Tag Archives: Alutiiq Museum

Cockpit of historic Alutiiq kayak, ca. 1868. Courtesy Presidents and Fellows of Harvard University, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and via alutiiqmuseum.org. Kayla Desroches/KMXT A local craftsman will lead a lecture about Alutiiq kayak carving techniques focused on one example in particular. The Alutiiq Museum is currently exhibiting a seal skin-covered kayak, which Jim Dillard says was probably crafted …

Patrick Saltonstall holds Alutiiq knife. Photo courtesy of Alutiiq Museum & Archeological Repository Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Alutiiq Museum’s Community Archeology program led to the discovery of a knife this week. Alutiiq Museum Curator of Archaeology, Patrick Saltonstall, says they’re in the fourth year of digging the Kashevaroff site at Salonie Creek, and focus on a different spot each time. He …

The herb angelica. Sharin / Flickr Kayla Desroches/KMXT An in-depth report on traditions in plant use on Kodiak Island is set to be published years after it was written. Ethnobotanist Priscilla Russell released the study in 1995, and it’s currently on loan to the Alutiiq Museum. Russell, who’s lived in Alaska since 1973, says she came to Kodiak in the …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Two new Alutiiq Museum employees are Kodiak locals and former Alutiiq Museum interns. Molly Odell, who will handle museum grants as Project Manager, she says she pursued a master’s degree in archaeology and can trace that interest back to her childhood in Chiniak. “There was a big archeological dig right next to my house. It was on the …

Excavations at the Kashevaroff site during Community Archaeology 2015. Courtesy of the Alutiiq Museum Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kodiak’s amateur and professional archaeologists are in their final year of digging the Kashevaroff site at Salonie Creek as part of the Alutiiq Museum’s Community Archeology program. Curator of Archaeology Patrick Saltonstall says they’ve been unearthing different parts of the same site for the …

Painting of iris by Cathy Cordry Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Alutiiq Museum will feature the work of two artists this coming year thanks to support from the Rasmuson Foundation. Both artists have connections to Kodiak and incorporate its natural resources into their paintings. Cathy Cordry is a Kodiak City resident and her series of paintings depicts Kodiak flowers and plants. Each …

On today’s Talk of the Rock, you’ll hear host Kayla Desroches speak with former executive director of the Alutiiq Museum, Sven Haakanson. Haakanson is a teacher and scholar, formerly in Kodiak, and now in Washington State. He is Curator of Native American Anthropology at the Burke Museum and an associate professor at the University of Washington. In 2007, he received …

Petroglyphs on Afognak Island. Photo courtesy of Alutiiq Museum Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Alutiiq Museum’s curator of archaeology, Patrick Saltonstall, recently identified a cluster of petroglyphs carved into a rock on Afognak Island. He says they’d been aware of possible petroglyphs in the site for years, and this month he visited the area with an Afognak Native Corporation senior land patrol …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Three of Kodiak’s four museums have received a combined $21,000 in grants from the Alaska State Museum. One was $2,000 to the Maritime Museum for cataloging artifacts in its collection. The Baranof Museum received $9,000 and the Alutiiq $10,000. Scott Carrlee is the curator of museum services for at the state museum in Juneau. He agreed that Kodiak …