Accession 16-018

Smithsonian Institution

Website Records, 2015

Descriptive Entry

This accession consists of the "Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge" website, which documents the Sharing Knowledge Project, as it existed on August 10, 2015. Through the project, members of Indigenous communities from across Alaska and northeast Siberia are working with the Smithsonian Institution and the Anchorage Museum to interpret the materials, techniques, cultural meanings, history, and artistry represented by objects in the western arctic and subarctic collections of the National Museum of Natural History and the National Museum of the American Indian. The National Museum of Natural History, Arctic Studies Center organized and implemented the project. Materials are in electronic format.

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Index Terms

This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.

Name

• National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
• National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
• Arctic Studies Center (National Museum of Natural History)
• Arctic Studies Center (National Museum of Natural History). Sharing Knowledge Project
• Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge (Website)

Subject

• Indians of North America -- Museums
• Indians of North America -- Social life and customs
• Indians of North America -- Alaska
• Museums -- Collection management
• Museums -- Public relations
• Natural history museums
• Web sites
• Arctic peoples

Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection

• Electronic records

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 16-018, Smithsonian Institution, Website Records

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