Totaling approximately 40000 objects the University Museums ethnographicholdings represent native peoples from ten North American culture areastheArctic Subarct... » 

Totaling approximately 40000 objects the University Museums ethnographicholdings represent native peoples from ten North American culture areastheArctic Subarctic Northwest Coast California Plateau Great BasinSouthwest Great Plains Northeast and the Southeast. This guide highlightsthe strength of the collections and demonstrates how objects are tied tohistory and people living within different cultural and social contexts. Italso underscores that objects have different multiple meanings. Some objectsillustrate intertribal relations others best reflect collecting attitudes atthe turn of the century when much of the Museums collections was acquired.Visitors and offsite readers will learn about such related archival resourcesas documentation and photographs past and present Museum exhibitions currentresearch repatriation and contemporary collections development. «