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B2019.019.IC1-1
Military Air Strip - Pt. Barrow [Utqiaġvik], 1982
Keywords: Mindel, Irving Mindel Sr., Irving Nelson Mindel Sr., 1980s, Planes, Military, Barrow, Utqiaġvik, Utqiagvik
Collection: B2019.019 Irving Mindel Sr. Slides
B2019.019.IC1-24
Mukluk making (shoes) [Barrow/Utqiaġvik], 1982
Keywords: Mindel, Irving Mindel Sr., Irving Nelson Mindel Sr., 1980s, Barrow, Utqiagvik, Utqiaġvik, Inupiaq, Mukluks, Shoes, Woman, People, Arts
Collection: B2019.019 Irving Mindel Sr. Slides
B2019.019.IC1-27
Face Mask Making [Barrow/Utqiaġvik], 1982
Keywords: Mindel, Irving Mindel Sr., Irving Nelson Mindel Sr., 1980s, Barrow, Utqiaġvik, Utqiagvik, Inupiaq, Arts, Masks, Woman, People
Collection: B2019.019 Irving Mindel Sr. Slides
B1989.016.2210.2
E-21 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [group seated on ground outdoors watching two drummers and two dancers, Eklutna Vocational School students]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2016.006.1835
Nome [three Alaska Native children standing in road, one holding fish, one playing with bicycle wheel; 1950s]
Collection: B2016.006
B2016.006.1842
[carvers working inside building, possibly King Island Chief Aulaġana (John Olarana) at left; 1950s]
Collection: B2016.006
B2014.027.13
ITDR-77 #13. Iditarod Sled Dog Race, 1977, Inuit lady in handmade fur kuspuk, Nome, Alaska
Collection: B2014.027
B2014.019.445
291. Nome. McCutcheon, Anchorage [Alaska Native elder woman wearing red parka, mittens, and mukluks seated near hole ice fishing, young Alaska Native girl wearing print parka seated on sled at right, tom cod piled on ice]
Keywords: clothing, fishing, transportation
Collection: B2014.019
B2017.029.1996
[two tourists posed with Alaska Native woman wearing headscarf and fancy fur parka; print date Feb 77]
Collection: B2017.029
B1989.016.2210.15
E-32 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [women and men in parkas and feather headdresses dancing outdoors, with box drum suspended by rope from tree branch, Eklutna Vocational School students]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.17
E-34 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [women and men in parkas and feather headdresses dancing outdoors, with box drum suspended by rope from tree branch, Eklutna Vocational School students]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1962.x.015 CIHS US Army Engineer District.17
Collection: B1962.x_022 CIHS Morgan / B1962_x_015 CIHS US Army Engineer District CIHS U_S_ Army Engineer District
B1983.091.S4827.11
Anaktuvuk Pass trip, 5/70 [boy and girl fixing tires on bicycle]
Keywords: recreation
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1989.016.2149.1
12-3, #25B (Rodeo on the Fourth of July, 1941. Photo by William Dahms) [one man being thrown by steer, three men on horseback in field]
Keywords: animal husbandry, recreation
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2149.4
R-2, #28B (Rodeo on the Fourth of July, 1941. Photo by William Dahms) [horseback riders in field, spectators and bus in background]
Keywords: animal husbandry
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2016.004.30.1
AFN, Wainwright, dancing, 8010251 [dancer wearing puffin beak mittens. At AFN 2017, dancer identified as Earl Mayac of King Island]
Keywords: Alaska, Wainwright, Dancer, Mittens, Dance mittens, Alaska Federation of Natives, AFN, Earl Mayac, King Island, Fran Durner
Collection: B2016.004
B2016.004.30.12
AFN, Wainwright, dancing, 8010251 [large group of dancers with drummers]
Collection: B2016.004
B1995.010.4918
[two Alaska Native women holding babies, probably beautiful baby contest, Fourth of July, Kotzebue; print date Jul 70]
Collection: B1995.010
B1989.016.1318.1
B-66. Otter Lake, Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska / Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [log cabin on edge of lake, termination dust on Chugach Mountains in background]
Keywords: houses, residences
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection