15 images matching +Whale +Bone Monument

B2016.019.1.14d.08772.33

Tourists on "Tundra Tour" Barrow Whale Bone Monument [Tourism], c. 1991
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Tourism, Barrow, Whale Bone Monument, People

Collection: B2016.019

B1991.011.1194

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

Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection

B2016.019.1.14d.08776.05

Tourists at whale monument, Barrow, Alaska [Tourism], 1991
Keywords: Randy Brandon, Third Eye Photography, Tourism, Barrow, Whale Bone Monument, People

Collection: B2016.019

B1997.019.26full

not water as is generally supposed. The bow shaped bone in the centre of the photo is the bone from which the whale derives its name

Collection: B1997.019 Wright Collection

B1996.011.294A

Boat & whale vertebra [bow of wooden boat in foreground, with rope and whale bone, shore in distance]

Collection: B1996.011 Dr_ Edward A_ Dunlap

B1996.009.21full

the head that contains the commercial whale bone worth from $5 to $6 a pound. This bone answers to our teeth and is suspended from the upper jaw only - the lower jaw having a muscular tip that covers the bone

Collection: B1996.009 McBride Collection

B1990.014.004.AKNative13.PtHopeWhaleFest

May whale festival Pt Home. Back is blanket tossing group, requires skill to land on feet. [whale bone arches in foreground, flags]

Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4

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]

Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection

B1997.019.24full

The most valuable part of the whale is the head. The commercial bone is fitted in the upper jaw as out upper teeth

Collection: B1997.019 Wright Collection

B1997.019.25

The inside of the bone is covered with a coarse fibre used to strain the food usually only the tiniest jelly fish. The spouting of the whale is only moisture from the lungs.

Collection: B1997.019 Wright Collection

B2019.007.540

May 16, 1991; Native kids, Yupik kids, Togiak, 4 girls, whale jaw, dog; MR; photographer's number2-T4-17 [children pose on whale bone; puppy; structures in background]

Collection: B2019.007

B1997.019.25full

The inside of the bone is covered with a coarse fibre used to strain the food usually only the tiniest jelly fish. The spouting of the whale is only moisture from the lungs &

Collection: B1997.019 Wright Collection

B1989.016.2141.61

D-80 [woman in printed parka with fur trim standing in doorway to traditional dwelling, with whale bones as supports, entrance mostly buried in snow]
Keywords: residences, houses, villages

Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection

B1996.009.18full

head contained 780 slabs of whale bone valued at about $12,000 the longest slab being 9 ft. long, but the poor Eskimo is very glad to

Collection: B1996.009 McBride Collection

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

Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection