The collection consists of 42 photographs and brief descriptions, taken during an archaeological dig in Fairbanks. Photographs depict fossils, artifacts, rock and soil formations, gold mining operations and equipment, and landscapes. Persons...
"Hand operated steel cable ferry, constructed by O. & S. to span the 70 Mile River when the waters were too high for fording. It was located at a point called 'Nimrod Bar.' Nimrod worked for O. & S. at Crooked Creek, but had also worked his own...
Title taken from label on matting. S.M. Johnson, assistant paleontologist at University of Alaska Fairbanks, holds part of bison skull, with teeth displayed in foreground, near Fairbanks, Alaska. Also from label: "(Temp. 51)." Photographer's number...
Title taken from label on matting. Three necklaces carved from walrus tooth and tusks displayed in Nome, Alaska. Photographer's number 7927. July 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 10" x 8 1/8".
Title taken from label on matting. Four bracelets carved from walrus tooth and tusks and mastodon ivory displayed in Nome, Alaska. Photographer's number 7929. July 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 10" x 8 1/8".
One of the original mask of caribou hide stitched together like patchwork. Ear and nose attached. Teeth attached in open mouth; 8 each in upper and lower "jaw"; mustache beard of white hair. Eyebrows/lashes formed by out-turned, hair-side of skin....
B: Made from piece of metal (oil, gas can?) with metal handle already attached; folded around two side pieces of wood; l2 teeth of wire with blunt tips; bracing at base and at top, near tips of teeth; used; 3" x 4 3/4" x 7 3/4"; made by Ed Mersen,...
Caption: Commercial whale bone is suspended from the upper jaw bone of the whale instead of teeth this whale had #10,600 worth of bone - five men stood abreast between its jaws. The longest...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of two women sewing bark on a birch bark canoe. Narrative in the photo album reads: "Next as shown below, the women sew the pieces of birch together, sewing over and over. For thread they use the small roots of...
48 second, color/silent, film clip of people engaged in various forms of handiwork. Women are working with leather, perhaps crimping soles with their teeth. Another woman is sitting on a semi-subterranean building grinding something with a...
Title from verso. "Leumuel G. Wingard, Bureau of Fisheries agent for Alaska, arrives by air on an emergency trip to Bristol Bay, Alaska- 1937." Wingard, sitting on a pontoon, seems to have a cigar between his teeth. Wingard is identified...
Title taken from caption. Image of artifacts described by May as knives, scrapers, drills and points of green-stone as well as whale teeth, alws, and a foreshaft. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition...
Title taken from caption. View of three boys about to start a round of string chewing. Each player is given a string and instructed to hold the end of the string in his teeth with the string hanging down in front of him. At the signal, he must...
Title taken from caption. View of a group of boys and their supporters about to start a round of string chewing. Each player is given a string and instructed to hold the end of the string in his teeth with the string hanging down in front of him....
Third volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 15, 1917-May 18, 1917. [97] pages ; 15 cm.
Title taken from verso. Eskimo woman and child fishing for spider crab, near Nome, Alaska. From verso of original photo: "A close view of an Eskimo woman fishing for spider crabs. Her boots - the wrinkles [on the edges of her boots] are bit with...