 seconds MPG format. The range of the Tufted Puffin in Alaska closely overlaps that of the Horned Puffin, but it is more than twice as numerous in the state as a whole, and 12 times more numerous in the...