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Photo Gallery: A Prize Pipeline Pig

Alaska Public Media | By Museum of the North
Published December 12, 2011 at 12:01 PM AKST

Alyeska Pipeline Service Company donated a pig to the UA Museum of the North's ethnology and history collection. It will be displayed at the west end of the building grounds. Here are some photos of the pig in question and the moving process:

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Alyeska Pipeline Service Company donated a pig to the museum's ethnology and history ...

The scene of Operation Pig Placement

After weeks of planning and coordination with Alyeska, the pig is about to be placed ...

The UAF crew that moved the pig into place said it was lighter than it looked.

The UAF crew used a forklift to move the pig from its pallet to its permanent display...

Planning the best course of action. How many hands does it take to place a pig?

Swinging the pig into place. It only took one try.

Moving the pipeline pig donated by Alyeska into the stand for display on the museum g...

Pipeline pigs are made out of a variety of materials, including soft and hard plastic...

The pig is placed in its permanent exhibit location on the grounds of the University ...

Alyeska driver Ed Baldwin and ethnology and history collection manager Angela Linn ob...

Exhibit & design coordinator Steve Bouta and ethnology & history collection manager A...

A pig is a device inserted into a pipeline to clean, inspect, and perform other speci...

Inspecting the Inspector

The pipeline pig donated by Alyeska to our ethnology and history collection for perma...

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The University of Alaska Museum of the North is a popular visitor attraction, a vital component of the university and the only research and teaching museum in Alaska. The museum’s collection – 1.4 million artifacts and specimens – represents millions of years of biological diversity and thousands of years of cultural traditions. The collections are organized into 10 disciplines (archaeology, birds, documentary film, earth sciences, ethnology, fine arts, fishes, insects, mammals, and plants) and serve as a resource for research on climate change, contaminants and other issues facing the circumpolar North.

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