This dipper is carved of sheep horn (5.75 in. long x 4 in. across). The low sides curve up to form a sea bird head on one end and a wide, flat tail on the other end. This was used as an oil dipper at feasts.
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 54 seconds, MPG-1 format. The campers are setting up the cook tent by making some ice water and beginning the cooking. Charise Hallberg and Fannie Akpik...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute and 6 seconds, MPG-1 format. Jana Harchauk (Nagruk) explains and photographs the plants that are on the tundra as some campers are on a hike. Many...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute and 43 seconds, MPG-1 format. The crew butchers the seal. A cut is carefully made through the sternum and ribcage. The ribs are good to eat; the...
Mohatt, Robby (artist). Painting: oil on paper. Signed lower right, dated and titled verso. Size: 28.5 x 20.75 cm. Gift of Aldona Jonaitis December 1, 2000.
Sparacino, Diana (artist). Mixed media painting on canvas. Abstract. This piece is a mixed media oil painting: objects affixed include mosquitoes, wire screen, and paper cuttings. Dated and Signed, Verso. Size: 19.25 x 21.75 in. Ms. Sparacino...
Brody, A.W. (Bill) (Artist). Oil and alkyd on canvas painting. Mountains on left and right with stony outcrops. Blue sky with boiling white clouds. Foreground alpine meadow in yellows and light green with patches of wild flowers. Signed and...
Wooden scoop with short, thick handle and wide, deep bowl part; used for scooping or knocking berried into a birch bark basket. Wood; stained red; used; oil stain in bowl; smells of smoke; 11 1/2" long 0 bowl is 5 5/8" x 6 3/4". Same type of...
A: made from a cut-down one gallon Mazola oil tin; wooden handle added on back; wooden backing with all wooden teeth attached to back of tin; used; 5" x 4 1/2" x 7 1/2".
B: Made from piece of metal (oil, gas can?) with metal handle already attached; folded around two side pieces of wood; l2 teeth of wire with blunt tips; bracing at base and at top, near tips of teeth; used; 3" x 4 3/4" x 7 3/4"; made by Ed Mersen,...
Descriptive Narrative: A lamp of granite, oval with raised rim 1" wide and 3/4" deep. Broken completely through center. Old Num: XIII.12 Notes: reference: p. 5 Quimby. 1944 Chicago Natural History Museum, Anthropology Leaflet.
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Moody's Fuel barge docked up in Igiugig. Moody's barge wasonw of the few barges that delivered fuel oil and gasoline and other goodies to communities when the water in the Kvichak river was high.
"Looking west from the village we see the school. The large building is the high school. On its left is the teacher's house. To the right is the elementary school. Farther to the right are the powerhouse (generator), and the oil tanks. Left...