Finding Images

The Collections Database of the Smithsonian NMNH includes 97% of the cataloged specimens that are currently in the Ethnology and Archaeology collections, and provides information most commonly requested by researchers. Over 203,000 digital images of objects are currently available, with more added regularly.

The Fowler's collections comprise more than 120,000 art and ethnographic and 600,000 archaeological objects representing ancient, traditional, and contemporary cultures of Africa, Native and Latin America, and Asia and the Pacific.

The University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Digital Image Database contains over 29,000 images from more than 60 years of archaeological and ethnographic work conducted throughout the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, Africa and the Middle East.