Title taken from information with photo. View of men removing baleen from whale after successful whale hunt at Gambell on Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska, with dog at right near whale and dog with sled in right background. Also from information with...
Title from sleeve. 'The device is of a certain design that when attached to a 3 foot piece of sinew and whirled makes an eerie sound designed to frighten wolves.' 2 1/4 B&W negative.
Title from sleeve. Group of onlookers views a Native garment on display at some sort of exhibition. Note on garment reads: 'Parki - Kenai Indians Over 100 years old ...work of Tuck? Tusk? shells - Indian money shells, Russian trade beads. Bottom of...
Title taken from front. Baleen (bone) from whale on ship, Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska. From verso: "780 pieces of whale bone. Whale 78 ft. long. Longest slab 9 1/2 ft. Value of bone $12,600. Cape Prince of Wales." Aug. 1902. Original photograph...
The dish has a wooden rim, and it is bent and lashed in two places with root. The new bottom has been made and glued in; a small baleen whale is glued in middle of dish and the handle is a high loop of baleen lashed to sides of dish with baleen;...
Title taken from caption. View of a driftwood and whalebone fence overlying a portion of a cave's entrance. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from verso. Boat made from baleen from Gambell, Alaska on display. Jan. 14, 1963. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".