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...
"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...
A: made from a cut-down one gallon Mazola oil tin; wooden handle added on back; wooden backing with all wooden teeth attached to back of tin; used; 5" x 4 1/2" x 7 1/2".
Accession Number: 431 a
Description: wood; carved
Found: Valdez
Descriptive Narrative: Carved wood spoon. Bowl and most the back is "natural" or light tan color. Red pigment has been painted onto the bowls rim, handle and on the...
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,...
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.
Large wooden shield-shaped mask with a round face in the center with pegged teeth. Several fish protrude through the shield of the mask. "No. 1" is written in pen on the back of mask. Blue, red and white pigment are used on the surface.¬ulture:...
Made: St. Michael
Descriptive Narrative: A wolf mask with large mouth set with teeth that are carved out of the solid. Slender, toothpick-like whiskers on each side of the mouth, which is painted red. A line from the mouth goes up the center...
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...
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....
Schoppert, James (artist). Size: 35 x 23 x 10 in. Medium: Wood, walrus, gut, feathers, paint Description: Stylized bird figure with face and human legs, attached to drum; drum made of walrus stomach stretched and tied to wooden frame with blue...
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...