Title taken from caption. View of a whale bone resting on a rack and part of an umiak on the beach in Kotzebue, Alaska. Photograph taken 07/05/1952. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide.
Title taken from verso. Group of men placing walrus skin boat (umiak) on rack to dry after hunt at Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, with snowmachine pulling sled and another man at left, and buildings in background. April 1969. Photographer:...
Title taken from verso. Andrew Ooseva cutting piece of ivory for umiak, Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. Photographer's number McM 13453. May 1961. Original photograph size: 7" x 5".
Title from album caption. Eskimo boy dressed in western clothing carrying a small pail. Tent community, including an umiak and a dog is visible in background. Taken between 1911 and 1920.
Showing baleen. Whale is being partially butchered (some strips of maktak have been removed) while still in the water, so that it will be lighter and easier to pull up onto the ice. Whaling camp with canvas tent, skin boat (umiak), and hunting...
Man exiting, ice windows, storage rack in background. Structures built by digging snow out of a hole and building the blocks up around it. Contact with walls would wet clothing. Ice visible in the background indicates location is near the ocean....