Most of us have them. Dusty old boxes, totes, hard-drives, shoeboxes of photos, many containing people we can’t even identify. Yet, there seems to be an urge to hang on to the past, to that connection to family and old friends, even if we don’t know who they are. KMXT’s Maggie Wall has this report on an effort by …
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The Alutiiq Museum is the recipient of two new works of art by local artists, including a rattle which will be the first of its kind in the museum’s permanent collection. Funds for the purchases came from a Rasmuson Foundation grant designed to support living, practicing Alaska artists. The first is a modern interpretation of a traditional puffin beak rattle …
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Our guests this week are Patrick Saltonstall and Molly Odell from the Alutiiq Museum. They talk about archaeological surveys around Kodiak, primarily about looking for previously unknown sites. We also learn how the historic record can change as new sites and new information is learned. 2018 Dig Group. Crew begins excavations at the Qikr’tangcut (Little Island) site in 2018. (Photo …
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A student volunteer holds a 3,00-year-old tool chipped from red chert. (Photo Courtesy of the Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository) Daysha Eaton/KMXT Every summer, the Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository hosts a community project in Kodiak. Students and community members join in. This season, they are excavating a site on a little island off Near Island, which appears to be …
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Daysha Eaton/KMXT Dozens of people turned out Friday to celebrate a groundbreaking for a new downtown park in Kodiak commemorating the ancestors of Alutiiq people whose remains were removed from the archipelago and are finally being returned. The Kodiak Alutiiq Dancers ushered in the Alutiiq Ancestors Memorial Park in downtown Kodiak, performing a set of songs and dances to welcome the …
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Patrick Saltonstall holds Alutiiq knife. (Photo courtesy of Alutiiq Museum & Archeological Repository) Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Alutiiq Museum is at the beginning of a project to record and describe all of its roughly 300 kinds of artifacts. The museum just received an almost $50,000 grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services via Koniag, which owns many of the …
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This stone lamp was found by Calvin Fair at Chief Cove in western Kodiak around 1987. It has been returned to Kodiak’s Alutiiq Museum. Photo by Clark Fair Kayla Desroches/KMXT Artifacts sometimes end up in attics or storage boxes miles away from their places of origin. That was the case for one object that started on Kodiak Island and found …
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