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B1983.091.S1564.B36
(Nunivak Island Trip native people)(men with radio)
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S1564.B78
(Nunivak Island Trip native people)(men constructing)
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S1564.B79
(Nunivak Island Trip native people)(men constructing)
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S1628.2
Native ceremonial mask from Nunivak Island 12/23/54
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S1564.B15
(Nunivak Island Trip native people)(Mekoryuk residents)[native children]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S1564.B16
(Nunivak Island Trip native people)(Mekoryuk residents)[native children]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S1564.B20
(Nunivak Island Trip native people)(Mekoryuk residents)[washing dishes]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S1564.B5
(Nunivak Island Trip native people)(Mekoryuk residents)[native children]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S1564.B56
(Nunivak Island Trip native people)[native woman in home]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S1564.B6
(Nunivak Island Trip native people)(Mekoryuk residents)[native children]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S1564.B62
(Nunivak Island Trip native people woman with books)
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S1564.B63
(Nunivak Island Trip native people woman with books)
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S1564.B89
(Nunivak Island Trip native people Eskimo children)
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S1564.B99
(Nunivak Island Trip native people Eskimo children)
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S1564.B30
(Nunivak Island Trip native people children receiving candy)
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S1564.B31
(Nunivak Island Trip native people children receiving candy)
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S1564.B69
(Nunivak Island Trip native people)(man at kitchen table with coffee)
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S1564.B12
(Nunivak Island Trip native people)(unidentified man)[man working a drill press]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S1564.B17
(Nunivak Island Trip native people)(unidentified man)[national guardsman leaning on bunk]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S1564.B59
(Nunivak Island Trip native people close-up children)[native children]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S1564.B93
(Nunivak Island Trip native people)(Eskimo Family in front of underground house)
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S1564.B2
(Nunivak Island Trip native people)(Mekoryuk residents)[native woman getting coffee from dencantor]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S1564.B4
(Nunivak Island Trip native people)(Mekoryuk residents)[native children conversing with a visitor on the beach]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S1564.B58
(Nunivak Island Trip native people close-up children)[two men conversing]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S1564.B7
(Nunivak Island Trip native people)(Mekoryuk residents)[native woman getting coffee from dencantor]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S1564.B8
(Nunivak Island Trip native people)(Mekoryuk residents)[native woman outside community center]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S1564.C6
Nunivak Island trip, reindeer (Loading meat on plane) 8/25/54 45 negs
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B2010.023.706
"Nunivak illustrations, Household equipment; R16" [two woven baskets displayed on a chair]
Collection: B2010.023
B1983.091.S1564.B21
(Nunivak Island Trip native people Nat Guard Interior boys washing dishes)
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1990.014.004.06827
Eskimo village of Mekoryuk, Nunivak Island, Alaska. June 1964. Photographer's number: 06827
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B2010.023.698
"Nunivak illustrations, Skin preparation and sewing" [grass mats hang across drying rack; water in distance]
Collection: B2010.023
B2010.023.710
"Nunivak illustrations, Household equipment; E85.3" [girl wearing parka leans against grass mats]
Collection: B2010.023
B2010.023.614a
(Fig 104)(boy in center wears an old style cap worn by Nunivak men and boys. The man was the carpenter building the first school at Mekoryuk in 1959)(Van, Stone James W Nunivak Island Eskimo Technology and material Culture)
Collection: B2010.023
B1993.012.61
Nunivak Island Eskimo Women, Pioneer Drug Co.[8 native women in traditional dress on the deck of a ship]
Collection: B1993.012 Lou & Gilbert Adamec Collection
B1983.091.S1564.B1
(Nunivak Island Trip native people)(series includes native people at nunivak, adults-children, school teacher-Mekoryuk, Alaska National Guard, Amos Berg, Dale Belcher, Kosbav Aerials of Mekoryuk, Jimmy Hoffman at coffee)[two children and teacher/mother]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S1564.B54
(Nunivak Island Trip native people)(people before houses)[group of people seated on log in the grass infront of village homes]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S1564.B55
(Nunivak Island Trip native people)(people before houses)[group of people seated on log in the grass infront of village homes]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B2010.023.715
"Nunivak illustrations, Housing" [woven basket atop sod roof; woven grass mat is door of sod structure; driftwood]
Collection: B2010.023
B1983.091.S1564.B98
(Nunivak Island Trip native people people with boat and close-up children)[man standing on deck of boat with several children seated around]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1998.014.1.564
E7 Eskimo child "Nunivak Island, neg & print" child wearing sleeveless fur parka, fur sleeves and pants, fringe, mukluks, copy neg?]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2017.011.147
Alaska ’47 – Bethel, Nunivak Eskimo demonstrating harpoon technique to Ray Petersen [Yupik man wearing driving cap hurling harpoon, Ray Petersen standing at right]
Collection: B2017.011
B2010.023.607a
(Nunivak 1939-40, Young woman's fine squirrel parka cut up the side in old style layers of fur in ruff. Skin strips hang entirely around upper part of parka)
Collection: B2010.023
B2021.010.243
[group of Indigenous women and children in front of a sod house. Women at right are wearing fur parkas] [At AFN 2024, location identified as Nunivak or Bethel] [1926. Inupiaq territory, Nutchirviq / Nasirvik (White Mountain)]
Keywords: Inupiaq territory, Inupiat, Nutchirviq, Nasirvik, White Mountain, Indigenous, BIPOC, Sod houses, Children, Youths, Residences, Families, Nunivak, Bethel, Yup'ik territory, Fur parkas
Collection: B2021.010 Burlingame Collection
B2010.023.591b
"Bundles of dry grass (Elymus mollis) for many uses. Fig. 50 (fig. 82) VanStone, James W. 'Nunivak Island Eskimo (Yuit) Technology and Material Culture" Fieldiana: Anthropology New Series 12 (1989) 96"
Collection: B2010.023
B2010.023.592a
:Carrying basket and coarse matting baskets containing frozen tomcod on cache roof; Fig. 51 (fig. 83) VanStone, James W. 'Nunivak Island Eskimo (Yuit) Technology and Material Culture" Fieldiana: Anthropology New Series 12 (1989) 96" [sod roof; antlers; snow]
Collection: B2010.023
B2021.010.244
[three Indigenous women standing in front of sod houses. Two women at right are wearing fur parkas] [At AFN 2024, location identified as Nunivak or Bethel and individuals identified as Sami; At AFN 2025, the individuals were identified as possibly far eastern Russian Indigenous reindeer herders.] [1926. Inupiaq territory, Nutchirviq / Nasirvik (White Mountain)]
Keywords: Inupiaq territory, Inupiat, Nutchirviq, Nasirvik, White Mountain, Indigenous, BIPOC, Sami, Fur parkas, Sod houses, Nunivak, Bethel, Yup'ik territory, Reindeer herders, Eastern Russian, Infants
Collection: B2021.010 Burlingame Collection