Asian Ethnographic Collection, Anthropology

Over 44,000 objects and textiles represent the diverse peoples of Asia. During the Museum's Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897 - 1902), Berthold Laufer, Waldemar Jochelson, and Waldemar Bogoras made an extraordinary collection of over 15,000 objects from Siberia and China. More recently, several hundred objects from Vietnam have been added to the collection as a result of curator Laurel Kendall's fieldwork amongst the ethnic groups of that country.