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B1970.028.011
Kivalina Everybody visit on the "R.C. Bear" The Eskimos was not allowed forward so trading in Ivory furs and slippers was done "aft"
Collection: B1970.028 Eide
B1970.028.018
Eskimo dance, Lomen Bros. Nome #3, This Eskimo is acting out a story in a dance. Notice the queer flat drums [Men with skin drums are seated against a boat while another man in furs is dancing. Man and children are watching]
Collection: B1970.028 Eide
B1970.028.021
Lomen Bros. Nome. [from verso:] A close view of an Eskimo woman fishing for spider crab. Her boots. The wrinkles are bit (sic) with her teeth. They are made by herself. In fact, everything she wears is made by her except the buckle in her belt. By a close study of her fishline you will see how they knit them. Mrs. Mattfeldts giving this [woman with baby in her parka hood is holding a crab which she has caught from a fishing hole in the ice]
Collection: B1970.028 Eide
B1970.028.023
The old snow shoe maker. Although snowshoes are not as important to the Eskimo as his famous spear, he knows there are times when he could not get along without them. Lomen Bros, Nome, 1907 [Alaska Native man strings a snowshoe]
Keywords: footwear, ethnotechnology
Collection: B1970.028 Eide
B1970.028.024
Kingickamute Tom-Tom players in ceremonial costume. Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, Eskimo of Alaska, Lomen Bros. #190, The Eskimo men punch holes through their lower lips and insert ivory buttons which are inlaid with colored beads [two male drummers wearing headdresses and labrets]
Collection: B1970.028 Eide
B1970.028.035
At Wainwright we met 2 dancing polar bears. They are trained by very pasiant (sic) Eskimo. Polar Bears skinds (sic) were used by the Eskimos in ansiant (sic) times as garments when hunting on the Polar ice. This was perfect camouflage. [Two polar bear cubs are held by cables while a man holds a piece of fish or meat out to then. Alaska Native women and a Caucasian man stand in the background]
Collection: B1970.028 Eide
B1970.028.039
Eskmino Belle Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska When they were young they traded wives. Lomen Bros. Nome
Collection: B1970.028 Eide
B1970.028.045
Grandstand in Eskimo Lands. Everybody sing to the Blanket tossers. 1921 Often a successful hunt. Eskimos-Social Life & Customs
Collection: B1970.028 Eide
B1970.028.065
Canneries. Low tide in Anchorage. Cannery in the distance. 33 ft. tide - Anchorage, Alaska.
Collection: B1970.028 Eide
B1970.028.097
1920-1921, Presbyterian Hospital. I worked in and had charge of for a year, Pt. Barrow., A. Eide. [Hospital buildings, flag pole, with American flag flying]
Collection: B1970.028 Eide