The Iliviaq Returns to Gjoa Haven: Interrogating Objects from Roald Amundsen’s Collection in the Nattilik Heritage Centre

• Published in: Études/Inuit/Studies
• Main Author: Wang, Tone
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Centre interuniversitaire d’études et de recherches autochtones (CIÉRA) 2018
• Subjects: Object return; material culture; museum collection; shared knowledge; memory work; collaboration; Gjoa Haven; Restitution d’objets; culture matérielle; collection muséale; partage du savoir; travail de mémoire; Bol; Norway; Retour; Études/Inuit/Studies; Nattilik
• Online Access: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1064500ar; https://doi.org/10.7202/1064500ar

Museum collaboration and object return has been discussed and examined widely in practice and literature in recent decades (e.g. Fienup-Riordan 1998; Peers and Brown 2003; Basu 2017). This paper examines an instance of object return, a wooden bowl. The bowl was part of the Roald Amundsen/Gjoa Haven...