Child's diaper made from spotted sealskin fur and edged with caribou fawn skin with ties of spotted seal ties. Inside the diaper is sphagnum moss. Sewn with sinew. Measures 25 x 19.5 x 9 cm.
Round birch bark basket made with the woven technique, light and dark-colored bark placed diagonally along the sides, alternating direction creating a woven look. Lashed along the top and bottom edges with willow, which is wrapped in spruce root....
Tear-drop shaped piece of jade, used as or with a fishing lure. Holes are drilled on either end. Not completely flat - the narrow end appears to curve up while the wider end curves down, from the side. Highly polished. Property mark engraved on the...
Round birch bark basket, made with strips of birch bark, woven together along the sides. The walls of the basket are formed by placing the bark in diagonal strips, with the light side going in one direction, the dark in the opposite, and weaving...
Title taken from verso. Photograph of a Native Alaskan cemetery with Russian Orthodox Crosses. Some of the graves are enclosed in their own fence and others, like the one in the distance, have several graves within one fence.
Portrait photograph of Brenda Itta with the note: To our great and wonderful Senator of Alaska-Senator Gruening. Thank you for all you have done for the Eskimos. Sincerely, Brenda Itta.
Manuscript map. Includes Fort Egbert and shows telegraph lines. "South boundary of townsite, U.S. Survey by Theo. Lentz." Oriented with north to the upper right. No date given, but includes surveys done in 1900-1902. Mounted on linen. 49 x 75...
54 second film clip, color/silent. From title frame: "May 4, 1939. Dickson Collection". Film shows a Star Airlines Bellanca take of from the ice on Lake Spenard, after mechanics are done looking at it. Aircraft N-Number is too faint to read.
Title from cataloger. Photograph of the village of Wrangell with the wharf prominant. Visible are two advertisements: one for merchandise and the other a cure for head aches. Narrative in album states that: "Wrangel was our first Alaskan city, as...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of students turning soil for a new garden. Narrative in photo album reads: "Part of my school and myself, breaking up new ground for our school garden. This was part of the regular school work and was done...
Title from caption. Photograph of a woman standing on what may be a moose hide as she prepares it for smoking. Narrative from photo album reads: "Here is Mrs. Luke working on a moose skin. It has stood for days in a a stinking mess of rotten...
Title from caption. Photograph of boys swimming and bathing. Narrative in photo album reads: "At right boys (Indians) in bathing. Not much of this is done, no one can swim & water is quite cold even in summer."
Title from image. Photograph of gold miners shoveling dirt and gravel into a flume for washing. Narrative in photo album reads: "At the left are 2 pictures of placer mining in the ordinary manner in creek beds. Sometimes to conserve enough...
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a group of people near two planes. One of the planes appears to be having work done on it. The other plane has a cover over it's engine. The men are all wearing heavy coats, a few cabins sit in the distance....
Title from verso. Photograph of the damage done during a Japanese air raid on Dutch Harbor. Verso reads: "Fuel tanks at Dutch Harbor are ablaze after being hit by Jap [ Japanese ] bombs during the attack there, June 3-4. Note Jap [...
Title from verso. Highly doctored photograph of a U. S. Navy warship bombarding Attu Island. Original may have been overexposed and darkened for better visibility. Verso reads: "Confirmation that the big ones were in action came for the...
The entire collection contains reports, correspondence, pamphlets, and administrative records received from the agricultural stations at Matanuska, Fairbanks, and Petersburg. The papers address such topics as environmental data, Alaskan flora,...
The entire collection contains reports, correspondence, pamphlets, and administrative records received from the agricultural stations at Matanuska, Fairbanks, and Petersburg. The papers address such topics as environmental data, Alaskan flora,...
The entire collection contains reports, correspondence, pamphlets, and administrative records received from the agricultural stations at Matanuska, Fairbanks, and Petersburg. The papers address such topics as environmental data, Alaskan flora,...
The entire collection contains reports, correspondence, pamphlets, and administrative records received from the agricultural stations at Matanuska, Fairbanks, and Petersburg. The papers address such topics as environmental data, Alaskan flora,...