Thar be Monsters

This is where they keep the dinosaurs. The government totally denies it, but I know better. (I've just made myself paranoid. The collections room I am working in has only one exit. If the raptors attack when I am in here, I'm a goner!)

Native Heart

Best hat ever!



One for the ladies....

His pipe is on fire (literally) as he is playing it!

The Alaska Native Heritage Center had a summer intertribal gathering this weekend, and one of the groups was called Native Heart, which was really two groups, one from Mexico and one from Arizona (I think). They were very entertaining.

I'm not sure why the pics I took this weekend didn't turn out as good as I would've liked. It was over cast, but either I had the camera on the wrong setting, or it was from when I bounced it off the gravel :(

Religion

Russian Orthodox.

The Love Church.

and my favorite, the Church of the Arctic Roadrunner.... they put other meats on your burger, like ham and salami.... mmmmmm... heavenly....

Making progress

I am now more or less organized (or at least as much organization that time will allow), and am finally ready to start cateloging.

4th of July

On the 4th, the museum had a Salmon Bake / fly over. Unfortunately, i didn't get too many pics of the planes in the air, I was directing traffic, and so wasn't in a good spot, but they had some cool planes that flew really close to the ground (I think all the planes in the photos flew). it was pretty neat. Captain Phil from World's Deadliest Catch was signing autographs. That's Phil next to the Orange Goose. Unfortunately I had no idea who he was, since i had never seen the show, and so had no reason to engage him in conversation (though i have since seen many episodes, and now have some good questions - next time)

Proof that the case makes all the difference

We populated two cases in the new terminal at the Ted Stevens International Airport across the street last week. Basically the exhibits guy made up a bunch of photos on foam core, and picked some objects. I helped install. It looks pretty good for having absolutely no plan, though I didn't have the heart to tell him that technically, it's only a display and not an exhibit. (and yes... that IS a ten foot tall case that is three feet off the ground)

Exhibits

I use the term loosly, but some cool stuff anyway!