Last week, the Peabody Museum at Harvard University announced that a rare mid-19th-century Alutiiq kayak, on loan to a Kodiak museum since 2016, would be permanently returned there.
Harvard University has transferred ownership of an historic Alutiiq kayak to the Alutiiq Museum in Kodiak. The boat is on display in the Alutiiq Museum gallery.
The discovery of the rare, one-person kayak was remarkable. Haakanson said he knows of only seven such kayaks in existence. This one had been owned by, would be permanently returned there. “I am not just honored by that, but so appreciative of the respect given back to us in that act,” Haakanson said. “It’s humbling.”An Anchorage charter school centered around Alaska Native values is searching for a permanent homeTufts of human hair are sewn into the boat’s seams, making the kayak even more of a rarity. In Alutiiq or Sugpiaq culture, hair holds a person’s essence, according to Amanda Lancaster, curator at the Alutiiq Museum.
The kayak is 14.5 feet long and covered in oiled sealskin. Haakanson thinks it was used for hunting whales and that the hair sewn into the boat likely belonged to a skilled whaler.
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