Title taken from caption. View of Alan May on a beach surrounded by whale bones. There is a wheelbarrow in the background. Photograph taken during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Full title: Personal Author: Solomon, Madeline, 1905- Title: Dotson' sa Taaleebaay Laatlghaan = How the raven killed the whale / Madeline Solomon yugh noholnigee ant'aago k'adontsidnee ; Eliza Jones halda neeydinaatldik. Publication:...
Title taken from caption. View of a beluga whale tied to a boat after a successful whaling hunt near Kotzebue, Alaska. Photograph taken July 5, 1952. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide.
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. Whaling captain Amos Lane, wearing fur parka, stands next to bowhead whale jawbone at Point Hope, Alaska, with group of people and boat in background. Also from verso: "Point Hope whaling captain standing by the jaw bone of...
Title taken from verso. Group of people standing with whale baleen at Point Barrow, Alaska. Also from verso: [beginning back row, second person from left], "l[eft to] r[ight], Margaret Pausanna Brower, Esther Aiken, Rose Aiken." 1960's?...
Title from image. Tlingit artist, Billy Webster, painting a leader's dance staff, carved in a killer whale design. Other pieces of Tlingit carving are displayed, including miniature totem poles. Photographer number 144.
With an appendix containing an historical account of the Dutch, English, and American whale fisheries; some important observations on the variation of the compass, &c.; and some extracts from Mr. Scoresby's paper on "Polar...
Title from verso of postcard View of large, intact whale carcass on ground, belly up, in front of whaling station building; another whale in lower left corner
Supplemental material: "Break, break break, on thy cold gray stones, O sea!" East side Whale Island. RWM Looking along E. Shore Whale Is. To Martin Point [Cape Martin] & ragged ridge snow capped mts. Alt. 1800-2000 ft. Taken in July.
Three men, wearing ceremonial dress, on porch of house unofficially referred to as Tsaa yaa ayáanásnak keet hít (Killer Whale Chasing Seal House), the design painted by a Deisheetaan artist named Káatleindein; cedar canoe on beach in front of...