(A) Woman's sewing kit made with a hollowed-out bone and bleached sealskin. At the end is a polar bear head made from mineralized walrus ivory. This secures the bleached sealskin, which is folded lengthwise and slides through the bone. A hole is...
(A) Woman's sewing kit made with a hollowed-out bone and bleached sealskin. At the end is a polar bear head made from mineralized walrus ivory. This secures the bleached sealskin, which is folded lengthwise and slides through the bone. A hole is...
Made of bone; tapered at both ends with an eye in the middle; used for making snowshoe webbing. Around the eye there are grooves on either end, on both sides of the piece, which extend out 1cm on either side of the eye in the same direction as the...
Photo montage of three photographs showing contestants in footraces during 4th of July celebrations in Ruby, Alaska. Text on top photo reads: "Start needle & thread race. Ruby, Alaska. July 4, 1917." Text on middle photo reads: "Three-legged race....
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a little boy sitting at a sewing machine. A blackboard behind him reads "Sew the sleeves on the shirt. The shirt is made of calico. [?] any buttons? [?] machine needle."
Two photographs on one backing (top) needle & thread race with Ruby Kelly fifth from left crouching and (bottom) three legged race 2nd person left to right Tom DeVane, and the third pair is A. Verhonick and Ruby Kelly. Both photographs are of...