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By the mid 1800?s Russian fur traders enslaved the peoples of Kodiak to hunt for them and missionaries were trying to save them by giving them Russian names and language. One young French explorer in1871 stayed in Kodiak for six months, taking extensive notes in Russian about the culture, language and artwork of the Alutiiq peoples. When the explorer died in 1911, he left about 87 wooden ceremonial masks and more than 100 other artifacts from Kodiak to a small French museum where they survived two world wars. In 2000, Alutiiq artists started making pilgrimages to France to see the masks once lost to their culture. This first aired on PRI's The World and is part of the one-hour documentary, Coming Home: The Return of the Alutiiq Masks produced with Koahnic Broadcast Corporation. For more info, visit Earthsongs.net.
Broadcast History
First aired on PRI's The World. Part of the one-hour documentary, Coming Home: The Return of the Alutiiq Masks.
Transcript
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By the mid 1800?s Russian fur traders enslaved the peoples of Kodiak to hunt for them and missionaries were trying to save them by giving them Russian names and language. One young French explorer in1871 stayed in Kodiak for six months, taking extensive notes in Russian about the culture, language and artwork of the Alutiiq peoples. When the explorer died in 1911, he left about 87 wooden ceremonial masks and more than 100 other artifacts from Kodiak to a small French museum where they survived two world wars. In 2000, Alutiiq artists started making pilgrimages to France to see the masks once lost to their culture. Producer Dmae Roberts with Koahnic (Koh-AHN-ick) Broadcast Corporation has this story.
SOUND: FADE UP AND UNDER FRENCH GUIDE WELCOMING CHILDREN.
DMAE ROBERTS: In Bologne Sur Mer off the coast of Northern France, there?s a 13th century castle turned mu...
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