Title taken from caption on slide. "Sewing woman's carrying bag for Salmon berry picking." [See also UAF-1966-80-6. "Yaiyuk" is also spelled "Yiyuk" in this collection.]
Basket made of willow and with single rod coiling. Is small
and round with a slight constriction at the rim. Has small
designs that consist of three parallel vertical lines which are
done in colored wool or sewing thread, in a variety of
colors. 6...
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...
Title taken from the back of photograph. "The dried intestines are carefully slit, and then sewed together in strips to make a raincoat like our oiled-silk ones". Property of Dorothea Leighton, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore MD.
(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...
Group portrait of five girls wearing dresses. From verso: "School girls wearing the dresses made in their sewing classes, 1924, White Mountain, Alaska."
Title taken from caption. Portrait of a young girl sewing a garment on a sewing machine, probably in the schoolhouse in Savoonga, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. 1938-1941. Original photograph size: 3 1/4" x 4 1/2".
Title taken from information with photo. Robert Paneak using Singer sewing machine in Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska, with scale and canned goods on shelf in background. Also from information with photo: "Man with Singer portable sewing machine. (Auntie...