The rise in access to hundreds of items follows work by Chugach Alaska’s John F.C. Johnson to repatriate funerary objects and human remains taken from the region.
Visitors from Alaska speak with staff and look at items in the archive of Berlin Ethnological Museum in Germany on April 27.
“These collections, they have a really difficult history, because all these cultural belongings were extracted in a settler-colonial context,” said Marxreiter. “Our museum, and I think most ethnographic museums in Germany and in Europe, they’re very aware of that, and we’re really trying to decolonize that kind of connection.”Tatianna Turner from Nanwalek holds a basket at the Berlin Ethnological Museum.
“Working with the Berlin people, and other groups, they all realize that their collection becomes 10 times more valuable when they involve the local people to share knowledge,” Johnson said. “Part of the research is figuring out how they got there. And sometimes it’s very vague on how they were obtained,” Ziessler said. “There are buying records, but then the question is also under which context was it bought, who was it bought from.”, including masks, figures and a baby blanket, to Alaska in 2018. “The nine funerary objects that were returned were stolen from grave sites, taken without clear permission,” he said.
“Our region has had a lot of culture loss, due to colonization and due to a lot of historical trauma that’s happened to a lot of Indigenous communities,” Randazzo said in a video presented at AFN. “So this is a chance for us to start that healing process of reconnecting.”A shaman’s apron with a wolf design, from the archives of the Berlin Ethnological Museum. The collaboration, called “Getting Our Stories Back,” is one way to recast German ethnology, Ziessler said.
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