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...
Title from caption in album: "June 1 - Toklat horse packed with bear skins to go out - Karstens, Silas". Photograph shows the horse Toklat loaded up with skins near a cabin. Harry Karstens and the dog Silas stand nearby him. From album #7,...
Title taken from the back of photograph. "Inflated seal skins in place of old automobile tires. Samuel Irrigo at the steering end Roy Iworrigan with white cap. The other boat far middle: Addison Kiponga, steering". Additional information with...
Title from verso. Photograph of sealskin harvest barreled for transport on the USS Thuban, seen in the background. Verso reads: "Seven of 16. Precious Cargo -- In neatly spaced barrels, part of a four million dollar sealskin harvest...
Title taken from caption on slide. "Drying ugruk skins and full seal oil pokes Yaiyuk Harris and wife Sishoalikroaq 1952." [The name Yaiyuk is also spelled Yiyuk in this collection. Ugruk means seal, probably bearded seal.]
Title taken from accompanying note. "[Drying seal skins and meat (Barrow & N.A.R.L., 1973); photo has negative]". See identical photo at UAF-2003-139-104.
Title taken from caption. Hundreds of reindeer skins lie in rows on the tundra, drying. Two people are silhouetted against the horizon in the background. Original photograph size: 2 1/8 x 3 1/8 inch.
Title taken from caption. Men and women set reindeer skins out to dry on the tundra. The women are wearing kuspuks. Original photograph size: 2 3/8 x 3 3/8 inch.
Text of telegram: Signal Corps, United States Army. Telegram. Send the following Message: Juneau, February 26, 1912Hon. Walter E. Clark, Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C.Action commenced against Collector Customs to compel issuance manifest for...
Title taken from front. Man dressed in fur stands next to sled loaded with reindeer skins at Nome, Alaska, with building in background. Photographer: O. D. Goetze.
Title taken from verso. Two men hold wolf and wolverine skins in front of Oscarville Trading Post, Oscarville, Alaska, with piles of lumber in background next to building. Man on the right identified as John Wiese. Original photograph size: 3 1/8"...
Title taken from verso. Woman using pegs to stretch and dry seal skins at Point Hope, Alaska, location of Wien Alaska Airlines' Trail Blazer Tour, with whalebones on ground nearby. 1960-1966? Photographer: Frank Whaley. Original photograph size: 8...
Title taken from label on matting. Reindeer fawn skins hanging to dry in slaughterhouse at Lomen Reindeer Corporation reindeer processing plant in Teller, Alaska. Photographer's number 8108. July 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph...
Trapper Peter Britch hanging up beaver skins on line in front of building in Anchorage, Alaska, after trapping trip. April 1962. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 10" x 8".