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North America
Creation Date: 1790Catalog ID: 2003.16.58Call Number: MAPA/NA/1798Early map of North America printed in London, England, 1790 by J. Wilkes. The area depicted includes Central America and the Caribbean to the Arctic Sea (Greenland and Siberia). Large geographic areas are delinated in varying colors of unknown significance. The Strait of Juan de Fuca and Columbia River are inaccurately shown as one single "River of the West". Puget Sound and Northwest interior geographic features are lacking. California is shown as a peninsula. -
[ice scoop]
Creation Date: 1890-1920?Catalog ID: 1993.0.1157Scoop from the Bering Sea area, Arctic culture area, 1890-1920? Scoop has long brown handle, slightly flattened on sides. Handle tapered at end and close to scoop. Oval shaped scoop made of strip of bone made into a near circle with ends fitted together and held in place with rawhide that is passed through holes in each at center of bone and rawhide strips that are wrapped around edges of bone and passed through a whole in handle. Part of the rawhide is wrapped. Scoop edge ends in triangular point at top. Round open area of scoop has loosely woven cover with open areas; it is made of baleen. -
Arctic passage
Creation Date: ca. 1975Catalog ID: S1991.36.57Call Number: 909/H915ar/1975395 p.; ill., map; 23.5 cm.; Bibliography: p. 363; Includes index -
Reise nach dem stillen Ocean und der Beeringstrasse zur Mitwirkung bei den Polarexpeditichen: ausgefuhrt in konigl. Engl. Schiffe Blossom unter dem Commando des Capitain F.B. Beechey...in den Jahren 1825, 26, 27 und 28, Narrative voyage to the Pacific and Beering's strait, to cooperative with the polar expeiditions
Creation Date: 1832Catalog ID: 1996.100.1Call Number: RARE/910.4/B392r/18322 v.; fold. map, fold. table; 20cm -
Voyage of Semen Deshnev in 1648: Bering's precursor, with selected documents
Creation Date: 1981Catalog ID: 1997.1.358Call Number: 910.9/V949se/1981xiii, 326 p.; ill., maps; 22 cm.; Includes index; Bibliography: p. 290-306 -
North America
Creation Date: 1807Catalog ID: 2003.16.71Call Number: MAPA/NA/1807Early map of North America, published in Great Britain, 1807, and depicting the area from Central America and the Caribbean to the Arctic Sea (including Greenland, Iceland and Siberia). The Columbia River is referenced/shown as the "River Oregon or Columbia". Puget Sound is named/shown as "Pugets Sound". The Pacific Northwest interior is (including Oregon Country and Northern California is referenced as "unexplored country or Quivira". Known Indian Tribes and geographic features are indicated. -
"A chart of America and the N East Coast of Asia showing the Discoveries that have been lately made in those parts"
Creation Date: 1804Catalog ID: 2003.16.66Call Number: MAPA/NA/1804map, titled: "A chart of America and the N East Coast of Asia showing the Discoveries that have been lately made in those parts," the geographic area depicted includes the Northwest coast, British Columbia, Alaska, Arctic Region, Bering Strait and northeast Asia, dated 1804. -
[ice scoop]
Creation Date: 1890-1920?Catalog ID: 2008.0.408Scoop from the Bering Sea area, Arctic culture area, 1890-1920? Scoop has long, cylindrical brown handle. Handle tapered at end. Large oval shaped scoop made of strip of bone made into a near circle with ends lashed together and held in place with rawhide that is passed around edges multiple times and with wrapped in areas that pass through hole in handle. Additional rawhide strips extend from sides of scoop to hole app. 12" from lower end of handle. Scoop edge ends in triangular point at top. Round open area of scoop has loosely woven cover with open areas; it is made of baleen. -
[snow shovel from Point Hope area]
Creation Date: 1880-1920?Catalog ID: 2008.0.412Shovel from the Point Hope area of the Bering Sea area, Arctic culture area, 1880-1920? Shovel has short wood handle made of same piece of wood. Handle is squared and tapers slightly at end. Shovel is slightly curved. Attached to blade end is a piece of bone that is curved. Bone is attached with nails. Attached to shovel is handwritten label that states: 64 - Shovel for snow / gravel and sand. / In general use in / N.W. Alaska / from Point Hope -
Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, to co-operate with the Polar expeditions: performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F.W. Beechey, R.N. ...in the years 1825,26,27,28.
Creation Date: 1832Catalog ID: 2001.142.21Call Number: 979.511/B391n/1832vi, [1], 493 p.; 23 cm.
