These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
48 second, color/silent, film clip of people engaged in various forms of handiwork. Women are working with leather, perhaps crimping soles with their teeth. Another woman is sitting on a semi-subterranean building grinding something with a...
This photograph depicts Roxolana (Roxy) Pomeroy in 1978 in the sawmill that she and her husband built at their homestead at Bear Cove on Kachemak Bay on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. She is wearing a face mask and holding a pair of gloves. There...
Title taken from verso. View of mask maker Frank Rulland demonstrating how to make masks from caribou hides in Barrow, Alaska. Also from verso: "Frank Rolland [sic], Anaktuvuk Pass Eskimo, demonstrates the making of masks from caribou hides at...
Title taken from verso. View of mural by James Tapscott inside Elks Lodge in Anchorage, Alaska. Images depicted in mural include airplanes, log cache, totem poles, sled dog, Native mask, Russian Orthodox church, gold panner, locomotive, ship, sea...
Alaska Native mask made at Mekoryuk on Nunivak Island, Alaska, with figures of fish and hand. From information with photo: [Photo used in article entitled] "Nunivak Island Reindeer Story - August 1954. By Howard Kosbau and Ward W. Wells, Anchorage,...
Title taken from information with photo. View of Eskimo whalebone mask made in Point Hope, Alaska. Oct. 4, 1958. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 10" x 8 1/8".
Keithahn instructs a group of school children, using stuffed birds, including a bald eagle and an owl; in the background are a totem pole and panels with Native mask designs
Haida Indians in ceremonial dress at the last traditional ceremony at Klinkwan before evacuation of the village to Hydaburg, c. 1900. Identified as Robert Edenshaw (left), Edwin Scott (third from left, heir to Kadnes or Dogfish House, in front of...
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...
The wooden mask is carved in an elongated oval shape, with a polished smooth surface. The wood is very dark in color. The face shows arching brows and a small ridge running vertically on the forehead from between the eyes to the top of the mask....
This round wood mask (16 x 13 x 5 cm) has arched eyebrows stained darker than the rest of the wood. The left eyebrow curves down to become the nose, which is triangular, with two round nostrils, and slightly flaring nostril arches. The face is...