Publication Title:
Winter 2009 - Spring 2011Report
Year:
2011
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PDF The IPinCH-supported project, A Case of Access: Inuvialuit Engagement with the Smithsonian’s MacFarlane Collection, grew out of the Inuvialuit desire to have greater access to and knowledge about a unique collection of Inuvialuit material culture, collected by the Hudson's Bay trader, Roderick MacFarlane from the Anderson River region and brought to Washington, D.C., in the 1860's.
Inuvialuit Elders, traditional experts, and educators from Canada's Northwest Territories travelled to the Smithsonian Institution to reconnect with these historical cultural items, facilitating the creation of new knowledge about the MacFarlane Collection and its ongoing life in Inuvialuit communities.
