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.
Title taken from image. A wooden carving is attached to the utility pole in front of building. Verso: Haines U.S. Military Telegraph and cable office, Photo taken c. 1904-05.
Supplemental material: Indian tomb at Strawberry Pt. Notice the neat workman - ship. It's dilapadated here, but you can see it especially in the carving of the lumber at the peak of the roof.
Carver [Billy Webster] holding a dance staff; in his lap is another carving; displayed on a table behind are other carved items, including five small totem poles Photographer's number 145
Full blood Eskimo, son of Norman & Alice Lee; teachers of ivory carving and skin sewing. Title and description taken from accompanying materials. Photographer's number 139.
Title taken from interview notes. Students are engaged in a variety of activities including sewing, reading, wood carving, and building with wood working tools.
Title taken from image. Twelve men and youths wearing spruce root hats, carved helmets, masks, one man in Chilkat blanket shirt, and another in fur trim shirt with beaver design; wood carving of man's head in foreground by Chief Klart-Reech's...
Gaanaxteidi clan artifacts displayed inside the Raven house in Klukwan, c. 1900. Four Chilkat blankets, carved wood masks and hat, spruce root hats, bent-wood box. The carving is one of four houseposts showing a humanoid figure beneath a...
Title from image. Haida Indians in ceremonial dress at the last traditional ceremony at Klinkwan before evacuation of the village to Hydaburg, ca. 1900. Identified as Robert Edenshaw (left), Edwin Scott (third from left, heir to Kadnes or...
Haida Indians in ceremonial dress at the last traditional ceremony at Klinkwan before evacuation of the village to Hydaburg, c. 1900. Identified as Robert Edenshaw (left), Edwin Scott (third from left, heir to Kadnes or Dogfish House, in front of...
Title taken from image. Image: Two chiefs of the Kogwanton clan in ceremonial regalia standing around the Panting Wolf carving; 1904 potlatch in Sitka.
Verso: This is believed carved is early Thlikqut and destroyed in the customs house. St. Michael, Picture of wood carving done on wood. From "Neva" wrecked in Sitka harbor, Jan. 9-1813. Stamp on back: 1939.