Yale University (Peabody Museum of Natural History)

Yale University Peabody Museum will improve care, preservation, and access for 8,000 Oceanic and Asian ethnographic objects by cleaning, conserving, and moving them to new museum cabinets and shelves in an environmentally controlled storage facility. These objects include weapons, tapa, headdresses, jewelry and other body ornaments, clothing, musical instruments, sculptures, and utilitarian objects such as bowls, spoons, and lime containers. The collections have great research potential as a source of information for anthropologists and other scholars studying the people and environment of the areas that have been since been impacted by outside cultures. Upgrading the storage conditions will help ensure the long-term preservation of these materials and dramatically improve accessibility for research, teaching, and exhibition.