Watching Josh video on museum fakes reminded me of a recent BBC PBS piece on the fake Mormon documents that were purported to be from Joseph Smith and his kin who ostensibly wrote the foundation documents dictated by the Angel Moroni. An incredible modern forger had fooled the experts with a number of apparent archival…
Read MoreThis topic was recently discussed at our Tanana Yukon Historical Society board meeting on March 4th, 2021 about a bowhead whale skeleton at UAMN. I don’t know if this has been one of our class module topics or meet ups, but thought it may be of interest to the students. Aren Gunderson sprays water while…
Read MoreI’m sorry to have missed the March 4th zoom meetup featuring the other Angie Schmidt on film and video preservation. I have donated reels of my father’s 16 mm films that were shot in Fairbanks, Valdez and Cordova from 1960 to 1970. I also donated some 16 mm I shot later from 1976 to 1986…
Read MoreAfter viewing the required videos for Module 7 on collection management I was amazed at the amount of work in managing the UAMN artifacts. Seeing Stefi’s work in squishing plants, field notes and tagging the botanical specimens made me realize I don’t have enough long term organizational and documentational skills to be employed in a…
Read MoreI watched the recorded Zoom meetup for module 6 discussion. I found the parallel comments from students very illuminating about their experiences with living history museums and zoos. It was also good to see a few more classmates faces in the mix this time so my facial recognition needs have been expanded to start to…
Read MoreMod-5-why collect I have come across this recent article in the Jan 2021 issue of American Antiquity about employing experimental models to interpret old collections. The authors open with the reason why curators collect.
Read MoreAfter reading the assigned 2003 article of Who Owns Native Culture by Brown, I had recollection of a flap over the Alaska Airlines logo and a tangential aside concerning the popular name designation for a celestial object tagged as the Eskimo Nebula. The flap over the Eskimo face and logo on the tail of AK…
Read MoreI have read some of the articles in the latest issue of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) and noticed it is full of many topics we have been discussing in our module posts. I have not included all the content in some but did include the full report from their president, Joe Watkins who…
Read MoreI viewed the recording of our Feb 11, 2021 meetup and always get a giggle out of the transcriptions. I am aware that casual contemporaneous informational live talks like these are tough for the robot to transcribe on the fly, but some things are just too funny sometimes, sort of like bloopers. My three favorites…
Read MoreAfter reading the assigned reading and videos for Mod 4 governance I saw that we need to investigate a museum to look at one for discussion. So I have chosen one down the road in Santa Fe in the old palace of the governors. https://www.nmhistorymuseum.org/about/ I went there last year to see what was displayed. …
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