Program

Preservation and Access: Preservation/Access Projects

Period of Performance

9/1/2005 - 11/30/2007

Funding Totals

$335,545.00 (approved)
$335,545.00 (awarded)


Creating an Image Database of the Museum's Pacific Ethnographic Collection

FAIN: PA-51199-05

American Museum of Natural History (New York, NY 10024-5193)
Paul F. Beelitz (Project Director: July 2004 to July 2008)
Kevin DeVorsey (Co Project Director: July 2004 to July 2008)

The creation of digital images of 17,400 ethnographic artifacts and associated manuscript pages, photographs, drawings, and watercolors from Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia, and Australia. The images and accompanying documentation will be added to the online database of the museum's anthropology holdings.