The hook is made in two pieces of wood, lashed together with root and a rusty nail lashed on with root and string. The top piece of wood has a figure holding a creature by the legs. This symbolizes the story of Blackskin (see remarks), a man of the...
Liddell, Josephine Crumrine (artist). Size: 21 x 16.5 in. Medium: Oil pastel on paper Artist's information on Lilly Killbear: "Lilly Killbear, who lived in Wainwright, loved to go visiting and ride with the Coast Guard on their yearly trips to...
Jones, Joe (artist). Size: 10.75 x 8.5 in. Medium: Charcoal on paper Portrait, human head, male. Signed lower right. This is a portrait of the officer who inducted the Eskimos into the Territorial Guard and passed out weapons as he went from...
Lambert, Theodore R. (artist). Size: 15.5 x 19.5 in. Medium: Oil on canvas Yup'ik Eskimo grave markers on the bank of the Kuskokwim River include items of the deceased, including a rifle. Grenold Collins was a long time friend of the artist and,...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute and 41 seconds, MPG-1 format. The campers enjoy a meal of black dried seal meat soaked in seal oil (Kiniqtaq). Because the weather has been pretty...
Alexander, Selina (artist). Video, 1minute MPG format. Selina Alexander is an Athabascan who grew up along the Yukon River between Ruby and Galena and now lives in North Pole. She learned beading and skin sewing from her mother, grandmother, and...
Weyiouanna, Dick (photographer). Video, 2:03 minutes MPG format. In January of 2002, Dick Weyiouanna 19s Inupiat language class explored a Barrow ice cellar, a pit dug into the tundra and owned by whaling captain, Bill Aishanna. Whales give...