Search the UMMA Digital Image Database The Museum of Anthropology's image database is the culmination of 5 years work to digitize its immense collection of color 35mm slides that represent over 60 years of archaeological work throughout the United States, Latin America, Asia, and Europe. The slide collection was put together mainly for use in teaching undergraduate and graduate courses at the University but also for talks and presentations at annual conferences. The majority of the slides are original photographs taken by past and current curators and students working on archaeological projects and dissertations. The collection also has a large number of commercial (purchased) slides and images taken from various publications that were useful for illustrating objects that the Museum did not possess. The last category of slides consists of images donated to the Museum by both professional and amateur archaeologists. The Museum has been working very diligently to identify the sources of the slides in its collections, and has made an honest attempt to credit original photographs, book sources, and commercial vendors whenever possible. We know that the process will be ongoing and we welcome any comments or suggestions for the identification of images. Please review the Museum's Copyright Information for use of images both from the database and from this site in general. The Museum has scanned over 32,000 images to date and plans on adding more as they are ready for viewing. In cooperation with the Digital Library Production Services Department at the University's Hatcher Graduate Library, the Museum has been able to distribute its scanned images to the general public and interested researchers. The Museum Digital Image Database was designed by Patrick Livingood with the help of Julie Solometo and Karen O'Brien. During the first year and a half of digitizing, the project was funded by a grant from the University's College of LS&A Information Technology Committee. The monies allowed the Museum to purchase a Creo-Scitex flatbed scanner and computers for data entry and development of the database, and to hire graduate and undergraduate students for data entry and digitizing. The Museum also applied to the National Endowment for the Humanities for monies to work on the slide collection of James B. Griffin, a collection of approximately 18,000 slides. Awarded in the spring of 2004, the grant enabled the Museum to finish the digitizing project.   The Museum would like to thank the many individuals involved in the project for all their hard work and dedication:  Erica Beebe, Amy Lawson, Patrick Livingood, Julie Solometo, Margaret Prest, Hallie Jones, Brad Krueger, Jessica Meulendyk, John Weise, Michelle Sweeter, and Liz Konzak.   Search the UMMA Artifact Collection Database. The Museum of Anthropology has approximately 3 million cataloged objects in its permanent collection that consist of archaeological, ethnographic, botanical, geological, faunal, and osteological materials from around the world. For the past 15 years, the Museum has worked on digitizing its collection data, but it has been a slow process. Recently, the Museum designed a new database using Microsoft Access. The new database has many advantages over the old database system, and the Museum staff is diligently entering data. At this time, the Museum of Anthropology is able to offer a small subset of searchable records from its Artifact Collection Database. Some catalog records have only limited information and may include only catalog number, accession number and a name of the object. Other records are more complete, with better descriptions and places of origin. There are likely some inaccuracies and misspellings in the database; however, we are making every effort to proofread records before putting them online. If errors are found, we would greatly appreciate if you would bring them to our attention by contacting the Collections Manager. Data from the Museum's collections are being entered into the Artifact Collection Database on a regular basis. The web version of our database is updated periodically to provide you with the most up-to-date information available. Please check back often and see our database grow. For searching instructions and more detail on the database, please read the UMMA Artifact Search Document (pdf).