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Press Release
May 30, 2008
(Radio Actualities)
SHI RELEASES
FIRST PHOTO BOOK OF CELEBRATION
Sealaska
Heritage Institute (SHI) will release its first coffee-table style photo
book of Celebration during the 2008 festival, scheduled June 5-7.
The hardcover book Celebration: Tlingit Haida Tsimshian Dancing on
the Land will feature color and black-and-white images from the
first Celebrations to the present. Most of the photos were taken by the
noted photographer Bill Hess and have never been published.
Bill Hess has a talent for capturing the joy of Celebration, said SHI
President Rosita Worl, adding some of the images are very moving because
they show beloved Elders who have since passed away.
“I think we’ve captured really the essence of Celebration -- the
happiness people have in celebrating their culture. But I think those of
us who were involved in putting this book together were really happy to
see a lot of our Elders who are no longer with us,” Worl said.
The book includes brief articles written by Rosita Worl and features
essays by Dr. Maria Williams, a Tlingit who holds a PhD in music, and
Robert Davidson, a well-known Haida artist who has carved some of the
stunning masks featured at Celebration. It also includes a foreword by
Byron Mallott, a Sealaska director and well-known Native leader. The
book mostly focuses on the images, though, and SHI went to great lengths
to try to identify all of the people in the photos, Worl said.
“When you see most books of Native people, they might put Tlingit, or a
Haida or a Tsimshian but they don’t have the names, and we really wanted
to personalize our people.” Worl said.
The book is available through SHI. The cost is $50 for a limited
quantity of advance copies available at Celebration and $40 to order the
book, scheduled to arrive in Juneau in early June.
CONTACT: Rosita Worl, SHI president, 907-463-4844
Radio
Actualities
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Rosita Worl, SHI President, TRT: :21
“I think we’ve captured really the essence of celebration -- the
happiness people have in celebrating their culture. But I think those
of us who were involved in putting this book together were really
happy to see a lot of our Elders who are no longer with us.” (mpeg)
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- Rosita Worl, SHI President, TRT: :12 “When you see most books of Native people, they might put Tlingit, or a Haida or a Tsimshian but they don’t have the names, and we really wanted to personalize our people.” (mpeg) (wav)