Description: wood; carved; abalone; inset; painted Descriptive Narrative: Headdress frontlet carved in a close grained hard wood. The slightly rectangular back plaque is convex vertically and concave horizontally. The face of a young woman is...
Title taken from verso. Bags of seal oil stored inside a tent like structure at a sealing camp on Nunivak Island. Original photograph size: 4 x 5 inch.
47 second, black & white/silent, film clip of someone painting and sealing a boat. This is followed by views of boats on Harding Lake including a canoe, a motor boat, a row boat and a sail boat. It is possible that most of these are the same boat...
Title taken from image. Four sailing vessels at anchor in the channel, Sitka. Four two-masted sealing or fishing vessels, and a ferry or steam launch, in front of the Sitka Native village.
A group of men, women, and children on the loading dock of a large building, probably a portion of the sealing industry facilities. Other industrial buildings in the background.