This bow is made from spruce wood, sinew, and shell or horn. Made from one piece of spruce, broad, flat and tapered at ends forming rounded knobs. Its backside is flat with belly side keeled from end to end with a furrowed center on about 3/4 of...
This bow is made from spruce wood, sinew, and shell or horn. Made from one piece of spruce, broad, flat and tapered at ends forming rounded knobs. Its backside is flat with belly side keeled from end to end with a furrowed center on about 3/4 of...
This bow is made from spruce wood, sinew, and shell or horn. Made from one piece of spruce, broad, flat and tapered at ends forming rounded knobs. Its backside is flat with belly side keeled from end to end with a furrowed center on about 3/4 of...
This bow is made from spruce wood, sinew, and shell or horn. Made from one piece of spruce, broad, flat and tapered at ends forming rounded knobs. Its backside is flat with belly side keeled from end to end with a furrowed center on about 3/4 of...
This bow is made from spruce wood, sinew, and shell or horn. Made from one piece of spruce, broad, flat and tapered at ends forming rounded knobs. Its backside is flat with belly side keeled from end to end with a furrowed center on about 3/4 of...
Boots with smoked moosehide sole, commercial unsheared cow, wolf trim, about 3 in. They have a wide band of solid beadwork, flowers with many colors, white background, and orange felt with scalloped top trimmed with beads. The top is blue felt....
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...
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...
Doubled piece of smoked hide with folded "neck" sewn with
d-ring inside. One side has dark brown and light orange
beads in a square shape, other side has solid white beading
with red, heart-shaped flowers with "silver" centers; edging
of doubled...
Doubled piece of smoked hide with folded "neck" sewn with
d-ring inside. One side has dark brown and light orange
beads in a square shape, other side has solid white beading
with red, heart-shaped flowers with "silver" centers; edging
of doubled...
Heavily beaded checkbook cover backed with caribou hide. Cover is a rectangular shape with one curved short end. Folded in thirds, the cover velcros to the front and encases a checkbook, which can be slipped inside the pocket sewn to the backing...
Heavily beaded checkbook cover backed with caribou hide. Cover is a rectangular shape with one curved short end. Folded in thirds, the cover velcros to the front and encases a checkbook, which can be slipped inside the pocket sewn to the backing...
Solid piece of wood; knob handle on top; flared, flat base; stained red; 5" tall; shows much use. Used for mashing up salmon eggs, cranberries, eskimo ice cream etc. "Koch'sin"
Collected in the field for the Modern Alaskan Material Culture...
Made: St. Michael
Descriptive Narrative: A wolf mask with large mouth set with teeth that are carved out of the solid. Slender, toothpick-like whiskers on each side of the mouth, which is painted red. A line from the mouth goes up the center...
Description: metal; copper; leather; moosehide; glass beads
Descriptive Narrative: A) typical Athapaskan knife is made of metal, often native copper by cold hammering. It is made in one piece with a fluted double edged blade. The metal handle...