Title taken from verso. View of construction workers and bulldozer building pad for Trans-Alaska Pipeline made of styrofoam layer and gravel layer at Pump Station 1, Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Also from verso: "Styrofoam under ly [sic] of 4 feet of...
Title from caption. Photograph of an elderly woman. She is wearing fur clothing and has a pouch on a string around her neck. She is kneeling on a layer of woodchips and appears to be sewing or doing some other handwork. Narrative in photo album...
Title by cataloguer. The Fur Seals are warm blooded. Their thick fur coats keep them warm in the Arctic. Once a year, the Fur Seals shed their fur as well as a layer of blubber under the skin. The Seals also have long sensitive whiskers that...
Album caption: The source of the stream shown in the two preceding pictures. This is a mountain of clear crystal ice, covered with a two or three foot layer of crushed rock and gravel, making what is called a "dirty" glazier. The great volume of...
View of Alaska Department of Highways sign for Wrangell Mountains in Southcentral Alaska. Sign reads: "Alaska Department of Highways. Wrangell Mountains. The mountains as viewed to the east are, left to right: Mt. Sanford, 16,210 feet, 52 miles...
The ball is made from assembled pieces of scraped, bleached and dyed sealskin sewn with sinew and stuffed with caribou hair. The exterior consists of six dark brown main panels: four rectangular central pieces with slightly convex lengths and...
Weyiouanna, Dick (photographer). Video, 2:03 minutes MPG format. In January of 2002, Dick Weyiouanna 19s Inupiat language class explored a Barrow ice cellar, a pit dug into the tundra and owned by whaling captain, Bill Aishanna. Whales give...
Birch bark; folded basket; dark side turned inside; extra layer of birch bark with dark side turned out in between folds of basket on outside; rim and side rods of willow; lashed with spruce root; d - 6 1/4" across or 9cm x 16cm x 13cm
Birch bark; folded basket; dark side turned inside; extra layer of birch bark with dark side turned out in between folds of basket on outside; rim and side rods of willow; lashed with spruce root; b - 4 7/8" across or 6.5cm x 12.5cm x 9.5cm
Birch bark; folded basket; dark side turned inside; extra layer of birch bark with dark side turned out in between folds of basket on outside; rim and side rods of willow; lashed with spruce root; A - 4 1/4" across 5.5cm x 11cm x 7.5cm
Birch bark; folded basket; dark side turned inside; extra layer of birch bark with dark side turned out in between folds of basket on outside; rim and side rods of willow; lashed with spruce root; c - 5 1/2" across or 8cm x 14cm x 11cm
Kobuk-style woven birch bark basket with spruce root lashing around a willow rim. Green thread visible inside basket along sides of base. Spruce root on bottom is reinforced with a second layer of spruce root. 5" or 13 cm diameter across top x 3"...