Inventory, Cataloguing and Preservation of the Stewart Culin North American Indian Collection

布鲁克林博物馆收藏了大量的人类学资料。人类学研究中最重要的一件是1903年至1911年由第一任民族学馆长斯图尔特·库林收集的文物。来自西南部、加利福尼亚州和西北海岸的这9000件文物代表了人类学中记录最充分的系统收藏之一。由于各种原因，其中最重要的是石棉的侵扰，研究人员一直无法获得这一收藏。这笔赠款将通过适当地存储、编目、拍照和交叉，用原始文件索引收藏中超过2,000件最重要的物品，从而纠正这种情况。这些藏品将被重新编目，从而向研究人员提供。许多信息散落在博物馆的收藏品中，因此我们基本上失去了信息。随着藏品和相关文献的重组，布鲁克林博物馆等博物馆发现了大量有关美洲原住民的信息，并教会了我们许多关于世纪之交生活的知识。

The Brooklyn Museum holds a significant body of anthropological materials. One of the most important for anthropological research are those objects collected between 1903 and 1911 by Stewart Culin, first Curator of Ethnology. Coming from the Southwest, California, and the Northwest Coast, these 9,000 objects represent one of the most well documented systematic collections in anthropology. For a variety of reasons, not the least of which is infestation with asbestos, this collection has been unavailable for researchers. This grant will remedy this situation by properly storing, cataloguing, photographing and cross.indexing with the original documentation over 2,000 of the most important objects in the collection. The collection will be reinventoried and thus made available to researchers. Much information has been scattered throughout museum collections and hence essentially lost to us. With the reorganization of collections and their accompanying documentation, museums such as the Brooklyn Museum are discovering vasts amount of information about Native Americans and teaching us much about life at the turn of the century.