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National Anthropological Archives

http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/index.htm

Provider: National Museum of Natural History

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Appropriate grades
6–12
Subjects
English language arts (folklore), social studies (American Indians, Central America, North America, South America, United States history)
Provider
National Museum of Natural History

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The National Anthropological Archives collects and preserves historical and contemporary anthropological materials that document the world's cultures and the history of the discipline. Its collections represent the four fields of anthropology - ethnology, linguistics, archaeology, and physical anthropology - and include manuscripts, fieldnotes, correspondence, photographs, maps, sound recordings, film and video created by Smithsonian anthropologists and other preeminent scholars.

All told, the NAA's holdings include nearly 400,000 ethnological and archaeological photographs, including some of the earliest images of indigenous people worldwide, and 20,000 works of native art, mainly North American, Asian, and Oceanic. The Smithsonian's broad collection policy and support of anthropological research for over 150 years have made the NAA an unparalleled resource for scholars interested in the cultures of Latin America, Oceania, Africa, and Asia.

Today, the NAA continues to acquire cultural materials that enhance our understanding of the world's peoples and draw attention to the changing historical relationship between recorded observation, ethnography, and other forms of anthropological analysis.

Online Exhibits Include:

  • Camping With the Sioux: Fieldwork Diary of Alice Cunningham Fletcher
  • Henry Wood Elliot: An American Artist in Alaska
  • Selections from the Field Journal of William Duncan Strong: Honduras, 1933
  • Canela Body Adornment: Photographs from the William H. Crocker Collection
  • Kiowa Drawings
  • Tichkematse
  • A Cheyenne at the Smithsonian