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The National Anthropological Archives collects and preserves historical and contemporary anthropological materials that document the world's cultures and the history of anthropology, including manuscripts, fieldnotes, correspondence, photographs, maps, sound recordings, film and video created by Smithsonian anthropologists and other preeminent scholars; records of anthropological organizations; 400,000 photographs, including some of the earliest images of indigenous people worldwide; and 20,000 works of native art, mainly North American, Asian, and Oceanic.

The following is a list of major collections from NAA cataloged in Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS):

 
 

1988 calendar advertising Ogala Lakota College
Runnels, V.
1 calendar 15 1/2 x 29 in.

A Biocultural Approach to Human Burials from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico Reports of the Chaco Center Number Nine 1986
United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Banch of Cultural Research
215 pages

A brief illustrated history of the manikins, statues, lay-figures, and life-groups illustrating American Ethnology in the National Museum of Natural History June 16, 1990
Kavanagh, Thomas Whitney
83 pages

A guide to cultural resources management on the Zuni Indian Reservation April 1986
Ferguson, T. J.
49 pages

A man bewitched within the house by a woman without... and The patient welcomes his physicians 1830-50?
ANONYMOUS
2 pages

A report on a survey of Potawatomi Indian groups in Canada July 24, 1973
Clifton, James Alfred
17 pages

A syntactic analysis of Takelma texts 1977
Kendall, Daythal Lee
146 pages

A true view of Hakodate 1882
Asano Bunki
1 69x37 cm sheet

A.B. McMullen Photograph Collection 1943-44
McMullen, Alexis B
156 items

Acee Blue Eagle Papers 1935-1959
Blue Eagle, Acee 1907-1959 Creek Pawnee
40 linear feet

Active volcano, lightning over a forest, and campfire scene
ANONYMOUS
3 pages

African American Site Reports
13 linear feet

Alaskan Eskimos and Indians, and an Eskimo burial site
ANONYMOUS
7 pages

Albert Clanton Spaulding Papers 1940s-1980s
Spaulding, Albert Clanton 1914-1990
ca. 1 linear meter 3.25 linear feet

Album of archeological photographs 1931-1932
Stirling, Gene M.
57 snapshots

Album of photographs and postcards of Asian subjects ca. 1927-1928
Brunner, Edmund deS
ca. 500 items

Ales Hrdlicka Papers ca. 1887-1943
HrdliÚcka, AleÚs, 1869-1943
133 linear feet

Ales Hrdlicka Papers ca. 1887-1943
HrdliÚcka, AleÚs, 1869-1943
133 linear feet

Ales Hrdlicka Papers ca. 1887-1943
HrdliÚcka, AleÚs, 1869-1943
133 linear feet

Alibamu vocabulary obtained from Chas. Coachman, of Witumpka, Creek Nation. . . ." Indian Territory March 5, 1885 and March 27, 1891.
Gatschet, Albert S. Albert Samuel, 1832-1907
1 8 1/4 x 6 3/4 n. volume
20 pages

Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche papers, 1873-1939.
Fletcher, Alice Cunningham
23 linear feet (33 boxes)

American Anthropological Association Records 1917-1972
American Anthropological Association
40 cubic feet
ca. 48,800 leaves

American Anthropological Association Records 1917-1972
American Anthropological Association
40 cubic feet
ca. 48,800 leaves

American Association of Physical Anthropologist Records 1981-1983
American Association of Physical Anthropologists
10 inches

American Association of Physical Anthropologists Records 1981-1983
American Association of Physical Anthropologists
ca. .25 meters 10 inches

American Dermatoglyphics Association Records 1974-1994
American Dermatoglyphics Association
34 linear feet

American Ethnological Society Records 1834-1965
American Ethnological Society
6.5 feet

American Indian Chicago Conference Records 1960-1966
8 linear feet

American Indian drawings
ANONYMOUS
32 pages

American Indian Public Programs Photographs and Related Material 1989-1993
Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History American Indian Public Programs
ca. 300 items

American Society for Conservation Archaeology Records 1974-1981
American Society for Conservation Archaeology
ca. 10.7 linear meters ca. 3.5 linear feet

American Society for Ethnohistory Records 1953-1979
American Society for Ethnohistory
10.5 linear feet

Among the Navajoes: A Lecture
Moomaw, William C.
45 pages

An Archaeological Planning Survey of Selected Portions of the Proposed Route 13 Corridor, Kent County, Delaware
Custer, Jay F.
311 pages

An Archeological Overview and Management Plan for the Lone Star Armh Ammunition Plant, Bowie County, Texas 1984
Heartfield, Lorraine
193 pages

An Archeological Overview and Management Plan for the Pueblo Depot Activity, Pueblo County, Colorado 1984.
Nickens and Associates
81 pages

An Archeological Overview and Management Plan for the Pueblo Depot Activity, Pueblo County, Colorado 1984.
Nickens and Associates
81 pages

An Archeological Overview and Management Plan for the Red River Valley Army Depot, Bowie County, Texas 1984
Heartfield, Lorraine
161 pages

An introduction to Bukidnon culture 1982
Opeõna, Ludivina Ravidas
148 pages

Analysis of Codex Madrid 73A-74A and 27A-28A 1970
Rauh, James Hulse
70 pages

Analysis of collections from the Mush Creek site (39HU5), Bowman site (39HU204), and the Grandle site (39HU205), Hughes County, South Dakota August 1986
Roetzel, Kathleen A.
4 volumes
137 pages
241 pages
78 pages
128 pages

Anne Chapman Papers 1947-1998 1955-1965
Chapman, Anne
4 linear feet

Anonymous Assiniboine drawings to illustrate Edwin Denig's "Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri," ca. 1853.
37 drawings pasted onto 19 mounts : graphite and ink ; mounts 18 x 22 cm.-36 x 24 cm.

Anonymous drawings, possibly Lakota, on pages of book made of printed forms for Property Return, n.d.
9 drawings (8 leaves) : graphite and colored pencil ; 26 x 24 cm.

Anonymous Kiowa drawing of people bringing in the center pole for the Sun Dance ceremony, 1875-1878.
1 drawing : graphite and colored pencil on ruled paper ; 17 x 20 cm.

Anonymous Lakota drawings of horses, n.d.
6 drawings (4 leaves) : graphite, colored pencil, and crayon ; 21 x 26 cm.

Anonymous Plains Indian drawings, n.d.
9 drawings (8 leaves) : graphite and colored pencil ; 20 x 32 cm.-22 x 36 cm.

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