Box PCA0132
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Contains 53 Results:
In the corral at Cape Nome.
Item — Box: PCA0132
Identifier: PCA0132-11
Scope and Contents
[Herd of reindeer] Caption by Mary Greene. Text supplied by staff is in brackets.
Dates:
1922-1930
The reindeer herd in the corral to be marked by cutting an ear of each one in a certain manner. Every owner has a special mark for his deer, and the fawns are marked when still with the mother, then it can be identified. There is a chute on lane leading from the corral, controlled by a sliding gate and only one deer admitted at a time, being released at the outer gate. The[y] keep milling, traveling in a circle, constantly grunting like pigs.
Item — Box: PCA0132
Identifier: PCA0132-12
Scope and Contents
Caption by Mary Greene. Text supplied by staff is in brackets.
Dates:
1922-1930
Abraham Lincoln, the chief herder, embarking on the river to go up after the deer. They sailed 12 miles up the river, tramped across country 10 miles to the first camp, then eight miles to the second camp. They brought back 2000 deer to the corral, a mile east of our camp. The dog is a collie used in herding deer, they are called reindeer dogs here; he would not wade out to the boat and Ruben Itook picked him up and put him in it. He is used to the boats, but didn’t like the water. Notice the differences between this a white man’s boat, and the native skin boats.
Item — Box: PCA0132
Identifier: PCA0132-13
Scope and Contents
[Five men with "white man's boat" at water's edge] Caption by Mary Greene. Text supplied by staff is in brackets.
Dates:
1922-1930
Skin boats, made by stretching walrus skin over a frame. These are some of the King's Island people coming to Cape Nome to pick berries. There were 42 men, women and children on this boat. They had come 14 miles from Nome towing the boat along the beach nearly all the way. They fastened a rawhide line to the stanchion on the side of the boat, and a number run along the beach with the tow line.
Item — Box: PCA0132
Identifier: PCA0132-14
Scope and Contents
Caption by Mary Greene.
Dates:
1922-1930
Billy Kowmanaseuk painting the [oomiak] frame before putting on the skins; before the advent of white men the natives use a red clay for paint, something like red ocher; it is abundant at home and we children used to play with it, we called it keel.
Item — Box: PCA0132
Identifier: PCA0132-15
Scope and Contents
Caption by Mary Greene. Text supplied by staff is in brackets.
Dates:
1922-1930
These boats still in winter dock. Hauled up on the river bank until navigation opens; they are being repainted, calked [caulked] and overhauled. When the river is open they will be pulled into it.
Item — Box: PCA0132
Identifier: PCA0132-16
Scope and Contents
Caption by Mary Greene. Text supplied by staff is in brackets.
Dates:
1922-1930
The frame of a skin boat; there is not a nail in these boats, the timbers are bored and bound together with sealskin thongs, then the skins are sewed together by the women and stretched on the frame, lacing them fast on the inside. It takes four to five skins for a large boat, about thirty feet long. The skins of the walrus are used for this work, they are the largest and thickest skins found in these waters. The women sew the skins by over lapping them two inches and sewing on one side without piercing the skin with the needle ; then they turn it over and sew the other side, being careful not to prick the skin thru with the needle. They use a skin needle, a three cornered needle in sewing skins and furs, never needles such as we use.
Item — Box: PCA0132
Identifier: PCA0132-17
Scope and Contents
Caption by Mary Greene.
Dates:
1922-1930
I took this on the beach here on the 5th of July, 1926. But this was unusual, the ice had not hung on so long for thirty years. We had no summer that year, all rain, and the hills had patches of snow that never melted.
Item — Box: PCA0132
Identifier: PCA0132-18
Scope and Contents
[Three people in open boat amid chunks of ice] Caption by Mary Greene. Text supplied by staff is in brackets.
Dates:
1922-1930
These are skin boats, oomiaks, on another part of the beach.
Item — Box: PCA0132
Identifier: PCA0132-19
Scope and Contents
[Looking toward houses] Caption by Mary Greene. Text supplied by staff is in brackets.
Dates:
1922-1930
This kayak was turned up on the beach and I tried to get an interior view without much success for it was a rainy day. That line across one end is a seam where the skin is sewed.
Item — Box: PCA0132
Identifier: PCA0132-20
Scope and Contents
Caption by Mary Greene.
Dates:
1922-1930