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...
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
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....
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.
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...
A large, intricately designed screen, with an oval opening behind which regalia and treasures were stored; [S’igeidí X’een (Beaver Screen) made for Took’ka Hít (Needlefish House) and S’igeidi Hít (Beaver House) of the Deisheetaan in...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute and 34 seconds, MPG-1 format. It is time to break camp and haul the gear down to the beach. The tents and tarps are folded for the journey back to...
Weyiouanna, Dick (photographer). Video, 2:03 minutes MPG format. In January of 2002, Dick Weyiouanna 19s Inupiat language class explored a Barrow ice cellar, a pit dug into the tundra and owned by whaling captain, Bill Aishanna. Whales give...
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...
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...
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.