Wright, Parascovia L. (artist). Twined grass, extra weaver on base and lid, knob in Attu style; basket has two staggered lines of blue thread; between lines is rose on opposite sides, one pink, one red, both with green leaves; lid has one open...
Material: Ivory Realistic human head, overly oblong and slightly pointed at top. The face is fully carved including eyes, nose, mouth, small ears on sides, and tattoo lines on forehead, cheeks and chin. Object is broken at neck. Drilled hole at...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute and 32 seconds, MPG-1 format. The crew butchers the seal. One has to remove the excess blood into a container. Vernon Brower (Pauyuueraq) helps...
Hoover, John (artist). Sculpture: wood, brass, paint. Oval shaped wooden wall-hanging mask with hinged sides that open and close. The hinged portions are in the form of salmon. When open, four salmon surround the female face. The salmon are grey...
Hoover, John (artist). Sculpture: wood, brass, paint. Oval shaped wooden wall-hanging mask with hinged sides that open and close. The hinged portions are in the form of salmon. When open, four salmon surround the female face. The salmon are grey...
Small, cylindrical spruce root basket with slightly sloping sides, sized: 15-1/2 x 4-1/2 in. Intwined and overlay several colors. Close twine with bottom alternate check and close twine. The butterfly (Klaythl-thlu) design is used around basket...
High-knee caribou boots with a strip of beaver fur along the
top of the boots. These boots have soft soles probably
caribou skin. The draw string at the top of the boots is
probably caribou skin with blue and white yarn ends. There
are two strips...
Ordinary brown plastic hair combs - prongs are doubled and join together at a point; top of comb covered with hide and beaded. Three rows of seed beads in the following pattern: turquoise, clear, gold, single long blue, one clear, one turquoise,...
Large birch bark container with handle; 9 1/2" tall; sealskin strap handle attached at sides; sealskin patches at pressure points on bottom; tear mended with sinew; shows use; dirty.
Written in pencil on side: "Merry Xmas to Olive Glover(?)...
Large, folded birch bark container found floating in the Ambler River. Willow rim rods and lashing of spruce root, and a rope, possibly cotton, tied along one of the long sides of the basket, possibly a handle. 20cm x 40cm x 28cm.
Round birch bark basket made with the woven technique, light and dark-colored bark placed diagonally along the sides, alternating direction creating a woven look. Lashed along the top and bottom edges with willow, which is wrapped in spruce root....
Round birch bark basket, made with strips of birch bark, woven together along the sides. The walls of the basket are formed by placing the bark in diagonal strips, with the light side going in one direction, the dark in the opposite, and weaving...
Folded birch bark basket with unstripped willow trim and side reinforcement and spruce root stitching. Bark panels showing dark interior bark surface have been attached to exterior surface of bakset, which show the pale exterior bark surface,...
Modern type made for sale; birch strips reversed and alternated for sides; flared; willow rim rods top and base; sewn with spruce root. Measures 11 x 21 cm.
Collected in the field for the Modern Alaskan Material Culture Project undertaken by...
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"...
Caribou fur and wolf mukluk and leggings. Length 89 cm., Soles and sides of boot are composed of caribou with fur towards the inside. Lower legs are caribou with fur towards the outside. Upper legs and leggings are wolf with fur towards the...
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...
The purse is made of white caribou or buckskin and lined with blue cloth. The outside has black velvet both sides; one side has beaded floral design and fringe all the way around. The top edging has beads and fringe trim. The drawstring is made of...
This twined grass basket with lid (11.9 cm x 9.9 cm) has sides embroidered with blue thread in zigzag pattern and in pink flowers with green leaves. The lid has three rows of zigzag with blue, pink, and blue again. The basket is very well made.
Description: wool; brass; braid; piping; serge; cotton; silk; ribbon Used: Chief Kowee; Kaawa.ee Descriptive Narrative: a). Jacket - navy blue wool, double breasted, w/row of 7 brass navy type buttons & 7 buttonholes up each side of the...