Museum Begins Study of Alutiiq Rock Art Sites - Alaska Native News
Museum Begins Study of Alutiiq Rock Art Sites Molly Odell maps pit-style petroglyphs near Cape Hepburn, Kodiak Island. Image-Alutiiq Museum With a $42,000 grant from the US Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Sun’aq Tribe of Kodiak and the Alutiiq Museum are collaborating on a study of ancestral Alutiiq rock art. The project, which started in January, is helping museum archaeologists study areas with known or suspected petroglyphs. Petroglyphs, or rock carvings, are a traditional form of artwork created by Alutiiq ancestors as much as 1000 years ago. They are known from about fifteen areas in the...
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