National Anthropological Archives

Selected prints

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS4696
Creators:
Moore, Riley Dunning, 1883-
Dates:
1912
Languages:
Algonqian
Physical Description:
12 Prints
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Made by Bureau of American Ethnology from a series of negatives by Riley D. Moore, 1912, filed in Division of Physical Anthropology, U. S. National Museum. 11 prints of Eskimos and 1 of an Aleut.
Scope and Contents
Catalog Number 4696: (1) Tribe: Eskimo Description: Summer home of Soonogarook, St Lawrence Island, Alaska. Man standing with arms inside coat, the customary way when not using hands. Left to right: Ounngtis (?), Soonogarook, Muntokolia, Koning. (2) Eskimo Summer home of Soonogarook. (3) Eskimo Wrestling, at Gambell, St Lawrence Island, Alaska. (4) Eskimo Wrestling, St Lawrence Island, Alaska. Man seated on embankment of an old "ningloo." (5) Eskimo Wrestling, St Lawrence Island, Alaska.. Frame building, store (co-op) and blacksmith shop in background. (6) Eskimo Home of Oghoolki, winter house, St Lawrence Island, Alaska. (7) Eskimo Broken house, womkon in front, St Lawrence Island, Alaska. (8) Eskimo Group, Kodiak. Volcanic dust shovelled from the door. (9) Eskimo Kodiak. Roof caved in from volcanic dust. (10) Eskimo Kodiak harbor. (11) Eskimo Kodiak. (12) Aleut Unalaska.

Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 4696, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 4696

Keywords

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Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Habitations and other structures -- summer home Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Habitations and other structures -- winter house Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Toys and games -- Wrestling Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Photographs Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Saint Lawrence Island (Alaska) Geographic Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Eskimos Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Unangan (Aleut) Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Arctic peoples Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Indians of North America -- Subarctic Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Soonogarook Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Muntokolia Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Konig Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
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