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Over 250,000 ethnographic and archaeological objects representing the peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe and the Pacific Islands have been digitally imaged and are accessible online.
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Collections Database
Over 250,000 ethnographic and archaeological objects representing the peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe and the Pacific...
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Collections Highlights
This section presents objects from the Textile Collection, as well as Mexico & Central America Virtual Hall, The Buddha Project,...
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Exhibition History
Artifacts from current and recent past exhibitions at AMNH which draw substantially from its collections.
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Thesaurus
Anthropology Thesaurus provides a controlled vocabulary for use in searching across the collections. The goal of this thesaurus is...
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Collections History
Articles about scientific fieldwork carried out by ethnographers, archaeologists, and biological anthropologists in the Americas,...
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Collections Management
Collections Management personnel work to preserve over 500,000 anthropological objects by providing them with stable environments,...
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Objects Conservation
The primary function of the Objects Conservation Laboratory in the Division of Anthropology is to ensure the preservation of the...
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Digital Imaging
Since 1989, with major support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Division of Anthropology has captured over 250,000...
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Widget AnthroDaily
AnthroDaily is a widget for Mac computers that presents every day a different object from the collections (the same one as on the...
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