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A rare Alutiiq-style kayak, taken out of Alaska 150 years ago, has returned to the state as the star attraction in a Kodiak museum exhibit.
The Alutiiq Museum requested the ownership transfer in the fall of 2022, citing spiritual reasons. Due to its seams embellished by human hair, the kayak was likely used for “talismanic purposes.” ...
An oiled sealskin Alutiiq kayak made in the mid-1800s has been on a 10-year loan from Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at the Alutiiq Museum in Kodiak.
Kodiak’s Alutiiq Museum is now the sole owner of a rare kayak from the 19th century that had previously been on loan from Harvard University’s Peabody Museum.
An Alutiiq kayak that was taken from Alaska around 150 years ago has returned home to Kodiak Island and is the star attraction in a spring exhibit at the Alutiiq Museum.
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 ...
Alutiiq warriors’ kayaks - like the one in a special room at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University - were normally buried with their owners. “It’s one of a ...
Perhaps the last of its kind, a 14-foot, 7-inch Alutiiq kayak is being conserved by researchers in a special gallery at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University.
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 ...
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 ...
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