Johnson, the representative of the Chugach people, said at a news conference Wednesday that he had first traveled to Berlin in 2015 in search of the artifacts, which he said he had known about for ...

In 2005, a group of Huichol shamans from Mexico was invited to inspect a number of artifacts in the Ethnological Museum in Berlin. The shamans unhesitatingly identified as Huichol several objects ...

Johnson said the Berlin Ethnological Museum understood the importance of his search and what Alaska’s people have to offer. “We want to share what we know about them,” he said.

If the Russian trustees leave, the Berlin-Karlshorst Museum may also forfeit a large chunk of its collection. About 1,000 of its 20,000 objects are on loan from the Russian Federation.