Three-dimensional, community-based heritage management of indigenous museum collections: Archaeological ethnography, revitalization and repatriation at the Sámi Museum Siida

Ethnographic museum collections have traditionally been acquired, maintained, and utilized by anthropological and other museum-based researchers. Increasingly, indigenous communities consult museum holdings in order to inform social movements reclaiming cultural heritage, though collections and their records are often not conserved or made accessible with these goals in mind. We report a project conducted with Arctic Sámi communities in collaboration with the Sámi Museum Siida. Coupling the results of detailed ethnographic interviews with accessible three-dimensional modeling techniques - in particular photogrammetry - we propose a community-based methodology in archaeological ethnography aimed at increasing accessibility for descendant community members that may potentially expand collections' use for researchers. Concurrently, we stress that such an integrative approach must be particularly cautious in the sharing of models of indigenous cultural heritage, which encounter frequent threats of misuse and appropriation in an era of easy 3D modeling and printing. This abstract appears below in North Sámi. Davvisámegiella: EtnográfalaÅ¡ museaid čoakkáldagaid leat dábálaččat čoaggán, bajásdoallán ja geavahan antropologiijadahje museasuorggi dutkit. EamiálbmotservoÅ¡at galledit museaid čoakkáldagaidain eanet ja eanet vai besset ealáskahttit iežaset kulturárbbi. Čoakkáldagaidja daidda gullevaÅ¡ dieđuid eai goittotge dábálaččat leat seailluhan ja dahkanrabasin dan dárkkuhusa várás. Dárkilis etnográfalaÅ¡ jearahallamiid bohtosiidovttastahttin álkit logahahtti 3D hábmenteknihkkii, erenomážit fotogrammetriai- mii evttohit servoÅ¡a geahččanguovllus vuolgi metodologiija, man ulbmilin leabuoridit čoakkáldagaid rabasvuođa servoÅ¡a lahtuide ja jos vejolaÅ¡, maiddáidutkiide. Seammás mii deattuhit, ahte dakkár lahkonanvugiin 3D-málliidjuohkimis galgá leat várrugas. Erenomážit dakkár eamiálbmogiid bokte, geaidkulturárbbi geavahit boastut dálá áiggis, goas 3D-hábmen ja prenten lea álki.