Title by cataloguer. In this picture two musk oxen can be seen huddled together in the cold, their nose and mouths are frosted with snow. These stocky animals are found in Alaska and other northern regions. They have short legs and long shaggy,...
Title by cataloguer. This is a photograph of a Walrus swiming in the bay. The walrus defining feature is the protruding tusk which extends downward from the mouth; they have thick wrinkled skin, often with little hair in older animals. They...
Title by cataloguer. In this view a group of walruses are hiddeled together on the beach. The walrus defining feature is the protruding tusk which extends downward from the mouth; they have thick wrinkled skin, often with little hair in older...
Title by cataloger. A shoulder-length portrait of an elderly woman with tousled hair and a scarf around her neck. Please see identical image at UAF-1989-166-136.
Title from accompanying material. Captions read "Venice" and "June 20 '09." A boy and a girl lean against what may be a pylon or a pier support. Behind them may be a wall or a studio backdrop. Compare to UAF-2003-174-40.
Title from accompanying notes. A man in a dark suit, a derby hat, and leather shoes is conversing with a group of three Native children, while two other men look on. The conversation is happening in front of a log home, and there is laundry...
Title taken from caption. Aerial view of hair seals on beach and in water at Port Heiden, Alaska. Also from caption: "Port Heiden, AK." Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. Photographer: Robert Fortuine.
Title taken from verso. Walter Dyakanoff gutting a hair seal, Eider Point, Unalaska Island, Alaska, with his dog Butch. Also from verso: "Unalaska. 1950s at Eider Point." 1950's. Photographer: Ted Bank. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
(L. to r.): Cora Ungarook (15 or 16 years old, Spriggs married Cora and Andy Ungarook in 1908), Mary Ahkivgak (Otis Ahkivgak's wife), Alice Ahmaogak (Roy Ahmaogak's first wife). The girls wear dresses and hair ribbons typical of this time. Dresses...
The ball is made from assembled pieces of scraped, bleached and dyed sealskin sewn with sinew and stuffed with caribou hair. The exterior consists of six dark brown main panels: four rectangular central pieces with slightly convex lengths and...
Florence (maker). The top part of this sealskin hassock is of bleached sealskin with four beadwork butterflies, one in each corner; done in several colors. It carries a strap of bleached seal hide sewn tight against one side. All sides are furred...
Florence (maker). The top part of this sealskin hassock is of bleached sealskin with four beadwork butterflies, one in each corner; done in several colors. It carries a strap of bleached seal hide sewn tight against one side. All sides are furred...
Alexander, Selina (artist). Video, 1minute MPG format. Selina Alexander is an Athabascan who grew up along the Yukon River between Ruby and Galena and now lives in North Pole. She learned beading and skin sewing from her mother, grandmother, and...
High-knee caribou boots with a strip of beaver fur along the
top of the boots. These boots have soft soles probably
caribou skin. The draw string at the top of the boots is
probably caribou skin with blue and white yarn ends. There
are two strips...
Ordinary brown plastic hair combs - prongs are doubled and join together at a point; top of comb covered with hide and beaded. Three rows of seed beads in the following pattern: turquoise, clear, gold, single long blue, one clear, one turquoise,...