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Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

7/1/1981 - 6/30/1984

Funding Totals

$92,602.00 (approved)
$92,602.00 (awarded)

The Last and First Eskimos: Remote Alaskan Villages in a Period of Transition (working title)

FAIN: GM-*1521-81

International Center of Photography (New York, NY 10128-0121)
Steve Rooney (Project Director: January 1981 to October 1990)

To support implementation of an exhibit featuring photographs by Alex Harris and interviews by Robert Coles gathered from trips between 1973-1978 to remote Alaskan villages. These photos examine the history of European-Eskimo contact and the changes occurring in traditional subsistence patterns of the Eskimo.