https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-of-natural-history/2017/11/29/3d-technology-key-preserving-indigenous-cultures/ takes you to an interesting article titled “Is 3D technology the key to preserving Indigenous cultures?” and talks about part of the Smithsonian’s work in collaboration with Indigenous communities to apply 3D digitization and replication technologies for the cultural preservation and restoration of Indigenous artefacts. Follow this link https://3d.si.edu/explorer?modelid=392 to see what a digitized image of a Killer Whale Hat looks like. Using this 3D technology, digital data can be used to restore or replace the artifacts if they should ever get lost or damaged in the future.