FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                           For more
information contact:
October 20,
1999
Dayna Brockman

(907) 486-7004

                        PARKA PROJECT CELEBRATION

Join the Alutiiq Museum on Thursday, October 28, to celebrate the
unveiling of a

traditional ground squirrel parka created by artists Susan Malutin and
Grace Harrod.

Festivities will include a lamp lighting ceremony and invocation, a
welcoming by the

Kodiak Alutiiq Dancers, the debut of a documentary film by Mary
Patterson Gertz, a

presentation by the artists, and refreshments.  The celebration begins
at 7:00 pm at the

Alutiiq Museum, 215 Mission Road.



The Parka Project is part of Looking Both Ways: Heritage and Identity of
the Alutiiq

People, a collaborative exhibit currently under production by the
Alutiiq Museum and the

Smithsonian Institution’s Arctic Studies Center.  For the exhibit,
Malutin and Harrod

agreed to reproduce an Alutiiq parka from Ugashik, currently stored at
the National

Museum of Natural History.  Their parka will be featured in the exhibit
which will open

in Kodiak in December of 2000, before traveling to communities in Alaska
and the

continental United States.


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Dayna Brockman, Programs Manager
Alutiiq Museum & Archaeological Repository
215 Mission Road, Suite 101
Kodiak, Alaska 99615
voice:  (907) 486-7004
fax:  (907) 486-7048
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