Curator Identifies Native Potlatch Hat’s Added Rings at the Anchorage Museum’s Smithsonian Exhibit
On long term loan from the Smithsonian, the Native Alaska Hall at The Anchorage Museum is filled with artifacts from Alaska’s indigenous Native Cultures. The artifacts were collected by expeditions during the last century and originally housed at the Smithsonian. There many languished in the Smithsonian’s warehouses until returned to Alaska.
In this video see artifacts from the Southeastern Alaska Haida People. Highlighted is a conical Potlatch Hat with added rings. As explained by the Anchorage Museum curator, each added ring represents an additional Potlatch attended by the wearer.
Link to Video of Curator Ex[plaining Potlatch Hat at Smithsonian'sLoaned Native Alaskan Wing of Anchorage Museum
FROM A COLLECTION OF HISTORIC ANCHORAGE PHOTOS TAKEN BY PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER WARD WELLS CIRCA 1960s and currently being featured at the anchorage museum:
Anchorage's first Escalator which was in Montgomery Wards Store. (As kids it was a great thrill for us to come ride it.)
German Restaurant that served the world's best open faced turkey sandwiches. Unfortunately it did not survive the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake:
Reportedly Elvis Visiting Anchorage:
Anchorage's Once Top Restaurant Open only for evening dining and located in a wartime quonset hut. It stayed in operation until the mid to late 70's:
From a past era when Alaska cows in Palmer supplied milk to Anchorage. Today all of Anchorage's milk is shipped in from "the lower 48:"
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FROM THIS MORNING'S VISIT TO THE MUSEUM
Curator Identifies Native Potlatch Hat’s Added Rings at the Anchorage Museum’s Smithsonian Exhibit
On long term loan from the Smithsonian, the Native Alaska Hall at The Anchorage Museum is filled with artifacts from Alaska’s indigenous Native Cultures. The artifacts were collected by expeditions during the last century and originally housed at the Smithsonian. There many languished in the Smithsonian’s warehouses until returned to Alaska.
In this video see artifacts from the Southeastern Alaska Haida People. Highlighted is a conical Potlatch Hat with added rings. As explained by the Anchorage Museum curator, each added ring represents an additional Potlatch attended by the wearer.
Link to Video of Curator Ex[plaining Potlatch Hat at Smithsonian'sLoaned Native Alaskan Wing of Anchorage Museum
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/urKVVK0OVmE
CONCURRENTLY TAKEN PHOTOS INCLUDING A PAPO0SE MADE FROM SEALSKIN:
FROM THE COLD WAR EXHIBITION AT THE MUSEUM:
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FROM A COLLECTION OF HISTORIC ANCHORAGE PHOTOS TAKEN BY PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER WARD WELLS CIRCA 1960s and currently being featured at the anchorage museum:
Anchorage's first Escalator which was in Montgomery Wards Store. (As kids it was a great thrill for us to come ride it.)
German Restaurant that served the world's best open faced turkey sandwiches. Unfortunately it did not survive the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake:
Reportedly Elvis Visiting Anchorage:
Anchorage's Once Top Restaurant Open only for evening dining and located in a wartime quonset hut. It stayed in operation until the mid to late 70's:
From a past era when Alaska cows in Palmer supplied milk to Anchorage. Today all of Anchorage's milk is shipped in from "the lower 48:"
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