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