Arts, Culture & Media  French-Alaskan cultural exchange   Photo:
Sven Haakenson, The Alutiiq Museum  "The World" goes to France
to introduce you to an extraordinary collection of wooden
ceremonial masks and artifacts. They were used in the past by
the Alutiiq people of the Alaskan island of Kodiak.   Player
utilities  We owe the survival of these artworks and crafts to a
French explorer and a French museum. That museum has housed more
than 100 of these items for nearly a century. Now, some of the
masks are back in Kodiak with the blessings of the French and
the appreciation of the Alutiiq.  See images from the museum
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