EditorialFemale Figure, 2nd century B.C.?A.D. 1st century, United States, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, Old Bering Sea, Ivory (walrus), H. 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm), Bone/Ivory-Sculpture, In the last two millennia before the Common Era, the peoples who established the...
EditorialHead, 2nd?4th century, United States, Alaska, Old Bering Sea, Ivory (walrus), H. 2 1/2 x W. 1 3/4 in., Bone/Ivory-Sculpture, In the last two millennia before the Common Era, the peoples who established themselves along the rim of the North Pacific Ocea...
EditorialHarpoon Head, 4th?5th century, United States, Alaska, Old Bering Sea, Ivory (walrus), L. 5 15/16 in. (15.1 cm), Bone/Ivory-Implements, In the last two millennia before the Common Era, the peoples who established themselves along the rim of the North Pa...
EditorialOrnament, 4th century (?), United States, Alaska, Old Bering Sea, Ivory (walrus), H. 2 1/2 x W. 1 3/16 in. (6.4 x 3 cm), Bone/Ivory-Ornaments, In the last two millennia before the Common Era, the peoples who established themselves along the rim of the ...
EditorialStanding Figure, 2nd century B.C.?A.D. 1st century, United States, Alaska, Old Bering Sea, Ivory (walrus), H. 8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm), Bone/Ivory-Sculpture, In the last two millennia before the Common Era, the peoples who established themselves along the r...
EditorialWeapons of peoples living near the Behring Strait, Weapons from the Bering Strait, signed: dess., et lith., de Choris; lith., de Langlum?, Fig. 19, p. 28, p. 325, Choris, Louis (dess.; lith.); Langlum?, Joseph (lith.), 1822, Louis Choris: Voyage pittor...
EditorialBhering Strait Sea Dog, Seal from the Bering Strait, signed: dess., et Lith. par Chorus; lith., par Langlum?, Fig. 8, after p. 20, p. 91, Choris, Louis (dess.; lith.); Langlum?, Joseph (lith.), 1822, Louis Choris: Voyage pittoresque autour du monde, av...
EditorialGraculus perspicillatus, Print, The spectacled cormorant or Pallas's cormorant (Phalacrocorax perspicillatus) is an extinct marine bird of the cormorant family of seabirds that inhabited Bering Island and possibly other places in the Komandorski Island...
EditorialPhoca hispida, Print, The ringed seal (Pusa hispida or Phoca hispida), also known as the jar seal, as netsik or nattiq by the Inuit and as ??????? by the Yakut, is an earless seal (family: Phocidae) inhabiting the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. The rin...
EditorialAgonus stegophthalmus, Print, The dragon poacher (Percis japonica) is a fish in the family Agonidae (poachers). It was described by Peter Simon Pallas in 1769, originally under the genus Cottus. It is a marine, deep water-dwelling fish which is known f...
EditorialPick-axe made with a walrus tusk, stone hatchet of Alaska, wooden instrument with claws used by the Chukchi people to hunt walrus, tomb of the Unalaskans, and baidar (boat), dress and bow used by natives on both continents at the Bering Straits.From Jo...
EditorialSix trading trades depicting: De?troit de Malacca - De?troit de Bab-el-Mandeb - De?troit de Bering - De?troit de Coe?e - De?troit de Magellan - De?troit de Torre?s. Contents: On verso: geographical descriptions and recipes. Physical Descript...
EditorialA chart of Norton Sound and the Bering Strait . Chart of Norton Sound and of Bherings [sic] Strait ... London, [1780?]. Source: Maps * 70090.(3.). Language: English.
EditorialThe Resolution and Discovery. Arctic Expeditions from British and foreign shores. Edinburgh, 1875-77. Portrait of Captain James Cook (1728-79). English navigator. The illustration shows the ships under his command, the Resolution and the Discovery, in ...
EditorialThe Bering Strait with the adjacent coasts of Asia and America. Bhering's Straits with the adjacent coasts of Asia and America. [London], [1790]. Source: Maps 70090.(4.). Language: English.
EditorialPolar lands imagined on top of the strait of Bering. Date/Period: 1575 - 1586. Oil painting on wood. Height: 117 mm (4.60 in); Width: 55 mm (2.16 in).
EditorialFemale Figure, 2nd century B.C.?A.D. 1st century, United States, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, Old Bering Sea, Ivory (walrus), H. 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm), Bone/Ivory-Sculpture, In the last two millennia before the Common Era, the peoples who established the...
EditorialWinged Object (harpoon counterweight?), 2nd?3rd century, United States, Alaska, Old Bering Sea, Ivory (walrus), W. 5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm), Bone/Ivory-Implements, For many hundreds of years, the harpoon was essential to the lifeways of the peoples living o...
EditorialHead, 2nd?4th century, United States, Alaska, Old Bering Sea, Ivory (walrus), H. 2 1/2 x W. 1 3/4 in., Bone/Ivory-Sculpture, In the last two millennia before the Common Era, the peoples who established themselves along the rim of the North Pacific Ocea...
EditorialHarpoon Head, 4th?5th century, United States, Alaska, Old Bering Sea, Ivory (walrus), L. 5 15/16 in. (15.1 cm), Bone/Ivory-Implements, In the last two millennia before the Common Era, the peoples who established themselves along the rim of the North Pa...
EditorialOrnament, 4th century (?), United States, Alaska, Old Bering Sea, Ivory (walrus), H. 2 1/2 x W. 1 3/16 in. (6.4 x 3 cm), Bone/Ivory-Ornaments, In the last two millennia before the Common Era, the peoples who established themselves along the rim of the ...
EditorialFigure, 150 B.C.?A.D. 100, United States, Alaska, Old Bering Sea, Ivory (walrus), H. 3 3/4 x W. 1 1/8 in. (9.4 x 2.8 cm), Bone/Ivory-Sculpture, The ivory half-figures or torsos made during the late centuries of the first millennium B.C. were often rend...
EditorialStanding Figure, 2nd century B.C.?A.D. 1st century, United States, Alaska, Old Bering Sea, Ivory (walrus), H. 8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm), Bone/Ivory-Sculpture, In the last two millennia before the Common Era, the peoples who established themselves along the r...
EditorialPick-axe made with a walrus tusk, stone hatchet of Alaska, wooden instrument with claws used by the Chukchi people to hunt walrus, tomb of the Unalaskans, and baidar (boat), dress and bow used by natives on both continents at the Bering Straits.From Jo...
EditorialA drawn map of Siberia by command of Captain Vitus Bering (1681?1741, Danish-born navigator and explorer in the service of the Russian Navy) in 1729. Shelfmark: Maps.K.Top.114.43.