Title taken from caption. View of two members of the National Geographic Society expedition cooking next to a framework of sticks beside the Naknek River, Alaska. Caption also says: "Frame work of a native camp; Naknek River below the rapids."...
Title taken from verso. View of a large two-story wood frame house at Point Barrow, Alaska. A barabara can be seen in the right foreground and more wood frame buildings can be seen in the distance. Ca. 1930-1939. Original photograph size: 2.75" x...
Title taken from caption. View of kayak frame resting on rack in Hooper Bay, Alaska. Also from caption: "Hooper Bay, AK." Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. Photographer: Robert Fortuine.
Title taken from caption. View of kayak frame in Hooper Bay, Alaska. Also from caption: "Hooper Bay, AK." Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. Photographer: Robert Fortuine.
This photograph depicts Harold Pomeroy constructing the frame for his greenhouse on his homestead at Bear Cove on Kachemak Bay on the Kenai peninsula, Alaska, in 1950. Harold stands on a ladder inside the frame of the building, holding a hammer,...
View of a destroyed building in Anchorage, Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Man stands near center of frame. Wood container appears to hold boxes and bags. Some are labeled Friskies Mix. Pipe and tanks appear, right center, under the...
Two couples in front of unidentified wood frame house with white trim. The white trim, small boards, and style of windows makes this house look government built. Unidentified family stands outside by door of arctic entry. People wear fancy parkas...
This dome shaped type of tent is called a Qalluvik in Iñupiaq. Willows for the frame were collected inland, around Atqasuk, then bent into curved shape and tied together to make tent frame. It was then covered with canvas. (Early Iñupiaq tents...
This frame of would be covered with canvas to become a useable summer dwelling, qalluvik. A tent like this covered with skins is called an Itchellik by the Nunamiut. A tepee style tent with one pole in the middle is called a napattaq tupiq.
Daylight comes in through a window made of ice. A large door on one end allowed the boat through. The holes for the lashing were handmade. This driftwood frame was lighter than with modern techniques. Workshops were heated with seal oil lamps....
Putting cover on umiak. After they are sewn together using special waterproof stitch, men will stretch skin cover across wood frame and lash them to it. This unusually large boat requires 7-8 skins. Five women work outside, standing. Now about ten...
Spring camping scene. Location unknown. Possibly the gravel spit leading out to Point Barrow, because of water on both sides. Or Nuvuk or Pigniq because of the higher ground in the background. Tents lined up so that when cooking fire soot would not...
This birch bark canoe has a wooden frame painted red and one end decked over. There is a design on the deck and a pad on the bottom of the canoe. The frame is lashed with root and the rims have black and tan check pattern woven on. Measures 13 x 70...
This birch bark canoe has a wooden frame painted red and one end decked over. There is a design on the deck and a pad on the bottom of the canoe. The frame is lashed with root and the rims have black and tan check pattern woven on. Measures 13 x 70...
David, Jonathon (maker). Drum: frame of birch wood; sewn with babiche; head varies from 28.5 cm to 30 cm across; frame 6.5 cm deep; drum head of moose or caribou skin; lashed on at back with babiche; handle is forked caribou antler still in...