Collections
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
The collections database contains over 250,000 ethnographic and archaeological objects.
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Collections Highlights
This section presents objects from the Textile Collection.
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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
Learn how the Collections Management personnel work to preserve anthropological objects.
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Objects Conservation
The Objects Conservation Lab ensures the preservation of the collections for the future.
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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...
Interactive
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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