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Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology
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The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology is a part of anthropology museum of Brown University and the total area of this museum extends to 376 acres. The museum and the Bristol ground was given away to Brown by the Rudolf F. Haffenreffer family in the year 1955. This museum mainly consists of native American materials and culture. The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology consists of 110,000 items out of which 73,000 are archaeological artifacts and 15,000 are ethnographic.
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The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology not only consists of materials of native America but also materials from Latin America, Africa, Middle East, and also Asia and they are as follows:
- The museum is also a federally-designated depository for 20,000 archaeological objects excavated by Arctic researchers from National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management lands in Alaska.
- 5 archaeological and 1,500 ethnological items from Oceania
- 1,100 ethnological items from Asia
- 2,534 archaeological and 3,000 ethnological items from South and Central America
- 399 archaeological and 400 ethnological items from Europe
- 40 archaeological and 3,000 ethnological items from Africa, and few by contemporary artisans
- 69,966 archaeological and 6,000 ethnological objects from North America.
The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology consists of photographic galleries and a collection of important books and they are as follows:
- Herbert Spinden Photographic Archive, with over 20,000 images and documents which are related to Central American archeology and ethnography from the early 20th century, including many images of important archaeological sites that have since been altered or destroyed.
- Photographs of Southwest prehistoric petroglyphs taken by Salvatore Mancini, many of which are published by the Museum in the book Terra Incognita.
- As well as lithographs, serigraphs and two dimensional artwork by and about the Inuit, the Ainu, Plains Indians and many others.
- The Kensinger Collection has over 5000 photographs and related field notes and texts from Anthropologist Ken Kensingers research with the Cashinahua of Peru from 1960 - 1996
- The Conti Collection has over 3000 photographs dating from the late 1950s through the early 1970s taken by Rhode Island photographer Gino Conti, primarily on the Hopi, Apache and Navaho reservations, and also in Mexico.
The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology provides an excellent source of information about the culture, civilization and lives of people during pre- historic times.
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