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B1995.010.342
[Dena’ina spirit houses in cemetery, Eklutna]
Keywords: religion, funerary customs
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.010.2975
[cemetery on banks of Yukon River, with crosses and spirit houses]
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.010.361
[Dena’ina spirit houses in cemetery, buildings in distance, Anchorage]
Keywords: religion, funerary customs
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.010.736
[field of lupine at Anchorage Cemetery, with grave markers and Dena’ina spirit house, houses in background. Cf. .361]
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.010.6
293-3. Cemetery wonderland [gravestones and spirit house in hoar frost, Anchorage]
Keywords: religion, funerary customs
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.010.3185
[bird’s eye view of village, crosses and spirit houses in cemetery in foreground. Cf. .3184]
Collection: B1995.010
B1995.010.6115
[Dena’ina spirit houses and Russian Orthodox cross in cemetery in summer, probably Eklutna, 1940s]
Collection: B1995.010
B1998.014.1.1149
O25 Spirit houses built over Indian graves [copy neg; same as .1148]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.008.712
255.9 [view across water to cemetery with spirit houses and Russian Orthodox crosses,
brush and wild flowers in foreground]
Keywords: cemetery
Collection: B2015.008
B1995.010.3188
[crosses, spirit houses, and grave markers in cemetery, including marker for Chief Philip, died 1920, and Maggie Andrew]
Collection: B1995.010
B1998.014.1.1148
(O23 Spirit house built over Indian graves; 1946 postcard) [cemetery, Russian Orthodox crosses, structures]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1298
O85 Spirit houses, Alaskan Native graves at Eklutna [orthodox crosses, people visiting cemetery at far right]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1995.010.748
Russian crosses in cemetery, Chugach Range in background [Anchorage Cemetery, with Dena’ina spirit houses, mountains in background. Cf. .361]
Collection: B1995.010
B2015.008.711
255.8 [cemetery along shore of lake or river, spirit houses and Russian Orthodox
crosses at left, rowboat at anchor at right]
Keywords: boat, Prince William Sound, cemetery
Collection: B2015.008
B1998.014.1.1411
S118 Native Alaskan Cemetery {1946 postcard (Eklutna)} [two service men look at gravesites, spirit houses, orthdox crosses]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1186
O42 Native graves, Nulato, Alaska; photo by E. Tetinek (1946 postcard) [copy neg, crosses, spirit houses, American flag]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2016.010.106
Tutchoni cemetery 1904 [Tutchone Indian graveyard, sign in foreground, “This cemetery is not a tourist attraction”, spirit houses behind wooden fencing, Champagne]
Keywords: funerary customs, indigenous peoples
Collection: B2016.010
B1995.010.2626
[lupine and dandelions gone to seed in cemetery, with wooden Russian Orthodox crosses, Dena’ina spirit house, and other graves, mountains in background, Anchorage. Cf. .2630]
Keywords: funerary customs
Collection: B1995.010
B1998.014.1.1299
O85 Eklutna church and graves with spirit houses [people stand near gate at entrance to cemetery, Old Saint Nicholas Church, graves at left]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1387
40. Indian grave, Alaska R.R. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage (Aleut, Russian) [spirit house in Russian Orthodox cemetery along Alaska Railroad route]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1297
O86 Native Alaskan graves, Eklutna, near Anchorage. [family walks in cemetery near spirit houses, orthodox crosses; Old Saint Nicholas Church in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1128
O18 Native Indian Graves (1946 postcard 1 neg & 1 print) [cemetery, spirit houses, man holding hat, trees, Russian orthodox crosses]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2019.003.017
“Eklutna Industrial School, U.S. Government Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs” Native graveyard [spirit houses in cemetery in spring] [Dena'ina Elnena, Idlughet. Graveyard part of Eklutna Historical Park]
Keywords: Dena'ina, Dena'ina Elnena, Tanaina, Idlughet, Eklutna, Eklutna Industrial School, Eklutna school, Eklutna Vocational School, Boarding school, Education, U.S. Government, U.S. Government Department of the Interior, Department of the Interior, Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, B.I.A., BIA, Eklutna graveyard, Graveyard, Eklutna cemetery, Cemetery, Burials, Grave site, Spirit House, Spirit Houses, Eklutna Historical Park
Collection: B2019.003
B1996.009.11bfull
taken the shavings made in the dance house from the whittling of new paddles, made a fire of them, then using the ashes to sprinkle over the path used by the crew and boat to add luck to them and to fly into the nostrils of evil spirits & so retard them.
Collection: B1996.009 McBride Collection