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The Anchorage Museum archives include historic photographs and print materials covering a broad range of topics related to Alaska and the Circumpolar North. Some materials are available online, while others are available for detailed research on site at the Bob and Evangeline Atwood Alaska Resource Center.
B1991.011.396
"Tanunak, 1958; braiding herring" [young woman braids herring in grass; canvas shelter]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1991.011.397
"Tanunak; braiding herring, 1958, southwest Alaska" [woman braids herring with grass for drying; steel drums (containers)]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1991.046.49
Savoonga (Lee’s) [portrait of Alaska Native girl with beads in braided hair]
Collection: B1991.046
B2022.005.105
[Indigenous Alaskan woman wearing rings and braids standing outside midwinter]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Woman, Dress, Mukluks, Clothing, Footwear, Braids, Hairstyle, Rings, Jewelry, Adornment, Outside, Winter, Snow
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1990.014.4.scn.5.ViewFromNorth.Oct80P7
[Denali, mountain, view from north side, braided river below; possibly taken from Polychrome]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4 / B1990_014_4_scn_5
B1997.003.263
[scenic aerial view of braided river, strut and underside of airplane wing in left foreground]
Collection: B1997.003
B2022.005.106
[Indigenous Alaskan girl with braids holding seal skin; second seal carcass on ground nearby]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Girl, Young woman, Child, Braids, Hairstyle, Mukluks, Footwear, Seal, Seal skin, Harvest, Winter, Outside, Snow
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B2022.005.66
[Indigenous girl child wearing braids and without jacket outdoors midwinter; mountainous landscape background]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Girl, Child, Braids, Hairstyle, Winter, Snow, Ice, Landscape, Mountain, Range
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1991.011.402
"Tanunak, Nelson Island; Eskomo woman stringing herring; June 1958" [braided herring hanging behind woman]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B2017.029.2969
Margaret, Savoonga [portrait of woman wearing beaded decoration in braided hair, Native Spirit Festival; print date Jun 84]
Collection: B2017.029
B2017.029.2969
Margaret, Savoonga [portrait of woman wearing beaded decoration in braided hair, Native Spirit Festival; print date Jun 84]
Collection: B2017.029
B1989.016.2151.3
Copyright 1904 by B.B. Dobbs, 192 (Nome) [portrait of Eskimo youth with braided hair, chin tattooing, beaded necklace and fur parka]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1991.011.395
"Tanunak, Nelson Island, Eskimo girl stringing herring; braiding herring, June 1958" [fish, grass, canvas shelter; child in background]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1991.011.391
"Tanunak, 1958; sorting roe and stringing fish; herring are braided with Native grass & then hung over driftwood flames" [Madena Flynn processes fish]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1991.011.386
"Tanunak fish camp, Mary Gulealad [?]" [woman weaving grass basket as another woman looks on; braided fish drying; water in distance; June 1958]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B2018.023.035a
Asahel Curtis, Commercial Photographer; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [woman with braided hair, chin tattoos, wearing fabric parka and infant on her back poses; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1991.011.392
"Tanunak, 1958; stringing fish with grass, Medina Flynn" [woman braids fish into grass; sled dog puppy at right background next to hole; boat in left distance; duplicate]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B2018.023.035b
Asahel Curtis, Commercial Photographer; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide: woman with braided hair, chin tattoos, wearing fabric parka and infant on her back poses; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1996.035.10.3.cover
Front cover of scrapbook, 11 ½ x 17 inches, plywood covers tied together with white braided string, front cover decorated with color map of Alaska featuring towns and resources.
Collection: B1996.035 Adak Historical Society / B1996_035_10_3 Kirby_Scrapbook
B1989.016.2187.2
Lomen Bros. Nome #19 [Native woman wearing Western-style skirt and boots and parka with fur trim and geometric decoration, with braided hair and loop earrings, carrying small child on her back in a hide bag]
Keywords: clothing, footwear
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.626
E45 Diomede Island mother & child, Frank Morgan photo [portrait of woman with braide hair, wearing fabric parka with fur trim child inside back of parka, belt, knit stocking cap, headscarf, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2018.023.033a
Asahel Curtis, Commercial Photographer; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [Four girls with braided hair wearing pants made of hide; mukluks; parkas; bags hung around the neck and over the chest may be for gathering roots or tubers; tundra; hill in background; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.033b
Asahel Curtis, Commercial Photographer; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide: Four girls with braided hair wearing pants made of hide; mukluks; parkas; bags hung around the neck and over the chest may be for gathering roots or tubers; tundra; hill in background; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.040a
Asahel Curtis, Commercial Photographer; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [Woman with braids and bangs standing on what is possibly a cutbank wearing one-piece fur-lined suit made of hide, with left arm removed from sleeve, mukluks, necklace, bracelet; grass and leaning branch in background; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2022.005.2
Karen Christensen, Ca[r?]pendale girls at Goodwin Gulch 1921. [Inupiaq territory. Group of four girls, two with twisted braid hair buns; tundra landscape background. Karen Christensen daughter of Hans J. Christensen. Hans J. Christensen family photograph album online at Alaska's Digital Archives.]
Keywords: Inupiaq, Territory, Goodwin Gulch, Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Girls, Young women, Children, Hairstyles, Braids, Tundra, Landscape, Karen Christensen, Carpendale, Capendale, Sisters
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1989.016.2187.3
"Everybody works but Father, he sits 'round all day, etc." Lomen Bros. Nome #33 [Native family, woman and two children with washtub outside of white tent, clothing hanging on line in background. Woman wearing printed parka, young girl with braided hair and Western-style dress. copy neg]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2018.023.040b
Asahel Curtis, Commercial Photographer; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide: Woman with braids and bangs standing on what is possibly a cutbank wearing one-piece fur-lined suit made of hide, with left arm removed from sleeve, mukluks, necklace, bracelet; grass and leaning branch in background; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
