Aldona Jonaitis

Aldona Jonaitis

Aldona Jonaitis is the director of the Museum of the North, a professor of anthropology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and an author who has published widely on Native American Art.

From 1975 to 1989, Jonaitis was a faculty member and administrator at the State University at Stony Brook. [ [http://www.alaska.edu/OrgCharts/uaf-chancellor-brian-rogers/vc-acad.-affairs-susan-he/dir.-ua-museum-aldona-jon/ Jonaitis' profile at the University of Alaska] ] She then became the vice president for public programs at the American Museum of Natural History, where she'd stay four years before going to her current role as the director of the University of Alaska Museum of the North in Fairbanks, Alaska. [ [http://www.dmpibooks.com/author/109 Jonaitis' profile at Douglas & McIntyre publishers] ]

Books

* "From the Land of the Totem Poles" (1986)
* "Art of the Northern Tlingit" (1986)
* "" (1991)
* "Art of the Northwest Coast" (2006)
* "The Yuquot Whalers' Shrine " (1999)
* "" (1998)
* "" (1993)
* "The Yuquot Whalers' Shrine" (1999)
* "" (1981)

External Links

* [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=fbTVsM7gpXAC&dq=%22Aldona+Jonaitis%22&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=TjWEwfAJWv&sig=mJ74msl-7yDB8czlc_86Z51RfvQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPP1,M1 full text of The Yuquot Whalers' Shrine online]

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