Gilcrease Museum

In partnership with the University of Tulsa, the Gilcrease Museum will inventory, assess condition, catalog, and image 1,500 ethnographic items from its anthropology collection. The result will be a full collection inventory, condition assessment, high quality digital images, medium-depth catalog records, and expansion of the newly developed Distance Cataloguing Interface, which enables scholars to contribute their expertise remotely. The images and associated materials will be accessible online and in the museum's Kravis Discovery Center, an anthropology-based interactive open storage exhibition gallery. This stewardship project will strengthen the museum's contributions as a vital resource for tribal communities and a conduit to educate a worldwide audience about the cultures and life-ways of the indigenous peoples living in Northeast Oklahoma, specifically the Osage, Cherokee, and Muscogee (Creek) Nations.