Ambler: Images

Results below are from the Alaska Digital Archives which includes material from institutions all over the state. You can sort by clicking on the column header.

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	Basket, Birch Bark	Kobuk-style woven birch bark basket with spruce root lashing around a willow rim. Green thread visible inside basket along sides of base. Spruce root on bottom is reinforced with a second layer of spruce root. 5" or 13 cm diameter across top x 3" or 7.5 cm high x 4.25" or 11 cm diameter across base. Originally cost donors $65.00 *Catalog card states: "Original retail price $22.00" - undetermined where statement above came from. AJL	Ethnology;
	Basket, Birch Bark	Modern type made for sale; birch strips reversed and alternated for sides; flared; willow rim rods top and base; sewn with spruce root. Measures 11 x 21 cm.Collected in the field for the Modern Alaskan Material Culture Project undertaken by the UA Museum. 1/26/2004: Inventoried. PCJ 12/6/2011: In the field notes and paper file the "place" is listed as Ambler, but it is unclear if this was the place of collection, or if this is only place of origin and use. MES	Ethnology;
	Basket, Birch Bark	Large, folded birch bark container found floating in the Ambler River. Willow rim rods and lashing of spruce root, and a rope, possibly cotton, tied along one of the long sides of the basket, possibly a handle. 20cm x 40cm x 28cm.Collected in the field for the Modern Alaskan Material Culture project undertaken by the UA Museum. 12/6/2011: In the field notes and paper file the "place" is listed as Ambler, but it is unclear if this was the place of collection, or if this is only place of origin and use. MES	Ethnology;
	Ambler Village - school haul - Fall.	Title taken from verso. View of women boarding Wien Alaska Airlines Pilatus Porter airplane in Ambler, Alaska, with man at right and village in background. Also from verso: "River Bar Airport" and "Pilatus Porter." Printed on airplane: "Wien Alaska Airlines" and "First in Alaska." People identified as (l-r) Angeline Douglas, Wynita Woods Lee, Genevieve Douglas Norris, Virginia Douglas Commack, and George Cleveland Sr. 1960-1965? Photographer: Frank Whaley. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".	AMRC. Wien Collection;

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