Aldona jonaitis biography
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Aldona Jonaitis
American writer
Aldona Jonaitis is the director of the University of Alaska Museum of the North, a professor of anthropology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and an author who has published widely on Native American art.
From 1975 to 1989, Jonaitis was a faculty member and administrator at the State University at Stony Brook.[1] Then from 1989 to 1993 she was the vice president for public programs at the American Museum of Natural History. She is currently the director of the University of Alaska Museum of the North in Fairbanks, Alaska.[2]
Books
[edit]- From the Land of the Totem Poles (1986)
- Art of the Northern Tlingit (1986)
- Chiefly Feasts: The Enduring Kwakiutl Potlatch (1991)
- Art of the Northwest Coast (2006)
- The Yuquot Whalers' Shrine (1999)
- Looking North : Art from the University of Alaska Museum (1998)
- Robert Davidson: Eagle of the Dawn (1993)
- The Yuquot Whalers' Shrine (1999)
- Tlingit halibut hooks: An analysis of the visual symbols of a rite of passage (1981)
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The University of Alaska Museum (UAM) was founded in 1927, when the college president sent a localadventurer, Otto Geist, to the Bering Sea and other northern regions to collect archeological andethnographic materials. Soon he was adding Pleistocene remains to his culture history acquisitions. Geist's collections, along with some paintings that had been in the President's offices, were theearliest collections of a museum which now holds more than 1.25 million specimens and artifactsorganized into the departments of anthropology and history, archeology, botany, entomology,ethnographic film, geology and paleontology, fine arts, ichthyology, mammalogy, ornithology. Ninecurators hold faculty positions, teach undergraduate and graduate students, and receive tenure inacademic departments. There is also a frozen tissue collection curated jointly by the biologycurators.
UAM is in Fairbanks, population approximately 70,000, located near the center of Alaska, not far southof the Arctic Circle,. The University of Alaska Fairbanks, the flagship campus of a statewide system,offers the full range of degrees including the Ph.D. in a variety of disciplines. Its greateststrength is artic and subarctic research, and the Geophysical Institute, International Arctic ResearchCenter and Institute