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...
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.
This dome shaped type of tent is called a Qalluvik in Iñupiaq. Willows for the frame were collected inland, around Atqasuk, then bent into curved shape and tied together to make tent frame. It was then covered with canvas. (Early Iñupiaq tents...
This frame of would be covered with canvas to become a useable summer dwelling, qalluvik. A tent like this covered with skins is called an Itchellik by the Nunamiut. A tepee style tent with one pole in the middle is called a napattaq tupiq.
A wooden triangular dipper where the sides and handle of one piece of wood, steamed, bent, and lashed with spruce root. Wood extends to form handle which terminates in a crane's head with curved beak. Base made from a solid piece of wood, placed...
Title from caption in album: "Mar 26 - Cabin woods - Trees along open water - cabin just inside - S.W.". Photograph shows the edge of a forest, the trees are bent over the snow, a sparsely wooded hill sits in the distance.
Title from caption: "Chicaloon River - Glenn Hwy., Alaska."
Bend in the Chickaloon River with snow covered mountains in the background. Dense growth of trees on riverbanks with one tree bent over near the water.
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...
Rusty Steel dagger with horns at end of handle. Length 33.5 cm. Handle wrapped with hide. Front of blade has central raised area along length, back of dagger blade is flat. Blade tip slightly bent.
Title taken from front. View of Alaska Engineering Commission Railway construction at new dock on Knik Arm, Anchorage, Alaska, with pile driver and construction workers in foreground and crane in background. Also from front: "A.E.C. G-1382." An...
Title taken from front. View of Alaska Engineering Commission construction on dock, Knik Arm, Anchorage, Alaska, with pile driver at right. Also from front: "A.E.C. G-1391." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number G1391. July...
Title taken from front. View of Alaska Engineering Commission construction on new dock at Knik Arm, Anchorage, Alaska, with pile driver and construction workers at right. Also from front: "A.E.C. G-1392." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo....
Title taken from front. View of construction of Alaska Engineering Commission Railway trestle at new dock on Knik Arm, Anchorage, Alaska, with crane in foreground and pile driver in background. Also from front: "A.E.C. G-1381." An Alaska...