Accession 18-113

Smithsonian Institution

Website Records, 2017

Descriptive Entry

This accession consists of the "Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge" website, which documents the Sharing Knowledge Project. It was crawled on April 28, 2017, and again on May 5, 2017. Through the project, members of Indigenous communities from across Alaska and northeast Siberia are working with the Smithsonian Institution and the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center 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

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

Subject

• Arctic peoples
• Indians of North America -- Alaska
• Indians of North America -- Museums
• Indians of North America -- Social life and customs
• Museums -- Collection management
• Museums -- Public relations
• Natural history museums
• Siberia, Northeastern (Russia)
• Web sites

Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection

• Electronic records

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 18-113, Smithsonian Institution, Website Records

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