Title taken from label on matting. Figure of people with sled dog team carved from walrus ivory displayed in Nome, Alaska. Also from label: "Nome." Photographer's number 7918. July 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 9 5/8" x...
Title taken from label on matting. Earrings, necklace, and bracelet carved from mastodon ivory displayed in Nome, Alaska. Photographer's number 7930. July 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 8 1/8" x 9 7/8".
Title taken from label on matting. Ivory and walrus tusk bookends with figures of whales carved at Saint Lawrence Island, on display in Juneau, Alaska. Photographer's number 8318. 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 8 1/8" x...
Title taken from label on matting. Three ashtrays with animal figures carved from ivory by Eskimo carvers in Saint Lawrence, Alaska, on display in Juneau. Also from label: "Dog, $7.75; penguin (etched), $7.50; sea parrot [puffin], $6.50. 1938."...
Title from verso. Eskimo carver - - Using a hand-fashioned drill "powered" by bow and leather tong device, and Alaska Eskimo carves figures of rare elegance from chinks of bare ivory.
Attached: Andrew Ningealook, President of the Ki-Kat-Ta-Muet Cooperative at Shismaref, an Eskimo community located on the Seward Peninsula, shows how he carves ivory at the 3rd annual Cooperative Crafts Exhibit - an October Co-op Month event held...
(A) Woman's sewing kit made with a hollowed-out bone and bleached sealskin. At the end is a polar bear head made from mineralized walrus ivory. This secures the bleached sealskin, which is folded lengthwise and slides through the bone. A hole is...
(A) Woman's sewing kit made with a hollowed-out bone and bleached sealskin. At the end is a polar bear head made from mineralized walrus ivory. This secures the bleached sealskin, which is folded lengthwise and slides through the bone. A hole is...
Simeonoff, Jacob (artist). This bentwood visor has a decorative painted surface. The visor has an open-crown design, a long squared-off front, and two overlapping pieces at the nape that are stitched together with imitation sinew and reinforced...
Material: Ivory Human head, 6cm in size with broad cheeks, carved nose and mouth, drilled holes for eyes, incised lines between eyebrows and for eyebrows, and drilled holes for nostrils. Object is broken off at neck, the ivory fractured on back of...
Material: Ivory Ivory head. Large round hole through neck into head; face shows many tattoo marks; eye slits deep, narrow; nose unformed, nostrils indicated by shallow drill holes; slit for mouth rather deep; face part dark brown, top of head...