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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, andStephen 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 Crowellice 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 five 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 athttp:// a major issue on the Anchoragewww.smithsoninadecutaoi.n program in the next issue.ro/gseforp/srotacude_alonsi  The past year had many/e02ercnnoeftnc/09/meopelevd other highlights, including theclimate_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, openingWritten in paradigm. The coincidence ofBone: Forensic Files of the Early IPY 2007-8 with the crescendo ofChesapeake, curated byDouglas scientific and public awarenessOwsley, and preparing forRick of global warming, especiallyPotts’Human Origins,opening in seen in the Arctic, heightened t C he hristop l h i er Wolff, e    O D l o m r e o c t   h st y o L n i e p h p e er a t hPo   d n   a .  dB t i o l : l   itzhu  B g a h raha F S     n w k it s h March, 2010, coincident with the the importance of new findings  ca of thir rep 100th anniversary of the Natural and accompanying educational programs. Our exhibition,Arctic:Museum building. I assisted the exhibitHistory Genghis Khan, A Friend Acting Strangely(ci/ratcde/us..irces//fottp:h), spread seen in 2009 in Houston and Denver, and withAron Crowell, the message of warming effects on humans and animals throughJulie Hollowell,andBryan Just, openedGifts from the Ancestors: circulation to local venues in northern Canada. In addition,IgorAncient Ivories from Bering Straitat the Princeton University Art Krupnikrepresented social sciences at international meetings Catalogs were produced  Museum.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-Riordanproduced publishing its summary report.The Way We Genuinely Live, andJudith Burchstaged 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 field research programs continued apace. I stem the rise of atmospheric CO2. Instead we heard much more completed the first 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, andChristoper Wolffworked 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 hadNoel 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 atASC Anchorage.....................................................................3 ASC headquarters.Abby McDermottleft to begin graduate studiesArctic Studies Center and Exhibition Opening in Anchorage   in library sciences at the University of Maryland and was replacedRecovering Voices in Alaska: New Grants and Projects byLauren Marr, who has taken on the task of managing our offi ceFrom Smithsonian Books:Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our and a small herd of interns and volunteers whose activities we The First Peoples of Alaska Heritage: 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! ........8................................................................bihx.sti........E Genghis Khan Invades Houston and Denver Alas A k h a t   n H a, u  I m n a c n o i r ti p e o s r   a F t o e r d um 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 Strangelytours Canada    Bering Straits Native Corporation Rearse..ch................................................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 Chu C g o a n c o h c  A o l P a h s i k ll a i   p C s  o A r l p a o s r k a a tion  Hopedale Cook Inlet Region Inc. Subsistence, Settlement and Prehistoric Exchange in Doyon, Limited  and Labrador Newfounland First Alaskans Institute ..................kr............Fieldwo........02...................................... 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 Intellectua K l  o P n r i o a p g e ,  r I ty n   c i o n r   p C o u r lt a u te r d al Heritage Mounds and More Mounds in Khovsgol Aimag, Mongolia Hare Harbor Reveals More Secrets D M o a n l   o L tt e   s F s a e m m i / ly D   i F n o o u D n o d n a  I ti n o c n . The ASC Goes Local: Fort Circle Park Andrew W. Mellon Foundation  Archaeological Project NANA Regional Corporation ................................................................Outr....each28.......... National Endowment for the Humanities SI Associates Tour in Mongolia Nati N on ti al o   n G a e l  o P g a r r a k p   h S i e c r   v S i o c c e iety IPY 2007 - 2008: Taking Stock and Making Sense a Encounter: Confronting the Past for the FutureInuvialuit Nati N o a n t a i l o   n P a a l r  S k  c S i e e r n v c i e c   e F ,  o A u la n s d k a a t   io O n ffi ce ................................33..........Interns........................................ Bergy Bits............................................................................36 R P a r s i m nc u e s t o o n n     F U o n u iv n e d r a s t i i t o y n narT.snoitis........................................................................39.. Robert Bateman Fund ................................................4.2blPucitaoisn........................ 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 Object conservation at NMNH and NMAI was fi nished after2009. EXHIBITION OPENING IN ANCHORAGE almost three years of dedicated work byLandis Smith, Kelly Kim Cobb and Valerie By Aron L. Crowell F cMH er.e   i F M u h g c ee l r e t     e dt  uh ls g t   a , Rbo nitsuA a - l D o e n n g n w e i h t e hfmofan ,, i y KH krandMatthew  The Arctic Studies Center announces the public opening on MayDiMarcoof 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 Ourexhibition gallery neared completion. It Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage: The Firstfeatures eight massive floor-to-ceiling Peoples of Alaska cases that will be filled with clothing,. Ten years in the making, glass Living Our Cultures ceremonial regalia, huntingdraws on comprehensive masks, 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  gSI Native Alaska exhibit in the new wi Northeastern Siberia), Subarctic peoples Smithsonian Books catalog of the same n of central, western, and southern Alaska title (available April 2010) bring together o C f r t o h w e e A ll nchorage Museum. Photo:Aron in the central cases (Yup’ik, Unangax, the knowledge and perspectives of Alaska Sugpiaq, Athabascan), and southeastern Native scholars, elders, and artists from the state’s twenty cultural Alaskan peoples at the south end (Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian). and linguistic regions. The initial loan period for the 600 objects Three crosscutting themes – “Sea/Land/Rivers,” “Family and on display will be seven years, with extensions expected through Community,” and “Ceremony and Celebration” – organize the atleast 2022. The exhibited collection will serve as a resource material in each case. This spatial arrangement and the sweeping, for community-based research and teaching, hands-on study by open floor plan of the exhibition were suggested by Native exhibit scholars and artists, indigenous language documentation, and public advisors as a means of highlighting interconnections among the art programs focusing on Alaska Native cultures and history. and traditions of different cultures while simultaneously revealing  Smithsonian SecretaryWayne G. Clough aspects of each group. The stunning unique will headline the opening festivities, making a exhibition design is byJennifer Whitburnand milestone in the institution’s efforts to expandTim Ventimigliaof Ralph Appelbaum Associates, its impact nationwide and to make its vast with fabrication and construction by Maltbie, Inc. collections and archival resources accessible to and Click-Netherfield. The Smithsonian collections even the most distant American communities. A will arrive for installation in March, delayed by substantial Smithsonian delegation will attend to a December red-legged beetle outbreak at the represent NMNH and NMAI, as well as Alaskan Museum Support Center and the necessity to tent political leaders at the federal, state, and city and fumigate the loan materials prior to shipping as levels. The ASC’s long-time institutional partner, a precaution. the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, isLiving Our Cultureswill feature vivid and responsible for funding the $14M exhibition and multi-layered media presentations. Second Story building the elegant architectural space in which Interactive has finished design and prototyping it will reside. AMRC DirectorJames Pepperof Explorer kiosks where visitors will summon Henry, formerly the director of Community andA complete set of early 20thhigh resolution imagery and detailed information Constituent Services at NMAI, will co-host the century beaded summer clothing about each object at the touch of a fi Donna nger. opening with ASC Alaska Director and exhibition made of tanned caribou hide, Productions moved into editing for theLawrence curatorAron Crowelland Smithsonian National including hood, tunic, moccasin vibrant orientation videos in which Alaska Native Board MemberBetsy Lawer. Alaska Native Phot0). 1.005148:o  d anifknovgl, es MN(   1 IA hs ehtaeboost , narrators introduce each region, a program that project leaders, community representatives, and Don Hurlbert will flow and shift across seven large fl at-screen performing artists will join together to celebrate monitors.Charles Morrow, the New York sound the return of priceless heritage collections and to welcome visitors designer, is working with ASC to create an immersive, three- to a presentation of their cultures that has been enriched by years dimensional soundscape where visitors will listen to Alaska Native of research, discussion, and preparation in collaboration with languages and oral traditions surrounded by the natural sounds of Smithsonian curatorial and collections staff. Altogether, more than sea ice, water, wind, forest, tundra, migrating birds, and animals. one hundred Alaska Native elders, translators, and cultural advisers ASC Alaska looks forward to research, public programs, and contributed to the project’s vision, design, and content educational projects now being planned for the facility after it opens  Many components of the project moved into fi nal stages during in May. The ASC complex includes a multi-media public Learning

4 ASC Newsletter Center, an archaeology lab, spacious ASC offi ces, and a dedicated Documentation in the Bering Strait Region” for work with fl uent Community Consultation Room (CCR) which will serve as a studio Native speakers of Iñupiaq (spoken in north Alaska) and Yupik for recording discussions with culture bearers. Thanks to innovative (St. Lawrence Island and Chukotka). In consultation with bi- case design and unusual provisions of the Smithsonian exhibit loan, lingual educators, ASC will record Native language discussions it will be possible to take any object off display and bring it into about traditional objects in its“Living Our Cultures”exhibit the CCR for close-up, hands-on study by researchers and Native collections in order to document expert lexicons; produce language community members. Loaded with high and culture classroom modules for tech video and web gear, the CCR will be a language learners; and hold web-based center for learning and internet outreach to language seminars. The program will classrooms and communities. be coordinated with the North Slope In fall 2010, the ASC plans to host this Borough, Northwest Arctic, and Bering year’s annual Dena’ina Language Institute Strait school districts. with elders who are fluent speakers of In addition, in the fall of 2010 the this endangered Athabascan language. ASC will partner with the Anchorage They will discuss Dena’ina objects in the Museum and Alaska Native Heritage collection, including a complete set of Center to host the Dena’ina Language richly beaded caribou skin clothing from Institute. The DLI, with funding NMAI. They will record rare linguistic from the Administration for Native erms and reach out via web confe Dawn Biddisondemonstrating an exhibition Americans and the National Science t rencing touch-screen interactive produced by Second Foundation, has established active t c o l   a l s a s n r g o u o a m g s e .     l P e r a o rn p e o r s s a   l i s n     f b o i r -   l p i r n o g g u r a a l  m e s d   ucation  Story. Photo:Larry Harris   language learning groups in Anchorage dedicated to other Alaska Native languages have been submitted and at Dena’ina communities including Kenai, Nondalton, Pedro or are being prepared, in recognition that the ASC can be a leading Bay, and Tyonek. The 2010 DLI at the Arctic Studies Center, part of NMNH’s Recovering Voices initiative for perpetuating funded by the Anchorage Museum Foundation, will include elder indigenous languages and knowledge. Master artist programs, discussions and storytelling inspired by Dena’ina traditional lecture series, community consultations, classes, and educational clothing and equipment, combined with public programs, web- tours will fill out the yearly Living Our Cultures gallery program. based outreach, and YouTube postings of scripted language lessons. ASC-Alaska received wonderful support this year from the Smithsonian National Board’s newest Alaska member, AnchorageFROM SMITHONIAN BOOKS:LIVING OUR banker,Roxanna E. “Betsy” Lawer, and fromKirsten Peterson CULTURES, SHARING OUR HERITAGE: Johansenof the Smithsonian’s Offi of Development. With ce their help, the Arctic Studies Center and Anchorage Museum co- THE FIRST PEOPLES OF ALASKA hosted an elegant August reception and hard-hat tour of the newBy Aron L. Crowell facility for Smithsonian supporters, Anchorage Museum donors and board, political and corporate leaders, and Anchorage’s In April 2010, Smithsonian Books will philanthropic leading lights. The Anchorage community, the publishLiving Our Cultures, Sharing Rasmuson Foundation, Alaska Native corporations, and AlaskansOur Heritage: The First Peoples of statewide have generously contributed to expansion of theAlaska, to accompany the ASC’s new Anchorage Museum and creation of the new Arctic Studies Center, Anchorage exhibition. Edited byAron and attendees at the reception were pleased and excited to see theL. Crowell(Arctic Studies Center outcome of this shared effort. project director and exhibition curator), Rosita Worl(President, Sealaska “RECOVERING VOICES” IN ALASKA: Heritage Institute),Paul C. Ongtooguk   NEW GRANTS AND PROJECTS (University of Alaska, Anchorage), and disorctic Studies By Aron L. Crowell Center assistant exhibition cu D r a at w or n )   , D t . h   e B   i 3 d 15-pa n sedulcnie umol vge (A    forewords byCristiàn Samper(Director, NMNH) andJames  Recovering Voices (RV) is a museum-wide NMNH programPepper Henry(Director, Anchorage Museum); introductory essays for the perpetuation and documentation of indigenous languages by Crowell, Worl, and Ongtooguk; and Alaska Native-authored and knowledge worldwide (seeKrupnik,this newsletter on Iñupiaq ( chapters). Alaska’sBeverly Faye Hugo), St. Lawrence Island diverse and endangered languages will be one focus of this effort, Yup’ik (Merlin Koonooka), Yup’ik (Alice Rearden), Unangax and the Arctic Studies Center Alaska announces funding received (Alice Petrivelli), Sugpiaq (Gordon Pullar), Athabaskan (Eliza for the first RV projects planned for implementation in its newJones), Tlingit (Rosita Worl), Haida (Jeane Breinig), and Anchorage facility, opening in May. The Shared Beringian Heritage Tsimshian (David Boxley). The concluding chapter byLandis Program (National Park Service) awarded the ASC a three-year,Smith, Michele Austin-Dennehey,andKelly McHughdiscusses $130,000 grant entitled “Indigenous Language Learning and the innovative program of collaborative conservation that was used