Alaska's Digital Archives

Cutting up head of whale at ice edge.

Cutting blubber from whale on edge of ice six miles from shore.

Woman in fur parka and winter boots climbing cliff from shore facing storage racks.

Boy, possibly Harold Spriggs, seated inside wooden umiak frame laying on the snow.

Woman in striped parka holding an ulu about to start butchering a bearded seal (ugruk).

Exterior view: construction of qargi or uniivik, a workshop for working on an umiak.

Three skin boats (umiak), loaded onto sleds being pulled by dog teams, depart for whaling.

Beginning of whale hunt.

An inland Eskimo who has come with invitation represented by notches on the sticks to a dance...

Drum dance. Umiak, men with drums, women in summer kuspuks.

Whale being butchered while still partially in the water.

Samuel Spriggs with dog in front of sod house carrying large, unidentified item, possibly a piece...

Sod house ruins and drying rack.

Man dragging dead seal home after hunting on the ice.

Old sod house with drying rack and wood rimmed entry or window in top of roof at front.

Ice blocks surround summer dwelling.

Harvest time at reindeer camp.

Woman milking a reindeer while a boy holds it by the antlers.

Group of Iñupiat posing in front of canvas tent in summer.

View of storage rack or cache and skin drying rack on tundra.