Title taken from caption. Two adults and a child pose for a portrait in front of a dwelling. The house is constructed of driftwood and roofed with furs.
Title taken from verso. Group of Native Alaskans standing near barabara, above Seldovia, Alaska. 1901. Postcard. Original photograph size: 3 3/8" x 5 1/4".
Title taken from verso. View of abandoned barabaras at Point Lay, Alaska. One of the structures has its frame exposed. Ca. 1930-1939. Original photograph size: 2.75" x 4.5".
Title taken from caption. The wife of Agefangel Prokopiof, the second chief, poses for a photograph in front of a barabara in Attu. Photograph taken by Alan May during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian...
Title taken from front. View of inflated seal carcasses for use as floats on sled in front of tent at camp in Northern Alaska, with children in background at right. "Seal floats" were used to keep whales afloat after they were shot during hunts....
View of Anchorage Memorial Cemetery, Anchorage, Alaska, with buildings and water tank in the background. From verso: "Anchorage Memorial Cemetery in 1937; the Native plots are with the little memorial houses in the front; The old water twoer [sic]...
Note on verso in Russian written by Tikhon Vinokouroff Oct. 12, 1920: On
Kumakh- Surt
120 v[ersts] from Buluna (Siberia)
All [illeg.] "without ceremony"
-- without changing clothes
Sept. 15, 1926
Wolf and rabbit skins hang in front of cabin. Logs, buckets, and tools are scattered in yard. Boxes, tins, and a cat are tucked beneath eaves. Message on verso in Russian written July 5, 1938.