A wooden triangular dipper where the sides and handle of one piece of wood, steamed, bent, and lashed with spruce root. Wood extends to form handle which terminates in a crane's head with curved beak. Base made from a solid piece of wood, placed...
Clipping removed from a publication with the caption: Skagway is at the head of the Lynn Canal, and this picture gives some idea of the fall of the tide when one notes the length of the long docks extending out into the water. The mountain in the...
Heavily beaded checkbook cover backed with caribou hide. Cover is a rectangular shape with one curved short end. Folded in thirds, the cover velcros to the front and encases a checkbook, which can be slipped inside the pocket sewn to the backing...
Heavily beaded checkbook cover backed with caribou hide. Cover is a rectangular shape with one curved short end. Folded in thirds, the cover velcros to the front and encases a checkbook, which can be slipped inside the pocket sewn to the backing...
Ivory shank tapered at both ends, the top end more so than bottom. The smaller tapered end has two holes drilled through it to accomadatethe picture wire wound through for leader. Attached to the loop made at the opposite end of the picture frame...
Remainder of title: Thomas Riggs, Jr., Member Alaskan Engineering Commission, and C. W. Richie and H. J. Atwell, Acting Register and Receiver of the United States Land Office, at Fairbanks, Alaska.
Relief shown pictorially. Shows Hudson's Bay & Great Lakes area, including southern tip of Greenland & Baffin Island. From Cape Blanco north there is only a dotted line extending to the northeast toward Rankin Inlet, with no indication of the...
Second volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Nov. 22, 1915-Jan. 14, 1917. [166] pages ; 16 cm.
From text of document: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, - That the territory ceded to the United States by Russia by the treaty...
Slavery was an accepted custom in many Native tribes. On May 8, 1886, District Judge Layfayette Dawson in Sitka decided that the Thirteenth Amendment and the 1866 Civil Rights Act abolishing slavery applied to the "uncivilized tribes" of Alaska. ...
This view which is taken from an elevated location, captures the pipeline extending across the breath of the landscape. Notice the fence-like structures, which are erected perhaps to protect the pipes against avalanches and or other debris...
Title from cataloger. Cataloguer's note: A portrait of a young Alaska Native woman with a remarkably composed bearing; her plaited hair is long; she has facial tattoos beneath her mouth and extending the length of her chin. She is carrying a...