(A) Woman's sewing kit made with a hollowed-out bone and bleached sealskin. At the end is a polar bear head made from mineralized walrus ivory. This secures the bleached sealskin, which is folded lengthwise and slides through the bone. A hole is...
(A) Woman's sewing kit made with a hollowed-out bone and bleached sealskin. At the end is a polar bear head made from mineralized walrus ivory. This secures the bleached sealskin, which is folded lengthwise and slides through the bone. A hole is...
Alexander, Selina (artist). Video, 1minute MPG format. Selina Alexander is an Athabascan who grew up along the Yukon River between Ruby and Galena and now lives in North Pole. She learned beading and skin sewing from her mother, grandmother, and...
Alexi, Emma (maker). Wastepaper basket shape with a square base rising to a round mouth; made of a large piece of birchbark with two small pieces inserted and sewn on either side; sewn with spruce root; rim rod of willow; the outer bark is on the...
Basket made of willow and with single rod coiling. Is small
and round with a slight constriction at the rim. Has small
designs that consist of three parallel vertical lines which are
done in colored wool or sewing thread, in a variety of
colors. 6...
Cyanotype of an unidentified man sitting behind a store counter surrounded by sundries, possibly in Tyonek, Knik Village, or Ladd's Station. A vice is mounted on the counter to the left, and a sewing machine is visible on the right. There appears...
Description: moose hide; smoked; beads; leather; string; sinew; thread; sewn; glass beads
Descriptive Narrative: Pair of round-toed moccasins with large vamp and high ankle flaps, made of smoked moose hide and decorated with spot stitch...
Four young men working with shoemakers' equipment, including sewing machine, hammers, clamps. Verso: Photographed by E.W. Merrill, Boston, Massachusetts.
Full blood Eskimo, son of Norman & Alice Lee; teachers of ivory carving and skin sewing. Title and description taken from accompanying materials. Photographer's number 139.
Full length, seated, profile view of young woman dressed for cold weather; she is identified on the image as [Ogmaona] and in the album caption as "Maona, 1906, Nome" Photographer's number 281
Gross-Hope, Margaret (artist). Video, 1 minute MPG format. Margaret Gross-Hope is a Tlingit sewer and beader from Sitka. She learned to sew as an early age with her mother and grandmother. She sews and beads a variety of contemporary and...
Group portrait of five girls wearing dresses. From verso: "School girls wearing the dresses made in their sewing classes, 1924, White Mountain, Alaska."