The wooden mask is carved in an elongated oval shape, with a polished smooth surface. The wood is very dark in color. The face shows arching brows and a small ridge running vertically on the forehead from between the eyes to the top of the mask....
Descriptive Narrative: 2-pocket wall pocket of seal gut and fabric which is tall and narrow with a conical top and a square bottom. The top panel is of gut with embroidery. Each lower corner has a triangular shaped gut inset with a ribbon welt....
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Inset: Aleutian Islands. Page 171 of Atlas of the world. Text and engraved illustrations on verso (p. 172): Sitka, Alaska. Green tint around edges of Alaska; remainder of map not colored. 23 x 30...
Includes index to districts, capes/points, islands, lakes, mountains, rivers and towns. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. From Rand McNally & Co.'s Indexed Atlas of the World. Inset: [Western Aleutian Islands]. Page 459. Text on verso...
Ms. Relief shown pictorially. Hand colored. Mounted on cloth; edges bound with gilded paper. "From a vast choice…collected with great care and expenses by Samuel Engel." "Geographically projected by Rodolph de Vall-Travers."
The collection consists of 42 photographs and brief descriptions, taken during an archaeological dig in Fairbanks. Photographs depict fossils, artifacts, rock and soil formations, gold mining operations and equipment, and landscapes. Persons...
Eight women in fur garments are standing on the ice at the Village of Tanana. Each is dressed in fur and hide clothing, including mittens and footwear. Note the stitching along the edges of the photograph. Pictured left to right are: Charlotte...
Title taken from front. View of a baseball game in Anchorage, Alaska. A large crowd of people is gathered around the edges of the ballfield and many tents can be seen in the background. From verso: "June 13, 1915. Anchorage tent town. Marie...
View of bowhead whale bones placed around edges of cemetery at Point Hope, Alaska. 1960's? Photographer: Frank Whaley. Original photograph size: 8 1/8" x 10".
Title taken from verso. View of participants in ice pageant presented by North Star Elementary School, Fireweed Lane, Anchorage, Alaska, with spectators around edges of ice rink. March 7, 1952. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size:...
Title taken from verso. Eskimo woman and child fishing for spider crab, near Nome, Alaska. From verso of original photo: "A close view of an Eskimo woman fishing for spider crabs. Her boots - the wrinkles [on the edges of her boots] are bit with...
Title from image caption On verso: “They were all named before I got them –Bobby, Bill, Patsy, Slivers, Dick” Approx. 9” x 5” image, torn around the edges; John Holmes, wearing fur parka, stands on sled runners, with five...
A leaf shaped, wooden mask (28 x 17 x 6.5 cm), with distinctive horizontal ridges as forehead/top of head and chin, and three concentric circular ridges ringing central facial features. Eyes are leaf-shaped slits below one of the ridges, slightly...
A bone engraved with different animals. There are fish and bubbles along with an otter. There also seems to be some foxes along the bottom right hand corner. The bone has an outline along the sides and the animals are standing along the edges of...