Title taken from caption. View of a member of the expedition taking time to sew up a hole in his clothes. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, during a National Geographic Society expedition to...
Title taken from caption. Betty Stitch and Babe Postma walking down street in Anchorage, Alaska carrying bags. Also from caption: "Two early friends but not regular USO gals." Sign in photo reads: "Bar and cafe." 1941-1944. Original photograph...
Title from image caption Six Native women sit on dock; moccasins arrayed in front; two of the women stitch moccasins while others observe Photographer's note: No. A128, 519-a, W&S
Putting cover on umiak. After they are sewn together using special waterproof stitch, men will stretch skin cover across wood frame and lash them to it. This unusually large boat requires 7-8 skins. Five women work outside, standing. Now about ten...
Soft-bodied doll with leather facial features in black stitch.
Parka of muskrat belly trimmed with white and black calf
skin in zigzag design with beaver, wolf ruff. Mittens are
commercial leather with mouton tops, mittens have blue,
pink and white...
Descriptive Narrative: 2-pocket wall pocket of seal gut and fabric which is tall and narrow with a conical top and a square bottom. The top panel is of gut with embroidery. Each lower corner has a triangular shaped gut inset with a ribbon welt....
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...