The George A. Llano Collection consists of 111 photographs relating to Llano's lichen research and the Anaktuvuk Pass and Wainwright areas, circa 1948. Subjects include plant collecting and identification, people and village activities in...
Title taken from verso. View of walrus skin boats (umiaks) up on racks on beach at Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, with buildings in background. April 1969. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
"Natives at Wainwright preparing to race us. We used one of their boats which are covered with walrus skin. They won by a boat length." A large group of people prepare for an umiak race, several other boats are visible on the beach and just off...
This color slide depicts an unidentified Alaska Native man in a skin kayak in the ocean near Kotzebue, Alaska in 1962. He wears a parka with a fur-trimmed hood and a paddle. The photographer is unidentified.
This color slide depicts boats on the beach at Barrow, Alaska in 1962. In the foreground is a long boat with skin sides, and two Alaska Native men standing at its stern. There are two other boats pulled up on the beach in the background,...
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows a man sitting in the bow of an umiak smoking a cigarette. Caption from finding aid reads "Skin boats, hunting Gambell 1958". Location is Gambell, Alaska.
42 second, color/silent, film clip of King Islanders attaching a skin hull to an umiak frame. The film opens with men dragging the wooden umiak frame across the snow. Then one of the people cuts the skin and several lace it onto the frame.
Title taken from caption. Photographer number C34. Cataloguer's note: A picture of a family from King Island, Alaska, dressed in seal skin parkas and other traditional garments. A large boat and a tent can be seen in the background. The...
Title taken from caption. Photographer number C33. Cataloguer's note: In the background, a view of a waterfront including a sternwheeler; in the foreground, a group of Native men, women and children are seen in a boat. A man is crouching by...
Title taken from caption. "Natives of St. Michaels. C 33". In the background, a view of a waterfront including a sternwheeler; in the foreground, a group of Native men, women, and children are seen in a boat. A man is crouching by a kayak...
Title from caption. Log cabins, white tents and wooden buildings are shown at the base of a wooded hillside. Items on the roofs of several buildings are visible and a large white cross is visible above the roofs on the left side of the...
This color slide depicts an unidentified Alaska Native man holding a skin kayak and a paddle on the beach at Kotzebue, Alaska, in 1962. He is wearing a parka with a fur-trimmed hood and mukluks. The photographer is unidentified.