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

布鲁克林博物馆收藏了大量人类学资料。人类学研究中最重要的一件藏品是1903年至1911年间由第一任民族学馆长斯图尔特·库林（Stewart Culin）收集的。这9000件物品来自美国西南部、加利福尼亚和西北海岸，是人类学中记录最完整的系统收藏之一。由于各种各样的原因，其中最重要的是石棉的侵扰，研究人员无法获得这些藏品。这笔赠款将通过妥善储存、编目、拍照和交叉来纠正这种情况。索引超过2,000个最重要对象的原始文档。这些藏品将被重新整理，供研究人员使用。许多信息分散在博物馆的收藏品中，因此我们基本上失去了这些信息。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关于美洲原住民的信息，并让我们了解了世纪之交的生活。

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.