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The Alutiiq Museum Gallery is Open

By Amy Steffian | Alutiiq Museum on Feb 2, 2021   Events/Notices  

The Alutiiq Museum Gallery is Open

The Alutiiq Museum’s gallery has reopened to the public. We invite you to view exhibits and shop in our store, knowing that we follow strict safety measures to keep our patrons safe. Our current hours are Noon to 4:00 pm, Tuesday through Saturday. Please wear a mask. Contact Djuna Davidson with questions, 844-425-8844, x20.

Dream-Alutiiq Word of the Week-January 31st

By Amy Steffian | Alutiiq Museum on Jan 31, 2021   Alutiiq Word of the Week & Museum News, Featured  

Dream-Alutiiq Word of the Week-January 31st

Qawangurtuaq – Dream Qawangurtuataartut. –They always dream. For Alutiiq people, dreaming is a magical state, one that draws people closer to the spirit world. Encounters between people and spirits often take place in dreams or as a person awakes from sleep. Shamans, people who interact closely with spirits, their apprentices through dreams, and dreams are thought […]

Dipper/Ladle/Bailer-Alutiiq Word of the Week-January 24th

By Amy Steffian | Alutiiq Museum on Jan 25, 2021   Alutiiq Word of the Week & Museum News, Featured  

Dipper/Ladle/Bailer-Alutiiq Word of the Week-January 24th

QALUTAQ – DIPPER, LADLE, BAILER MAQIWIGMI QALUTAT ATURTAAPET. – WE USE DIPPERS IN THE BANYA. Enter an Alutiiq steam bath and you will find an assortment of tools for bathing. Adjacent to a wood-burning stove fashioned from a fifty-five-gallon oil drum are large metal tubs for storing, heating, and mixing water; tongs for loading the stove […]

Alutiiq Museum to Create Online Database of Ancestral Collections

By Amanda Lancaster | Alutiiq Museum on Jan 15, 2021   Alutiiq Word of the Week & Museum News, Featured  

Alutiiq Museum to Create Online Database of Ancestral Collections

With a $32,578 grant from the US Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Sun’aq Tribe of Kodiak and the Alutiiq Museum are collaborating on a tool that will help people locate, view, and study Alutiiq objects in the world’s museums. The Amutat project, which started this month, will begin developing a database of ancestral Alutiiq objects […]

Meteor-Alutiiq Word of the Week-January 10th

By Amy Steffian | Alutiiq Museum on Jan 10, 2021   Alutiiq Word of the Week & Museum News  

Meteor-Alutiiq Word of the Week-January 10th

PAMYULEK – METEOR AKGUA’AQ PAMYULEGMEK TANGELLRIANGA. – THE OTHER NIGHT I SAW A METEOR. A meteor is a piece of space rock that burns as it falls through the Earth’s atmosphere, creating a bright streak in the night sky. The Alutiiq term for meteor—pamyulek—comes from the word pamyuq for tail or handle; something that extends […]

Calendar-Alutiiq Word of the Week-January 3rd

By Amy Steffian | Alutiiq Museum on Jan 3, 2021   Alutiiq Word of the Week & Museum News  

Calendar-Alutiiq Word of the Week-January 3rd

CISLLAT – PEG CALENDAR PAAPUKA GUI CISLLANGQ’RTAALLIA. – MY GRANDMOTHER HAD A PEG CALENDAR. Charting the passage of time was once a relative process. Alutiiq people noted the seasons by following changes in the natural environment and in the economic and social activities that accompanied the yearly cycle. With the introduction of Russian Orthodoxy, however, the Alutiiq […]

Star-Alutiiq Word of the Week-December 27th

By Amy Steffian | Alutiiq Museum on Dec 27, 2020   Alutiiq Word of the Week & Museum News, Featured  

Star-Alutiiq Word of the Week-December 27th

AGYAQ, MIT’AQ (KAR) – STAR AGYAT UNUGMI ANTAARTUT. – THE STARS COME OUT AT NIGHT. In the Alutiiq universe, stars live in the first of five consecutive sky worlds, closest to earth. This world is also home to the moon and northern lights, and the place where people go after dying for the fifth and […]

Box-Alutiiq Word of the Week-December 20th

By Amy Steffian | Alutiiq Museum on Dec 20, 2020   Alutiiq Word of the Week & Museum News  

Box-Alutiiq Word of the Week-December 20th

YAASIIK – BOX CAQINKA YAASIIMEN LLIITAANKA. – I PUT MY STUFF IN BOXES. In classical Alutiiq society, craftsmen fashioned wooden boxes in many shapes and sizes to hold food, water, and objects. Hunters carried small rectangular boxes packed with supplies in their kayaks. Women cooked traditional dishes by dropping hot stones into oval wooden containers […]

Necklace-Alutiiq Word of the Week-December 13th

By Amy Steffian | Alutiiq Museum on Dec 13, 2020   Alutiiq Word of the Week & Museum News  

Necklace-Alutiiq Word of the Week-December 13th

UYAMILLQUAQ – NECKLACE UYAMILLQUAN QUP’ARTLLRIA. – YOUR NECKLACE GOT BROKEN. In classical Alutiiq society, jewelry was an important means of social and personal expression. Decorative lip plugs, nose pins, ear ornaments, bracelets, arm bands, belts, pendants, and necklaces were worn by both men and women, providing outward signs of the wearer’s place in society. Jewelry […]

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