Caption: "Each man that catches a whale [has] to give what they call a skin dance. A blanket of skins is stretched like in the picture and held by as many persons can get around it, then a person goes in and is tossed up in the air until he is...
Formal portrait of Charlie Jones, also known as Chief Shakes VII, wearing the Killer Whale Flotilla Robe. Title and description courtesy of Alaska State Museum.
Title taken from image. Eleven men and youth on platform in the Whale House, with two bent-wood boxes, woodworm dish, rainwall screen and house posts of raven and the girl and the woodworm in background. Photographer's number 193.
Natives surround a beluga whale; from an album of photographs taken during a reconnaissance trip to Alaska with Ira Gabrielson, director of the Fish and Wildlife Service
Flagpole is on left end of the building. Summer view. Butter came in barrels like that at corner of building. Locals used them for making misigaaq (seal oil) and mikigaq (fermented whale meat and blubber).
Man on the left uses a tool that resembles a metal garden hoe. The other men are using metal scraping tools, called "tuggaun" in Iñupiaq, which are the same tools used to butcher a whale. Scraping is made easier by freezing the skin.
Title from image. Carved monuments of a killer whale (left) and wolf (right) on top of funerary containers. The wolf is mounted on a cribwork of logs, fixed "log cabin style."-SH 2/96*
Possible visitors pose in front of low tent. Stove with this type of pipe used either whale oil or wood. Previously, tents did not have stoves; they cooked outdoors. Possible identities: Person in white parka just left of dark man in middle...
The wooden mask is carved in an elongated oval shape, with a polished smooth surface. The wood is very dark in color. The face shows arching brows and a small ridge running vertically on the forehead from between the eyes to the top of the mask....
Carving of a man standing with his arms extended out at his sides, palms down, wearing mittens, a hooded parka, and boots. Made from old whale bone, the carving is a medium brown color and still has a lot of beach sand left in the pores of the...
Pook, Cathleen (artist). Video, 1:02 minutes MPG format. Cathleen Cass Pook is from Sitka and is known for her traditional Tlingit beadwork and basketry. She is a member of the Eagle Clan and the Killer Whale House. She learned her art from her...
Atchak, Earl (artist). Large whale bone assemblage with rib acting as an umiak with a group of 6 human figures inside, one of whom is a baby in the arms of an adult. Three figures have wooden paddles. Figures wear parkas of caribou and rabbit fur....