Accession Number: 72-96-16
Description: spruce root; grass; black; orange; blue-green; woven; decorated
Descriptive Narrative: One large Tlingit spruce root basket. Three bands of false embroidery in several different colors of dyed...
Title taken from front. Log root cellar or storage building on Harmon ranch, Matanuska Valley, Alaska. Also from front: "A.E.C. G944." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number G944. Oct. 12, 1918. Photographer: H.G.K. Original...
Hunters pose with a wide variety of game after the second annual hunt in Seward, Alaska. The following men appear in the photograph: Front row from left to right: Elgin Vaughan, George Sexton, Claude Matson, Frank Cotter, Anton Eide, W. R....
Title taken from caption. A large group of Seward, Alaska men pose for a portrait with their hunting trophies. Back row from left to right: Elgin Vaughan, George Sexton, Claude Matson, Frank Cotter, Anton Eide, W.R. McDonald, Herbert Tozier, Sam...
Title from caption. Photograph of a wedding dinner. Caption reads: "The wedding supper of Mr. & Mrs. Peter E. Kern at Skagway Alaska. No 1. The Bride - Mrs. P.E. Kern, No 2. - the groom Mr. P.E. Kern, No. 3 - J.B. Moore (myself) No. 4 -...
39 second film clip, black & white/silent. The clip shows scenes from Chatanika in 1935. Scenes include a man standing in front of a bus identified as Billy Root's, sled dogs in their harnesses and a puppy in training.
The sides are made one piece of shaped wood; 2.375 in. tall; base fitted in; each side has 3 pieces that are 2.375 in. long in ivory; sewn on with baleen; strip of twisted root across container holds sides in; 6 small pieces of ivory 1.375 in. sewn...
Spruce root basket with Cylindrical shape; slight slope; red and dark brown overlay; split spruce root; close twine; 5 in. tall; Blanket Border pattern or Key.
Kobuk-style woven birch bark basket with spruce root lashing around a willow rim. Green thread visible inside basket along sides of base. Spruce root on bottom is reinforced with a second layer of spruce root. 5" or 13 cm diameter across top x 3"...
This photograph depicts Harold Pomeroy and an unidentified boy watching a man in a bulldozer clear land for a root cellar at Harold's homestead at Bear Cove on Kachemak Bay on the Kenai Peninsula, circa 1951-1955. The photograph was likely taken...
Title taken from caption. View of the top of a native potato cellar near Kodiak, Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1915.
The hook is made in two pieces of wood, lashed together with root and a rusty nail lashed on with root and string. The top piece of wood has a figure holding a creature by the legs. This symbolizes the story of Blackskin (see remarks), a man of the...
Alexi, Emma (maker). Wastepaper basket shape with a square base rising to a round mouth; made of a large piece of birchbark with two small pieces inserted and sewn on either side; sewn with spruce root; rim rod of willow; the outer bark is on the...
A wooden triangular dipper where the sides and handle of one piece of wood, steamed, bent, and lashed with spruce root. Wood extends to form handle which terminates in a crane's head with curved beak. Base made from a solid piece of wood, placed...