Trustees of Dartmouth College, Office of Sponsored Projects (Hood Museum of Art)

The Hood Museum of Art will undertake a three-year project to digitize the museum’s entire collection of Native American art and make images and information about the objects available for comment and discussion on a dedicated Native American Art at Dartmouth (NAAD) Web Forum. As part of the project, more than thirty-five hundred Native American objects in the collection will be photographed. The web forum will feature a searchable database of the collection for all online visitors, particularly those of Native heritage, to share information, stories, images, and videos, and to enter into discussions about objects in the collection. This feedback on the collections, combined with that of scholar consultants, will expand the museum’s knowledge about these objects and make them available to a broad audience. The museum will also engage an educational consultant to create learning resources for Dartmouth faculty and students and K–12 teachers.