Old Num: LC.344-1.1
Description: wood; paint
Found: Sitka
Culture: Aleut; Alutiiq
History: From the collection of Father Andrew P. Kashevaroff, curator of the Alaska Historical Library and Museum from 1919-1940. Purchased by...
Description: wood; carved; glass; hinged
Old Num: LC.344-1.13
Found: Sitka
Descriptive Narrative: Wooden relief carving--hinged 3-piece icon triptych with glass covering one of the three panels. A small wooden icon of the type...
Description: wood; mountain goat wool; painted Old Num: acc. 424a Descriptive Narrative: Wooden grease dish in the form of a floating bird ( crested auklet ?, puffin ?) with the cavity in the back; wings folded against the sides; head...
Description: wood; carved; abalone; inset; painted Descriptive Narrative: Headdress frontlet carved in a close grained hard wood. The slightly rectangular back plaque is convex vertically and concave horizontally. The face of a young woman is...
Description: Argillite; carved; bone; inset Descriptive Narrative: Carved of carbonaceous shale (slate or argillite). A canoe with oblong insets of bone on the gunwales and a figure of the sea monster engraved on both sides- front and back. 8...
Made: St. Michael
Descriptive Narrative: A wolf mask with large mouth set with teeth that are carved out of the solid. Slender, toothpick-like whiskers on each side of the mouth, which is painted red. A line from the mouth goes up the center...
Accession Number: 433 Old Num: 110 Description: wood; carved Found: arctic ocean Descriptive Narrative: Spare paddle blade carved from natural light colored wood. Both sides of the blade have a central ridge with the back ridge...
Descriptive Narrative: A lamp of granite, oval with raised rim 1" wide and 3/4" deep. Broken completely through center. Old Num: XIII.12 Notes: reference: p. 5 Quimby. 1944 Chicago Natural History Museum, Anthropology Leaflet.
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Descriptive Narrative: 2-pocket wall pocket of seal gut and fabric which is tall and narrow with a conical top and a square bottom. The top panel is of gut with embroidery. Each lower corner has a triangular shaped gut inset with a ribbon welt....
Descriptive Narrative: Pair of adult (men's) smoked moosehide center seam moccasins with smoked caribou ankle flaps all sinew sewn. The vamp is covered with blue wool cloth edged with red and green commercial piping. The long caribou thong ties...
Descriptive Narrative: Board with ivory peg, two finger holds, painted red on grooved side and black on the other.
Description: wood; ivory; painted; red; black
Inscription: Aleutian hand stick for throwing spear Akutan Island (writing)...