Title taken from image. Dancers wear carved and decorated hats, beaded clothing, and chilkat robes. Many carry dance paddles and other ceremonial objects. A shark figure is in foreground. Photographer's numbers 53 and 49-N.
Title taken from image. Portrait of (l. to r.) Mrs. Sitka Ned, James Shotridge and unidentified woman, all of Yakutat. All wear ceremonial dress. Potlatch at Sitka, 1904. Photographer's number 48-N.
Description at top of image: "Cedar boxes made without nails or corner joints…these were enclosed or wrapped in cedar mats and contained the heads which were preserved with skin, etc. intact." On verso: "Found by [Myer] Hofstad on Zarembo...
Grave houses on shore, photographed from a canoe during an expedition up the Taku River by P. I. Packard, T. Gordon Janney, W.A. Pratt, A. E. Johnson, and James S. Johnson; left side of photograph shows edge of sail
This photo has been identified as Chief Kowee, in Juneau, with his wife Ok-lak and her sister (who was also his second wife). That identification, on verso, is considered to be incorrect. Verso: Kow-ee - Died Feb. 27, 1892. Wife "Ok-lak" and...
Title taken from image. Postcard view of two canoes on beach; tall Tlingit man [Long Jim] and two other men attend a canoe in which are sitting five Tlingit women; Mayflower Island visible behind Verso: On Douglas Island. Juneau in background....
Accession Number: 81-3-3 Descriptive Narrative: Bronze medal. Octagonal shape (oblong with corners cut). Bust of man in military uniform on one side, sailing vessel and Russian inscription on reverse. Notes: Bronze medal issued by...
Crumrine, Nina (painter). Oil on canvas. Size: 23.5 x 19 in. Signed, lower left. Brass Plate on Frame: "Chief Koch Teech, Last of The Tlinget Chiefs, by Nina Crumrine."
Letter dated 1 June 1877 from Sheldon Jackson, Denver, Colo. to J. S. Brown, Fort Wrangel noting Brown's appeal to the Y.M.C.A. had been forwarded to him and seeking further information necessary to establish a mission at Fort Wrangel.