Round embroidered fabric patch. Design comprises a snarling polar bear head and gold star on blue field. This patch was in use by the Alaska Defense Command beginning in 1943. Object size: 2 1/2 inch diameter circle.
Cyanotype photograph of of a tent with the flaps tied open showing the contents inside. Items inclue a mattress, an armless chair with print fabric, a stove, a bucket, and luggage. There are patches of snow outside the tent, and a pile of chopped...
Title from verso. In 1942, Sascha Brastoff (1918 - 1993, born Samuel Brostofsky) enlisted in the Army Air Corps and was assigned first as a designer and then as a performer to the Air Force show “Winged Victory.” He created and impersonated...
Title drawn from verso One man plays a fiddle, another smokes a pipe, two have their eyes closed; the log cabin walls are visible behind, and a tent fabric stretches above their heads
Title drawn from verso; verso notes shown below photograph One man plays a fiddle, another smokes a pipe, two have their eyes closed; the log cabin walls are visible behind, and a tent fabric stretches above their heads
Interior view of clothing, bolts of fabric, jewelry, and shelves of folded garments; four women on one side of the counter and a man behind. Photographer's number 1273
Descriptive Narrative: Carved wooden mask by Nathan Jackson with earrings by Emma Marks. The natural color of the wood shows through on most of the mask except where hair, eyebrows, and eyes are painted in black, and nostrils and lips in red. A...
Description: wool; brass; braid; piping; serge; cotton; silk; ribbon Used: Chief Kowee; Kaawa.ee Descriptive Narrative: a). Jacket - navy blue wool, double breasted, w/row of 7 brass navy type buttons & 7 buttonholes up each side of the...
Embroidered red, white and blue circular fabric patch. Design: a globe balanced on the nose of a seal and the name "Baker Engineers" and the motto "We traverse the earth" on a ribbon around the globe. A surveyor's level sits on top of the globe,...
Boots with smoked moosehide sole, commercial unsheared cow, wolf trim, about 3 in. They have a wide band of solid beadwork, flowers with many colors, white background, and orange felt with scalloped top trimmed with beads. The top is blue felt....
Nancarrow, Ree (artist). Size: 59 x 54 in. Medium: Hand-dyed fabric quilt Tilted and dated verso Using the reappearing "y" form, fiber artist Ree Nancarrow experiments in this piece with the inner relationships of shape, color, and texture to...
Kimoktoak, Freida (maker). This zip-front parka is made with squares of various species of birds caught in the Norton Sound area. Lined in black fabric, it has a metal zipper, and the zipper is covered on the PL side with a strip of otter fur. The...
Kimoktoak, Freida (maker). This zip-front parka is made with squares of various species of birds caught in the Norton Sound area. Lined in black fabric, it has a metal zipper, and the zipper is covered on the PL side with a strip of otter fur. The...
Kimoktoak, Freida (maker). This zip-front parka is made with squares of various species of birds caught in the Norton Sound area. Lined in black fabric, it has a metal zipper, and the zipper is covered on the PL side with a strip of otter fur. The...
Kimoktoak, Freida (maker). This zip-front parka is made with squares of various species of birds caught in the Norton Sound area. Lined in black fabric, it has a metal zipper, and the zipper is covered on the PL side with a strip of otter fur. The...
Title supplied by cataloger. There is a white floatplane with a maroon stripe moored in front of a white fabric wall tent with external log supports. Man in a yellow rain coat sitting near the shore. Fishing nets strung out and piled up on ground....
Title from accompanying notes. "Hiro, Pepi, Hat, & Bamboo. VWs are great though. Rolled it back up on its wheels, repacked it, and drove off. No damage except loss of the driver's outside rear view mirror." A Volkswagen minibus after an...
Cyanotype of an unidentified man sitting behind a store counter surrounded by sundries, possibly in Tyonek, Knik Village, or Ladd's Station. A vice is mounted on the counter to the left, and a sewing machine is visible on the right. There appears...
Caption reads: "Interior "Board of Trade" after the big storm. Nome, Alaska, 1913." A group of men stand inside what looks to be the ruins of a building destroyed by the big storm that occurred in Nome, Alaska on...