Abstract
The A. describes efforts begun in 1994 to bring Yup'ik elders in direct contact with museum collections gathered from their region 100 years ago to simultaneously preserve their knowledge and make it available to scholars and Yup'ik community members. The museum artifacts that provided his focus were the 7000 objects collected by Johan Adrian Jacobsen from Alaska in 1882-1883. Housed in Berlin's Museum fur Volkerkunde, they constitute the largest unpublished collection of Yup'ik artifacts anywhere in the world, including detailed ethnographic and linguistic information. Bringing information about a major collection home to Alaska is an act of visual repatriation that can illuminate the world view of its creators. Yup'ik elders working side by side with anthropologists and museum professionals can help us better understand the artifacts Jacobsen collected from their area. These are first steps in the two-way process of Yup'ik people owning their past and museum curators realizing the full value of the contents of their attics.
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