Description: wood; mountain goat wool; painted Old Num: acc. 424a Descriptive Narrative: Wooden grease dish in the form of a floating bird ( crested auklet ?, puffin ?) with the cavity in the back; wings folded against the sides; head...
Description: wood; carved; abalone; inset; painted Descriptive Narrative: Headdress frontlet carved in a close grained hard wood. The slightly rectangular back plaque is convex vertically and concave horizontally. The face of a young woman is...
Description: Argillite; carved; bone; inset Descriptive Narrative: Carved of carbonaceous shale (slate or argillite). A canoe with oblong insets of bone on the gunwales and a figure of the sea monster engraved on both sides- front and back. 8...
Description: wood; carved; rawhide; glass bead; blue Descriptive Narrative: A rectangular box carved of wood, hinged with thong and fastened with a thong loop to a peg on box. The lid has 2 faces carved on it, one with a large upturned mouth...
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...
Accession Number: 431 a
Description: wood; carved
Found: Valdez
Descriptive Narrative: Carved wood spoon. Bowl and most the back is "natural" or light tan color. Red pigment has been painted onto the bowls rim, handle and on the...
Descriptive Narrative: Coiled grass basket in the form of a tea kettle with knobbed lid, spout and bail handle attached to ears placed on either side of the lid opening in line with the spout. The ears, spout and handle are stitched in place. There...
Description from image margin; "We are coming in for a landing. In the distance you can see Lake Iliamna and at the right of it, Big Mountain. We are looking east. The Kvichak River below us comes out of Lake Iliamna and flows west to Bristol...
Description from image margin "Now for another view; walk past the house to the top of the little hill in the southwest corner of the school yard. Now, looking back to the east you see the teacher's house and on the left the high school. Notice the...
Description from image margin "Standing in the door, you just came in and looking east, you look over the top to the teacher's desk in the library corner."
Description from image margin "To the left of that, in the northeast corner, you can see the door that leads into a small activity room that used to be the kitchen."
Description from image margin "To the left of that, you see the upper grade students. Three of them graduated into high school this spring. - Diane's Loss, Peter's gain."
Description from image margin "Coming out of the elementary school, we look across at the teacher's housing. Notice to the right of it is the playing platform- a popular spot for the elementary kids. Until this Januray that was the gym."
Description from image margin "As you go in this door, if you turn to the right; you go in the shower rooms. If you go upstairs and turn right you go in the high school classroom and through it to the office. If you go straight ahead you come to...
Description from image margin "At the east end of the multipurpose room, the children have set up the table and are lined up waiting for the cook to hand them their lunches through that window. Mary Olympic is the cook."
Description from image margin "Looking across the river, we see that it is about three hundred yards wide; but with the water the its lowest , we could see sand bars." This photograph was taken at the end of the present airstrip. (2011)
Description from image margin "The itinerary house was the temporary home for school personnel; such as area principals, construction workers, maintenance men, reading specialists, art ,music and special education teachers, psychologists and lastly...