Title from caption. Photograph of Young Adam, his wife and children standing outside of a cabin. Cora Rivenburg may be seen off to the right side of the photo. Narrative in the photo album reads: "Young Adam, wife and some of his children. He...
Title from caption. Photograph of a woman standing on what may be a moose hide as she prepares it for smoking. Narrative from photo album reads: "Here is Mrs. Luke working on a moose skin. It has stood for days in a a stinking mess of rotten...
Title from caption. Photograph of three children with a field behind them. Narrative in photo album reads: "At left and right are three of Young Adam's children. His was a very large family. He was industrious, a good worker, hunter and...
Title from caption. Photograph of three children with a fence and log building behind them. Narrative in photo album reads: "At left and right are three of Young Adam's children. His was a very large family. He was industrious, a good...
Narrative in photo album reads: "At the left and below are two of Mr. Shultz's pictures of the same canoe shown on the opposite page. "Mrs. Albert, Mrs. Luke and Mrs. Jennie Pitka working on a canoe in a little dry slough just back of the...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of Mrs. Albert, Mrs. Luke and Mrs. Jennie Pitka helping in the construction of a birch-bark canoe. Also visible is another canoe being worked on by a man and a child being held by one of the women. Narrative in...
Title from caption. Photograph of a man at a sewing machine outside a log building. Narrative in photo album reads: "Above is John Dummy doing some repairing before starting on a hunting trip. His wife, the nice 'Old Eliza,' and he did not...
Title from caption. Photograph of Robert Theodore . Narrative in photo album reads: "Robert Theodore who was one of my brightest boys. Full of mischief, he was a good worker, and a good pupil."
Title from caption. Also captioned with number "D46". Photograph shows a woman working on an overturned boat on a riverbank. In the background sits what may be a fish camp.
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."
19 second film clip, color/silent, of a reindeer roundup on Nunivak Island, 1958-1967. It appears that men and women work together and use a long piece of material to herd the reindeer into the corral. Then two men wrestle a reindeer to the...
Title from donor notes. Additional donor notes read: "Charlie Ayapana, a Little Diomede man married to a Point Hope woman, was by far the most skilled ivory-carver in town." A small child is peeking around the corner, watching the work.
Title from donor notes. Full donor notes read: "Jim VanStone making an oil-drum stove for his rented house (w/oversight by Bernard Nash)." The men appear to be in a workshop and tools can be seen hanging on the wall.
Title from donor notes. Additional donor notes read: "The jeep got a lot of summer use, even [left center] when the engine didn't work. The younger male Point Hopers who had been away from the village were enthusiastic but inexpert drivers. ...
(2:12 min.) (12 of 12) Final comments for the record -- proud of Alaska; working within the government; obtained Statehood -- without revolution; Alaska -- finest state in the Union; delegates -- thinking of the future; resources -- Natives;...
Title from donor notes. Photograph of men preparing one of the church buildings related to the St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Point Hope, Alaska, for moving.