Ms Amber Lincoln
Nationality: Canada
Year: 2005
Subject Area: Arts and Humanities
Website: Visit (opens in a new window)Amber Lincoln has just completed the majority of her doctoral research in northwest Alaska with four Inupiaq Eskimo communities. Lincoln shared photographs of Inupiaq ethnographic objects from the British Museum, which were collected in 1826-27 by Captain Frederick William Beechey and Lieutenant Edward Belcher of the H.M.S. Blossom, with those Alaskan communities from which the objects originated. The British Museum artifact collection represents some of the earliest Inupiaq ethnographic objects in the world and yet it neither has been published nor widely exposed to Bering Strait residents. This collection documents artistic traditions and technology of the early 19th century Bering Strait. Through discussions with Inupiaq people, this project has both revealed historic information about the artifacts as well as highlighted the contemporary significance of material cultural heritage for Inupiaq people today. Lincoln will return to the University of Aberdeen to complete her doctoral thesis in the Anthropology department by 2008. She then hopes to continue a career in museums.