Nunalleq Culture and Archaeology Center Digital Museum

努纳莱克文化考古中心数字博物馆

• 批准号: AH/V006495/1
• 负责人: Charlotta Hillerdal
• 金额: $ 10.27万
• 依托单位: University of Aberdeen
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FV006495%2F1
• 关键词: Nunalleq; Culture; Archaeology; Center; Digital

This grant follows on from research grant AH/K006029/1 and networking grant AH/R014523/1This project supports the development of an online 'digital museum' facilitating remote access to the internationally significant but remotely located Nunalleq archaeological collection. This will be realised through co-curation between the local Yup'ik community and Nunalleq archaeologists of an interactive website containing a selection of digitised artefacts from the collection, accompanying multi-vocal narrative and mixed-media outcomes.The Nunalleq Project was initiated in 2009, and has since produced an archaeological collection of nearly 100,000 artefacts, by far the largest existing example of pre-contact Yup'ik material culture - and a crucial anchor for a wide range of local and non-local heritage and humanities research and educational efforts.The collection was returned to the descendant community of Quinhagak, a Native Yup'ik village in the Yukon-Kuskokwim (YK) Delta of Southwestern Alaska, in August 2018. It is now under the care of the local community, housed in the purpose built Nunalleq Culture and Archaeology Centre, the only native owned archaeological repository in the area and a direct outcome of AHRC grant AH/K006029/1.The quantity and quality of the archaeological material recovered at Nunalleq is exceptional and has provided an entirely new chapter in Alaska archaeology. Disseminating these significant findings and archaeological material to a wider audience is essential for ensuring the long-term impact of the project, as well as supporting the longevity and vitality of the Culture Center.The collection, being housed in a remote location, while immediately accessible to the residents of Quinhagak, is difficult to access for people in the other 47 Native villages in the YK Delta - as well as the wider world outside the Yup'ik homeland. As such, digitising this collection is vital for wider engagement and dissemination and should be created on conditions which respond to the local needs to ensure that the descendant community retains authorship of their history. This project will take a collaborative approach to generating content and narrative for the digital museum, working in partnership with the local community in Quinhagak to curate and creatively respond to artefacts digitised using 3D scanning and photography for the online collection. This collaboration will be structured by a series of 4 workshops responding to themes identified by community members during the 'Living Heritage' workshops (AH/R014523/1) in Quinhagak in August 2018 as especially relevant to the community and their contemporary engagements with the archaeological material; (1)hunting and fishing (2)subsistence gathering (3)ceremony and celebration (4)identity and adornment. Selected artefacts will serve as inspiration for workshop activities and as catalysts for focussed storytelling, combining archaeological and local knowledge with hands-on activities to create engaging mixed-media content such as photo stories, short films, artefact replicas and interactive media.By supporting our methodology of community co-curation in practice this grant will strengthen the impact of the existing research by connecting the contemporary lived experience and traditional knowledge of the Yup'ik community with archaeological science and interpretation. This approach of collaboratively creating public outreach reinforces the project's ethos of cultivating an equal partnership between academic practice and local community.To date, the Nunalleq Project has not only produced world-class scientific research on pre-contact Yup'ik culture but has evidenced time and time again the strength of community collaboration through the work Quinhagak is doing to take charge of its story and share it with the wider world. Ultimately, the project is an ongoing demonstration of how and why we should be working to make archaeology relevant for people today.

该项目是继研究资助AH/K 006029/1和网络资助AH/R 014523/1之后的又一项目，该项目支持开发一个在线“数字博物馆”，以促进远程访问具有国际意义但位于偏远地区的努纳莱克考古收藏品。这将通过当地Yup'ik社区和Nunalleq考古学家共同策划一个互动网站来实现，该网站包含从藏品中精选的数字化文物，并伴有多声音叙述和混合媒体结果。Nunalleq项目于2009年启动，至今已收集了近100，000件文物，迄今为止，这是接触前Yup'ik物质文化的最大现存实例-也是广泛的本地和非本地遗产和人文研究和教育工作的关键锚。这些藏品被归还给Quinhagak的后裔社区，2018年8月，阿拉斯加西南部Yukon-Kuskokwim（YK）三角洲的一个土著Yup'ik村庄。它现在是在当地社区的照顾下，安置在专门建造的努纳莱克文化和考古中心，该地区唯一的土著拥有的考古储存库和AHRC赠款AH/K 006029/1的直接结果。在努纳莱克恢复的考古材料的数量和质量是特殊的，并提供了一个全新的篇章在阿拉斯加考古。向更广泛的受众传播这些重要的发现和考古材料对于确保该项目的长期影响以及支持文化中心的长寿和活力至关重要。收藏品被安置在偏远的地方，而Quinhagak的居民可以立即访问，对于其他47个原住民村庄的人来说，这是很难进入的-以及Yup'ik家园以外的更广阔的世界。因此，数字化这些收藏品对于更广泛的参与和传播至关重要，并且应该在满足当地需求的条件下创建，以确保后裔社区保留其历史的作者身份。该项目将采取合作的方式为数字博物馆生成内容和叙述，与Quinhagak的当地社区合作，利用3D扫描和摄影对在线收藏的数字化文物进行策划和创造性地回应。这项合作将由一系列的4个研讨会组成，以回应2018年8月在Quinhagak举行的“活遗产”研讨会（AH/R 014523/1）期间社区成员确定的主题，这些主题与社区及其与考古材料的当代接触特别相关;（1）狩猎和捕鱼（2）生计采集（3）仪式和庆祝活动（4）身份和装饰。选定的文物将作为研讨会活动的灵感，并作为重点讲故事的催化剂，将考古和当地知识与实践活动相结合，创造引人入胜的混合媒体内容，如照片故事，短片，人工制品复制品和互动媒体。通过支持我们的社区合作方法，策展在实践中，这笔赠款将加强现有研究的影响，通过连接当代生活经验和Yup'ik社区的传统知识，考古学与解释这种合作创造公共宣传的方法加强了该项目在学术实践和当地社区之间培养平等伙伴关系的精神。Nunalleq项目不仅产生了世界级的科学研究，Quinhagak与Yup'ik文化有着密切的联系，但通过Quinhagak负责其故事并与更广阔的世界分享的工作，一次又一次地证明了社区合作的力量。最终，该项目是一个持续的示范，说明我们应该如何以及为什么要努力使考古学与今天的人们相关。

项目成果

Nalaquq ("it is found"): a knowledge co-production framework for environmental sensing and communication in Indigenous arctic communities

Nalaquq（“发现”）：北极土著社区环境感知和通信的知识合作生产框架

• DOI: 10.1093/jcmc/zmad030
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
• 影响因子: 7.2
• 作者: Gleason S