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Ewsletter Smithsonian Institution N National Museum of Natural History ewsletter Smithsonian Institution N National Museum of Natural History September 2001www.mnh.si.edu/arctic Number 9 NOTES FROM THE DIRECTOR preparing an ACP object website. Process is a key feature of the The Year in Review ACP, and toward that end we held the first of a series of consulta- By Bill Fitzhugh tive workshops with elders from Unalakleet in May that helped us establish protocols for the project. Kanuipi! Somehow it seems appropriate to open this The ACP is sponsored jointly by NMNH and the National newsletter with an Inuktitut greeting, seeing as I am writing from the Museum of the American Indian, and both collections will be newly refurbished Pitsiulak in the middle of the Strait of Belle Isle, included in the Alaska loans. Our relationship with NMAI moved near the southern limit of former Inuit territory. We have just begun forward substantially in other areas as well. ASC staff are now a survey of the Lower North Shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence from assisting NMAI with arctic collection documentation, and plans are Mingan to Blanc Sablon, the easternmost village in Quebec and are being made to exhibit LBW at NMAI’s Gustav Heye Center in New rolling down the Strait with an easterly swell at our stern. It’s great York, develop regional catalogs based on ACP workshops, and to be back aboard Pitsiulak, but more about this project later on. provide Alaska Native community education programs. Thinking back over the past year, it’s difficult to know where Research work has also pressed forward. Stephen Loring to begin, with so many highlights to report. But since we just has continued community archaeology programs with the Innu and passed the L’Anse aux Inuit in Labrador; Aron published a Meadows site a few hours monograph on his work for the ago (its glinting Viking steel National Park Service and has found now replaced by reflections time to begin planning new field from tourist vehicles!), projects linked to global change Vikings seems like a good issues; Igor Krupnik’s Our Words beginning. Since opening in Put to Paper project with St. Washington in April of 2000, Lawrence Island elders has reached Vikings: the North Atlantic the publication stage and has ignited Saga has continued to a surge of interest in ‘knowledge demonstrate spectacular repatriation’. And while juggling visitorship at venues in New institutional politics and my up- York, Denver, and Houston. coming role as President of the Future venues are still to NMNH Senate of Scientists, I have come in Los Angeles, Ottawa, worked on Labrador collections, and Minneapolis. completed a major paper on But the ‘big’ news of circumpolar culture, and explored the year is the opening of Koniaq decorated spruce-root hat collected ca. 1880 by William new field opportunities in Fisher and featured in the “Looking Both Ways” exhibition which Mongolia and Quebec. Looking Both Ways: Heritage opened in Kodiak, Alaska this June. and Identity of the Alutiiq The financial success of People which opened to great fanfare on 23 June at the Kodiak Vikings has made it possible for us to realize a long-cherished dream Museum in Kodiak, Alaska. Congratulations to Aron Crowell and of establishing an ASC publication series. This fall we hope to see his curatorial team, to Sven Haakanson and his Kodiak Museum publication of Honoring Our Elders: History of Eastern Arctic staff, and to the many Smithsonian specialists who helped bring this Archaeology (a volume of essays dedicated to Elmer Harp, Jr.) and exhibit to life. LBW is the first of a series of new shows that will Gateways: Exploring the Legacy of the Jesup North Pacific bring Smithsonian collections, archives, and expertise to Alaska and Expedition. With Igor’s and Elisabeth Ward’s assistance we expect other northern regions. to be publishing two or three monographs each year. For the past several years we have been ‘looking both ways’ Finally, I am sad to say that our esteemed NMNH director, ourselves, wondering how to finance our collection sharing and Robert A. Fri, has announced his intention to leave the museum at education programs. This year those efforts came to partial fruition the end of September. Bob has been a great friend and supporter, in the form of a major grant from the Rasmuson Foundation of and his efforts have greatly advanced our work. Thanks, Bob, for Anchorage for the first phase of our Alaska Collection Project. your steady hand and tremendous help in so many areas. Assistant Rasmuson funds, supplemented by a generous gift from Phillips Secretary Dennis O’Connor will serve as Acting Director until the Petroleum, will provide resources for a three-year pilot project the newly-formed Science Commission makes its recommendations. aimed at identifying cultural objects to be loaned to Anchorage and Best Wishes to all and enjoy this year’s 36 page newsletter! ASC Newsletter 2 T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S CHANGES AT THE INSTITUTION: Changes at the Institution p. 2 A Personal View ASC Anchorage By Bill Fitzhugh Inupiaq Elders Visit p. 4 Alaska Collection Project p. 5 Institutions, like cultures and people, live and are shaped by Looking Both Ways Opening p. 6 rites of passage and events that however joyful or traumatic, forever New Directions mark their history. The Smithsonian, founded in 1846, is going ASC Publication Series Launch p. 8 through such a time today. Kamistastin Project p. 10 Only a few years past celebrating its 150th anniversary and Mongolian Adventure p. 11 with its charter reviewed by a blue-ribbon commission, Smithsonian Exhibits: Vikings Tour p. 12 scientists, curators, and other staff have become engaged in a Research controversy with its new administration over matters of science, Ethnographic Landscapes p. 13 priorities, administrative organization, exhibition process, academic Whaling in North Alaska p. 14 freedom, sponsorship, and external influence. The crisis was Earthquakes and Archaeology p. 15 precipitated by financial shortfall as the Smithsonian endeavored to Documenting Climate p. 16 undertake new Congressional mandates without sufficient funding. Fieldwork and Conferences During the last Secretarial appointment process, convinced that a Zhokhov 2000 p. 17 business management approach could most effectively address these Outer Kenai Coast p. 18 problems, the Smithsonian Regents appointed Lawrence Small, Adlavik Harbor p. 19 formerly of Citibank and Fanny Mae, and charged him with re- British Museum Conference p. 21 inventing the Smithsonian. Now in office for twenty months, Small Northern Research Forum p. 22 has indeed defined his goals for the Institution and has set about to Viking Millennium Conference p. 23 bring what has been a notoriously ‘loose’ aggregation of museums, IASSA Conference p. 23 centers, and programs to heel. WAC 5 to come to Washington p. 24 Small’s actions and his proposed plans are shaking up the Caribou Conference p. 24 Institution. In fact, they have shaken it into an uproar that is being Collections heard from coast to coast and around the world. Kuujjuaq Visitors p. 24 Richard Fiske, a geologist who directed NMNH, the largest Metal Tool Studies p. 25 of the Smithsonian’s research divisions, a decade ago liked to Innu Scholar Visits p. 26 describe the Smithsonian Institution as a platform of museums and The Labrador Files p. 26 programs supported by three sturdy legs: research, collections, and Publications and Films public outreach. Weakening or tampering with the interrelations of Our Words Put to Paper p. 27 any of these components, he believed, would result in catastrophic Thoughts on Spirit Wind p. 30 failure of James Smithson’s charter - the increase and diffusion of Fifty Years of Arctic Research p. 31 knowledge - and the Institution’s ability to conduct research, catalog Henry Collins at Wales p. 31 and care for the national collections, and provide public education. Golovnev Films Produced in English p. 31 Many staff members believe the administration’s plans to cure the Cree Object CD-Rom p. 31 Institution’s financial woes will have a profound negative impact on Bergy Bits science and scholarships. Awards p. 32 Although described as an attempt to re-focus and strengthen Research Associates p. 32 the science/research ‘leg’ of the Smithsonian stool, Secretary Small’s Comings and Goings p. 32 actions suggest an intent to down-size research in favor of public Gifts p. 33 outreach, exhibitions, and facility renovation. Proposed cuts would In Memoriam: Rasmuson, VanStone, Ingstad p. 33 terminate some research and conservation programs; they would Publications and Contacts p. 35 also cannibalize the research staff of the National Museum of Natural History, the largest and oldest Smithsonian bureau. Indeed, THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS his attempt to terminate the (animal) Conservation Research Center, the Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education National Science Foundation Rock Foundation (SCMRE, formerly the Conservation Analytical Laboratory) and a Rasmuson Foundation Phillips Alaska, Inc. number of other programs and offices suggest only the beginning of Alaska Humanities Forum National Parks Service a major retrenchment. These cuts have come out of the blue - Museum Loan Network Vinland Foundation administrative fiats without the advice of external review panels or Robert H. Malott Santis Corporation internal debate and consensus. In place of the current museum (or bureau) structure, the Japanese American Friendship Fund Arco Foundation administration originally proposed creating four separate science Raymond E. Mason Foundation Amoco Eurasia institutes: Earth and Planetary Science, Astrophysics, Systematic Anne Abraham Memorial Fund Koniag, Inc. Biology, and Anthropology and Human Sciences. Reconfigured from King & Jean Cummings Charitable Trust the staffs of NMNH, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Leifur Eiriksson Millennium Commission of Iceland (STRI), the Smithsonian-Harvard Astrophysical Observatory National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (SAO), the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, SCMRE, ASC Newsletter 3 and other units, the proposed institutes would answer directly to work.
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