The notebook is a diary of a young Inupiat school girl named Alva Nashoalook, who relates events in her daily life in Icy Cape. The dates given are June [27], 1912 through April 1, 1913 Subjects include walrus and seal hunting, trapping, reindeer,...
Title taken from image. Sitka Native village ("The Ranche") looking south from the waterfront, with the channel towards Japonski Island on the right. Showing Tlingit houses, outbuildings, subsistence food drying racks, and spruce canoes, with...
Photograph shows men wearing kuspuks with fur around the hoods, mukluks, and other winter garb pulling a whale up out of the water and over the snow and ice. There is a low boat on the shore to the right of the...