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B1989.016.2210.3
E-22 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [woman in fur parka and feather headdress dancing outdoors, two men in feather headdresses with box drum at right, Eklutna Vocational School students]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2017.024.1059
Jan71P7 #16044 Barrow [Inupiaq man wearing feathered head dress, parka, gloves with snowflake pattern, eyeglasses]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Inupiat, Barrow, Utqiagvik, Dancing, Parka, Feather headdress
Collection: B2017.024
B1990.014.2018.1.272.003
84-4; Ariss & Wolcott Treat [portrait of woman wearing velvet-looking hat with feathers, September 1942]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.272.004
84-4; Ariss & Wolcott Treat [portrait of woman wearing velvet-looking hat with feathers, September 1942]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.272.005
84-4; Ariss & Wolcott Treat [portrait of woman wearing velvet-looking hat with feathers, September 1942]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2014.019.355
#1227. Chilkat Indians in dancing costume. Griffin’s, Fairbanks [two women wearing headscarves with feathers and holding paddles posed outdoors]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B2014.019
B2017.024.1061
Jan71P7 #16046 Barrow [Inupiaq man wearing feathered headdress, plaid shirt, gloves dances in front of men, women, drummers; artwork in background]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Inupiat, Barrow, Utqiagvik, Dancing, Drum, Drummers, Feather headdress
Collection: B2017.024
B2024.001.389
“Anchorage Parade Oct 70” [Alaska Day Parade featuring members of the National Congress of the American Indian (NCAI). Same individuals as .388 wearing beaded and woven regalia. The individual on the left wears a headband with feathers on the back and the individual on the right wears a feathered headdress and has a fur pelt on their legs. Dgheyaytnu (Anchorage), Dena’ina territory, October 1970]
Keywords: Alaska, Dena'ina, Dgheyaytnu, Anchorage, Parade, Alaska Day Parade, National Congress of the American Indian, NCAI, Regalia, Spectators, Automobile, Vehicle, Car, Ken L. Parker, Photographer
Collection: B2024.001 Ken L. Parker Family Photographs
B1989.016.2053.23
(Fourth of July float, 1932) [boy and girl in blackface, boy wearing tuxedo and bowler, girl wearing headscarf and apron and holding feather duster, buildings in background]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2024.001.400
“Anchorage Ind. Parade Oct 70” [Alaska Day Parade featuring members of the National Congress of the American Indian (NCAI). A line of automobiles in the parade route. In the front automobile, two Indigenous individuals sit on the hood. The individual on the right wears a feathered and beaded headdress with fur tassels, beaded gauntlets and beaded leather pants and vest. On the left, the individual wears a beaded, woven, and tasseled dress and beaded jewelry. In the second automobile, the individual on the left wears a feathered headdress and the two individuals on the right wear feathered headbands. Dgheyaytnu (Anchorage), Dena’ina territory, October 1970]
Keywords: Alaska, Dena'ina, Dgheyaytnu, Anchorage, Parade, Alaska Day Parade, National Congress of the American Indian, NCAI, Regalia, Spectators, Automobile, Vehicle, Car, Ken L. Parker, Photographer
Collection: B2024.001 Ken L. Parker Family Photographs
B2017.024.1060
Jan71P7 #16045 Barrow [Inupiaq man wearing feathered head dress, parka, gloves with snowflake pattern dances in front of men, women, drummers, singers; artwork on display in background]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Inupiat, Barrow, Utqiagvik, Dancing, Drum, Drummers, Feather headdress
Collection: B2017.024
B2018.023.146a
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [woman and man wearing buckskin clothing, headdresses of beads and feathers, necklaces, belts pose for portrait; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1983.091.S0171.R05
Stock 0171 - R01; no date; Eskimos, close ups (women and man ice fishing; negs marked R-71) woman sitting on straw ice fishing; parka, feathers, ruff; mountains in distance]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1989.016.2210.13
E-30 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [women and men in parkas and feather headdresses dancing outdoors, with box drum suspended from rope, Eklutna Vocational School students]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1178
O38 Purgatory, Alaska - a river boat stop on the Yukon; photo by Tetinek (1946 postcard) [copy neg, sculpture of person with forked spear, wearing mask, horns, feather, robe, sash, above riverbank]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2018.023.146b
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide: woman and man wearing buckskin clothing, headdresses of beads and feathers, necklaces, belts pose for portrait; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1989.016.2210.14
E-31 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [women and men in parkas and feather headdresses dancing outdoors, with box drum suspended by rope from tree branch, Eklutna Vocational School students]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.15
E-32 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [women and men in parkas and feather headdresses dancing outdoors, with box drum suspended by rope from tree branch, Eklutna Vocational School students]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.17
E-34 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [women and men in parkas and feather headdresses dancing outdoors, with box drum suspended by rope from tree branch, Eklutna Vocational School students]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.18
E-35 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [women and men in parkas and feather headdresses dancing outdoors, with box drum suspended by rope from tree branch, Eklutna Vocational School students]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.8
E-28 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [women and men in fur parkas and feather headdresses dancing outdoors, with box drum suspended from tree branch, Eklutna Vocational School students]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2007.005.5.083
[stereo views of young boy holding what appears to be an ax and adz two-headed tool on which a juvenile bird, possibly and owl, is perched; woven grass mats; possibly an umiak suspended in background; fur parka may have feathers on sleeves]
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family
B1989.016.2210.23
E-40 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [group portrait of women and men in parkas and feather headdresses outdoors, with box drum suspended by rope from tree branch, Eklutna Vocational School students]
Keywords: dancing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.9
E-28-B (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [women and men in fur parkas and feather headdresses dancing outdoors, with box drum suspended from tree branch, Eklutna Vocational School students]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.21
E-38 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [women and men in parkas and feather headdresses dancing outdoors, drummers seated on ground, with box drum suspended by rope from tree branch, Eklutna Vocational School students]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.22
E-39 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [women and men in parkas and feather headdresses dancing outdoors, drummers seated on ground, with box drum suspended by rope from tree branch, Eklutna Vocational School students]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.24
E-41 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [women and men in parkas and feather headdresses dancing outdoors, drummers seated on ground, with box drum suspended by rope from tree branch, Eklutna Vocational School students]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2024.001.382
“Anchorage Parade Oct 70” [Alaska Day Parade featuring members of the National Congress of the American Indian (NCAI). One Indigenous individual in white regalia, beaded gauntlets, and a feathered headdress rides a black horse. Dgheyaytnu (Anchorage), Dena’ina territory, October 1970]
Keywords: Alaska, Dena'ina, Dgheyaytnu, Anchorage, Parade, Alaska Day Parade, National Congress of the American Indian, NCAI, Rider, Horse, Regalia, Spectators, Ken L. Parker, Photographer
Collection: B2024.001 Ken L. Parker Family Photographs
B2024.001.377
“Anchorage Parade Oct 70” [Alaska Day Parade featuring members of the National Congress of the American Indian (NCAI). One indigenous individual wearing white regalia and a beaded and feathered headdress holding an American flag on a horse. Dgheyaytnu (Anchorage), Dena’ina territory, October 1970]
Keywords: Alaska, Dena'ina, Dgheyaytnu, Anchorage, Parade, Alaska Day Parade, National Congress of the American Indian, NCAI, Rider, Horse, Regalia, Flag, Spectators, Automobile, Vehicle, Ken L. Parker, Photographer
Collection: B2024.001 Ken L. Parker Family Photographs
B2024.001.383
“Anchorage Parade Oct 70” [Alaska Day Parade featuring members of the National Congress of the American Indian (NCAI). One indigenous individual wearing leather regalia and a feathered headdress rides and brown and white pinto horse. Dgheyaytnu (Anchorage), Dena’ina territory, October 1970]
Keywords: Alaska, Dena'ina, Dgheyaytnu, Anchorage, Parade, Alaska Day Parade, National Congress of the American Indian, NCAI, Rider, Horse, Regalia, Spectators, Ken L. Parker, Photographer
Collection: B2024.001 Ken L. Parker Family Photographs
B1989.016.2210.25
E-42 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [women and men in parkas and feather headdresses dancing outdoors, drummers seated on ground, with box drum suspended by rope from tree branch, female dancers holding sticks, Eklutna Vocational School students]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.26
E-43 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [women and men in parkas and feather headdresses dancing outdoors, drummers seated on ground, with box drum suspended by rope from tree branch, female dancers holding sticks, Eklutna Vocational School students]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.27
E-44 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [women and men in parkas and feather headdresses dancing outdoors, drummers seated on ground, with box drum suspended by rope from tree branch, female dancers holding sticks, Eklutna Vocational School students]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2210.36
E-53. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska, E-53 (Eklutna School, Eskimo Dances, Seal, Wolf Dance, 9/15/37) [group portrait of four women: two women in fur-trimmed parkas and mukluks, two women in fur parkas and mukluks, all wearing feather headdresses, standing outdoors]
Keywords: clothing, footwear
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2024.001.378
“Anchorage Parade Oct 70” [Alaska Day Parade featuring members of the National Congress of the American Indian (NCAI). One indigenous individual wearing white regalia, a bone-pipe breast plat, and a beaded and feathered headdress while holding a small hatchet on a horse. Dgheyaytnu (Anchorage), Dena’ina territory, October 1970]
Keywords: Alaska, Dena'ina, Dgheyaytnu, Anchorage, Parade, Alaska Day Parade, National Congress of the American Indian, NCAI, Rider, Horse, Regalia, Ken L. Parker, Photographer
Collection: B2024.001 Ken L. Parker Family Photographs
B2024.001.376
“Anchorage Parade/ C St. Oct 70” [police vehicles lead the Alaska Day Parade featuring members of the National Congress of the American Indian (NCAI). Behind the vehicles, the parade is led by an Indigenous individual wearing white regalia and a feathered headdress and holding an American flag on horseback. Dgheyaytnu (Anchorage), Dena’ina territory, October 1970]
Keywords: Alaska, Dena'ina, Dgheyaytnu, Anchorage, Parade, Alaska Day Parade, National Congress of the American Indian, NCAI, Rider, Horse, Regalia, Spectators, Police, Automobile, Vehicle, Car, Ken L. Parker, Photographer
Collection: B2024.001 Ken L. Parker Family Photographs
B2024.001.401
“Anchorage Ind. Parade AK. Day Oct 70” [Alaska Day Parade featuring members of the National Congress of the American Indian (NCAI). Two youths sit on the roof of a automobile wearing beaded and woven headbands and clothing. They wave feather batons and wear beaded hair ties in their pigtails. Dgheyaytnu (Anchorage), Dena’ina territory, October 1970]
Keywords: Alaska, Dena'ina, Dgheyaytnu, Anchorage, Parade, Alaska Day Parade, National Congress of the American Indian, NCAI, Regalia, Spectators, Automobile, Vehicle, Car, Ken L. Parker, Photographer
Collection: B2024.001 Ken L. Parker Family Photographs
B2024.001.390
“Anchorage Parade Oct 70” [Alaska Day Parade featuring members of the National Congress of the American Indian (NCAI). Two Indigenous individuals in regalia ride on the hood of a gray automobile waving to the crowds. The individual on the left wears a feathered headdress and a beaded leather vest. The individual on the right wears a sash that says “Yakima Indian.” Dgheyaytnu (Anchorage), Dena’ina territory, October 1970]
Keywords: Alaska, Dena'ina, Dgheyaytnu, Anchorage, Parade, Alaska Day Parade, National Congress of the American Indian, NCAI, Regalia, Spectators, Automobile, Vehicle, Car, Ken L. Parker, Photographer
Collection: B2024.001 Ken L. Parker Family Photographs
B2024.001.386
“Anchorage Parade Oct 70” [Alaska Day Parade featuring members of the National Congress of the American Indian (NCAI). A line of automobiles with Indigenous individuals sitting on blankets on the hoods of automobiles. They wave to large crowds on either side of C Street. In the front automobile there are two individuals wearing woven clothing. The individual on the right wears a feathered headdress. Dgheyaytnu (Anchorage), Dena’ina territory, October 1970]
Keywords: Alaska, Dena'ina, Dgheyaytnu, Anchorage, Parade, Alaska Day Parade, National Congress of the American Indian, NCAI, Regalia, Spectators, Automobile, Vehicle, Car, Ken L. Parker, Photographer
Collection: B2024.001 Ken L. Parker Family Photographs
B2024.001.397
“Anchorage Parade Oct 70” [Alaska Day Parade featuring members of the National Congress of the American Indian (NCAI). Similar to .396 but a closer view. A line of automobiles with Indigenous individuals sitting on hoods or on sunroofs. In the front automobile, one individual in a beaded and fringed dress wears a sash that reads “Miss N.C.A.I. ’69-’70. They also wave a feathered baton. Dgheyaytnu (Anchorage), Dena’ina territory, October 1970]
Keywords: Alaska, Dena'ina, Dgheyaytnu, Anchorage, Parade, Alaska Day Parade, National Congress of the American Indian, NCAI, Regalia, Spectators, Automobile, Vehicle, Car, Ken L. Parker, Photographer
Collection: B2024.001 Ken L. Parker Family Photographs