| Museum to conserve rare Alutiiq Warrior Kayak in Gallery |
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CAMBRIDGE, MA.- For the first time, Peabody Museum visitors will be able to see conservators at work in a specially prepared gallery space. America's only known Alutiiq warrior kayak is the centerpiece of a new conservation effort. Peabody Museum curators and conservators will be collaborating with Alaska’s Alutiiq Museum and Alfred Naumoff, the last traditionally trained Kodiak Alutiiq kayak maker, in the study and conservation of the collections over the next two years. In 2003, while visiting the Peabody, tribal members Sven Haakanson of the Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository and Ronnie Lind, Alutiiq elder, recognized a watercraft in the rafters of the Peabody Museum as the world's only remaining warrior kayak of their culture. Its bifurcated bow identified it as Alutiiq; human hair detailing and possible bear-skin construction indicated a boat fabricated for a warrior, based on Alutiiq oral history read full article
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