Transcript of After the return digitizal repatriation
Smithsonian Collections & Archives Program:
Digital Returns and Source Communities
Anthropology Collections
@370,000 cultural artifacts
2.3 million archaeological
specimens10,000 cubic feet of
manuscripts750,000 photographs
8,000 sound recordings
various native art and cartographic
materials8M feet of film
2,000 hours of video
Coordinating Funding Sources, Curatorial &
Programmatic Initiatives, and Community Interests
Collections & Archives as Contact Zones
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Collaboration, Dialogue, Indigenous Knowledge
Curators, Collections Staff, Archivists, Conservators, Data Managers & Community Members
Almost Forgot—Administrators Too!
The ‘Pull’ of Possible Projects
Tensions between Should and Will
Objects and Historical
Relaionships
Visual Materials: Responding to Community Concerns, Identifying Resources, Enabling
Community Narratives
Remembering Home: Deanna Kingston & the King Island Diaspora
Robert Zingg Huichol Film
Footage, 1934
* Expedition Films (Stirling)* Amateur Travelogues (Gallup Ceremonial)* Documentary Footage (Mbuti Turnbull) * Annotated Films and Footage* Links between Photographs, Films and Objects