ALASKA COLLECTIONS PROJECT 2005 By Aron L, Crowell, Alaska Director, Arctic Studies Center This spring (May 2006), the Alaska Regional Office of the ASC will pass a major milestone – the completion of the Alaska Collections Project (ACP). The Yukon Ice Patch Research Project is a collaborative research initiative including Yukon First Nations (including Champagne-Aishihik First Nation; . Carcross-Tagish First Nation; Kwanlin Dun First Nation and Kluane First Nation), government agencies and academic institutions. Founded in response to the crisis in Innu society caused by resettlement in coastal communities where problems of poor health, subsistence abuse, violence and village poverty have reached epidemic proportions (see Canada's Tibet: . the Killing of the Innu, published by Survival International www. .survival .org.uk) Tshikapisk strives to create opportunities for Innu youth to gain country-based experiences in the company of Innu educators and families.
One of the ways the Arctic Studies Center has tackled the task of bringing anthropology to the museum has been through cultural festivals. Outside of the arts and lively discussions, the Alaska Native Arts Foundation loaned over thirty objects for display in the hall.
FIELDWORK
LAWRENCE: 2005 Report
Here we found some large stone pits on a high beach scoop west of the lighthouse. Site searches brought interesting finds from a marshy area of land to the east of the kitchen house. Local community supporters and the Labrador Inuit Association (LIA) were encouraging the continuation of the CCLAP program.
The Dorset, or Tunit, were the immediate Paleoskimo predecessors of the Inuit in the eastern Canadian Arctic. In the island archipelago south of the entrance to Windy Tickle - just north of Hopedale. The quarry pit represents one of the more accessible places for obtaining Ramah kert – the lithic raw material that occurs so significantly throughout the prehistoric sequence in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Stephen Loring and Kevin McAleese of the Newfoundland Museum conducted research on abandoned Moravian mission stations. I first became fascinated with the history of Labrador Inuit and German Moravians in 1999 when Dr. On July 2, we met with the rest of the students: Jaqui Graham (University of Minnesota), Kim Consroe (George Washington University) and Jane Kershaw (Harvard and Oxford).
Hornslandet is now one of the earliest sites of its kind that we know of in Sweden. The Five Hundred were stationed on the southern slopes of the great hill complex north and west of the Ushkiin Uver deer stone complex. We also met with Twl, who is responsible for conservation at the National Museum of.
RESEARCH
After several years of preparation, a special AMNH website featuring the legacy of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition (JNPE) will be available this spring. Hundreds of JNPE-era photographs have been scanned and will soon be accessible through the web-searchable database. Some 11,000 objects from the AMNH ethnological collections are now accessible online at: http://anthro.amnh.org/, organized by 28 indigenous nations of the North Pacific studied by the JNPE teams, from Ainu to the Yukaghir.
This huge investment of time and resources is finally starting to pay off through several new ventures that could shape the face of Jesup-2 activities for years to come. In July 1900, a JNPE team led by Russian anthropologist Waldemar Bogoras arrived at the mouth of the Anadyr River on the Russian coast of the northern Bering Sea. Until recently, they were largely inaccessible to the people of Beringia, except for a few artifacts that were part of the Smithsonian Crossroads of Continents exhibit, which was on display in Anchorage for several months in 1991.
They can be viewed on screen (also stored and printed) as large format color images, provided with details of their origin, place and time of collection, dimensions and material, and even accompanied by a scanned page of the original AMNH accession record showing Bogoras' personal handwriting. The aim of the project was to collect new extended captions from comments and stories about people, places and activities shown in the photos. The old images from the JNPE era thus became part of a simultaneous Jesup-2 effort for 'knowledge repatriation' on both sides of the Bering Strait.
They help bring back priceless childhood memories to the elders; stimulate the imagination of the young; and create a new sense of local history for the new arrivals.
One Year to ‘P-Day’
Therefore, at the first full meeting of the Joint Committee (JC) in Paris in March 2005, the. Another semi-annual meeting of the IPY Joint Committee took place in November at the headquarters of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in Geneva. Hopefully, more 'state of the IPY' addresses will follow, such as the one published in Arctic in 2005.
IPY endeavors and has volunteered to organize a national IPY symposium at the beginning of the IPY term (Spring 2007). I was particularly interested in Kent's friendship with Knud Rasmussen and Peter Freuchen, because these relationships deepened Kent's understanding of the North. At home on his beloved farm in the Adirondacks at AuSable Forks, New York, Rockwell Kent surrounded himself with books as well as maps and charts.
The combination of the remoteness of the landscape and the warmth of the people made it complete. He was highly critical of the Danish missionaries, as he believed they were causing lasting damage to the Inuit way of life. A lifelong socialist, Kent felt strongly about the dignity of the human spirit and the power of human labor.
Dusk filled the sky most of the day, often with the moon and stars present. He loved the frozen land, the low sun and the beauty of the northern world. There are also three printed maps showing the routes of the Fifth Thule used in Rasmussen's publications.
BERGY BITS
We had a great flight to Sondra Straumfjord (now Kangerdlusuak) where we spotted some native musk oxen. Rocky Milano is one of the most interesting and experienced volunteers ASC has seen, so we wanted to share his unique experience with icebreakers and the Arctic.]. I came to the Center for Arctic Studies and its work in support of the Arctic and Arctic people through the Smithsonian's “Behind the Scenes” program.
In 1955, I was selected as a member of the crew for the commissioning of the Navy's newest polar icebreaker glacier, and participated in the first Antarctic expeditions, Deepfreeze I and Deepfreeze II, in support of the International Geophysical Year. This enabled the optimization of new hull shapes and the accurate prediction of both the required installed power and the ship's expected performance in an ice field, without the very expensive and time-consuming model testing programs that were so necessary in the past. The German shipyard Thyssen Nordseewerke in Emden, Germany, was awarded a contract to convert one of the smaller Russian ships.
Comprehensive testing of a ship in ice is very difficult due to the adverse environment, the physical size of the ship, the violent interaction at the ship-ice interface, the complexities associated with ice and ship measurements, and the diverse nature of the ice field. in the test area. As a result, these fjords represent one of the few places in the world where ice growth and thickness can be expected to be relatively uniform and field thickness easily measurable. For our tests, it was bulldozed at minimal cost thanks to Russian coal miners working near Longyearbyen.
In this context, I hope to help the ASK to gain recognition as a leader in the archeology of the north, and a primary source of.
PUBLICATIONS
He praises Jochelson, and by extension Vladimir Ivanov-Unarov, for opening "a window into the distant past of Yukagiri," his ancestors, and into the history of "other peoples of the circumpolar region." Robbek, Director of the Institute of Minority People's Problems of the North, based in Yakutsk. Further sponsors included the Department of People's Republic and Federal Relations of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and the Institute of Northern Peoples of the Herzen State Pedagogical University.
The booklet tells the story of the archaeological research carried out between 1999 and 2003 at Long Tickle on the Adlavik Islands south of Makkovik, on a small Labrador Inuit village dating from the mid-18th century. Waldemar Jochelson's JNPE monograph on the Yukagir in their research into indigenous peoples of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) and on the history of the Jesup expedition. Jochelson was one of the exiled Russian ethnographers who were part of the stellar team under Franz Boas to study the broadly defined Bering Sea region at the turn of the twentieth century.
Most of their meticulous, encyclopedic works had been published in English by the early 20th century; but full Russian versions of the JNPE monographs on Siberian aborigines were discontinued in the 1930s, one of the many casualties of the Russian Revolution. In one of the last projects of his highly productive life, the late Vladimir Ivanov-Unarov, with the support of a translation grant from the MacArthur Foundation and the Russian Academy of Sciences, and with the help of his wife Zinaida, produced an able edition of a Russian edition of the Yukagir monograph that would have made Jochelson proud. The second half of the book explains how the archaeological work at the Long Tickle site informed history and how archeology is a way of exploring the past.
Two people in particular must be singled out for their steadfast enthusiasm and encouragement and encouragement: Tim Borlase - then from the Labrador Institute - and Joan Andersen, the director of Makkovik's White Elephant Museum.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Aaron Gidding - Labrador Collections Jaqui Graham - Sweden Fieldwork Jasmine High - Labrador Collections Melanie Irvine - Mongolia Fieldwork Jane Kershaw - Sweden Fieldwork Heather Larkin - Labrador Collections Michael Leader - Mongolia Report Rocky Milano - ASC Publications Mariel Murray - ASC Publications Andrea Neighbors - IPY Collections. Noel Broadbent, Archaeologist: [email protected] Christina Leece, Research Assistant: [email protected] Rocco Milano, ASC Publications: [email protected].