Made of two pieces of wood, each of which forms half the handle and half the rattle part; handle riveted with two copper bolts and lashed with leather strip; hawk's face either side of rattle; black, green, and red paint; faded; has two small...
Liddell, Josephine Crumrine (artist). Size: 21 x 16.5 in. Medium: Oil pastel on paper Artist's information on Lilly Killbear: "Lilly Killbear, who lived in Wainwright, loved to go visiting and ride with the Coast Guard on their yearly trips to...
Manook, (Buster) Ronald James (artist). Size: 6.75 x 8.5 in. Medium: Wood, feathers, nails, glass Wood, raven head. Face is split in half with white wooden "bill" shape inside 4 chicken (?) Feathers inserted. Split halves are painted black, bill...
Washington, Ethel (maker). Female doll with wooden face and black hair, features outlined with black ink. Doll is wearing ground squirrel parka with hood decorated with cut caribou and red thread knots. Ruff is wolf fur border. Shoulders of parka...
Material: Ivory Realistic human head, overly oblong and slightly pointed at top. The face is fully carved including eyes, nose, mouth, small ears on sides, and tattoo lines on forehead, cheeks and chin. Object is broken at neck. Drilled hole at...
Topp, Roger (photographer). Video, 31 seconds MPG format. This kittiwake is a widely distributed breeder across the northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere. It builds nests of grasses, seaweeds, mosses, and mud on small ledges on vertical...
One troy oz 0.999 pure gold, struck to commemorate the purchase of the Alaska Railroad by the State of Alaska, 5 January 1985. The face shows AK PR engine 1500 and the obverse shows Denali with "The Great Land". Struck by Crown Mint, Woodland...
One troy oz 0.999 pure gold, struck to commemorate the purchase of the Alaska Railroad by the State of Alaska, 5 January 1985. The face shows AK PR engine 1500 and the reverse shows Denali with "The Great Land". Struck by Crown Mint, Woodland...
Gold Bi-centennial coin or medallion; milled edges; on face "United States of America - 200 Years - 1776-1976". Bald eagle in center with half-wreath underneath. Reverse: "Northwest Territorial Mint. One Troy ounce Gold 999.5 pure". Mt. McKinley...
Male mask; carved wooden face. Snow goggles of wood with faint pink wash are attached; fur mustache and beard; wolf fur ruff; furs are nailed to wood; sinew cord on back for hanging; 16" long. Created in Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska.
Atchak, Earl (artist). Whale bone kayak with a single figure inside, holding an upraised harpoon. Figure has parka made from rabbit skin. The face is carved from wood.¬ulture: Cup'ik
Atchak, Earl (artist). Large whale bone assemblage with rib acting as an umiak with a group of 6 human figures inside, one of whom is a baby in the arms of an adult. Three figures have wooden paddles. Figures wear parkas of caribou and rabbit fur....
Tlingit bear mask carved of wood and painted. Mask is hollowed out with an adze from a single piece of wood. 32 inset shell teeth; abalone pupils. Ears show bear profiles and are each edges with 12 wooden pegs which secure a tuft of dark red-brown...
Made: Kuskokwim
Description: wood; carved; painted
Descriptive Narrative: A wooden dish carved of one piece with red painted rim. The center is natural wood color with a deer painted in black in the center. He has a human face with a...
Mary Olympic is holding her infant child Lydia. Julia is standing in front of her mother. Mary Nowatak is holding her daughters Susie and Betsy. This photograph was taken on the south side of the log cabin that the Nowataks' lived in. This...