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v NEW EXHIBITS informed by studies of these historic boats. The kayak will be used as a tool for teaching traditional kayak-making skills, which the museum hopes to revive. Historic photographs and other artifacts related to kayaking will also be on display. (907) 486-7004, www.alutiiqmuseum.org (New, long-term exhibit)
McClung Museum of Natural History & Culture
National Museum of the American Indian
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn.—In honor of Knoxville’s 225th anniversary, the new exhibit “Knoxville Unearthed: Archaeology in the Heart of the Valley” explores the city’s heritage as seen through recent archaeological discoveries. Using historic artifacts unearthed in and around Knoxville along with historical images, maps, documents, and oral histories, the exhibition tells the story of Knoxville’s development from a frontier settlement to an industrialized city. A related lecture “Knoxville Unearthed” will be offered September 20th. (865) 974-2144, http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/exhibits/ (September 7-January 8, 2017)
Jacques Beardsell
National Museum of the American Indian Gustav Heye Center, New York, N.Y.—“Ceramica de los Ancestros: Central America’s Past Revealed” is a bilingual exhibition that explores the ancestral heritage of Central America from 1000 b.c. to the recent past. The exhibit examines seven regions representing distinct Central American cultural areas that are today part of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. The featured ceramics are augmented with significant examples of work in gold, jade, shell, and stone, illustrating the richness, complexity, and dynamic qualities of the Central American civilizations that were connected to peoples in South America, Mesoamerica, and the Caribbean through social and trade networks. (212) 514-3700, www.nmai.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/ newyork/ (Through December 2017)
Alutiiq Museum
Kodiak, Alaska—The new exhibition “Qayat-Kayaks” explores Alutiiq maritime traditions, highlighting a rare, recently returned historic kayak to the Alutiiq from Harvard’s Peabody Museum. The vessel will be displayed opposite a kayak frame carved by one of just a handful of Alutiiq kayak builders whose knowledge has been
american archaeology
Pointe-à-Callière, Montréal Museum of Archaeology and History
Montreal, Quebec, Canada—“Fragments of Humanity: Archaeology in Québec” is the first major exhibition dedicated entirely to Québec archaeology. Highlighting the richness and diversity of Québec’s archaeological collections, the exhibition is divided into four thematic sections relating to archaeology: ancient history; a land of trade and commerce; chronicles of daily life; and subaquatic archaeology. Some 350 significant artifacts will be featured, celebrating fifty years of archaeological discovery in Québec. A highlight of the exhibit is a rare dugout canoe made out of a single piece of wood that was discovered in the mid-1980s in a lake in Lanaudière. (514) 872-9150, www.pacmusee.qc.ca/en/exhibitions/ (Through January 8, 2017)
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