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B1991.011.532
"'Story knifing' 12/65, Newtok" [three children squatting on snow wearing parkas; girl holds knife]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1995.014.72.16
[soldier hacking through dense brush with knife]
Keywords: military, hiking
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.72.17
[soldier hacking through dense brush with knife]
Keywords: hiking, military
Collection: B1995.014
B1983.058.182
[debris, likely unexploded ordnance compared to pocket knife; Attu]
Collection: B1983.058 Dowell Aleutian Islands Clean-up
B1990.014.2018.1.32.005
13-6 Plate of macaroni [fork, knife, and tablecloth; 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.32.005
13-6 Plate of macaroni [fork, knife, and tablecloth; 1939]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1991.011.532
"'Story knifing' 12/65, Newtok" [three children squatting on snow wearing parkas; girl holds knife; at 2019 AFN, girl identified as Marie Moses]
Collection: B1991.011 Christine Heller Collection
B1995.014.62.12
[soldier holding knife posed next to moose carcass near creek in winter]
Keywords: hunting, military
Collection: B1995.014
B2017.024.2214
King Island. [man using knife to cut walrus head on ice, 1960s]
Collection: B2017.024
B1984.077.7.016
[Two men on rocky ground: Lo Pinto in plaid?, cameras, tripod, knife, riverbed? Neg. has some deterioration.]
Collection: B1984.077
B2017.020.117
[Sun and woman field dressing moose, Sun holding knife and smoking cigarette; print date Sep 58]
Collection: B2017.020
B1990.014.5.Cat.1.148.1
(catastrophe)(April 18, 1946)(Photo for Anchorage Times on marine strike)(Marine hamming it up)(Anchorage Historical){woman holding a long knife against the top of a can}
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Cat
B1998.014.1.2341
"Broken dish, place setting" [broken plate with egg sunny-side up, fork, knife, spoon on wood table]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2217
"Hedbergs brown bear" [man holding gun posing with bear positioned atop anters, possible skull; likely a knife in sheath attached to man's belt]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2312
Alaskan Meat-eating mosquito (suns beachus horriblis)" "mosquito cartoon (mosquito eating moose)" [artwork depicting mosquito in flight carrying moose, knife and fork]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2347
"Broken dish place setting with glass & cup & saucer" [broken plate with egg sunny-side up, fork, knife, spoon on wooden table]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1970.073.021
Trading with the Esquimaux. Observe the stone ornaments the man has in his lips. They are inserted from the inside, a shoulder preventing it from coming all the way through. Photo by C.W. Mathers, Edmonton [man wearing parka with tusk gussets and labrets with woman wearing Yupik-style parka, both standing next to tent, child peeking out from tent flap, trader at right holding scrimshawed knife or story knife]
Collection: B1970.073 Minnesota Historical Collection
B2017.024.2083
King Island, copyright 1986 [person wearing eyeglasses, Nome Nanooks hat and waders eating possibly walrus (?), holding knife in hand in umiak; radio at lower left]
Collection: B2017.024
B1998.014.1.2343
"Broken dish place setting with glass & cup & saucer" [broken plate with egg sunny-side up, fork, knife, spoon; placemat on wooden table; woven mat in upper left]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.024.2113
King Island, copyright 1986 [men and boy stand next to umiak; one man wearing fur pants held up by belt with polar bear buckle and knife in sheath attached to belt; snow]
Collection: B2017.024
B2018.023.022a
Alaska SS Co. [Alaska Steamship Company; two men, wearing parkas, gloves pose with walrus heads; one uses a knife; skin boat in background; snow; ice; water; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1996.009.19full
catch even a 30 foot pup whale and loses no time in donning his water proof seal skin suit & gets right into the whales stomach, not through his throat, but through a hole he makes himself with his sharp knife
Collection: B1996.009 McBride Collection
B2018.023.022b
Alaska SS Co. [verso of slide: Alaska Steamship Company; two men, wearing parkas, gloves pose with walrus heads; one uses a knife; skin boat in background; snow; ice; water; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.051a
[Portrait of man wearing Tlingit regalia, including totemic designs, blanket, moccasins, possibly beadwork; wearing traditional woven hat; holding knife with snake head design for handle; name “Louis Shotridge” at lower right (Stoowukáa) of Klukwan; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.051b
[verso of slide: Portrait of man wearing Tlingit regalia, including totemic designs, blanket, moccasins, possibly beadwork; wearing traditional woven hat; holding knife with snake head design for handle; name “Louis Shotridge” at lower right (Stoowukáa) of Klukwan; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2015.014.49
[white man wearing denim jeans, plaid shirt and knife in holster on belt standing on gravel beach, young Alaska Native boys standing on bow of sailing ship at right, other Alaska Natives standing and sitting on beach, several erecting tent next to umiak in background, dogs lying at left]
Keywords: boats, transportation, residences, camps
Collection: B2015.014
B2018.023.066a
[three men pose alongside a stream: one is leaning back and wears towel across his chest; a second holds first man’s hand and holds a pickaxe over his shoulder; a third holds a knife in front of first man’s chin and appears to be rubbing first man’s face. Mountains and possible canvas tent in background; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.066b
[verso of slide: three men pose alongside a stream: one is leaning back and wears towel across his chest; a second holds first man’s hand and holds a pickaxe over his shoulder; a third holds a knife in front of first man’s chin and appears to be rubbing first man’s face. Mountains and possible canvas tent in background; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023