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Kayak offers gateway to vanishing culture

Specialists from Alaska to study vessel at Harvard museum

By Joel Brown

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  March 10, 2012

Alutiiq warriors’ kayaks - like the one in a special room at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University - were normally buried with their owners. “It’s one of a kind,’’ said Sven Haakanson, executive director of the Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository in Kodiak, Alaska. “We have lots of models of single-man kayaks, but no full-size ones, so what we can learn from that in terms of size and design is extremely important.’’

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