Title taken from caption. Caption also says: "A section of the bank of one of the craters in Knife Creek Valley, showing the fan shaped stratification due to the fall of detritus around the edge of the crater. The strata of Katmai ash at the base...
Description: metal; copper; leather; moosehide; glass beads
Descriptive Narrative: A) typical Athapaskan knife is made of metal, often native copper by cold hammering. It is made in one piece with a fluted double edged blade. The metal handle...
This steel knife was ground down from filing. The split and coiled handle is wrapped in cloth and sinew (9.75 in. long). The sheath is of moosehide, beaver fur, dentalia shells, and blue, yellow and red trade beads. The shoulder strap is dentalia,...
Title taken from caption. View of Knife Peak near the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. It was later renamed Mount Griggs for Dr. Robert Fisk Griggs (1881-1962), botanist, whose explorations of the area, after the eruption of Mount Katmai in 1912,...
Title taken from label on matting. View of men castrating reindeer with knife in corral at Lomen Reindeer Corporation reindeer processing plant in Golovin, Alaska. Photographer's number 7911. July 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original...
Title taken from label on matting. View of workers castrating reindeer with knife in corral at Lomen Reindeer Corporation reindeer processing plant in Golovin, Alaska. Photographer's number 7910. July 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original...
This knife has a bone handle and steel blade attached with two brass bolts and a piece of wood inserted under root lashing for better grip. Measures 9.5 in. long.
Steel blade from a saw blade; 2 screw holes; antler handle much stained and polished from use; held on with wooden peg inserted through top of handle. Blade is 8 3/4". Ulu is 5 3/8" x 8 3/4".
Title from caption. Photograph of Mrs. Pitka preparing a moose hide. Narrative in photo album reads: "Below. Mrs. Pitka working at tanning a moose hide. She is using a dull knife to remove pieces of flesh from the skin."
Title from donor notes. Photograph of Dinah Frankson sitting on the roof of a house. It appears that she is cutting or guarding dry meat. She is holding an ulu or woman's knife.
Title taken from caption. Man apparently killing a bear with a knife while another man, in the distance, aims a gun at the bear. [Compare with UAF-1959-866-1 and UAF-1959-866-55.] Caption in album reads: "35 mm neg. 75-750". 5 x 8 cyanotype...
Title taken from caption: "Sayre taking soil sample on Katmai ash flat." View of National Geographic expedition member Jasper Dean Sayre using small torch and knife to take soil samples. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National...
Title taken from caption. View of a woman dressing a salmon and preparing it for drying at Naknek, Alaska. Caption also says: "Native woman dressing salmon. Note the chopping knife used for the purpose." Photo taken during National Geographic...
Title taken from caption. View of a man, a woman, and three children at Naknek, Alaska. The woman is dressing salmon for drying and there is a pile of prepared salmon in the center of the photo. Caption also says: "Native woman dressing salmon....
Title taken from caption. View of a woman dressing a salmon and preparing it for drying at Naknek, Alaska. Caption also says: "Native woman dressing salmon. Note the chopping knife used for the purpose." Photo taken during National Geographic...
Title taken from verso. Close up photograph of two older Inupiat women eating muktuk. The woman on the left is in a fur trimmed parka. Verso: "Muktuk Eating Contest (Seal or whale blubber after a sort of pickling process - the pink is the blubber -...