Title taken from donor's caption. "At Tonsina 90 miles from Valdez. The spot we selected for our camp was in a small grove of spruce trees at the head of a deep valley where two glaciers came down out of the towering mountains. We built a large...
Title taken from the back of the photograph. Dried meat and blubber are stored in " meat cellars " in the ground. This woman is climbing down to get some meat for her dogs. " Property of Dorothea Leighton, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore MD.
Title taken from label on matting. View of barrels stored in space between cold storage rooms and outer wall of cold storage building at Williams reindeer processing plant in Saint Michael, Alaska. Photographer's number 7873. July 1938....
Andrew and Dolly Gust's old food cache which they stored dried fish and frozen meat in. The cache was used before freezers were introduced to the Bristol Bay region.
Verso: Building on left store (also stored items there), now gone. Machine shop on right where Peter Warner keeps & repairs boats now. Bunkhouses in back.
A large, intricately designed screen, with an oval opening behind which regalia and treasures were stored; [S’igeidà X’een (Beaver Screen) made for Took’ka HÃt (Needlefish House) and S’igeidi HÃt (Beaver House) of the Deisheetaan in...
Title from image caption Interior view of long, narrow, cold storage room with wooden floors ; various items are stored along both sides, including animal skins, snowshoes, mukluks, harnesses, and containers Photographer's number 128
Woman demonstrates butchering method or skins a reindeer while others watch. Bag on ground behind her may be made from a whole sealskin (poke). Caribou meat was stored in sealskin pokes. Person in foreground at left is wearing a squirrel skin...
Kayak frame and willow tent poles are stored on rack. These racks were used to hang caribou skins on for drying in the sun, and to store food on in the winter to keep it away from the dogs. Occasionally polar bears were still able to get into the...
Title from image caption Exterior view of building entrance Full caption continues: "One of the oldest buildings in Alaska, situate on the lot acquired by the Government for Capitol site and paid for, in part, by the citizens of Juneau....
Title taken from image. Near Fifth and Main Streets; originally from the Russian vessel POLITOFSKY it was sent to the Alaska Territorial Museum in the 1920's, then to the Governor's Mansion in 1929 and later when Calhoun Avenue was widened, it was...
Accession Number: 98-7-213 Description: ivory; carved Descriptive Narrative: Cribbage board carved from a walrus tusk. The tusk sits on a base with freely-turning wheels. Attached to the top side of the tusk are carved sculptures of a man...
Title by indexer. Verso reads: "1-. 30. Galena, Alaska." Image shows two men unloading oil barrels from a military flat bed truck at a yard where several oil or waste barrels are stored. Another man can be seen in the driver's seat of the...
The entire collection contains reports, correspondence, pamphlets, and administrative records received from the agricultural stations at Matanuska, Fairbanks, and Petersburg. The papers address such topics as environmental data, Alaskan flora,...
Birch bark over frame - 14' long with one end decked over with bark (23" w x 46 1/4 long); sewn with spruce root and seamed with spruce pitch; paddle of birch 68" long - lashed to 2 of 5 crosspieces. Piece of bark 33 1/2" x 15 3/4" lashed down for...