United States -- Alaska -- Tigara (Alaska)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
An Old Time Igloo, made of sod with wood supports. CLA: In or near lived old Owtownarook, the Hitler of Tigara. He made war on tribes north and south. His "woman" turned against him and betrayed him to his enemies, who shot him as he slept in his igloo., 1929
Item — Photo box 11: Series 10. [Barcode: 35025041841467]
Identifier: PH001_1260
Episcopal Mission at Tigara on the Arctic. The Manse and outbuildings., 1917
Item — Photo box 1: Series 10. [Barcode: 35025041841368]
Identifier: PH001_0080
Graveyard at Pt. Hope, Alaska. Cross in center surrounded by fence made of whale ribs. [Built by Episcopal misisonary—see note], 1925
Item — Photo box 11: Series 10. [Barcode: 35025041841467]
Identifier: PH001_1258
Abstract
Tigara, Alaska. An Unique Graveyard. When the Episcopal Missionary went to Pt. Hope (Tigara Mission) he gathered the skulls, numbering many hundreds, dug a holed-buried them-raised the cross over them-then finished the cemetery with jaw bones and ribs of
Dates:
1925
Group of Eskimos cutting up whale on beach. Lower jaw and tongue of whale in foreground. Pt. Hope, Alaska., undated
Item — Photo box 11: Series 10. [Barcode: 35025041841467]
Identifier: PH001_1225
Igloo at Pt. Hope. Sod-covered igloo with covered porch area. Woman standing in front of house holding baby. Sled resting against roof of house. CLA: Modern Igloo at Tigara (meaning The Thimble Finger). The proud mother., 1925
Item — Photo box 11: Series 10. [Barcode: 35025041841467]
Identifier: PH001_1263
Leaving the Ship. Group of Eskimos in umiak in ocean. Boat with sail and oarsmen, about fifteen people. Near Tigara, Alaska., 1917
Item — Photo box 9: Series 10. [Barcode: 35025041841442]
Identifier: PH001_1051
Point Hope. CLA: Ruins of an old Esquimo village on the Point. Weather eats into the cliff under the old house of the Esquimo, 1939
Item — Photo box 11: Series 10. [Barcode: 35025041841467]
Identifier: PH001_1262
Skulls of "Ipanee" Eskimo near Pt. Hope, Alaska. Graveyard: skulls and bones lying on ground. CLA: "Ipanee" means belonging to the old time., 1917
Item — Photo box 11: Series 10. [Barcode: 35025041841467]
Identifier: PH001_1259
Tigara, Alaska. Sod-covered igloo with whalebone door supports. CLA: The Old (Ipanee) Igloo of years ago - with whale ribs for doorposts., undated
Item — Photo box 11: Series 10. [Barcode: 35025041841467]
Identifier: PH001_1261
