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A Tatala (canoe) is suspended on a wall at the Burke Museum. The Tatala carries members of the Tao people during journeys out to sea.
A sign on one of the first floor walls acknowledges the colonialist past of museums' treatment of native objects and history.
Visitors can learn and practice their weaving skills with twine and ribbon on a large rope structure on the first floor.
Tlingit carver Israel Shotridge demonstrates the carving of a traditional bentwood box. These boxes served as storage unites for high ranking members of a Tlingit tribe.
Santino "Tino" Camacho performs songs at the Indigenous Peoples' Day Grand Opening at the Burke Museum on Oct. 14, 2019. Camacho, a graduate student in the UW Health Sciences program, is CHamoru.
Filipino-American artist Derek Dizon stands next to "Sad Ancestor," a chalk drawing that honors Dizon's grandmother, who was a healer in the Philippines.
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