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

      Magnani, Matthew Walker; Porsanger, Jelena; Laiti, Sami; Magnani, Natalia; Olli, Anne May; Rauhala, Paula; Valkeapää, Henrik Samuel; Hollinger, Eric (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-09-18)
      Of 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 ...