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Great Lakes Maritime Collections
These collections consist of documentation of and objects related to a variety of maritime folk traditions of the Great Lakes as well as Michigan's inland waterways. Some materials result from regional studies of maritime traditions including surveys of the Clinton River area, the Thumb, the AuSable River, and the northwest lower peninsula.
The collections include archival holdings (photos, videos, audio tapes of interviews, field notes, and ephemera) and objects (a small fleet of boats (duck hunting and fishing boats, canoes), duck blinds, model ships, duck decoys, a ship's bell, fish decoys, and knotwork). Subjects included in the collections are lighthouses, commercial fishing, folksongs, foodways, boat building, recreational fishing, luremaking, decoy making, miniature boat building, knot tying, and waterfowling traditions.
Donors and Fieldworkers
Dennis Au, Michael Chiarappa, Timothy Cochrane, Janet Gilmore, C. Kurt Dewhurst, LuAnne G. Kozma, Yvonne Lockwood, Marsha MacDowell, Jay Martin, Laurie Sommers, and Hawk Tolson
Exhibitions
Marlinespikes and Monkey's Fists: Traditional Arts and Knot-Tying Skills of Maritime Workers. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Museum, January - June, 1994.
Caught on the Fly: Fly Fishing Traditions in Michigan. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Museum, 1998.
Festival of Michigan Folklife 1990, Maritime Occupational Traditions.
Festival of Michigan Folklife 1995, Knot Tying Traditions.
Festival of Michigan Folklife 1998, Traditions of Michigan's Thumb.
Marlinespikes and Monkey's Fists: Traditional Arts and Knot-Tying Skills of Maritime Workers (traveling version): Historical Society of Cheboygan County, Cheboygan, Michigan, July - August, 1994; Northwest Michigan Maritime Museum, Empire, Michigan, November, 1994; Manistee Civic Players, Inc., Manistee, Michigan, December, 1994 - January, 1995; St. Clair Shores Public Library, St. Clair Shores, Michigan, February - April, 1995; Dossin Great Lakes Museum, Detroit, Michigan, April - June, 1995; Iosco County Historical Museum, East Tawas, Michigan, July - August, 1995; Tri-Cities Museum, Grand Haven, Michigan, August, 1995 - February, 1996; Grand Traverse Lighthouse Foundation, Northport, Michigan, May - October, 1996; Little Traverse History Museum, Petoskey, Michigan, October - December 1996; Door County Maritime Museum, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, June - November, 1997; Mississippi River Museum, Memphis, Tennessee, April 8 - June 3, 2000; Port Huron Museum, Port Huron, Michigan, June 24 - August 27, 2000.
Publications
LuAnne Gaykowski Kozma, "Fish Patties, Russian Spoons, and Other Not-So-Well Known Traditions from the Watery Edges of Michigan's Thumb," in Yvonne R. Lockwood and Marsha MacDowell, eds. 1998 Michigan Folklife Annual. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Museum, 1998.
LuAnne Gaykowski Kozma, "Sea Stories and Monkey's Fists," in Yvonne R. Lockwood and Ruth D. Fitzgerald, eds. 1990 Festival of Michigan Folklife. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Museum, 1990.
LuAnne Gaykowski Kozma, "Learning to Document Maritime Traditions: The 4-H FOLKPATTERNS Maritime Folklife Workshop," in Yvonne R. Lockwood and Marsha MacDowell, eds. 1998 Michigan Folklife Annual. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Museum, 1998.
LuAnne Gaykowski Kozma, contributing author to The Great Lakes Education Program Educator's Handbook , Michigan State University Extension, Sea Grant, 1999.
LuAnne Gaykowski Kozma with Janet C. Gilmore and Jay C. Martin. Marlinespikes and Monkey's Fists: Traditional Arts and Knot-Tying Skills of Maritime Workers. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Museum, 1994.
Janet C. Gilmore,"We Made' Em to Fit Our Purpose": The Upper Lake Michigan Fishing Skiff Tradition," in Yvonne R. Lockwood and Ruth D. Fitzgerald, eds. 1988 Festival of Michigan Folklife. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Museum, 1988.
Janet C. Gilmore, "Fishing for a Living on the Great Lakes," in Marsha MacDowell, ed. 1987 Festival of Michigan Folklife. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Museum, 1987.
C. Kurt Dewhurst, "Michigan River Culture," in Marsha MacDowell, ed. 1987 Festival of Michigan Folklife. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Museum, 1987.
