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,...
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...
Tlingit bear mask carved of wood and painted. Mask is hollowed out with an adze from a single piece of wood. 32 inset shell teeth; abalone pupils. Ears show bear profiles and are each edges with 12 wooden pegs which secure a tuft of dark red-brown...
Descriptive Narrative: Small Chilkat robe. Design is an eagle. Notes: Per Maria Miller 1/12/1987: All yarn in this piece is commercial yarn. The fringe is wool and jute twine. Dimensions: W: 19 5/8 in, H: 22 1/2 x 14 in Accession...
Accession Number: 98-7-213 Description: ivory; carved Descriptive Narrative: Cribbage board carved from a walrus tusk. The tusk sits on a base with freely-turning wheels. Attached to the top side of the tusk are carved sculptures of a man...
Made: Kuskokwim
Description: wood; carved; painted
Descriptive Narrative: A wooden dish carved of one piece with red painted rim. The center is natural wood color with a deer painted in black in the center. He has a human face with a...
Description: smoked moosehide; beaded; glass beads; sewn; sinew
Descriptive Narrative: Three piece smoked moosehide mittens with beaded floral designs on the backs in the finger area and on the back of the thumb. The seams are welted and...
Description: moose hide; smoked; beads; leather; string; sinew; thread; sewn; glass beads
Descriptive Narrative: Pair of round-toed moccasins with large vamp and high ankle flaps, made of smoked moose hide and decorated with spot stitch...
From left to right. Tim Nickoli with the white shirt. John Paine has a piece of bread in his hand. Anecia Olympic is behind John. Neil Shanahand was the teacher, he is sitting next to his wife Kathy. The young child next to Kathy is Trefim Andrew.