Spear used by women for self-defense; birch shaft; rusty steel blade (two prongs at end, one broken off); set in slit; lashed with babiche around slit and interlaced all the way to other end of shaft; blade brought from Ft. Yukon. Measures 67.5 in....
Earring bases of ivory with concentric circles; not a pair; ivory hooks broken off; attached strands of beads (7) gold and pink seed beads and very thin white seed beads, larger white beads at bottom; two strips of sealskin for dividers; 6.5 cm...
Florence (maker). The top part of this sealskin hassock is of bleached sealskin with four beadwork butterflies, one in each corner; done in several colors. It carries a strap of bleached seal hide sewn tight against one side. All sides are furred...
Florence (maker). The top part of this sealskin hassock is of bleached sealskin with four beadwork butterflies, one in each corner; done in several colors. It carries a strap of bleached seal hide sewn tight against one side. All sides are furred...
Wooden spoon; bowl, handle tip, small band in center of handle all painted dark red, black figure on spoon bowl; tip of bowl broken off and repaired. Measures 17.5 in. long.¬ulture: Central Yup'ik
Manook, (Buster) Ronald James (artist). Size: 6.75 x 8.5 in. Medium: Wood, feathers, nails, glass Wood, raven head. Face is split in half with white wooden "bill" shape inside 4 chicken (?) Feathers inserted. Split halves are painted black, bill...
Material: Ivory Human head, 6cm in size with broad cheeks, carved nose and mouth, drilled holes for eyes, incised lines between eyebrows and for eyebrows, and drilled holes for nostrils. Object is broken off at neck, the ivory fractured on back of...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 47 seconds, MPG-1 format. The weather has held off temporarily so the campers are launching the jet boat and putting in a fish net. Jana Harchauk (Nagruk)...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute and 2 seconds, MPG-1 format. Nagruk makes pancakes in the morning. Time-lapse video shows the busy activities around the cook tent in the morning...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 2 minutes and 5 seconds, MPG-1 format. Polar-orbiting satellites can orbit the Earth in 90 minutes, enabling them take daily photos of nearly everywhere on...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute and 11 seconds, MPG-1 format. Everyone has reached Tuapakusuk and set up their tents as a new storm is brewing out on the ocean. The three boats...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute and 23 seconds, MPG-1 format. A group of campers went on a long hike, heading out first along the shore and then arcing inland and back towards...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute and 30 seconds, MPG-1 format. Paul Bodfish raises his VHF antenna to radio Barrow. Campers collect wood and prepare the last of the caribou as the...
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...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 2 minutes and 1 second, MPG-1 format. The boats have been battered by the wind and waves for a couple days. They require repairs and then the entire camp...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute and 1 second, MPG-1 format. Kunnaan makes a special delicacy from the seal blubber and seal intestine. She gets a slab of blubber ready and rinses...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute and 43 seconds, MPG-1 format. The crew butchers the seal. A cut is carefully made through the sternum and ribcage. The ribs are good to eat; the...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 43 seconds, MPG-1 format. With Paul's Boat fixed, the three boats head back to Barrow. The boats made very good time following the ice edge until it became...
De Roux, Dan and Terzis, Jane (artists). Acrylic painting on canvas. This 3 part painting was the first in a series of more than 30 collaborative pieces that Dan and Jane created between 1987 and 1989. For the most part, they worked side by side,...
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...