Trove of Artifacts Dating Back to 500 A.D. returned to Alaska

Updated: September 28, 2016 Published: December 27, 2011

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UA Museum of the North collection manager Jim Whitney holds an atlatl thrower from the Birnirk collection, a new donation to the museum nearly 60 years after the artifacts were excavated near Point Barrow.

The 26,000-item collection from Harvard's Peabody Museum of North Slope artifacts includes hunting tools, harpoon parts, snow goggles and knives.

Trove of Artifacts Dating Back to 500 A.D. returned to Alaska

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