Portions of the collections were to be exhibited at the Anchorage Museum; others will be available for study and research. This 1000-year anniversary is not just a European story; it is part of the history of Native America. Ivanov, Director of the Institute for Research in Humanities in Yakutsk, Sakha Republic, Russia (the former Institute of History, Ethnography and Archaeology).
Federal funding will also be part of the mix, with several million dollars already received through an appropriation for the Smithsonian. It is now part of the Alaska Ethnological Collection of the National Museum of Natural History. As they sewed, they thought of the original artist, a young woman of the last century.
Anaktuvuk and the organizations involved in the development and refinement of these educational materials, we would like to express our appreciation to the staff of the Arctic Studies Center in Anchorage and the Smithsonian Institution i. Aleš Hrdli…ka, “…[i]n the joint interest of the Smithsonian Institution and the Panama-California Exposition." He spent four full months on the island (from July 1 to October 31, 1912), primarily taking body measurements and other physical observations. Most of the books will be donated to the Siberian Yupik- community in Chukotka and local schools.
Inoue Koichi for hosting this venture for the great benefit of the native Siberian people.
EXPLORING THE NATION’S ATTIC
The Arctic Studies Center hosted a visit from a distinguished group of Gwich'in seamstresses and their colleagues who came to study Gwich'in clothing in the NMNH collection after visiting the collections at the CMC. Terry Halifax, a journalist with the Northern News Services in Yellowknife, NT, gave us permission to reprint her account of the Gwich'in visit, edited and abridged. Delegation to research 100-year-old Gwich'in clothing Seven Northerners will travel south to learn about northern fashion from a bygone era.
They will study the century-old objects in the two museums and use the knowledge gained to duplicate the clothing for exhibitions in the north, said Ingrid Kritsch, research director of the Gwich'in Social Cultural Institute in Tsiigehtchic. The delegation will include three Gwich'in Elders: Rosie Firth, Rosie Stuart and Renie Martin, along with seamstress Karen Wright-Fraser, filmmaker Dennis Allen, Prince of Wales Heritage Center Curator Joanne Bird and Gwich'in Cultural Institute Executive Director, Alestine Andre. A book from the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Hull, Quebec featured traditional Gwich'in costume.
Traditional Gwich'in clothing required the seams and joints to be rubbed with the healing power of red ochre—a mineral that can be pounded and mixed with water for painting. When the project is complete, the Gwich'in hope to have a summer outfit for men, a summer outfit for women and ancestors, especially Stephen and his wife Joan. Although she has been sewing Gwich'in clothing for almost sixty years, Firth has never seen the work on display in some museums.
Stephen Loring, museum anthropologist at the Arctic Studies Center at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., enjoyed meeting the Gwich'in elders. The Gwich'in collections at the Smithsonian are quite unique, Loring said, because of their early acquisition from about the 1840s to the 1860s. While the Smithsonian has more elaborate clothing from other groups in the collection, the Gwich'in clothing is mostly just everyday items, Loring said.
Over time, they have been transformed from everyday things into these treasures that have tremendous historical and cultural significance simply because they have survived for so long." He said the Smithsonian's collection also includes Gwich'in cookware, hunting paraphernalia, cradles, moccasins and snowshoes. Specific to the Gwich'in clothing in the Smithsonian collection were articles with red ocher markings along the seams that Loring said could have spiritual significance for the wearer. Karen Wright-Fraser discusses details of Gwich'in clothing with Rosie Firth, Rosie Stuart and Renie Martin at the Museum Support Centre.
INTERNS
Henry Elliott could not escape the principles, thoughts and morals of the Victorian culture in which he lived. Loring and I formulated possible answers that examined the social and economic relations of the Inuit and the Moravians. This year we found ourselves in the publishing business again with Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga, this time with the ongoing support of SI Press to produce it on time.
This geographical spread is linked to a chronological span of more than 1,000 years, starting with the historic routes of the Vikings in the 7th century to the present-day influences that the Vikings had on the popular culture and local environments of the North Atlantic. Due to the cancellation of the exhibition tour, this book is the only remaining product to spread the message of Ainu culture, although a website is in the works. Essays on Khanty Traditional Land Use and History was published in Russian in Yekaterinburg by one of the small private publishers, Thesis.
Its title, "The Sacred Sites of the Khanty People of the Kazym River" arouses the readers' interest for the upcoming chapter. Contrary to the many generalized and government-sponsored observations that support official claims of the need for "advancement" (that is, regular employment and sedentarization) for the Khanty people, the extensive, in-depth field research represented in this study suggests , on it. that traditional subsistence economies still provide an economically viable, even wealthy, way of life in some areas still relatively untouched by oil development (such as the Upper Pim and Yugan Rivers). However, nothing will be delivered for free by a 'benign hand' of the oil industry, in Siberia or elsewhere.
In addition to Ward Television's documentary airing on 185 PBS stations nationwide (Leif Eriksson — The Man Who (Almost) Changed History), a NOVA special and a cover story in National Geographic Magazine, all capitalized on by ASC's Viking team and the inherent popularity of the Vikings. The site's initial launch was scheduled to coincide with the opening of the Vikings in late April, with the final core pieces scheduled to go online during July. The display includes Scandinavian Viking artifacts and provides a strong representation of Newfoundland's native Indian and Inuit cultures at the time of the Viking voyages to North America.
Stephen Loring helped organize and chair a symposium at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association, Ottawa, Ontario in May, Neoskimo Archeology in the North American Arctic. Presque Isle Bill met some of the Micmacs and enjoyed a basket making demonstration from Donald and Mary Sanipass. Later, Don, Mary, and Marline Sanipas and David Putnam helped make a replica of the birch bark container found at the L'Anse aux Meadows site for use in the Vikings exhibit.
In mid-May he took part in a conference at the Department of Ethnography of the British Museum, organized by Jonathan King and Phillip Taylor, Boundaries in the Art of the. In Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga., edited by W. Journal of the United States Interagency Arctic Policy Committee.
STAFF PUBLICATIONS
2000 Puffins, Ringed Pins and Runestones: The Viking Passage to North America; Skraelings: First Peoples of Helluland, Markland and Vinland (with Daniel Odess and Stephen Loring); Celebrating the Viking Millennium in America (with Elisabeth Ward); In Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga., edited by W. 2000 Vikings in America: Runestones, Relics, and Revisionism. Special issue of the symposium, The human role in the reindeer/caribou systems, Rovaniemi, Finland, February 1999.
1999 Power, Politics and Heritage: Undercurrent Transformations in the Post-Soviet Arctic - The Chukotka Case (with Nikolai Vakhtin). Stephen Loring, museum anthropologist: [email protected] Igor Krupnik, ethnologist: [email protected]. Daniel Odess, Research Archaeologist: [email protected] Elisabeth Ward, Curatorial Specialist: [email protected] Sarah Ganiere, Research Assistant: [email protected].
