About the Collector

Anthropologist-filmmaker Asen Balikci was on the staff of the National Museum of Canada (now the Canadian Museum of Civilization) from 1954 to 1961. In 1961, he conducted fieldwork among the Vuntut Gwitchin.

Gwadàl’ Zheii: Belongings from the Land has been developed in collaboration with the Gwich’in Social and Cultural Institute (www.gwichin.ca), Northwest Territories, and the Heritage Branch of the Vuntut Gwitchin Government (www.vgfn.ca), Yukon. Explore the rich cultural heritage of the Gwich’in through artifacts, historic and contemporary photographs, and oral histories and stories told by Elders.