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 by cataloguer. Cataloguer's note: A view of the campus presumably in 1938. The building to the far left is Hess Hall, (three-story structure) the one story building in the foreground is Eielson, which at the time housed both the music...
Title taken from back of photograph. Cataloguer's note: Otto W. Geist came to Alaska in 1923. Born in Bavaria Austria, he was a veteran of the German army as well as the U.S. Army. He was a mechanic and a skilled truck driver before he...
Title taken from attached note. "University of Alaska Photo. 22 January 1962. Study of Artifacts - University of Alaska students talk with Ludwig Rowinski, museum director, about a kayak on display at the state university museum. In the...
Title by indexer. This is NCA's famed all-metal Lockheed Vega NC 12288. It was the first of only three all-metal ones manufactured by Lockheed. Wiley Post's Vega and the others were of wood frame construction. This metal Vega was one of...
Title from verso. The man facing the large sign is presumably Don Sheldon. The sign reads: "Talkeetna Air Service. Don Sheldon. Charter Passengers Cargo." Just behind the sign is a house. In the foreground, two boys appear to be working on a...
Title from image. Chief's grave. Photographer's number 460. According to Louis Shotridge’s notes, this was designed and carved by a Dakl’aweidà carver named Naakushtáa. The same carver made the screen and houseposts inside the Frog House...
Klukwan cemetery with eight grave houses, one with frog totem decorations. According to Louis Shotridge’s notes, this was designed and carved by a Dakl’aweidà carver named Naakushtáa. The same carver made the screen and houseposts inside the...
Grant, James L., Sr. (artist). Sculpture: Mahogany, black bear fur, artist's hair; frame: black walnut. Size: 29 x 19 x 11 cm. Signed and dated lower left front. James Grant's sculpture titled "Shaman" was carved in 1984 after the artist...
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...
Fejes, Claire (painter). Oil on canvas. Size: 40.25 x 30.25 in. Signed lower left edge. This work traveled in the Fejes Retrospective Exhibition organized by the UA Museum.
Heurlin, C. "Rusty" (painter). Oil on plywood. Size: 28 x 50 in. This painting is un-signed and is the study for the larger "Aurora" painting in the collection of the UA Museum.
Made from birch fungus; round with wire loop inserted for hanging on the net which it is being constructed; "och-kumay-lo-torak"? is the native name given in Inupiaq in the field collection notes, however it is also followed by a question mark....
Fishhook made of Dall sheep horn; double barbless hooks set in. "Michak"
Collected in the field for the Modern Alaskan Material Culture Project undertaken by the UA Museum. 12/6/2011: In the field notes and paper file the "place" is listed...
Large, folded birch bark container found floating in the Ambler River. Willow rim rods and lashing of spruce root, and a rope, possibly cotton, tied along one of the long sides of the basket, possibly a handle. 20cm x 40cm x 28cm.