EditorialSergey, one of two Russian citizens seeking asylum in the U.S., shows where he and his partner, Maksim, traveled on their five-day journey across the Bering Sea on a 15-foot power boat, in Tacoma, Wash. on Jan. 19, 2023. (Grant Hindsley/The New York Times)
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...
EditorialButton, Old Bering Sea, 3rd4th century, United States, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, Old Bering Sea, Ivory (walrus), H. 3 1/4 x W. 1 3/4 in. (8.3 x 4.5 cm), Bone/Ivory-Ornaments.
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...