Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology recently transferred ownership of an ancestral Alutiiq, or Sugpiaq, kayak to the Alutiiq Museum, a cultural museum and tribal repository in Kodiak ...

A rare 19th-century kayak at the Alutiiq Museum in Kodiak, initially loaned by Harvard University, now belongs to the museum. (Kirsten Dobroth/KMXT) Kodiak’s Alutiiq Museum is now the sole owner of a ...

Around 1860, near Kodiak Island off the south coast of Alaska, an Alutiiq warrior built a streamlined kayak by stretching and sewing the hides of five female sea lions around a sophisticated wooden ...

Nearly two decades ago, Sven Haakanson Jr. traveled from Kodiak to the Peabody Museum at Harvard University. The Peabody had invited Haakanson, then the executive director of Kodiak’s Alutiiq Museum, ...

Last month, the museum announced it transferred ownership of an ancestral Alutiiq kayak to the Alutiiq Museum, a repository of cultural artifacts. The January agreement comes nearly two years after ...