Photos: Living Alaska exhibition

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Rachelle Dowdy, Hollowed Search: Crane Woman Hunts, part of the Living Alaska exhibit at the Anchorage Museum, Tuesday, November 24, 2015.

For a browser who has paid attention to local artists and art shows over the past 10 years or so, the "Living Alaska" exhibit that opened at the Anchorage Museum this month feels like a homecoming. Or maybe an aesthetic version of the triumphant processions that honored conquering heroes of antiquity.

Among the 73 pieces in the spaciously displayed show are several key works by important creative people that we haven't seen for a while. There are also many from Fairbanks or Southeast collections that may seem like something the Anchorage-bound viewer thinks we may have seen, but are in fact new to us.

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