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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):

 
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Naff Mediterranean Folklore and Slide Collection
Naff, Alixa, Dr. historian
2 linear feet

Nana Nanei May, 1883
Harmer, A. F.
1 drawing

National Museum of Natural History Department of Anthropology Slide Project Coordinator's Files
Quilter, Sarah McAnulty
2 cubic feet

Natives of Oceania, and ornamental architecture, signed "A. T. Agate, del., A. T. A., del 1838-42
Agate, Alfred T.
7 pages

Navajo-Cornell Field Health Research Project Records 1956-1960
Navajo-Cornell Field Health Research Project
44 1/2 feet

"Negro Folktales from the Gulf States" 1927-1929
Hurston, Zora Neale
248 pages

Nias Island funeral 1988
19 slides

Northeastern Anthropological Association Records 1962-1982
Northeastern Anthropological Association
ca. .5 linear meters ca. 20 linear inches

Northwest River post and scenery by an Eskimo
ANONYMOUS
1 page

Note concerning Crow shield February 22, 1889
Allen, J. I.
2 pages

Note in the Loma script
Seazea, Akoi, 1920?-1986
1 page

Notebook 1830s-40s
Hale, Horatio Emmons
166 pages

Notes on the Atudship mounds near Florence, Washington County, Oregon
4 pages

Numbered manuscripts 1850s-1980s (some earlier)
Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History Department of Anthropology National Anthropological Archives
ca. 635 linear feet

O. Roger Gallagher Papers 1951-1973
Gallagher, Orvoell Roger 1916-1975
1.75 linear feet

Of Florida 1564
Le Moyne De Morgues, Jacques
2 photocopies

Olov Robert Thure Janse Papers
Janse, Olov Robert Thure
6 cubic feet

Orchid Cellmark O.J. Simpson DNA Analysis Collection
Orchid Cellmark
2 linear feet

Original artist's drawing of maps for John Reed Swanton's Early history of the Creek Indians and their neighbors
8 sheets

Otis Tufton Mason papers, circa 1884-1904.
Mason, Otis Tufton, 1838-1908
2.5 linear feet (5 boxes)

Overview and Assessement of Cultural Resources in the Proposed Home Valley Park, Skamania County, Washington Report to Portland District U. S. Army Corps of Engineers under Contract No. DACW57-85-D-0084-0004, Heritage Research Associates Report No. 45
Rick Minor
117 pages

Painted Rock, San Luis Obispo, California 1870s-1930s
Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Department of Anthropology Division of Archeology
item

Painted Rock, San Luis Obispo, California 1870s-1930s
Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Department of Anthropology Division of Archeology
item

Painted Rock, San Luis Obispo, California 1870s-1930s
Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Department of Anthropology Division of Archeology
item

Painting on tanned buckskin
1 Photograph

Paintings made in Alaska and British Columbia 1890's
Elliott, Henry Wood, 1846-1930
15 items

Paintings of Chinese scenes late 19th century
Pope, Alice James
11 items

Palo de Voladores
Kelly, Isabel
1 8 7/8 x13 1/4 inches sheet
4 pages

Pamunkey Indians
57 photographs

Pan American Exposition in Buffalo circa.1901
Beach, Howard D
16 prints: platinum

Papers of Washington Matthews Papers ca. 1864-1905 microfilm
Matthews, Washington
10 reels

Parfleche of Sioux Indians
1 Photograph

Paul Lemen Cooper Papers ca. 1919-1962
Cooper, Paul Lemen 1909-1961
ca. .6 linear meter 2 linear feet

Paul Riesman Papers
Riesman, Paul
1.5 linear feet

Pawnee earth lodges, inscribed "W. H. Holmes" 1881
Holmes, William Henry
2 pages

Peruvian textile designs: bark cloth with painted curvilinear designs
1 Photograph

Philleo Nash papers, 1931-1986.
Nash, Philleo, 1909-1987
12 linear feet (24 boxes)

Photograph
1 Photograph

 

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