A group of Inupiaq, mostly children, are sitting in the grass as a walrus skin is stretched and dried. Visible in the background are several buildings and a semi-subterranean sod house (far left on horizon). On the right side of the photo are two...
Andrew and Dolly Gust's old food cache which they stored dried fish and frozen meat in. The cache was used before freezers were introduced to the Bristol Bay region.
Caption: "Seals can be caught all the year round. This woman is stretching a seal skin to dry. After it has dried it will be used in making waterproof boots."
Fourth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. May 19, 1917-Jan. 2, 1918. [199] pages ; 15 cm.
Interior with lockers and coffee machines. Name on locker: McCartney, photo lab? Lettering on box: Rosemary brand dried whole milk, The Borden Company.
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute and 28 seconds, MPG-1 format. Jana Harchauk (Nagruk) prepares a portion of the intestine where one must first remove the contents of the...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute and 34 seconds, MPG-1 format. It is time to break camp and haul the gear down to the beach. The tents and tarps are folded for the journey back to...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute and 41 seconds, MPG-1 format. The campers enjoy a meal of black dried seal meat soaked in seal oil (Kiniqtaq). Because the weather has been pretty...
Caption: Eskimos are not Indians, but Mongoloids. Both have all inherent reverence for their ancestors, the Japanese possessing the characteristic a degree stronger than the Eskimos. The Japanese serve fish raw. ...
Five young women identified as left to right: Kuzrere or Grace (Mrs. Percy Blatchford of Nome), Koot egweena, Angnohok, Oo me eeuk, Ang arolok or Bessie (Mrs. Henry Miller of Teller).
Full note reads: "1949 08 Seine fishing for Chum salmon on the Kobuk River. This fish was dried on rocks for the winter food for the sled dogs. It was the mainstay for these animals and was heated and fed twice...
Title from caption. Photograph of a man seated next to a display of pressed and dried flowers, and a variety of Alaska wildflowers ready for pressing. A woman is seated in the doorway of the log cabin.
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 fish drying on a fish rack inside a shed. Narrative in the photo album reads: "The salmon for food, after being partially dried in the sun, is placed under a tent or in a shed made from bark peeled from spruce...