Title from margin notes. Photograph shows a person in a parka being thrown in the air during a blanket toss. A banner in the background reads "Alaskan Dogmushers, Start, Finish"
Three minute, color/silent film clip of the 1959 Fur Rendezvous in Anchorage. Images include a fur auction, dog sled weight pull, blanket toss, people posing in wooden cut-out paintings, and a merry-go-round.
Photograph shows a person flying in mid air. The blanket tossers are looking up, ready to catch the person being tossed. A large number of spectators line the roof of a nearby building and surround the blanket tossers on the ground. Some spectators...
Title taken from verso. View of ceremonies involving blanket toss (nalukataq), Point Barrow, Alaska. Also from verso: "Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society. Picnic, dances and blanket tossing." June 1921. Photographer: Arthur H. Eide. Original...
View of woman being tossed into the air during blanket toss, possibly in Kotzebue, Alaska. Photographer: Frank Whaley. Original photograph size: 10" x 8".
Caption: "Each man that catches a whale [has] to give what they call a skin dance. A blanket of skins is stretched like in the picture and held by as many persons can get around it, then a person goes in and is tossed up in the air until he is...
Flag of successful whaling crew being flown at left. Women are all well dressed. There is very little trimming on the snow shirts. The woman jumping is wearing leggings with attached feet made out of denim or cloth. In winter these leggings were...
This color slide depicts several unidentified Alaska Native women in either Kotzebue or Barrow, Alaska, watching a blanket toss. The three women in the foreground are wearing kuspuks with fur-trimmed hoods. One woman wears a scarf over her head....
Title taken from album caption. A woman in a parka floats elegantly over the heads of the spectators. Probably part of a Fourth of July celebration in Nome.