July 18 -- Sheldon Museum, Haines

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This is the first thing you see when you walk into the Sheldon Museum. Isn't it excellent? I love the strong features, the colors, the wood grain............









Museum lobby. This one's for you, Mom.







When you go up the stairs that are just inside the front door, you find First Nations artifacts.

Many of the people who have lived in southeast Alaska for millenia are Tlingit. The woman who spoke to us about some of her traditions (a lecture/slide show on the ship) said that you don't try to pronounce "T" and "l" -- that, really, the sound is the same as the beginning of the word "challah" in Yiddish. (That's not how she described it, but that's how she pronounced it. At least to my uneducated ear.) She said she'd be happy to hear of better ideas for how to spell that sound......

It seemed to me that she prounounced it almost as though it were two words -- "Tling get." (It sounded more like "get" than "git" to me........)







The museum's holdings are wide and varied, especially for such a small museum.

(These smaller objects were all shot through glass. I tried to avoid the worst of the glare.........)






I think this basket is made from sewing thread. It was incredibly finely done.







I believe this sort of painting might have been found in a dwelling.

I love the bold graphic quality, and the color............







In addition to the artifacts themselves, there is information about what was needed to make them.







The gift shop is upstairs. I surely hope the handmade artifacts sell well. I'm sure they are worth every penny! (I took three shots of this lovely basket, and all, alas, are blurry.....)

They also have an interesting selection of books. My daughter bought a berry cookbook.....







When you go down the stairs right inside the front door to the museum, you find artifacts from those of European decent.

I hadn't had any real opportunity to photograph a salmon at this point, and thought that since this one was very still, I'd better grab my opportunity.







The collection in this part of the museum is perhaps even more eclectic than that found upstairs.









This made-from-pennants object makes me smile everytime I look at it.







Apparently the officers at the fort had dinner-warmers built into their radiators....







How wild-and-wooly can a place be, if there is a golf course?








There is a nice garden outside the museum. Mmmmm. Orange.





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