Title from image. Tlingit artist, Billy Webster, painting a leader's dance staff, carved in a killer whale design. Other pieces of Tlingit carving are displayed, including miniature totem poles. Photographer number 144.
The competition was open to Alaska schoolchildren between grades 7 and 12. Benson was a 13 year old student at the Jessie Lee MIssion Home in Seward. The competition was organized by the American Legion, who collected a total of 142 entries from...
This series of menus was used by the Alaska Steamship Company for a cruise up the Inside Passage. This one shows a two-color print of tourists on the streets of an Alaskan village, probably Sitka, beneath the mountains and a Russian church. They...
Three men, wearing ceremonial dress, on porch of house unofficially referred to as Tsaa yaa ayáanásnak keet hÃt (Killer Whale Chasing Seal House), the design painted by a Deisheetaan artist named Káatleindein; cedar canoe on beach in front of...
Tlingit carver James Rudolph, of Juneau, seated among a group of totems of varying sizes. Verso: l to r: Mary (wife - of the Eagle Tribe - Shun-goo-Kay-dee Thunderbird), baby, Anna, daughter Martha, Mr. Rudolph, and daughter Elisa. Mr. Rudolph is...
Sketch of three people running rapids in a long narrow boat Note: Edwin Tappan Adney (1868-1950) was an artist, a writer, a photographer, and an experienced woodsman. Harper's Weekly sent Tappan Adney to the Klondike in the summer of 1897