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B1983.091.S4187.188
(5/64) (275 negs) Walrus Island Trip. Walrus at Round Island in Walrus Island Group. (4x5 neg of massed walrus) [walrus on shore and in water]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S4187.217
(5/64) (275 negs) Walrus Island Trip. Walrus at Round Island in Walrus Island Group. (4x5 neg of walrus in the surf) [walrus on rocky shore and in water]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S4187.182
Walrus Island trip. Walrus at Round Island in Walrus Island Group. (4x5 neg of massed walrus) [walruses hauled out on beach] May 1964
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1964.001.243
Eskimos hunting walrus. Loman [?] Nome #145 [hand colored image of two hunters, walrus]
Collection: B1964.001 John Urban
B1989.016.1872
53. Alaska Walrus. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska [pod of walrus on ice floe.copy neg]
Keywords: animals
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1436
53. Walrus. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1983.091.S3017.024
Arctic trip 1959: St. Lawrence Island. [person sitting next to baby walrus, petting walrus, gloves, rope]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1981.164.069
Museum specimens [two Native men with walrus on beach]
Collection: B1981.164 Cochran Collection
B1990.014.004.animals.31.02516
Pacific walrus, Odobenus rosmarus divergens, resting after feeding.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4 / B1990_014_004_animals_24
B2017.024.2183
King Island, copyright 1986 "walrus hunt; Bering Sea[?]" [men with walrus skull, tusks, possibly intestines; water, ice in background]
Collection: B2017.024
B1983.091.S3017.021
Arctic trip 1959: St. Lawrence Island. Shooting walrus.
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S3017.030
Arctic trip 1959: St. Lawrence Island. Walrus in water.
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1995.019.185
Eskimos dividing up walrus after hunt. Nome, Alaska. Lomen Bros. Nome #146. [walrus heads, tusks, entrails, men women, children]
Collection: B1995.019 John D_ (Jack) Urban Collection
B1983.091.S3017.066
Arctic trip 1959: St. Lawrence Island. [Walrus on ice, water]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1983.091.S3017.129
Arctic trip 1959: St. Lawrence Island. Walrus on distant floe.
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1990.014.004.animals.31.47800
Pacific walrus - odobenus rosmarus divergens of the Bering Sea, Alaska USA.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4 / B1990_014_004_animals_24
B1995.019.700
Walrus hunters and catch - Bering Sea. Lomen Bros. Nome #392
Collection: B1995.019 John D_ (Jack) Urban Collection
B2017.024.2081
King Island, copyright 1986 [man handline walrus tusks and skull]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2105
King Island, copyright 1986 [two men butchering walrus; binoculars]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3585
May 1969 [men butchering walrus; ice and water in background] slide #6529
Collection: B2017.024
B1997.019.06full
The old walrus hide is removed from the canoe, a new one put on, the crew bid.
Collection: B1997.019 Wright Collection
B2017.024.2214
King Island. [man using knife to cut walrus head on ice, 1960s]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3574
May 1969 [men butchering walrus on ice; bloody water; rope] slide #6516
Collection: B2017.024
B1965.018.020 copy
Caches Eskimo "Eglo" Cape Prince of Wales Cache Drying Walrus Hides 1903
Collection: B1965.018 Fred Henton
B1965.018.020
Caches Eskimo "Eglo" Cape Prince of Wales Cache Drying Walrus Hides 1903
Collection: B1965.018 Fred Henton
B1985.027.tourism.nonumber1
Texans by walrus heads. 8 x 10 b&w negative. Severe vinegar syndrome.
Collection: B1985.027 Wien Collection
B1990.014.004.animals.31.00803
Round Island July 1955 Frank Kowalzik films walrus. odobenus rosmarus divergens
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4 / B1990_014_004_animals_24
B2017.002.31
[hunters on ice edge with Western style boat, walrus carcass on ice, 1956-57]
Keywords: hunting
Collection: B2017.002
B1983.091.S3017.085
Arctic trip 1959: St. Lawrence Island. [Man with six baby walrus captured for San Diego zoo; walruses huddled on wood and possibly a walrus hide; steel barrels and tarps in background]
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B2018.023.092a
J. Sussman Stock Photo Co. Balto. [Baltimore?] [label] “79” “Walrus heads, Nome, Alaska” [walrus heads with tusks, likely on wooden boat, letter “K” inside diamond shape; black and white]
Collection: B2018.023
B1990.014.004.animals.31.29821
Pacific walrus - odobenus rosmarus divergens - may live to forty years & two tons wt.
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4 / B1990_014_004_animals_24
B2017.024.2128
King Island, copyright 1986 [man holds up part of walrus skull with tusks; snow]
Collection: B2017.024
B2018.023.092b
J. Sussman Stock Photo Co. Balto. [Baltimore?] [label] “79” [verso of slide] “Walrus heads, Nome, Alaska” [walrus heads with tusks, likely on wooden boat, letter “K” inside diamond shape; black and white]
Collection: B2018.023
TV.202.3.2
(R)(Senungatuk of U of ALaska)(L)(Weir Negovanna who is carving in bone rather than ivory as he is more expert in replicating walrus in that media, Wainwright)
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_TV
B1996.009.01bfull
The old walrus hide cover is removed from the frame of his boat, the lashings of thong are examined and new cover put on
Collection: B1996.009 McBride Collection
B2016.010.371
[King Island dancer wearing walrus mask performing indoors, Nome; print date Sep 78]
Collection: B2016.010
B2017.024.2062
King Island, copyright 1986 [woman uses an ulu to process walrus; tusks, people and supplies in background]
Collection: B2017.024
B1983.091.S4023.001
Walrus head & model Gail Reed, Seattle's Miss ("Miss Seafair" queen, marked 1953) (1963)
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B1985.027.2712
Originally in B9 F176. Wien Tourism. Walrus. 8 x 10 negative. Severe vinegar syndrome, cracking.
Collection: B1985.027 Wien Collection
B1991.046.53
[Alaska Native woman with child on shoulders holding up inflated walrus stomach, Savoonga. Original image blurry]
Collection: B1991.046
B2017.024.2109
King Island, copyright 1986 [men gathered at walrus hunting camp; rifles; umiak being used as shelter]
Collection: B2017.024
B1970.028.197
Satak comes home with part of a Walrus. A long day and hard work. Rough ice in the Strait and Big Diomede at the distance.
Collection: B1970.028 Eide