Visitors explore a bird’s-eye view replica of Teotihuacan, the largest city in the Americas (and one of the largest in the world) between AD 100 and 700.

Robert R. McCormick Halls of the Ancient Americas

View of the circular interior of the Pawnee Earth Lodge, with various replica objects displayed around the circular hearth in the center and on the walls.

Pawnee Earth Lodge

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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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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A section of a rug with stylized depictions of blue sky with clouds, green and brown mountains, and farmland with cows

Native American Code Talkers: Language Diversity at Work

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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

Culture

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Chinese rubbing in vermilion ink. Catalog Number 341389. Photographer Karen Bean.

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)

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 Europe and the Near East

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Reconstructed stucco bust from the archaeological site of Kish in Iraq. Catalog Number 1497.236400.A © The Field Museum, A114645d_06A, Photographer John Weinstein.

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Biological Anthropology

Cultures of Africa

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South American Anthropology

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Cultures of Mesoamerica and Central America

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.

Cultural Heritage

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Helen Robbins

Alaka Wali

Gary Feinman

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Christopher Philipp

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Jamie Kelly

Mario Longoni

Jonathan Haas

Madeleine Tudor

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

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New Guinean Clays

Aztec, Inca and Maya Collections

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Ceramic, flute whistle.
FMNH Cat #: 241014

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Brazil Collections

Boone 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

Chinese Rubbings Collection

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Curating the collections with communities and scholars

Image depicting volunteers Etta McKenna, Oscar Docto, Tess Madden, and Alpha Sadcopen posing with objects within CAS Mezzanine storeroom.

Anthropology Curation Portal

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Africa Collections

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Coastal Peru Collection

Montez Collection

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Photo Archives - Native American Collection

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Mesoamerica and Central America Collections

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Latin American Textile Collections

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Andean Clays

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Asian Textile Collections

Detail of an embroidered cotton sleeve band, Mianyang, Sichuan, China. Collected by Carl Schuster. Catalog Number 2724.234232. © The Field Museum.

Schuster Collection

Detail of a reproduction bronze hydria from Pompeii, Italy. Original in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli).Catalog Number 202.24101.© The Field Museum.

Roman and Etruscan Collections

Australian Collection

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In a black and white photograph, a man wearing a pince-nez as well as a suit and tie holds up a carved horn.

Berthold Laufer Collections

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Dr. Berthold Laufer holds a Chinese drinking cup carved from a rhinoceros horn, c.1924. 

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.

Paul S Martin Collection

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Paul Martin's excavation crew at work at a cave site in New Mexico, c.1950. © The Field Museum, A93205, Photographer W. Tod Egan.

North America Collections

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Detail of a transformation mask (shown open), representing a shaman, which was fashioned from carved and painted cedar by Xániyus (Bob Harris) before 1893. Kwakiutl, Vancouver Island, Northwest Coast.

Micronesian Collections

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Micronesian navigation chart made from bamboo strips, cowrie shells, and fiber string from Majuro, Marshall Islands and collected by Marvin Montel-Cohen.  Catalog Number 3346.268405. © The Field Museum, A3513_268405_ATFront.

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.*

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.

A. B. Lewis Collection

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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.*

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.

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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Collections Resource Center

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