179 images from collection B1991_011 Christine Heller Collection

B1991.011.110

Athabascan Indians Dot Lake Doris Charles Sweat lodge

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B1991.011.115

"Eek 1949; Eskimo Country west of Anchorage" [winter scene with structures, cache, firewood, possibly the Eenayarak River in background]

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B1991.011.1158

Point Hope sod igloos and terrain, 1966 [two children with pile of whale bones, one sitting atop a bone; rusting metal in foreground]

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B1991.011.1159

Point Hope, 1966, sod igloos and terrain; Lydia and Carl [woman and child stand next to sod and whalebone structure; woman is wearing fabric parka and carrying a bowl]

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B1991.011.116

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B1991.011.1166

Point Hope, 1946, sod igloos and terrain; Mary Louise & Esk[imo] children; old sod & whalebone house (igloo) [adults and children wearing parkas, mukluks pose in snow in front of structure]

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B1991.011.1185

POint Hope, Summer 1963, Beatrice Vincent flencing (SIC: flensing) a seal [two women wearing kuspuks sit on the ground while one uses an ulu to flense a seal; whale bones in background

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B1991.011.119

"Eek 1949; fish skin mukluks" [winter scene, mukluks hanging from post; structures, steel drum, boardwalk, sleds and dog at left]

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B1991.011.1190

Point Hope, 1957; Myra Lisbourne & child; the clinic [woman holding boy]

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B1991.011.1191

Point Hope, n.d. [three children]

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B1991.011.1194

Point Hope; lichen encrusted whale bone [boy poses on tundra with whale bone]

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B1991.011.1196

Point Hope 1960s [...]the posies [two girls wearing kuspuks pose near flowers; steel drums (containers), structure in distance; possible dredge at right distance]

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B1991.011.1197

Point Hope [young child wearing kuspuk poses; structures in background]

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B1991.011.1198

Point Hope 1947 "Dressed up for Nullikutuk" [woman wearing fabric parka with fur ruff sits with child wearing fur parka near shoreline; river rocks at bottom of image]

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B1991.011.1199

Point Hope, 1950s [three girls sit on trundra, flowers; structures in distance]

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B1991.011.120

"Eek 1949; 'Cache'" [winter scene with caches, fishing nets, barrels, possbly upturned boats]

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B1991.011.1202

Point Hope, 1946 [men and woman pose; one man and woman wear parkas; all wear mukluks]

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B1991.011.1203

Point Hope, May 1947; Ester Lane & her 2 brothers; note sod house in background [parkas, tundra]

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B1991.011.1206

Point Hope [four girls pose on rocky surface; possibly flowers in foreground]

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B1991.011.1207

Point Hope, 1946 [woman and girl sit on driftwood log]

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B1991.011.1208

Point Hope, May 1947 [child poses on rocky ground with tundra in background]

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B1991.011.121

"Eek, 1949" [winter scene; people possibly cutting firewood, loading sledge; structures, tarpaper, windmill, likely river in background]

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B1991.011.1217

Point Hope winter, 1957 [man and woman wearing parkas stand in front of igloo; dog sits to right; snow; shovel; stove pipe]

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B1991.011.1219

Point Hope, winter 1957 [three children wearing parkas with hoods pose on snow in front of structures; bell atop structure, possibly a school]

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B1991.011.122

"Eek 1949" [winter scene; women and children gathered at a slope as two people walk toward structures; straw appears to be piled on the snow]

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B1991.011.1222

Holding spiked wooden ball for recovering King Eider ducks from water

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B1991.011.1223

Point Hope; Eskimo woman holding king eider ducks; 4/56 [winter scene of woman sitting on snow with ducks]

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B1991.011.1225

Point Hope; Fred Fisher, teacher [winter scene of people wearing parkas, dog sled, dog looking at seal; gun leaning against seal; structures, clothesline with laundry in background]

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B1991.011.1227

Point Hope, 1950s [winter scene of child wearing fur parka with hood posing on snow in front of structure, possibly school; bell in right background]

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B1991.011.123

"Eek 1949 on a 'whiteout' day" [winter scene with structure entrance at right, small cache at left; posssibly boats in background; firewood, likely river in distance]

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B1991.011.1230

[Point Hope, June 1966; Ruth Towsheagia [spelling? in foreground, man in] background (making wooden boat)

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B1991.011.124

"Sweat house, Eek, Aug 1959, E. Clements, dupe." [summer scene of structures above river, sod roof]

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B1991.011.132

"Eek 1949; an Indian village, winter" [women and children pose wearing parkas downhill from village, structures]

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B1991.011.134

"2 Eek belles" [summer scene; two young women wearing kuspuks pose in front of village structures, homes]

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B1991.011.136

"Eskimo family, Eek, 1940" [family gathered outside entrance of sod structure, women, children, sled, parkas]

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B1991.011.1389

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B1991.011.144

"Eek, 1949" [woman in winter parka and mukluks poses in front of oil drums with river in bakcground]

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B1991.011.146

Eek on a winter day, 1949" [people on river bank , mushing teams, sled dogs on riiver in bckground; structures in left background]

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B1991.011.1.33

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B1991.011.20

Cleaning a Moose hide Eliz Bergman Allakaket 1961

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B1991.011.21

Eliz Bergman, Allakaket Cleaning Moosehide 1961

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B1991.011.215

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B1991.011.22

June 1961 Eliz. Bergman, Allakaket Cleaning Moose hide

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B1991.011.221

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B1991.011.258

"Kipnuk on a 'white-out' day, 1949; frozen fish" [winter scene with fish on racks]

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B1991.011.321

Eskimo Woman picking blueberries Nome area

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B1991.011.385

"E. Clements, Tuntuntuliac [with strike-through], Tanunak" [woman makes large woven basket near strings of drying herring while second woman looks on]

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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]

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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]

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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