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B2019.007.639
Togiak. 1991; Alaskan Native Eskimo woman picking grasses for baskets [grass harvesting; structures in background]
Collection: B2019.007
B2007.005.4.188
[people fishing for smelt, likely November, 1931; shoveling fish into woven grass baskets]
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family
B2007.005.5.056
[woman with bundle of woven grass, basket in background, Honey Graham box at left]
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family
B2019.007.658
Basket grass drying,Togiak, AK, Bristol Bay Region 1991; photographer number 2-T21-16 [Grass harvesting; grass bundles hanging outside structure]
Collection: B2019.007
B1989.016.1267.1
An Alaskan "Sonny Boy." Hewitt's Photo Shop [dog puppy sitting in grass basket]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2022.005.180
[Indigenous Alaskan woman seated on bed writing; plants in window; possibly Yup'ik grass basket on floor]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Woman, Seated, Sitting, Bed, Bedframe, Bedroom, Room, Interior, Home, House, Writing, Write, Plants, Cactus, Lamp, Tray, Basket, Yup'ik, Grass basket, Coil basket, Coiled grass basket, Design, Geometric
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1989.016.2152.5
[bear cub asleep on table with baby bottle, grass basket, two small totem poles, and printed tablecloth]
Keywords: animals
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2010.023.715
"Nunivak illustrations, Housing" [woven basket atop sod roof; woven grass mat is door of sod structure; driftwood]
Collection: B2010.023
B2019.007.646
Togiak, 1991; photographer number 2-T22-18 Native basket grass drying, Togiak, Bristol Bay Region, 1991 [Grass harvesting; grass hanging on crossbeams of post alongside buoys; girl's bicycle and structure next to post]
Collection: B2019.007
B2001.036.298.neg
Chevak, AK, 2-81 & 1-82 [woman wearing kuspuk holding grass basket and dance fan standing in clinic]
Keywords: art, ethnotechnology, health
Collection: B2001.036 Martha Quimby
B2007.005.4.184
November 1931. Fishing. Smelt in the foreground. The baskets are made by the natives [sic] women. [three men, sled dogs, grass storage bags]
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family
B1989.016.2093.5
Alaska, Greetings from the Northland [Christmas card mat with sketch of winter cache and studio portrait photograph of young boy in fur parka with large grass basket]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2007.005.5.168
[stereo views; neg#B2007.005.7.92; group of people fishing for smelt, likely November 1931 (see .1690; woven grass baskets; poles are likely part of fish traps; snow]
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family
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
B1989.016.1714
An Eskimo Mothers Pride. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska [studio portrait of small boy in fur parka posed next to grass basket. neg badly deteriorated]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2007.005.4.147
"1930 Quigillingok natives. The snow covered mound on the left is an igloo, the home of some of the natives you see on this picture." [men, women, children pose next to woven grass baskets; neg #B2007.005.6.238]
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family
B2007.005.5.169
From verso "November, 1931. Fishing smelt!" [neg # B2007.005.7.91; group of people on ice and snow, fishing; woven grass baskets; poles are likely part of fish traps; shovel at left center]
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family
B2007.005.5.117
[stereo views; interior view of family inside wood structure, woman, two children; woven grass basket in foreground; woven mats; woven bag next to child; lantern at left; bowls on floor at left]
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family