Title taken from caption. View of flat stones found during an excavation of a barabara. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Portrait of woman standing at the entrance to her dwelling. From verso: "Muck Chuck, the lame woman, Peter Kowchee's sister." [Possibly Mutchoak, cf. 1920 census.]
Title taken from information with photo. Winter view of post office housed in sod building with mailbox at Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska, with another sod building in background. Also from information with photo: "Single sod dwelling with mailbox." 1962....
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "10, July 1935." Maggie Prokopioff, a.k.a. "Rock of Ages", poses for a photograph in front of a barabara near Attu. She is wearing a checkered dress and knit cap. From May's journal, dated July 26th:...
Title taken from caption. View of two ruined barabaras in the Katmai Village. A barabara is a semisubterranean house framed with wood (often driftwood) and covered with sod or turf. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition to...
Title taken from caption. Additional caption information: "Drying rack with pitched roof." Image shows salmon hanging in rows in a covered fish drying rack beside the Yukon River in the village of Beaver, Alaska. An open boat is visible in the...
Title taken from information with photo. Winter view of sod house at Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska, with smokestack and antlers on top of building. 1962. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 2 1/4" x 2 1/4".
Title taken from verso. Esther Schaubel, an ANS field nurse, stands to the far right of the photograph. Another woman stands outside the entrance to a traditional sod house in Mekoryuk, Nunivak Island. She is dressed in a kuspuk. A wooden house is...
Title taken from caption. View of sod house at Savonoski, Alaska, a village abandoned shortly after the Katmai area eruptions on June 2-6, 1912. Photo taken during a National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1918.
View of the exterior of a sod house in Point Hope. Three whale bones lean against the house. Photograph taken during production of the MGM film, Eskimo, 1932-1933. Original photograph size: 4 x 4 3/4 inch.