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B1989.016.2313
(Native masks) [still life with two masks set on table]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2006.023.2519.jpg
Original slide masked with tape.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 2001-3000
B2019.019.IC1-27
Face Mask Making [Barrow/Utqiaġvik], 1982
Keywords: Mindel, Irving Mindel Sr., Irving Nelson Mindel Sr., 1980s, Barrow, Utqiaġvik, Utqiagvik, Inupiaq, Arts, Masks, Woman, People
Collection: B2019.019 Irving Mindel Sr. Slides
B1983.091.S1628.2
Native ceremonial mask from Nunivak Island 12/23/54
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S4501.159
Anaktuvuk Pass trip [woman making mask]
Keywords: art
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S4501.307
Anaktuvuk Pass trip, 4/67 [woman making mask, child sleeping on bed]
Keywords: art
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1995.010.4923
[man wearing raven mask dancing on stage, Kotzebue; print date Jul 70]
Collection: B1995.010
B1970.019.288
E.E. Porter & Mrs. Porter in costume they wore to Firemen's Mask Ball Oct 31/25
Collection: B1970.019 J_J_ Delaney Collection
B1998.014.1.1311.color
(O92 "Your sad story touched my heart") [Eastman mask chart layout for greeting card with text, man]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2016.010.371
[King Island dancer wearing walrus mask performing indoors, Nome; print date Sep 78]
Collection: B2016.010
B1990.014.004.26523
Pipeline workman: the mask reflects the 40 below zero temp. Near Happy Valley. Photographer's number: 26523
Keywords: winter, clothing, TAPS
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1997.013.018
Potlatch (Dancers) [seven men wearing regalia, masks; Chilkat blankets, robes; structures with boardwalk in background; tree stumps, likely in Kasaan; same as .92]
Collection: B1997.013
B1989.016.2261.1
[group portrait of Southeast Alaskan Natives in ceremonial dress, including Chilkat robes, headdresses, masks and beaded tunics, probably Tlingit. positive transparency. copy]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2261.2
[group portrait of Southeast Alaskan Natives in ceremonial dress, including Chilkat robes, headdresses, masks and beaded tunics, probably Tlingit. positive transparency. copy]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2261.3
[group portrait of Southeast Alaskan Natives in ceremonial dress, including Chilkat robes, headdresses, masks and beaded tunics, probably Tlingit. positive transparency. copy]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.2511
"Construction site & men" [worker wearing winter cap with ear flaps, insulated face mask, mittens, parka sits next to JOY equipment]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2014.019.464
Alaska Eskimo dance, Nome. c. Robinson Studio, Anchorage [two dancers wearing masks performing outdoors on snow, one holding dance fans, possibly Yupik]
Keywords: clothing, dancing
Collection: B2014.019
B1998.014.1.1039
M5 Clearing ice from gold dredge pond (PC mask ends 1946 postcard) [winter scene; four men, steam, cutting ice, ice suspended from dragline, utility lines, strutures in background]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
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
B1998.014.1.2429
"Christmas card words & neg of people (neg was in envelope w/cut out transparencies)" Woman in hospital bed looks at a small book; man wearing medical mask points at something in book; possible photograph albums on bed]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.640
E56 Eskimo 'Wolf Dance,' at Anchorage, Alaska [dancers in wolf head masks, gloves, crouch; people sit on table behind wof dancers, some in fur parkas; possible leader sits facing dancers; auditorium, stage, backdrop of sea and sea ice; label is taped to neg, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2009.061.12
(Buildings of N.C.Co at Kuskokwim Station Tocotna River warm storage building log 20x20 iron roof in rear of iron warehouse)[a collection of three buildings, two log one corragated metal with a man standing in the doorway of the center building, multiple piles of cut logs are situated around the property][photograph has been altered by hand with some masking and recreating of new black border]
Keywords: outpost, logging, cabin
Collection: B2009.061