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B2016.004.1068
Paul Tiulana launching umiak in Anch., 9/12/80 [people paddling umiak]
Collection: B2016.004
B2019.019.IB10-11
Umiak (Seal Skin Boat), 1982
Keywords: Mindel, Irving Mindel Sr., Irving Nelson Mindel Sr., 1980s, Umiaks, Boats
Collection: B2019.019 Irving Mindel Sr. Slides
B1989.016.2141.58
D-76 [four umiaks on boat racks in winter, building in background]
Keywords: transportation, hunting, villages
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2016.004.280
Whale watching on the Arctic Ocean, Barrow, Alaska [man leaning on umiak]
Keywords: hunting
Collection: B2016.004
B2017.024.3605
May 1969 [man holding oar while in umiak; water in background] slide #6612
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3605
May 1969 [man holding oar while in umiak; water in background] slide #6612
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2095
King Island, copyright 1986 [men, hunters, hauling umiak across snow; motor]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3598
May 1969 [men and children in umiak, outboard motor; water; ice] slide #6605
Collection: B2017.024
B1990.014.004.18314
Dog teams pull Eskimo umiaks across ice barrier to the village. Photographer's number: 18314
Keywords: transportation, winter
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B2006.003.41
E.A. Hegg [Native men in kayaks or umiaks pulled up alongside large ship]
Keywords: boats
Collection: B2006.003
B2017.024.1347
Diomede, Feb 1962 [man wearing parka poses in front of wood frame of umiak]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2079
King Island, copyright 1986 [women possibly in an umiak with supplies praying; man in background]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2162
King Island, copyright 1986 [people rest in boat, likely an umiak; open water, motor]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3599
May 1969 [four men in umiak, hunters, gun; oars; open water] slide #6606
Collection: B2017.024
B1983.091.S4393.223
Gambell, St. Lawrence Island. April 20-29, 1966 [men butchering whale from umiak]
Keywords: hunting, whaling, boats
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1989.016.2141.57
D-75 [umiak frame on boat rack in winter, blowing snow obscuring buildings in background]
Keywords: transportation, hunting, villages
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2014.012.72
[men on beach, more men on large canoe or umiak close in to shore. original image blurry]
Keywords: boats
Collection: B2014.012
B2017.024.3618
May 1969 [Four people in umiak; open water; ice; men; child; hunting] Slide #6627
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3465
May 1983 [shelter; umiak frame on posts; cache; possibly ball of fencing; gravel; snowy hilll in background]
Collection: B2017.024
B1985.027.0904
Originally in B3 F61. Wien Dests. The Arctic. [Whaler standing next to umiak]. 8 x 10 negative.
Collection: B1985.027 Wien Collection
B1989.016.2197.16
Among the ice floes, Bering Sea. c. Lomen Bros. Nome #1004 [umiak under sail. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.TV.062.23
Gambell [whalers pulling umiak toward sea. At AFN 2015, man pulling boat identified as Frank Okhokiyuk]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B2017.024.2087
King Island, copyright 1986 [Scene at hunting camp; people eating, sitting under umiak, supplies, guns]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2109
King Island, copyright 1986 [men gathered at walrus hunting camp; rifles; umiak being used as shelter]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2117
King Island, copyright 1986 [hunter holding gun; likely in umiak; cap; earmuffs; water, ice, land in distance]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2124
King Island, copyright 1986 [men tighten leather straps in umiak as boys look on; beach; structures in background]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2129
King Island, Alaska "Prop. of Van Cleve Photography, Evanston, Il." [men drag umiak on snow and ice]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3344
Northern Alaska, May 1969 [Savoonga; spring breakup scene; children on boardwalk; structures; people near umiak in background]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3606
May 1969 [three people in umiak; man at left is either removing or putting on a parka; water and ice background] slide #6613
Collection: B2017.024
B2000.017.18
[four men sitting under umiak, man at left smoking cigar, Point Hope; print date Jun 72]
Collection: B2000.017 Morris Reese
B2017.024.2173
Prop. of Van Cleve Photography; Evanston, IL; King Island, AK [men and boy next to umiak; similar to .2113]
Collection: B2017.024
B1985.027.0913.neg
Originally in B3 F61. Wien Dests. The Arctic. [Whaler in umiak being photographed by woman on beach]. 8 x 10 negative.
Collection: B1985.027 Wien Collection
B1995.010.5351
[motorboat St. Paul pulling umiak away from fish factory ship Pribilof, Pribilof Islands; print date Jul 74]
Keywords: transportation, fisheries, ethnotechnology
Collection: B1995.010
B2017.024.2089
King Island, copyright 1986 [wooden umiaks loaded with walrus; tusks; hunters; women, children, supplies; sea ice, open water]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2361
Kotzebue, June 1967 [woman wearing velvet parka holding what is likely a wooden net shuttle sits with net across her lap near an overturned umiak]
Collection: B2017.024
B1990.014.004.03318
Umiaks of whalers are taken to festival site Point Hope. Photographer's number: 03318. Stamp: 06 20 1968. Pro Pix. Monkmeyer Press
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1983.091.S3017.004
Arctic trip 1959: St. Lawrence Island. [Hunters in umiak, open water, hunter standing at bow, binoculars, parkas, seal in boat, ice on horizon]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B2000.017.022
[men sitting under umiaks on tundra, food and supplies on ground, water in background, buildings at far right, Point Hope; print date Jun 72]
Collection: B2000.017 Morris Reese
B2017.024.3338
"Savoonga - St Lawrence Island, May 1969" [spring breakup scene; children pose on boardwalk; snowmachines; structures; overturned umiak frame; people; church in distance]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2075
King Island "prop. of Van Cleve Photograph, Evanston, Il" [likely 1986; men and child stand on ice; umiak is being roped to ice; water, mountain in distance]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2189
King Island. [men hauling umiak across ice, walrus meat in foreground, pile of supplies at left, axe on ice next to supplies in milk cartons at right, 1960s]
Collection: B2017.024
B1972.046.92
1235 )King Island Eskimo with Umiak on Snake R at Nome)(4x5 copy neg)(Baker and Baker films10/75){three native alaskans in a large skiff loaded with supplies landing on beach in Nome}
Keywords: boat, trnasportation
Collection: B1972.046 Vernon Humble
B2000.017.19
[three elder women wearing print parkas and young girl sitting next to low tent, whalebones and umiaks in background, Point Hope; print date Jun 72]
Collection: B2000.017 Morris Reese
B2014.016.1931
Nome. Lady tourist at sales and workshop oomiak - ten men work under oomiak carving ivory and making mukluks [woman standing next to three umiaks on racks]
Keywords: boats, transportation, ethnotechnology, tourism
Collection: B2014.016
B2014.019.467
King Island ivory carvers. c. Robinson Studio, Anchorage [Alaska Native men and boys standing and sitting near umiak on rack on beach, pieces of carved ivory on crates]
Keywords: boats
Collection: B2014.019
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