Title taken from image. Photograph of three Native Alaskans with a catch of king salmon at Nushagak, Alaska. A pair of skin kayaks are elevated behind the fish. Also visible in the photograph are barrels, cut logs, and a portion of Nushagak...
Caption: Just back of the village, on the side of Cape Mountain there are hundreds of pre-historic pits made of hewn granite stones. These pits are six feet long four wide and four deep. The stone facing the sea...
A whale boat captain is seated on a snow bank, behind him is a pole with items hanging from it like chains, a pot, and next to him is another pot and a mitten. The captain is wearing a rain parka made of gut and rain boots, he has a labret in in...
Caption: For twenty-four hours previous to launching the first whale boat, all members of the whaling crews fast, dance and sing of former deeds of bravery at sea.
Caption: Clad in one piece water proof suits two butchers get into a hole cut in the whales stomach and proceed to carve the meat and throw it to the women on the ice on shore.
S.R. Bernardi photographs formerly known as The Gertrude Lusk...