This eagle-headed dagger has a tapered copper blade with a medial ridge running down the front of the blade. The reverse is a flat surface showing marks of the original working of the material. The carved head and hand grip are one piece of wood...
This eagle-headed dagger has a tapered copper blade with a medial ridge running down the front of the blade. The reverse is a flat surface showing marks of the original working of the material. The carved head and hand grip are one piece of wood...
Model of St. Lawrence Island dwelling; wooden framework covered with pieces of seal skin (hair in) and a piece of de-haired and bleached sealskin as the roof; gives a translucent light; may be inadvertent (i.e., the real houses may not have had...
Schoppert, James (artist). Size: 65 x 40 x 4.25 in. Medium: Carved wood panel, paint Nine boards of varying lengths attached to two curved cross pieces at back; painted light blue and shadings of white, pink, and gray; 39.75 in. across; 65 in....
Material: Ivory Human head, 6cm in size with broad cheeks, carved nose and mouth, drilled holes for eyes, incised lines between eyebrows and for eyebrows, and drilled holes for nostrils. Object is broken off at neck, the ivory fractured on back of...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute and 39 seconds, MPG-1 format. The advance group leaves the monument campsite and heads for Tuapaktusuk, called the Skull cliffs, where they can...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute and 15 seconds, MPG-1 format. Fannie Akpik enjoys a cup of coffee while keeping her back to the wind. The crew is tending to the camp as the wind...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute and 23 seconds, MPG-1 format. A group of campers went on a long hike, heading out first along the shore and then arcing inland and back towards...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute and 26 seconds, MPG-1 format. One of the campers suffered burns to his feet when his sleeping bag caught fire one morning. Search and rescue was...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 57 seconds, MPG-1 format. Tristan and Phil Gaudet collect snow from the ice-shelf near the camp. The snow is loosened with the axe and scooped into buckets...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute and 29 seconds, MPG-1 format. Nak , Gary Walker, Nagruk, Phil Gaudet, Kavaii, Roger Topp, and Damon Richardson skin and butcher the caribou for...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 46 seconds, MPG-1 format. The campers haul the four caught, skinned, and butchered caribou back to camp.
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 2 minutes and 1 second, MPG-1 format. The boats have been battered by the wind and waves for a couple days. They require repairs and then the entire camp...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute and 32 seconds, MPG-1 format. The crew butchers the seal. One has to remove the excess blood into a container. Vernon Brower (Pauyuueraq) helps...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute and 13 seconds, MPG-1 format. Because of the storms and the need to ground the boats, Paul Bodfish's boat suffered from a clogged waterline....
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 43 seconds, MPG-1 format. With Paul's Boat fixed, the three boats head back to Barrow. The boats made very good time following the ice edge until it became...
Material: Ivory Egg shaped; long nose, thin; eyebrows indicated by hachure marks; chin well executed in form of protuberance; radiating lines on back of head; dark brown, grey. Culture: Okvik
Material: Ivory Ivory head. Large round hole through neck into head; face shows many tattoo marks; eye slits deep, narrow; nose unformed, nostrils indicated by shallow drill holes; slit for mouth rather deep; face part dark brown, top of head...
Daughhetee, Mark (photographer). Photograph: gelatin silver. Size: 17.75 x 23 in. Signed on the back. Included in the Alaska Photographic Center's "Rarefied Light" Exhibit.