Klukwan cemetery with eight grave houses, one with frog totem decorations. According to Louis Shotridge’s notes, this was designed and carved by a Dakl’aweidí carver named Naakushtáa. The same carver made the screen and houseposts inside the...
Portrait of man wearing fur cape and carved amulet necklace, holding raven rattle; [George Jim, Sr., of Angoon (1901-1997) identified this man as his paternal grandfather, Berner’s Bay Jim (Aanxudaas, Dl’oogudzees), of the Wooshkeetaan clan of...
Portrait of Ano-Thlosh (Aanyálahaash) Gaanax.adi clan, Ishka hit (Ishitaan) house, T'aaku Kwaan, in Chilkat blanket and headdress. Photographer's number 120-N.
Title and identification courtesy of Harold Jacobs. During the 1920's, many of the original totem poles in Kake were burned. After many years of not having totem poles, the residents of Kake, Alaska organized to acquire and place a 132-foot...
Title and identification courtesy of Harold Jacobs. During the 1920's, many of the original totem poles in Kake were burned. After many years of not having totem poles, the residents of Kake, Alaska organized to acquire and place a 132-foot pole...
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...
Title from image. Haida Indians in ceremonial dress at the last traditional ceremony at Klinkwan before evacuation of the village to Hydaburg, ca. 1900. Identified as Robert Edenshaw (left), Edwin Scott (third from left, heir to Kadnes or...
Robert Edenshaw leading dancers (left), Matthew Collison (holding carved fish), Edwin Scott (fourth from left), Hugo Cogo (seventh from left), Ben Duncan, Mike George, ca. 1900.
Accompanying notes: Could be Mr. and Mrs. Herman Gartterman and Son Herman Jr. from Koggiung, AK on Kuichak River, 18 miles West of Naknek. Mrs. Gotteman's maiden name was Anna Larson - she was from Nushagak.
The house in the background was owned by Steven and Catherine Attla. Dogs were a very important part of the town economy. Huslia's racers, starting with Jimmy Huntington became a real force in Alaska dog racing both in Fairbanks and Anchorage....
The warm dog food will be cooked on the outdoor Yukon woodstove. Note the half log house below and the canvas above that was home for beaver season. Title and description courtesy of Mrs. Keller.