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Smithsonian Institution Arctic Studies Center Newsletter Newsletter Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History March 2010 www.mnh.si.edu/arctic Number 17 NOTES FROM THE DIRECTOR By William W. Fitzhugh Last year’s newsletter celebrated the 20th anniversary of the almost no snow, and Stephen Loring, returning from a winter visit ASC, and this year’s reports preparations for the new ASC facilities in Labrador, reports plenty of snow there along with record-high and exhibits at the Anchorage Museum. Working with conservators, temperatures. Hunters are falling through the February midwinter collections staff, designers, and exhibit fabricators, Aron Crowell ice in Grand Lake (near Goose Bay) for the fi rst time ever; the Innu began shipping off NMNH and MNAI collections to Anchorage report black bears being fl ushed out of their dens by rainwater 6- where they will be mounted for the grand opening on 22 May, 2010. 8 weeks ahead of schedule; and an indigo bunting that normally After fi ve years of planning, fund-raising, Native consultations, winters in Florida has made an early appearance. It may be snowy website development, and catalog writing, we will soon unveil a in DC, but it’s been an exceedingly warm and rainy winter in new Smithsonian commitment to Labrador. (Learn more about Alaska that will lead in exciting climate history from an archived new directions. Check out Aron’s Smithsonian’s webinar conference reports herein and standby for in October 2009 at http:// a major issue on the Anchorage www.smithsonianeducation. program in the next issue. org/educators/professional_ The past year had many development/conference/2009/ other highlights, including the climate_change/index.html, to closure of the International which I contributed information Polar Year, which produced on climate effects on Arctic a huge out-pouring of Arctic cultures. research conducted for the fi rst NMNH forged ahead with time under a Native partnership new programs, opening Written in paradigm. The coincidence of Bone: Forensic Files of the Early IPY 2007-8 with the crescendo of Chesapeake, curated by Douglas scientifi c and public awareness Owsley, and preparing for Rick of global warming, especially Potts’ Human Origins, opening in Christopher Wolff, Dorothy Lippert and Bill Fitzhugh with seen in the Arctic, heightened March, 2010, coincident with the their replica of the Olmec stone head. Photo: Sarah Banks the importance of new fi ndings 100th anniversary of the Natural and accompanying educational programs. Our exhibition, Arctic: History Museum building. I assisted the exhibit Genghis Khan, A Friend Acting Strangely (http://forces.si.edu/arctic/), spread seen in 2009 in Houston and Denver, and with Aron Crowell, the message of warming effects on humans and animals through Julie Hollowell, and Bryan Just, opened Gifts from the Ancestors: circulation to local venues in northern Canada. In addition, Igor Ancient Ivories from Bering Strait at the Princeton University Art Krupnik represented social sciences at international meetings Museum. Catalogs were produced for both exhibits. We were not monitoring IPY progress and will take on the herculean task of the only ones busy with exhibits: Ann Fienup-Riordan produced publishing its summary report. The Way We Genuinely Live, and Judith Burch staged northern art The climate summit in Copenhagen this December was exhibitions at several international venues. supposed to rally the world’s political leaders behind a treaty to As usual, our fi eld research programs continued apace. I stem the rise of atmospheric CO2. Instead we heard much more completed the fi rst phase of my Mongolian Bronze Age deer stone about climate critics grousing over leaked memos and a single project and discovered two Inuit houses associated with a ca. 1700s Himalayan error in the IPCC report. Then the mother-of-all-winters Basque site in the northern Gulf of St. Lawrence. Stephen Loring came to Washington, DC and East Coast, with 54 inches recorded continued his reconnaissance on the northern interior of Labrador so far, a new century record. Critics have pounced on this El Niño and Quebec, and Christoper Wolff worked with colleagues at a trick as evidence of cooling, not warming. However, DC weather is fascinating Dorset site in northern Newfoundland. Closer to home, not the climate standard for the whole world! New England has had Noel Broadbent, collaborating with the Benjamin Harrison Society 2 on the Bicentennial of the War of 1812, began a home-town ‘fi eld TABLE OF CONTENTS school’ excavation at a British battlefi eld site on Bladensburg Road in Washington DC. 2009 Arctic Studies Center Newsletter (Number 17) And even closer than that, we’ve had a changing of the guard at ASC Anchorage.....................................................................3 ASC headquarters. Abby McDermott left to begin graduate studies Arctic Studies Center and Exhibition Opening in Anchorage in library sciences at the University of Maryland and was replaced Recovering Voices in Alaska: New Grants and Projects by Lauren Marr, who has taken on the task of managing our offi ce From Smithsonian Books: Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our and a small herd of interns and volunteers whose activities we Heritage: The First Peoples of Alaska recount herein. Welcome all! ASC Anchorage 2009 Interns Packing for Extremes: The Anchorage Project How to Ship a Mask (properly) THANKS TO OUR 2009 SPONSORS! Exhibits.................................................................................8 Genghis Khan Invades Houston and Denver Ahtna, Incorporated Alaska Humanities Forum Gift From Our Ancestors: Ancient Ivories from the Bering The Aleut Corporation Strait Anchorage Museum Foundation Yuungnaqpiallerput (The Way We Genuinely Live): Arctic Slope Regional Corporation Masterworks of Yup’ik Science and Survival Aurora Research Institute Arctic: A Friend Acting Strangely tours Canada Bering Straits Native Corporation Research..............................................................................12 Bristol Bay Native Corporation SIKU Project Nears Completion Calista Corporation Labrador Hebron Diary: The Flu of 1918 Canadian North Moravians and the Inuit; An Archeological Study in Chugach Alaska Corporation ConocoPhillips Alaska Hopedale Cook Inlet Region Inc. Subsistence, Settlement and Prehistoric Exchange in Doyon, Limited Newfounland and Labrador First Alaskans Institute Fieldwork............................................................................20 The Gilliam Foundation Deer Stone Project Completes Research in Northern GNWT’s Language Enhancement Fund Mongolia Barney and Rachel Gottstein On the Ancient Uighur Trail in Northern Mongolia Intellectual Property in Cultural Heritage Mounds and More Mounds in Khovsgol Aimag, Mongolia Koniag, Incorporated Hare Harbor Reveals More Secrets Don Lessem/DinoDon Inc. Malott Family Foundation The ASC Goes Local: Fort Circle Park Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Archaeological Project NANA Regional Corporation Outreach..............................................................................28 National Endowment for the Humanities SI Associates Tour in Mongolia National Geographic Society IPY 2007 - 2008: Taking Stock and Making Sense National Park Service Inuvialuit Encounter: Confronting the Past for the Future National Park Service, Alaska Offi ce Interns..................................................................................33 National Science Foundation Princeton University Bergy Bits............................................................................36 Rasmuson Foundation Transitions...........................................................................39 Robert Bateman Fund Publications.........................................................................42 Roger Fry 2009/2010 ASC Interns, Fellows and Volunteers.............47 Sealaska Corporation Simon Fraser University’s Archaeology Department SI/NMNH Department of Anthropology Smithsonian Small Grants Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Women’s Committee James Van Stone Estate Jan and Linda Webster ASC Newsletter 3 ASC ANCHORAGE ARCTIC STUDIES CENTER AND 2009. Object conservation at NMNH and NMAI was fi nished after EXHIBITION OPENING IN ANCHORAGE almost three years of dedicated work by Landis Smith, Kelly McHugh, Michele Austin-Dennehey, Kim Cobb, and Valerie By Aron L. Crowell Free. Robert Fugelstadt along with Kirk Hoffman and Matthew The Arctic Studies Center announces the public opening on May DiMarco of Ely, Inc. crafted beautiful exhibit mounts for hundreds 22, 2010 of its new research facility at the Anchorage Museum with of objects. In Anchorage, construction of the 8000 square foot the center’s inaugural exhibition, Living Our exhibition gallery neared completion. It Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage: The First features eight massive fl oor-to-ceiling Peoples of Alaska. Ten years in the making, glass cases that will be fi lled with clothing, Living Our Cultures draws on comprehensive masks, ceremonial regalia, hunting Alaskan collections at the National Museum implements, basketry, toys, and carvings of Natural History and National Museum of from each of Alaska’s cultural regions, the American Indian to present a sweeping arrayed geographically. Arctic communities view of the region’s indigenous peoples, will appear at the north end of the gallery history, cultural traditions, and contemporary (Iñupiaq, St. Lawrence Island Yupik, lifeways. The exhibition and accompanying Northeastern Siberia), Subarctic peoples SI Native Alaska exhibit in the new wing Smithsonian
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