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Visiting Scholars
Sealaska Heritage Institute sponsors a Visiting Scholar Program for
graduate students enrolled into an accredited educational institution or
professors engaged in research that advance knowledge of Tlingit, Haida
or Tsimshian culture, language, arts, or history. SHI will provide
visiting scholars with logistical support, access to SHI’s library,
archival collections, and ethnographic collections, and the support of
SHI staff for the scholar’s research. In some situations, SHI can
provide an honorarium and support toward a book publication.
Scholars who participate are required to adhere to traditional protocols
and laws in respecting clan ownership and clan attribution. Scholars
will be required to provide SHI with a gratis copy of their final
research paper, dissertation, or publication, as well as provide one
public lecture at SHI or in Southeast Alaska on their research.
For further information contact Sealaska Heritage Institute's
Special Collections Research Center at 907.463.4844.
Button
Blanket Project
SHI Visiting Scholar, Fiona McDonald, is conducting a research project
in which she will investigate how button blankets are made, how they are
used today and how they become at.óow. She will interview and record
and/or film button blanket markers and those who receive the blankets.
She will provide those she will interview the questions she will ask one
week in advance of the scheduled interview.
We think this is an important project that will record the continuing
importance of button blankets. If you are interested in being
interviewed or know of someone who could make a contribution to this
project, please contact
fiona.mcdonald.09@ucl.ac.uk
Copies of the recordings will be held in SHI Archives and available for
educational purposes. Fiona will also make her written work available
to SHI.
Art History Totem Parks Project
SHI Visiting Scholar Emily Moore, Art History PhD candidate at
University of California Berkley, is
conducting research on the totem parks
of Southeast Alaska. These totem parks, located at Saxman, Totem Bight,
Wrangell, Kasaan, Klawock, and Hydaburg, were constructed during the
1930s during the Great Depression (excluding Sitka’s pre-existing park,
but it also received restorations during this period).The totem parks
were created when the federal government, acting through the U.S. Forest
Service and an emergency relief program called the Civilian Conservation
Corps (CCC), hired Tlingit and Haida men to restore or replicate
nineteenth-century totem poles from Native villages. The parks represent
the first major act of government patronage for Tlingit and Haida art in
the United States, and the totem parks continue to be important sites
for Tlingit and Haida communities today.
Moore is interested in contacting carvers or their relatives in Tlingit and Haida communities who remember someone who worked on the New Deal totem parks, or details concerning the carving project, as Moore also works to honor the individual carvers who worked on this historic project and the project’s legacy.
If you are interested in being interviewed, or if you have additional information about the carvers, the totem parks, or other factors relative to Moore’s research, please contact emilylmoore@berkeley.edu. Moore will research this topic from SHI’s office in October and November 2011.