Descriptive Narrative: Carved wooden mask by Nathan Jackson with earrings by Emma Marks. The natural color of the wood shows through on most of the mask except where hair, eyebrows, and eyes are painted in black, and nostrils and lips in red. A...
Soft-bodied doll with leather facial features in black stitch.
Parka of muskrat belly trimmed with white and black calf
skin in zigzag design with beaver, wolf ruff. Mittens are
commercial leather with mouton tops, mittens have blue,
pink and white...
Descriptive Narrative: Small Chilkat robe. Design is an eagle. Notes: Per Maria Miller 1/12/1987: All yarn in this piece is commercial yarn. The fringe is wool and jute twine. Dimensions: W: 19 5/8 in, H: 22 1/2 x 14 in Accession...
Title from verso. Photograph of two men standing outside of a log building. They are identified as Justin Frank and William Jimmy. Indexer's note: One of the men is wearing a dentalium [dentalia] necklace and has a beaded bag or pouch over...
Title from front. Photographer George Gordon Cantwell, left, and his business partner Frederic N. Atwood sitting in front of a tent at their camp on the Yukon River. Cantwell is smoking a pipe and scrubbing a pan. From verso: "En route to Klondike...
Fish hooks made from reindeer shin bone, bent nail and bit of red yarn, barbless - used for hooking pike through ice. Title and description from photographer's notes. Photographer's number 68.
Lincoln, Bertha (artist). Cross made from six coiled grass basketry circles which are then attached with dyed grass. The central circle is made of grass that is dyed blue. The single section of grass that connects the six pieces is dyed red. The...
Chilkat Robe of mountain goat wool and cedar bark; possible use of commercially spun yarn in design elements, approx size excluding fringe: 160.02 x 95.25 cm.¬ulture: Tlingit
High-knee caribou boots with a strip of beaver fur along the
top of the boots. These boots have soft soles probably
caribou skin. The draw string at the top of the boots is
probably caribou skin with blue and white yarn ends. There
are two strips...
Pair of gauntlet-type mittens of smoked moosehide: lined with wool material; trimmed with unplucked beaver fur at the wrists and cuffs; yarn mitten harness of white, green and purple attached with leather thongs at the wrist. Beaded floral designs...
Description: feathers; fur; yarn; cloth; sewn
Descriptive Narrative: Doll size chief's coat made of what appear to be the feathers from three different bird species. Male mallard duck feathers are used on the top of the shoulders and on the...