Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository in Kodiak, Alaska
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Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository in Kodiak, Alaska
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Alutiiq Museum
Celebrating heritage through living culture
Cama’i – Hello
The past meets the present at the Alutiiq Museum, where you can explore 7,800 years of Alutiiq/Sugpiaq heritage. See ancestral artifacts, discover history, and learn how Alutiiq traditions continue. We welcome people of all ages, heritages, and abilities to our exhibits and programs. Please join us.
Connect
Find upcoming events and our latest resources at the links below.
Place Names
Map
Our interactive map shares over 300 Alutiiq words for Kodiak’s communities, landmarks, and geographic features. Click on a place to see and hear its Alutiiq name.
Explore
Kodiak to Carlisle
Now Showing
This exhibit discusses the eleven students taken from Woody Island and Long Island to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1901, and the efforts to bring the remains of two girls home.
About
Acquisitions
New Collections
Every year, the Alutiiq Museum’s collections grow with gifts of artifacts, artwork, photos, documents, and recordings. Learn about some of our latest additions.
Additions
Karluk Lake
History
For six years, museum archaeologists have been studying the 7800-years of Alutiiq history beside Karluk Lake. Learn about their finds and life in Kodiak’s interior.
Results
Latest Activity
Pililita—Let’s Create
Send a message with pictographs, play word games, make paper dolls, or host a tea party. Find a free downloadable page of our activity book at the start of each month.
Activity Pages
Word of the Week
Lesson Archive
The Alutiiq Word of the Week has been sharing language and cultural traditions for over 26 years. Find all 681 lessons in our online, searchable archive. What will you learn?
Archive
Traditions
New Lessons
We’ve updated our popular Alutiiq Traditions book with new lessons on animals, ceramics, shellfish, and villages. Download these and other lessons.
Lessons
Explore
Dive deeper into Alutiiq/Sugpiaq world with these links to cultural information and museum programs.
The Alutiiq World
History, Subsistence, Language, Art
Language
Lessons, Place Names, Collections, Research, History
Education
Cultural Activities, Teacher Resources
Collections
Holdings, Amutat, Research, Facilities, Policies
Shop
Enjoy Alutiiq art, fuel artistic practice, and support the museum with purchases from the museum store.
Beaded headdress by Cassie Rowland
Alutiiq Museum Store
SHOP LOCAL. SHOP ALUTIIQ.
Find unique artwork, handmade gifts, books, and museum merchandise inspired by Alutiiq heritage. Shop at our store in the museum or at the Native Welcome center in the Kodiak Marketplace, visit us
online,
or let us assist you by phone (844-425-8844). Gift wrapping is available.
Shop Online
Support
Your donation helps to keep the light of Alutiiq culture burning bright. Be a lamplighter. Give to the museum today. A culture illuminated is never lost.
Give Now
Follow Us on Instagram — #Alutiiq Museum, #Alutiiq Everywhere
alutiiqmuseum
The Alutiiq Museum preserves and shares the heritage and living culture of the Alutiiq people. #alutiiqeverywhere
Unfortunately, we are postponing our Teaching Arti
Time is running out! Sign up for our Teaching Arti
The Alutiiq word of the week is Blocked — Sapurlun
Quyanaa to Wanda Katelnikoff-Harris for donating t
This hand carved traditional duck bowl was made by
Attention Alutiiq artists! Come attend our Teachin
Join us in welcoming our new Board & Executive Coo
The Alutiiq word of the week is Dart Game — Augca’
New items online from Alutiiq Seal Artist Natalia
"From Kodiak to Carlisle, Tracing our Lost Student
New inventory from Alutiiq Seal Artist Freddie Kat
There’s something for everyone in our gallery! Ste
Follow on Instagram
Skip to main content
Alutiiq Museum
Celebrating heritage through living culture
Cama’i – Hello
The past meets the present at the Alutiiq Museum, where you can explore 7,800 years of Alutiiq/Sugpiaq heritage. See ancestral artifacts, discover history, and learn how Alutiiq traditions continue. We welcome people of all ages, heritages, and abilities to our exhibits and programs. Please join us.
Connect
Find upcoming events and our latest resources at the links below.
Place Names
Map
Our interactive map shares over 300 Alutiiq words for Kodiak’s communities, landmarks, and geographic features. Click on a place to see and hear its Alutiiq name.
Explore
Kodiak to Carlisle
Now Showing
This exhibit discusses the eleven students taken from Woody Island and Long Island to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1901, and the efforts to bring the remains of two girls home.
About
Acquisitions
New Collections
Every year, the Alutiiq Museum’s collections grow with gifts of artifacts, artwork, photos, documents, and recordings. Learn about some of our latest additions.
Additions
Karluk Lake
History
For six years, museum archaeologists have been studying the 7800-years of Alutiiq history beside Karluk Lake. Learn about their finds and life in Kodiak’s interior.
Results
Latest Activity
Pililita—Let’s Create
Send a message with pictographs, play word games, make paper dolls, or host a tea party. Find a free downloadable page of our activity book at the start of each month.
Activity Pages
Word of the Week
Lesson Archive
The Alutiiq Word of the Week has been sharing language and cultural traditions for over 26 years. Find all 681 lessons in our online, searchable archive. What will you learn?
Archive
Traditions
New Lessons
We’ve updated our popular Alutiiq Traditions book with new lessons on animals, ceramics, shellfish, and villages. Download these and other lessons.
Lessons
Explore
Dive deeper into Alutiiq/Sugpiaq world with these links to cultural information and museum programs.
The Alutiiq World
History, Subsistence, Language, Art
Language
Lessons, Place Names, Collections, Research, History
Education
Cultural Activities, Teacher Resources
Collections
Holdings, Amutat, Research, Facilities, Policies
Shop
Enjoy Alutiiq art, fuel artistic practice, and support the museum with purchases from the museum store.
Beaded headdress by Cassie Rowland
Alutiiq Museum Store
SHOP LOCAL. SHOP ALUTIIQ.
Find unique artwork, handmade gifts, books, and museum merchandise inspired by Alutiiq heritage. Shop at our store in the museum or at the Native Welcome center in the Kodiak Marketplace, visit us
online,
or let us assist you by phone (844-425-8844). Gift wrapping is available.
Shop Online
Support
Your donation helps to keep the light of Alutiiq culture burning bright. Be a lamplighter. Give to the museum today. A culture illuminated is never lost.
Give Now
Follow Us on Instagram — #Alutiiq Museum, #Alutiiq Everywhere
alutiiqmuseum
The Alutiiq Museum preserves and shares the heritage and living culture of the Alutiiq people. #alutiiqeverywhere
Unfortunately, we are postponing our Teaching Arti
Time is running out! Sign up for our Teaching Arti
The Alutiiq word of the week is Blocked — Sapurlun
Quyanaa to Wanda Katelnikoff-Harris for donating t
This hand carved traditional duck bowl was made by
Attention Alutiiq artists! Come attend our Teachin
Join us in welcoming our new Board & Executive Coo
The Alutiiq word of the week is Dart Game — Augca’
New items online from Alutiiq Seal Artist Natalia
"From Kodiak to Carlisle, Tracing our Lost Student
New inventory from Alutiiq Seal Artist Freddie Kat
There’s something for everyone in our gallery! Ste
Follow on Instagram