Inupiaq Eskimo girls standing on the sea ice in front of their remote home, King Island -- a tiny, rugged, treeless island in the Bering Sea between Alaska's Seward Peninsula and Russia's Siberian Coast. Hubbard spent a year-long residency on King Island in 1937, filming and photographing the dances, hunts, games, and homes of the King Islanders, who lived in ingenious cliff-dwellings and still practiced the ancient ways of hunting, fishing, and gathering. The unnamed girls are holding up King crabs that they have just caught by dropping baited lines through holes cut in the ice. Hubbard's dog Mageik poses with the girls. After Mageik's death, Hubbard had the dog mounted. Mageik is part of the traveling Hubbard exhibit.

Photo by Bernard Hubbard, 1937.

Father Hubbard entitled this image "Mass in a Volcano Crater." Hubbard began every day with Mass, no matter where he found himself. This photo of Hubbard and his party is taken during Hubbard's two-month exploartion of the Aniakchak Crater on the Alaskan Peninsula, not long after Aniakchak's May 12, 1931 eruption. Hubbard's account and photos of this expedition were published in magazines and newspapers across Amnerica. (Left to right: William Regan, Richard Doublas, Kenneth Chisolm, Bernard Hubbard)

Photo taken in 1931 by unnamed member of Hubbard's party.

King Islanders are gathered in a "quagri," one of their community houses built against the island's rocky cliffs. Eskimo ice cream -- berries mixed with reindeer fat and seal oil -- is about to be served as a preliminary to the Polar Bear Dance, a celebration offered after a successful polar bear hunt. The round hole in the floor, next to the pots of ice cream, is the entrace to the "quagri." During Hubbard's 1937 residency on King Island, the Islanders allowed him to intimately photograph and film their ancient ways.

Photograph by Hubbard, 1937.