Sunday, April 22, 2007
Kwakwaka'wakw in Berlin
My first piece in German in four years came out today. It's the story of William Wasden, Jr., a Kwakwaka'wakw Indian from Vancouver Island in Canada.
He and his collaborators are here for a month cataloging a collection of Kwakwaka'wakw artifacts that's been part of the Berlin Ethnological Museum's collection since 1881. Some of the pieces were owned by Wasden's direct ancestors. It was a lot of fun getting to know him and find out more about his band's story. Learning how to pronounce the name was a challenge as well.
The piece is in the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, the Sunday magazine of the Berliner Morgenpost (photo courtesy Berliner Morgenpost).
Monday, April 16, 2007
Island of the Vikings
Last August I went to Poland to cover the world's largest gathering of Viking re-enactors for Archaeology magazine. It rained most of the weekend, but I had a lot of fun anyway. The story is in the May/June issue of Archaeology. There's an abstract of the article -- and some very cool photography by Lauren Lancaster -- on Archaeology's website, but if you want to read the full text you'll have to buy the magazine, on newsstands now.
Labels: Archaeology, Vikings
