About a hundred people crowded into the cramped Arrivals area of the Sitka airport terminal Saturday evening to welcome home three Kaagwaantaan clan hats held for more than 100 years in a Pennsylvania museum.
Repatriation of the Kaagwaantaan Wolf Helmet, Ganook Hat and Noble Killer Hat from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology follows years of work by clan leaders and elders, and Sitka Tribe of Alaska staff and museum professionals.