In 2015, the Dutch collector Hans van Berkel, granted his Inuit (and Chukchi) art and handicraft collection to the National Museum of Ethnology, no...

The bead played a vital role in Pueblo Indian jewelry design, and its influence continues today in modernist American design. In these pages, featu...

What can a collection of drawings reveal about their makers? Crayon drawings collected by anthropologists provide an illuminating prism through whi...

New Zealand's national art colleciton is held at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Ten art curators each pick ten art works, and explain...

A Comprehensive Guide to the Objects Associated with the Voyages of James Cook Held at New Zealand’s National Museum. Almost 250 years after James ...

This colour illustrated book takes the reader through the trajectory of styles from the Wei to the Tang Dynasties and uses the Harvard Winthrop Col...

The Tlingit Indians of the Northwest Coast carved interior house posts, portal entrances and free standing totem poles with crests of animals, sea ...

This book provides an overview of the uses of turquoise in native arts of the Southwest, beginning with the earliest people who mined and processed...

A Celebration of the Science and Art of Māori Weaving, Focused on the Largest Collection of Māori Cloaks in the World. Whatu Kākahu | Māori Cloaks ...

Woven Identities presents the finest examples of classic era Native basketry (1870-1930) along with contemporary examples that exemplify the vibran...

Vivid in Japanese art and imagination are creatures that are at once ghastly and humorous. The Japanese word yōkai generally refers to a range of s...