Accession Number: 433 Old Num: 110 Description: wood; carved Found: arctic ocean Descriptive Narrative: Spare paddle blade carved from natural light colored wood. Both sides of the blade have a central ridge with the back ridge...
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...
Spear used by women for self-defense; birch shaft; rusty steel blade (two prongs at end, one broken off); set in slit; lashed with babiche around slit and interlaced all the way to other end of shaft; blade brought from Ft. Yukon. Measures 67.5 in....
Spear used by women for self-defense; birch shaft; rusty steel blade (two prongs at end, one broken off); set in slit; lashed with babiche around slit and interlaced all the way to other end of shaft; blade brought from Ft. Yukon. Measures 67.5 in....
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.
Steel blade from a saw blade; 2 screw holes; antler handle much stained and polished from use; held on with wooden peg inserted through top of handle. Blade is 8 3/4". Ulu is 5 3/8" x 8 3/4".
Handmade by Harry Avakoff, Fairbanks jeweler, the blade is gold-plated and the handle is of white walrus ivory; light beige on top wit the white core area showing underneath; signed on back "Made by H. B. Avakof, 7 - 4 - 32". 7-5/8 in. long with...
Curved bone (rib) handle; curved steel blade with visible file marks; made from a file; fastened to handle with two metal bolts; three serrations on tip of handle; vertical scratches across front of handle where it joins blade; 9 7/8"...
A tractor with a blade clears snow from the Jesse Lee Home grounds east of Goode Hall in Seward, Alaska. From verso: "Carrie Ida Pierce Seward, Alaska, Box 516." 1946-1955. Original photograph size: 4 1/4" x 5 1/4".
Title by indexer. Verso: Assembling [Baker?] Snow [illegible] Fairbanks November 3 19[illegible]. The blade of a snow plow is held by a tripod and lowered toward machinery; men stand around the machine.
Title by indexer. Verso: Assembling [Baker?] Snow [illegible] Fairbanks November 3 [illegible]. Men stand around a piece of heavy machinery. Next to it is a tripod from which appears to hang a snow plow blade.
Title by indexer. Verso: Assembling [Baker?] Snow [Plow] Fairbanks November 193[illegible]. Three or four men stand around a piece of heavy machinery, next to which stands a tripod suspending the blade of a snow plow.
Title taken from caption. View of train with a rotary snow clearing blade about four miles north of Curry, Alaska. 1946. Original photograph size: 2 3/4" x 4 1/2".