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	The Canela Indians of Northeastern Brazil
		National Museum of Natural History. Smithsonian Institution. «The Canela Native Americans of Central Brazil live in grassy, open woodlands with stream-edge forests. They inhabit an area between the wet Amazon basin and the dry Northeast. While most of the Canela's cultural cousins live in the Amazon basin, the waters of the Canela's region flow directly north into the Atlantic. Currently (as of 2002), some 1,300 Canela live in just one large circular village in the center of Maranhão state about 40 miles south of Barra do Corda and about 400 miles southeast of the mouth of the Amazon. The Canela speak Gê, a language family that includes the Timbira peoples, who lived near the Tocantins River as well as across Maranhão state and beyond the Parnaíba River in the center of Piaui state.» EEUU - inglés

	The Crees of Northern Quebec: A Photographic Essay
		Paul Conklin and Norman Chance. Arctic Circle. «On April 30th, 1971, the Québec Provincial Government announced that Hydro-Québec, a Crown Corporation, would develop the river systems draining into James Bay, Canada, for hydroelectric power. Since that time the landscape has undergone a significant change including the diversion and daming of major rivers and the formation of huge reservoirs. This geographical alteration has also transformed the life of the indigenous Crees - an Algonqian-speaking people who moved into the region long before the arrival of Europeans.» Canadá

	The Edge of Enchantment
		National Museum of the American Indian. Smithsonian Institution. «Every year in early spring on the coast of Oaxaca, pilgrims visit El Pedimento, one of many encantos—enchanted places—known to the people of the region. They come to El Pedimento to pray at the Cross on the Hill and to ask the spirits for their benevolence.» EEUU - inglés México

	The Field Museum
		Chicago, Illinois. «The Field Museum was incorporated in the State of Illinois on September 16, 1893 as the Columbian Museum of Chicago with its purpose the "accumulation and dissemination of knowledge, and the preservation and exhibition of objects illustrating art, archaeology, science and history".» «The Field Museum was founded to house the biological and anthropological collections assembled for the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. These objects form the core of the Museum's collections which have grown through world-wide expeditions, exchange, purchase, and gifts to more than twenty million specimens.» EEUU - inglés

	The Field Museum's Anthropology collections
		«An iron tool from tenth-century Kenya. A shell amulet from the ancient American Southwest. A pottery shard from prehistoric Brazil. These objects from the anthropology collections at The Field Museum were once in the hands of individual people attempting to solve everyday problems in their environments. Today, at the Museum and in the field, anthropologists and their colleagues restore these objects to life...» EEUU - inglés

	The First Europeans: Treasures from the Hills of Atapuerca
		Co-organized by the American Museum of Natural History and Junta de Castilla y León, Spain. «Castilla y León, the largest autonomous region in Spain, contains more than 50 percent of the country's historical and artistic patrimony, as well as the largest number of UNESCO world heritage sites. The history of this 100,000-square-kilometer region, the largest in western Europe, stretches back one million years. It was in Atapuerca where evidence of western Europe's first inhabitants was unearthed.» «The gently rolling hills known as the Sierra de Atapuerca in northern Spain hide a complex system of large limestone caverns. Openings into the caves dot the hillsides, and for nearly one million years, these cave entrances have provided shelter for humans as well as animals. Over the millennia, the inhabitants of Atapuerca left behind an extraordinary fossil record that scientists are just beginning to unearth.» EEUU - inglés España

	The History of Eating Utensils
		Department of Anthropology at the California Academy of Sciences. «When people sit down to eat a meal, they seldom give much thought to the "tools" or tableware before them. The history of tableware, however, is an interesting one. Changes in eating habits, social trends, and the blending of cultures have all resulted in changes in both form and function of cutlery and in its social implications. Examples of tableware from the Academy's Carl Austin Rietz Food Technology Collection illustrate some of these changes.» EEUU - inglés

	The Inuvialuit Place Name
		Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre; Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre. Virtual Museum Canada. «This virtual exhibit features places of cultural and historical importance to the Inuvialuit of the western Canadian Arctic. The exhibit uses traditional knowledge, photos, illustrations, video and audio to inform visitors about the rich culture and heritage of the Inuvialuit.» Canadá

	The Living Yamal
		National Museum of Natural History. Smithsonian Institution. Arctic Studies Center. «It is rare today to find a culture living totally in sync with the natural environment, following the seasons, meeting all their human needs with natural materials, and following a complicated religious system passed down orally through the ages. One such culture lives today on the Yamal Peninsula of Siberia. The Yamal also holds what may be the greatest untapped natural gas reserves in the world. This Russian resource is being developed jointly by Amoco Eurasia Corporation and the Russian company Nadym Gazprom (NGP). Can this reserve be developed without destroying the native culture? Amoco hopes so and they have asked the Arctic scientists of the Smithsonian to help.» EEUU - inglés

	The Nenets: Arctic nomads of Siberia
		Heidi Bradner. EEUU - inglés

	The New Old World
		Antilles: Living Beyond the Myth. National Museum of the American Indian. Smithsonian Institution. «Esta muestra fotográfica de la población y comunidades indígenas en las Antillas realizada por Marisol Villanueva, representa una importante contribución al estudio de la sociedad caribeña, así como un desafío a el mito de extinción indígena que tanto a caracterizado su historia. Varios siglos antes de 1492, las islas del Caribe se encontraban ya pobladas por diversas culturas indígenas, entre las cuales la que llegó a alcanzar mayor extensión territorial fue la Taína. Yucayeques (aldeas) taínos ocuparon gran parte del territorio de todas las Antillas Mayores: Cuba, Puerto Rico, la Española (República Dominicana /Haití), y Jamaica.» Caribe EEUU - inglés

	The Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920: Photographs from the Fred Hultstrand and F.A. Pazandak Photograph Collections
		Library of Congress. «These two collections from the Institute for Regional Studies at North Dakota State University contain 900 photographs of rural and small town life at the turn of the century. Highlights include images of sod homes and the people who built them; images of farms and the machinery that made them prosper; and images of one-room schools and the children that were educated in them.» EEUU - inglés

	The Pacific Voyages of Rollo Beck
		Department of Anthropology at the California Academy of Sciences. «During the 1920s, the American Museum of Natural History sponsored the Whitney Expedition to collect natural history specimens from the South Pacific. Noted ornithologist, Rollo Beck, was a member of the expedition's team. Beck and his wife, Ida Beck, were also avocational anthropologists. Apart from their official duties as part of the expedition, the Becks studied and photographed the native people wherever the expedition took them and collected examples of native material culture. This exhibit traces the Beck's travels through their diaries and photographs and showcases some of the nearly 500 objects they collected, now part of the Academy's permanent research collection.» EEUU - inglés

	The Provincial Museum of Alberta
		«The Provincial Museum of Alberta is committed to building and preserving collections documenting the diversity of Alberta's natural history. We have eight different natural history collections. To date our collections number about 500,000 specimens. Collections are accessible to researchers and the interested public and specimens will be loaned to qualified institutions.» «The Provincial Museum of Alberta is committed to preserve and build collections documenting 12,000 years of human occupation of the Province. The history programs are divided into two sections - Aboriginal and early contact history (Archaeology and Ethnology) and post-contact history (Folklife, Government History, and Western Canadian History)» Canadá

	The Russian State Museum of Arctic and Antarctic
		«It is one of the largest ones in the World devoted to the discovery and history of exploration, natural environment, and the economy and culture of the polar regions of the planet. It is the only one in the World having both Arctic and Antarctic expositions. Nowadays the museum collection contains near 75,000 exhibits of which many are unique and date back to the XVI century.» Rusia

	The Story of the Masks
		U'mista Cultural Society. Virtual Museum Canada. «A showcase of potlatch masks from the U'mista Cultural Centre, and the stories and creatures they represent. Answer trivia questions about the creatures in the masks and collect artist-designed trading cards.» Canadá

	Through the Eyes of the Cree. The Art of Allen Sapp
		The Allen Sapp Gallery. Virtual Museum Canada. «Through the art of renowned Cree artist Allen Sapp, this site explores the life and history of Allen Sapp and the Northern Plains Cree. It features video footage of elders reflecting on the meaning and historical and cultural significance of Sapp's work and contains over 600 paintings in the image gallery ranging from early reserve life to contemporary Cree activities.» Canadá

	Tichkematse, A Cheyenne at the Smithsonian
		A story of a Cheyenne Indian working for the Institution between 1879 and 1881. National Museum of Natural History. Smithsonian Institution. National Anthropological Archives. «Raised to a life based on buffalo hunting, Tichkematse was among a group of southern Plains warriors who were held as prisoners of war by the United States government from 1875-1878. While imprisoned, he learned to speak English and to read and write. Upon release he attended school at the Hampton Institute in Virginia for about a year before coming to the Smithsonian. There he was trained in the preparation of bird and mammal specimens for study and display. He proved so able a naturalist that he was detailed to accompany a government expedition traveling the remote Florida waterways to counsel with members of the Seminole tribe. Tichkematse used this opportunity to collect bird specimens for the museum.» EEUU - inglés

	To the Totem Forests: Emily Carr and Contemporaries Interpret Coastal Villages
		Canada's Digital Collections. Government of Canada. «...is the first exhibit in which the voice of First Nations people is used to describe drawings, paintings and prints which were created by Emily Carr, Walter Phillips, A.Y. Jackson, George Pepper, Langdon Kihn and F.M. Bell-Smith. This voice, through first-person testimony and anthropological records provides context for the artworks and corrects some misinterpretations unwittingly introduced by the artists. Further, the exhibit incorporates historical photographs, taken before and during the years these artists painted, which provide new insights into the depiction of Northwest Coast monumental sculpture during the first three decades of the 20th century.» Canadá

	Tourist Icons: Native American Kitsch, Camp, and Fine Art Along Route 66
		Museum of Indian Arts & Culture. «This investigation focuses on the souvenirs sold in New Mexico along Route 66, and the terms used to describe them. The exhibition asks why these forms of popular culture are so fascinating or so objectionable.» EEUU - inglés

	University of Alberta Museums
		«The University of Alberta Museums hold a world of wonder and discovery for the inquisitive mind. They provide learning opportunities that are exceptional, innovative and inspiring, and enable new generations and diverse communities to explore and benefit from a vast array of world-class research and scholarship. Thirty-five diverse museums and collections located throughout the campus combined with the Department of Museums and Collections Services, a community of curators, staff and students, and the Friends of the University of Alberta Museums together form the University of Alberta Museums.» Canadá

	University of Dundee Museum Services
		«The University has Museum Collections comprising a range of material preserved during the 120 years of the institution's existence. These are cared for by Museum Services, which has recently been awarded Phase II Registration by re:source, the Council for Museums, Archives & Libraries. The collections are made up of over 15,000 items, representing Botany, Chemistry, Dentistry, Engineering (Civil, Electrical & Mechanical), Ethnography, Fine & Applied Art, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, Physiology, Psychology and Zoology.» Reino Unido

	Unmasking the Maya. The Story of Sna Jtz'ibajom
		National Museum of Natural History. Smithsonian Institution. «One million Maya Indians from Mexico and Guatemala are living in the United States. Unlike earlier waves of immigrants to our shores, the Maya are descendants of a New World civilization whose mystery resonates across this continent, and the globe. Few Americans are aware that there was extensive trade between the ancient peoples of North America and Mexico for at least a thousand years.» EEUU - inglés

	Vietnam: Journeys of Body, Mind & Spirit
		American Museum of Natural History, New York, and the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, Hanoi. «A journey is a bridge between two points. In Vietnam, some journeys take place on roads, highways, railways, rivers and footpaths as family members come home for the New Year, hunters travel into the forest and city dwellers carry precariously balanced goods on bicycles and motorbikes. Other journeys are metaphorical: life is a journey marked by significant rituals, and the year is a journey mapped by a calendar. Souls travel to the netherworld, while gods and ancestors return to the human world during celebrations in their honor.» EEUU - inglés

	Virtual Keeping House: A First Nations Gallery
		Canada's Digital Collections. Government of Canada. «Since being established in 1972, The Saskatchewan Indian Cultural Centre's (SICC) mission has been to strengthen and support the overall education, retention and revitalization of the Five First Nations Languages in Saskatchewan. For the past twenty-five years, this non-profit corporation delivered services to support First Nations education, art and cultures, as well as to broaden the cultural awareness of First Nations people.» Canadá

	Virtual Storehouse
		Canada's Digital Collections. Government of Canada. Collections of the Canadian Museum of Civilization. Canadá

	Voces
		Esta exposición nos descubre la riqueza de la comunicación humana como expresión de la diversidad de las culturas y como puente de diálogo entre ellas. Muestra visualmente algo tan intangible como la voz mediante un despliegue audiovisual para saber cómo suenan muchas de las 5.000 lenguas que existen en el mundo. Dedicada a la diversidad, uno de los ejes temáticos del Fórum, su objetivo fundamental es celebrar el hecho de la comunicación humana y mostrarnos el valioso patrimonio lingüístico del mundo, resultado de una extraordinaria capacidad de adaptación. España Internacional

	Voces Vivas
		National Museum of the American Indian. «Living Voices/Voces Vivas es una serie de grabaciones de audio en inglés y español de perfiles de indígenas americanos hoy en día. Destaca a la gente nativa de diversas edades, tradiciones y perspectivas, y refleja un amplio espectro de la experiencia nativa contemporánea. Voces Vivas consiste en diez perfiles en español. Living Voices consiste en 40 perfiles en inglés, en un conjunto separado de tres discos compactos. La serie implicó una colaboración creativa de gran magnitud, involucrando a más de 100 participantes quienes aportaron sus considerables habilidades para contar sus historias, realizar entrevistas, y editar cientas de horas de cinta de audio para conseguir darle forma final a Living Voices y Voces Vivas. Estamos profundamente agradecidos a todas las personas nativas que aparecen en Living Voices/Voces Vivas por inspirarnos con sus relatos, y a todos quienes aportaron con su tiempo y su talento para brindarle vida a esta serie.» EEUU - inglés

	Voices from the Dust Bowl: the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941
		Library of Congress. «...is an online presentation of a multi-format ethnographic field collection documenting the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941. This collection consists of audio recordings, photographs, manuscript materials, publications, and ephemera generated during two separate documentation trips supported by the Archive of American Folk Song (now the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center).» EEUU - inglés

	Weavers at Musqueam
		Canada's Digital Collections. Government of Canada. «The UBC Museum of Anthropology is built on Musqueam traditional territory, so we have a special relationship with the Musqueam people. Our ongoing work with the weavers at Musqueam is part of that relationship. Many Musqueam people are accomplished weavers, making a great variety of weavings for use in ceremonies, at home, and as a source of income. The art of making large weavings was nearly lost at the turn of the century, although people continued to make small items of regalia needed for ceremonies.» Canadá

	Weaving in the Margins: Navajo Men as Weavers
		Museum of Indian Arts & Culture. «Like other weaving families in scattered communities across the Diné Nation, the Jacksons learned the art of weaving from female relatives and they supplement their subsistence life-style with the sale of their rugs. What makes the Jackson family uncommon, though, is that the father and son are weavers.» EEUU - inglés

	Welcome to Ogopogo Country
		Canada's Digital Collections. Government of Canada. «Indian legend has it that the large lake creature was originally a demon possessed man who had murdered a well known and respected local man named "Old Kan-He-Kan." In memory of this man, his people named Our beautiful lake "Okanagan." To pay for his sins, the Indian gods changed the murderer into a lake serpent so he would forever be at the scene of his crime and suffer eternal remorse. The creature's name became "N'ha-A-Itk" which roughly translates into sacred creature of the water, water god or lake demon.» Canadá

	Whitby Museum
		Whitby Literary & Philosophical Society. «The palaeontology & geology collection consists mainly (98% of collection) of fossils. There are an outstanding set of saurians (fossil marine reptiles) mounted on the wall which include several ichthyosaurs, a plesiosaur and a teleosaurus (crocodile) as well as slabs of rock with dinosaur footprints. These larger specimens and most of the smaller fossils come from the Lower and Middle Jurassic. Many of the smaller fossils, particularly ammonites and belemnites, are of international importance since many are "type" specimens : that is the original specimens that gave rise to the names used by palaeontologists today.» Reino Unido

	World Around Me (The)
		University of Lethbridge Inuit Art Collection. Canadá

	World Ceramics
		The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. «Explore and learn about the many ways ceramics have been made, used, and decorated throughout the world.» EEUU - inglés Internacional

	World Civilizations
		Washington State University, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections. «This site, the World Civilizations Image Repository (WCIR), consists of a series of image databases drawn from donated personal faculty collections and images located in Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) at the WSU libraries. The primary purpose of the WCIR is to provide WSU World Civilizations faculty with non-copyright restricted images for classroom use. Users may search across all collections by entering terms or selecting topics provided above. To view the individual collections click on one of the following links: Photographs of Turkey, Photographs of Japan, Photographs of Ireland, and Photographs of India and Thailand by Prof. Paul Brians; Photographs of Asia and Europe, taken by Prof. Marina Tolmacheva, or Historical engravings from the rare book collections in Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections.» Asia Europa Irlanda Japón Tailandia Turquia

	World Myths and Legends in Art
		The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. «Myths are stories that explain why the world is the way it is. All cultures have them. Throughout history, artists have been inspired by myths and legends and have given them visual form. Sometimes these works of art are the only surviving record of what particular cultures believed and valued. But even where written records or oral traditions exist, art adds to our understanding of myths and legends.» EEUU - inglés Internacional

	Yukon Land Claims: Yesterday to Tomorrow
		Canada's Digital Collections. Government of Canada. «Yukon First Nations have an Aboriginal right to self-determination. This right includes a right to exercise authority over the use and development of resources within their traditional territories. These rights are recognized and affirmed in the Constitution Act (1982). They are based on the unique historic and spiritual relationship of Yukon First Nations to their traditional homelands.» Canadá

	http://www.dibam.cl/museos/museoarauco.html
		«Museo creado en 1940 con la finalidad de recuperar y conservar la cultura mapuche, pueblo indígena de la región. Dispone de una colección de más de 3.000 piezas, entre las que destacan las cerámicas de estilo Valdivia (1400 - 1600 d.C.) y la colección de complementos de platería utilizados por la mujer mapuche. Posee una biblioteca especializada en cultura mapuche, de más de 4.000 volúmenes, una colección de cartografía de la región y una guía español - mapudungu, lengua nativa mapuche.» Chile

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