Heavily beaded checkbook cover backed with caribou hide. Cover is a rectangular shape with one curved short end. Folded in thirds, the cover velcros to the front and encases a checkbook, which can be slipped inside the pocket sewn to the backing...
Heavily beaded checkbook cover backed with caribou hide. Cover is a rectangular shape with one curved short end. Folded in thirds, the cover velcros to the front and encases a checkbook, which can be slipped inside the pocket sewn to the backing...
Child's diaper made from spotted sealskin fur and edged with caribou fawn skin with ties of spotted seal ties. Inside the diaper is sphagnum moss. Sewn with sinew. Measures 25 x 19.5 x 9 cm.
Round birch bark basket made with the woven technique, light and dark-colored bark placed diagonally along the sides, alternating direction creating a woven look. Lashed along the top and bottom edges with willow, which is wrapped in spruce root....
Tear-drop shaped piece of jade, used as or with a fishing lure. Holes are drilled on either end. Not completely flat - the narrow end appears to curve up while the wider end curves down, from the side. Highly polished. Property mark engraved on the...
Round birch bark basket, made with strips of birch bark, woven together along the sides. The walls of the basket are formed by placing the bark in diagonal strips, with the light side going in one direction, the dark in the opposite, and weaving...
Accession Number: 92-57 Descriptive Narrative: Bronze sculpture "The Hiker" by Louis Potter; depicts a man with walking stick, walking uphill, with tumpline around forehead supporting pack on back. Inscription: Louis Potter/Alaska/1904
Accession Number: 96-26 Descriptive Narrative: Paper cut-out in the shape of a paulownia leaf, printed in gold, black and green. Background printed on each side is a photographic reproduction of a leaf in gold and black. In the center is a...
Accession Number: 98-1 Model: 4.2" Dahlgren projectile Descriptive Narrative: Explosive shell casing made of a steel (rusted); approx. 4" in diameter and 8.25" from end to end. One end is rounded, the other tapering. The rounded end has...
Accession Number: 72-96-16
Description: spruce root; grass; black; orange; blue-green; woven; decorated
Descriptive Narrative: One large Tlingit spruce root basket. Three bands of false embroidery in several different colors of dyed...
Descriptive Narrative: Small Chilkat robe. Design is an eagle. Notes: Per Maria Miller 1/12/1987: All yarn in this piece is commercial yarn. The fringe is wool and jute twine. Dimensions: W: 19 5/8 in, H: 22 1/2 x 14 in Accession...
Accession Number: 73-40-5 Descriptive Narrative: Watercolor painting depicting Tlingit houses at Wrangell, with canoes on beach in foreground, totem poles and clan houses in middle, and forested mountain in background. Exhibition: The...
Accession Number: 96-61 a-k
Made: New York
Description: cardboard; printed; ink; wood; metal; paint
Title: Horsman's Game of Klondike
Descriptive Narrative: A board game, "Horsman's Game of the Klondike", consisting of a...
Accession Number: 98-7-197 Description: ivory; bone; sinew; carved Dimensions: L: 29.00 cm Note: ship model is possibly a representation of the steam whaler BELVEDERE, built in 1880
Accession Number: 98-7-213 Description: ivory; carved Descriptive Narrative: Cribbage board carved from a walrus tusk. The tusk sits on a base with freely-turning wheels. Attached to the top side of the tusk are carved sculptures of a man...
Descriptive Narrative: Walrus ivory carvings representing "Mutt & Jeff", early comic strip characters each with an inlaid ivory nose. a: Mutt; b: Jeff
Dimensions: H: 7.10 x 3.50 cm