Yakutat Seal Camps

The Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center’s Yakutat Seal Camps project is a multidisciplinary study of 900 years of interaction between people, seals and glaciers at Yakutat Bay, Alaska. Join us for a journey into Yakutat’s history. We’ll hear about the anthropology projects underway to elucidate how Yakutat Bay was peopled, and how Alaska Native oral histories in the region compliment the science.

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C. Hart Merriam photo album at the Bancroft Library, Berkeley, photograph of Yakutat sealing camp in 1899. Photo courtesy Aron Crowell, Anchorage Museum.
C. Hart Merriam photo album at the Bancroft Library, Berkeley, photograph of Yakutat sealing camp in 1899. Photo courtesy Aron Crowell, Anchorage Museum.

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BROADCAST ON KSKA: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. (Alaska time)

REPEAT BROADCAST: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 at 9:00 p.m. (Alaska time)

RECORDED: Thursday, October 2, at the Anchorage Museum

HOST: Anchorage Museum, Smithsonian Spotlight Series

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