Small collections remembered: Sámi material culture and community‐based digitization at the Smithsonian Institution

Author:

Magnani Matthew12ORCID,Porsanger Jelena2,Laiti Sami3,Magnani Natalia14,Olli Anne May5,Rauhala Paula2,Valkeapää Samuel6,Hollinger Eric7

Affiliation:

1. Department of Anthropology University of Maine Orono Maine USA

2. Sámiid Vuorká‐Dávvirat (The Sámi Museum in Karasjok) Kárášjohka Sápmi Norway

3. Samekki Anár Sápmi Finland

4. Department of Social Sciences, UiT – Norgga árktalaš universitehta UiT the Arctic University of Norway Tromsø Sápmi Norway

5. RiddoDuottarMuseat Kárášjohka Sápmi Norway

6. Sámi Allaskuvla (The Sámi University of Applied Sciences) Guovdageaidnu Sápmi Norway

7. Department of Anthropology Smithsonian Institution Washington DC USA

Abstract

AbstractOf the 158 million things housed by the Smithsonian Institution, about 56 objects originate from Sámi communities. By all accounts a small group of objects—even by the standards of the Arctic collections at the Institution—it may be easily overlooked or dismissed as insignificant, based on entrenched ideologies about idealized collections. Presenting a community‐based methodology for the engagement of distant museum collections using three‐dimensional technologies, this article establishes the latent potential of small collections for Indigenous communities. We demonstrate how a group of 56 objects not only chronicles complex histories of exchange and colonialism, but also provides a manageable conduit for learning and exchange to facilitate the continued restructuring of relationships between museums and descendent stakeholders, from the individual to community level. Small collections, far from incomplete, may not only contain materials significant to descendent groups on their own terms, but provide the grounds to generate new forms of Indigenous initiated, balanced reciprocity.

Publisher

Wiley

Subject

Museology,Anthropology

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