Putting cover on umiak. After they are sewn together using special waterproof stitch, men will stretch skin cover across wood frame and lash them to it. This unusually large boat requires 7-8 skins. Five women work outside, standing. Now about ten...
Spring camping scene. Location unknown. Possibly the gravel spit leading out to Point Barrow, because of water on both sides. Or Nuvuk or Pigniq because of the higher ground in the background. Tents lined up so that when cooking fire soot would not...
Iñupiaq couple Olemaun and Qusalgana pose with their adopted daughter, Fannie Keerik, who was half Portuguese by her father (whaler?), and part black. Keerik is her married name. Fannie is Phoebe Kippi's mother, and grandmother of the Kippis and...
Remainder of title: Thomas Riggs, Jr., Member Alaskan Engineering Commission, and C. W. Richie and H. J. Atwell, Acting Register and Receiver of the United States Land Office, at Fairbanks, Alaska.