Kayak Conservation Project
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Over 100 collection objects, including four full-size skin-covered kayaks, model kayaks, and kayaking accessories, are being preserved through this effort. Most items are extremely rare and some, over 100 years old – often the oldest known examples of their kind. Conservators work in the gallery and are available to answer questions on Mondays from 9 to 5 PM, and Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 2 to
03/14/2013
An Anthropology student writes: How did one single Alutiiq hunter manage to bring down an enormous whale, by himself in a kayak? By using a poison-tipped spear, like the one pictured above. According to Sven Haakanson, Director of the Museum, this wildly dangerous endeavor was something like "going up to a bear and sticking it with a needle." This is just one of many insights gleaned from the Peabody's collaboration with the Alutiiq Museum, and we are thrilled to have the opportunity to learn more!
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