PlayLab PlayDate: Reptiles Storytime

PlayLab PlayDate: Cinco de Mayo Celebration

Andrew W. Mellon Connecting Communities to Collections Program

Two images, one of a man with braids in a chef's coat plating several identical dishes; and several cobs of corn of different colors laid out flat

The Sioux Chef: Reinvigorating Indigenous Food Systems

Two images, one of a man with braids in a chef's coat plating several identical dishes; and several cobs of corn of different colors laid out flat. Sean Sherman by Rina Oh for the James Beard Foundation. Corn cobs from Cottonwood Canyon, Utah, in the Museum's collection.

A woman sitting at a dashboard in front of many computer screens

Women in Science: Alaka Wali, Curator of North American Anthropology

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The Field Museum

Mysterious Madonna and Child Scroll

Staying Warm in the Far North

Shoes

Four dried corn cobs that are shades of purple, orange, and brown

The Amazing Journey of Maize

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Left: Pieces of eggshell and small bones laid out in rows. Right: A young boy and an older woman carry live turkeys by the feet through a market.

Unearthing Evidence of Turkey Domestication 1,500 Years Ago

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Left: Turkey bones and eggshells from 1,500 years ago discovered in Oaxaca, Mexico. Right: A boy with domestic turkeys in Oaxaca. Both images 

Brown, white, and red beaded bag with design of two people standing next to two flags

Oil or Water? Part I

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Pipe bag made by an unknown Lakota artist, mid-19th to early 20th centuries. Currently on view in Full Circle/Omani Wakan: Lakota Artist Rhonda Holy Bear.

Oil or Water? Part II

Illustration of a long house with wood beams

Democracy and the Iroquois Constitution

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Illustration of an Iroquois Long House. Image

Two adults and a small child walk through the Ancient Americas exhibition. A map of the globe is on the wall to the left, and many pots are in a display case to the right.

Not So Simple: Understanding the History Behind Columbus Day

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Saving a River from Poison

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A Diorama for Jerry's Guitar

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Photo @ Chad Anderson Photography.

Beyond the Labels: Bunky Echo-Hawk Modern Warrior

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Maijuna

Radiography of a Baining Mask

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Piecing Together Early Societies

The Lom River Valley Unseen

Science at FMNH : Ep. 38 - Urbanism in Eastern Africa

Science at FMNH : Ep. 37 - Roles of Households in Prehispanic Mesoamerica

Science at FMNH : Ep. 36 - Discovering Early European Societies

Na Bula, Fiji's Crown of Thorns

Contemporary Urban Collections

Engaging Chicago Communities in Climate Action Photo Gallery

Photo Archives Native American Gallery

Cultures of North America

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Image above: Woman identified as Annie Atliu, daughter of Chief Atlieu of the Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka), weaving baskets, c.1904. 

Cultures of Asia

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Detail of a Saron Barung, which is a type of metallophone, from the gamelan featured in the Java Village at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. Catalog Number 3.36011. © The Field Museum, GN91437_59d, Photographer John Weinstein.

Cultures of the Pacific

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Network mapping of the genetic relationships of islanders in the southwest Pacific (Figure 7 from Terrell, John Edward. 2010. Social network analysis of the genetic structure of Pacific Islanders.  Annals of Human Genetics 74: 211-232)

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Cultures of Mesoamerica and Central America

Detail from a Baoulé wood mask from Côte d'Ivoire, Catalog Number 246067, © The Field Museum CC BY-NC 4.0., A114302_01d, Photographer John Weinstein

Cultures of Africa

Reconstructed stucco bust of King Shapur II from the archaeological site of Kish in Iraq

Cultures of Europe and Southwest Asia

South American Anthropology

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Amerika Samoa exhibition co-curator, Reggie Meredith Fitiao works on a community-made siapo (painted cloth) featured in the temporary exhibition located in the Regenstein Halls of the Pacific.

Amerika Samoa

Regenstein Halls of the Pacific

Entrance to the Africa Hall  permenant exhibition

Africa

Two visitors sit together on a bench, looking at life-size sculptures of people by Malvina Hoffman. In the foreground several bronze busts are displayed in a glass case.

Looking at Ourselves: Rethinking the Sculptures of Malvina Hoffman

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Media

Helen Robbins

Media for Cultures of Africa

Christopher Philipp

Alaka Wali

Jonathan Haas

Ryan Williams

Gary Feinman

Madeleine Tudor

Media for Culture

Jamie Kelly

New Field Museum exhibition Chicago’s Legacy Hula anchors inaugural  Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

A. W. F. Fuller Collection

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Mask from Northern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea collected by A.W.F. Fuller (originally given to the Chichester Museum by Miss Newman of Midhurst, England in 1859.  This wooden mask, with opercula eyes, fiber hair, and painted with red ochre, lime, and black pigment, is one of the earliest known masks from New Ireland.  Catalog Number 2616.276499. Photo Archives ID # A114455_02d.

Melanesian Collections

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Mask in the shape of a long house (daimo) collected by A. B. Lewis in 1912 from the Kerewa People of Goaribari Island, Gulf of Papua, Papua New Guinea.  Catalog Number 1113.142720. © The Field Museum, A114408_02d*, Photographer John Weinstein.*

Chinese Rubbings Collection

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Drama masks (topeng) from West and Central Java, Indonesia, c.1880. Used in a wayang topeng dance drama in the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. About 80 such masks are in the collection of The Field Museum. Carved from soft wood and painted in traditional patterns and colors, they are among the oldest and most beautiful Indonesian masks in the United States.  GN91437_14d

Photo Archives - Anthropology Collection

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Javanese Mask Collection

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Andean Clays

Early Pacific Collections

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Malanggan (also malagan) figure - carved and painted wooden bird with outstretched wings holding a serpent in its beak from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.  Catalog Number 967.98641.  Received from J. F. G. Umlauff.  © The Field Museum, A110311c, Photographers* Ron Testa and Diane Alexander White.*

Contemporary Pacific Collections

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A part of dress called kiekie, an ornamental girdle worn by women in the Kingdom of Tonga around the waist and over a skirt or tupenu (wrapped garment) underneath.  This kiekie was purchased for the Museum’s collections *by Regenstein Collections Manager Christopher J. Philipp in 2010.  Temporary Number T2010.0017.  © The Field Museum, Photographer Christopher J. Philipp.

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Latin American Textile Collections

Africa Collections

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Polynesian Collections

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Detail of mahau - exterior porch panels from Ruatepupuke II – wharenui – Maori meeting house from Tokomaru Bay, New Zealand. Catalog Number 967.143961. © The Field Museum, A109973_15c, Photographer Ron Testa.

A. B. Lewis Collection

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Collections Resource Center

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Pacific Anthropology at the Field Museum

Museum Loan Network: Pacific Instruments Collection

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RattleIdiophonePacific Musical InstrumentsShells (13), beads, fiber cordCat 1072.112266

Winter camp scene. Wigwam shaped tent covered with caribou skins in a winter camp of the people at head of Flowers River.  Young dog in foreground. Barren Ground people at head of Flower River
 
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First and Second Rawson-MacMillan Subarctic Expeditions

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