Anthropology Image Resource Online
Department
of Anthropology, California Academy of Sciences
The permanent research collection of the Department of Anthropology comprises
approximately 17,000 objects, most of which are ethnographic. The Department actively
collects materials from the indigenous cultures of western North America (exclusive
of Mexico) and the Pacific Rim, including all Pacific islands and East Asia. Current
strengths of the collection are general holdings from the U.S. Southwest and the
Pacific Islands, and basketry from California. Earlier years of collecting have
yielded both ethnographic and archaeological materials from East Africa, the Middle
East, Europe, and Central and South America.
The database includes digital images of collection objects. Currently there
are over 8,000 images available, documenting the areas of strength in the collection.
Digital photographing of the remainder of the collection is an ongoing project.
CSAC Ethnographics Gallery
(Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing).
Has links to “Anthropology Exhibits on the WWW” – a collection
of links from several universities, museums and private collections (?) that
have images of artifacts. Seems to be oriented to Old World material, but has
some from SE Asia.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural
History: Websites for Anthropologists.
Has resources for anthropologists, anthropology at the Smithsonian, sites about
anthropologists, ethnographic archives, and most entertaining online ethnography.
University of Michigan Museum
of Anthropology:
They have two image collections that cover Ethnology and “Asian”
items. Their “special exhibits” links to online exhibits on artifacts
and field photos from Hopi Kachinas, Sago Spathe Paintings, Tibetan Tonkas and
the Deh Luran Valley Project (an early archaeology project in the Near East).
World Wide Web Virtual
Library of Indigenous Studies
Olin and Uris Libraries, Cornell University, Ithaca
NY 14853
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