Artifact Collections
The Museum's holdings total approximately one million items. While strongest in Native North American materials, the museum also contains significant material from Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, including:
- 900,000 archeological artifacts excavated by Arctic researchers from National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management lands in Alaska (a federal repository)
- 70,000 archeological and 6,000 ethnological objects from elsewhere in North America
- 2,500 archeological and 3,000 ethnological items from South and Central America
- 40 archeological and 3,000 ethnological items from Africa, some by contemporary artisans
- 400 archeological and 400 ethnological items from Europe
- 1,100 ethnological items from Asia
- 1,500 ethnological items from Oceania.
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