The Museum of Anthropology is a research facility and does not have permanent exhibit space. The following Virtual Exhibits highlight a small portion of the collections housed at the Museum. Please click on the underlined headings to view more images and read more about a particular collection. Check back periodically, as more virtual exhibits will be added. The Museum has a collection of over 100 Sago Spathe paintings from New Guinea. Most of the paintings come from a ritual house built in the early 1980s. The initiation cycle was not completed due to dissension among the senior men who were responsible for keeping the initiation going. The paintings were recovered from the ruins of the structure in 1987 by Phillip Guddemi, a graduate student in cultural anthropology at the University of Michigan. Some paintings that would normally be present were not found. Examples of these were commissioned from local artists.      Koelz Collection.  This important collection of 512 South Asian objects was given to the Museum by Dr. Walter Koelz, who traveled through the area in 1932-1933. It includes 48 Tibetan Thang-ka paintings collected from Buddhist monasteries in Ladakh and Kashmir, and is one of the few well documented Thang-ka collections in existence. The Koelz Collection also includes other textiles, such as embroidered and pieced woolen shawls from the Kashmir and Delhi/Jaipur regions, silver jewelry, and various objects of metal and wood.   Laurent's World Broom Collection In 2003, the Museum of Anthropology accepted a collection of brooms compiled by Laurent Jean Pierre and Heather Butcher. The collection consists of 25 brooms from various locations around the world and are examples of traditional technology and manufacture.