Researchers from the Smithsonian Institution visited Sitka recently.
The group works at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC. The collection includes countless items from Alaska. Staff members at the museum are well acquainted with those items. But they don’t often get to see where the items began. To do that, they turned to Sitka resident and renowned Tlingit weaver Teri Rofkar.
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Ed Ronco is a reporter at KCAW in Sitka.