Lane, Lennie (maker). A wooden stool with composite seal hook equipment. The wooden stool has 3 legs approximately 7.5 in.) and the seat is triangular (approximately 12 in. on each side). There is a small triangle cut into the seat 1.5 in. into...
Lane, Lennie (maker). A wooden stool with composite seal hook equipment. The wooden stool has 3 legs approximately 7.5 in.) and the seat is triangular (approximately 12 in. on each side). There is a small triangle cut into the seat 1.5 in. into...
Title taken from verso. View of Willow Creek near Fish Hook Inn in southcentral Alaska. Also from verso: "Sept 22, 1936." Photographer: Almer J. Peterson.
The hook is made in two pieces of wood, lashed together with root and a rusty nail lashed on with root and string. The top piece of wood has a figure holding a creature by the legs. This symbolizes the story of Blackskin (see remarks), a man of the...
Semi-lunar shaped pin with hook on back so that a watch can be attached; all gold; made in Nome; "OME" stamped on back; small gold nuggets soldered on front and semi-lunar shaped piece of ivory inset; 1-1/2 in. wide and 1-1/2 in. tall including...
Men getting ready to hook up a team of horses to a loaded wagon in front of the Frye-Bruhn building in Seward, Alaska. Sign on building reads: "Frye-Bru[hn]." 1906-1912? Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original size of photograph: 5 1/2" x 3 1/2".
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
35 second, color/silent, film clip of a whale hunt, 1951-1959. The men look for whales with the aid of a telescope, shoot a small white whale, pull it to shore with some type of grappling hook, and eventually pull it onto shore with ropes. A...
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.
Title taken from verso. Men at whaling station cutting up sperm whale, Akutan, Alaska. From information with photo: "A modern whaling station in the Aleutians. Now taken over yb [sic] the Army. This was a Norwegian whaling station. (not active). #4...
Eskimo hunter wearing fur parka standing next to kayak with seal and harpoon, near Nome, Alaska. From verso: "Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society. He took the seal home in the back of his "kayak". Chapter 10, page 69, par[agraph] 3. Here are...
Title taken from label on matting. Reindeer Committee member Frank Reeds holds reindeer antlers covered with velvet at Lomen Reindeer Corporation reindeer processing plant corral in Golovin, Alaska. Reindeer carcasses hang from hook on racks in...
Title taken from label on matting. View of Eskimo woman skinning reindeer fawn hanging from hook on rack at Lomen Reindeer Corporation reindeer processing plant corral in Golovin, Alaska, with skinned fawn hanging alongside and people in...
Group of ivory carvings made at Nunivak Island, Alaska, including figurines (one of walrus), letter openers decorated with seal figures, and crochet hook decorated with fish figure. From information with photo: [Photo used in article entitled]...
Man with reindeer carcass hanging on hook on conveyor belt being taken to skinning room at U.S. Government Reindeer Project complex in Mekoryuk on Nunivak Island, Alaska. Other men are in background, and children and others are standing by fence at...
Title taken from label on front. View of Tanana River ice cutting into Alaska Engineering Commission dock during ice breakup at Nenana, Alaska, after breaking on May 11, 1921, at 6:42 a.m. Hook from hoisting machinery visible at top of photo. Also...
Title taken from label on front. View of heavy ice breakup on Tanana River at Alaska Engineering Commission dock in Nenana, Alaska on May 11, 1921 at 6:42 a.m. Men stand on railroad tracks on dock and hoisting machinery with hook visible in right...