From verso: "The Aleuts used a light skin boat that greatly resembled the Eskimo kayak but was usually built to carry either two or three people instead of just one."
Title from verso During the last days of the battle of Massacre Bay, several Japanese prisoners were taken. Instead of being killed as the Japanese feared they would be, they were well treated, fed, and provided with candy and cigarettes. Then...
Caption: "An Eskimo dance. . .is done by making all kinds of motions with the arms and keeping time with the feet by stamping to the beating of the Eskimo drums. There [are] always five or more drums in the hands of men being struck with a slender...
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...
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 taken from creator's notes. Photograph of Creamer's Dairy showing several dairy cows and the barn. Notes and captions are from Cecil H. Kornegay 7-5-2000.
In an e-mail dated 21 September 2009, Gary Creamer says that these...
Title taken from text.
Album caption: "Cut-in" pole at junction of Delta loop with main line. The telegraph line between Valdez and Fairbanks carries two wires. As Delta is about 2 1/2 miles off the main line it is necessary to 'loop'...
Ian McRae talks about getting into climbing at a young age in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, deciding to stop playing soccer and go climbing in the High Sierras, learning to climb in the California mountains, his first trip to Alaska trying to climb...
Silook, Susie (artist). Video, 58 seconds MPG format. Susie Silook is a St. Lawrence Island Yupik ivory carver. She began her work by using the whole tusk of the walrus, as she didn't have tools to cut it into small pieces. Instead of the animals...