Drawing on examples of museum collections research by Indigenous people, including my own research experiences, I argue for the importance of Indigenous people's access to museum collections for cultural and language revitalization efforts. Access to museum collections generates and stimulates memories and knowledge among elders and young people; thus it helps to preserve and promote intangible heritage alongside interactions with tangible belongings. I position myself as an Inuk individual, utilizing Indigenous epistemology and methodology to guide my path in an effort to decolonize museum collections and to help foster a meaningful relationship between Inuit communities and museum collections. Through the study of needle cases in museum collections and interactions with local community members in Canada's Arctic, I explore the questions: How can Arctic museum collections serve as an intermediary between the Inuit community and the discipline of anthropology? How can Inuit perspectives and interpretations of our own cultural material influence knowledge about needle cases, as well as other cultural material that is curated in museums? [Inuit, needle cases, kakpiit, museum collections]

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博物馆藏品中因纽特人针具的发现线，Kakpiit

借鉴原住民博物馆藏品研究的例子，包括我自己的研究经验，我论证了原住民获得博物馆藏品对文化和语言振兴工作的重要性。访问博物馆藏品可以激发和激发老年人和年轻人的记忆和知识；因此，它有助于保护和促进非物质遗产以及与有形财产的互动。我将自己定位为一个因纽特人，利用土著认识论和方法论来指导我努力使博物馆藏品非殖民化，并帮助在因纽特人社区和博物馆藏品之间建立有意义的关系。通过对博物馆藏品中的针盒的研究以及与加拿大北极地区当地社区成员的互动，我探讨了以下问题：北极博物馆的藏品如何充当因纽特社区和人类学学科之间的中介？因纽特人对我们自己的文化材料的观点和解释如何影响有关针具盒以及博物馆馆藏的其他文化材料的知识？[因纽特人、针盒、kakpiit、博物馆藏品]