Nunalleq Culture and Archaeology Center Digital Museum

这笔赠款是在研究拨款AH/K006029/1和联网拨款AH/R014523/1的基础上进行的。该项目支持开发一个在线‘数字博物馆’，便于远程访问具有国际意义但位于偏远地区的努纳利克考古收藏品。这将通过当地Yupik社区和Nunalleq考古学家共同策划一个互动网站来实现，该网站包含从收藏品中选择的数字化文物，并伴随着多声音叙事和混合媒体结果。Nunalleq项目于2009年启动，自那以来已经产生了近10万件文物的考古收藏，这是迄今为止接触前Yupik物质文化的最大现存范例-也是广泛的本地和非本地遗产和人文研究和教育努力的关键支柱。这些收藏被归还给Quinhagak的后代社区，Quinhagak是阿拉斯加西南部Yukon-Kuskokwim(YK)三角洲的Yupik原住民村庄2018年8月。它现在由当地社区照顾，存放在专门建造的Nunalleq文化和考古中心，这是该地区唯一的土著拥有的考古储存库，也是AHRC赠款AH/K006029/1的直接结果。在Nunalleq发现的考古材料的数量和质量都是出类拔萃的，为阿拉斯加考古翻开了全新的篇章。将这些重要的发现和考古材料传播给更广泛的受众，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。藏品存放在一个偏远的位置，虽然昆哈加克的居民可以立即获得，但YK三角洲其他47个土著村庄的人们很难获得这些藏品--以及尤皮克家园以外的更广泛的世界。因此，将这些收藏品数字化对于更广泛的参与和传播是至关重要的，应该根据当地的需要创造条件，以确保后代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事，与昆哈加克当地社区合作，对使用3D扫描和摄影进行在线收藏的数字化文物进行管理和创造性地回应。这项合作将由4个讲习班组成，分别针对社区成员在2018年8月在昆哈加克举办的“活遗产”讲习班(AH/R014523/1)中确定的与社区及其与考古材料的当代接触特别相关的主题：(1)狩猎和捕鱼(2)生计聚会(3)仪式和庆祝活动(4)特性和装饰。选定的文物将作为研讨会活动的灵感和重点讲述故事的催化剂，将考古和当地知识与实践活动结合起来，创造吸引人的混合媒体内容，如照片故事、短片、文物复制品和互动媒体。通过在实践中支持我们的社区共同管理方法，这笔赠款将加强现有研究的影响，将尤皮克社区的当代生活经验和传统知识与考古科学和解释联系起来。这种共同创建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建立平等伙伴关系的精神。迄今为止，努纳莱克项目不仅产生了关于接触前尤普尼克文化的世界级科学研究，而且一次又一次地通过昆哈加克负责其故事并与更广泛的世界分享的工作证明了社区合作的力量。归根结底，这个项目是一个正在进行的演示，展示了我们应该如何以及为什么应该努力使考古学与今天的人相关。

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.