Uncovering Oregon’s Earliest Mystery: The Nehalem Beeswax Shipwreck
University of Oregon and MNCH are aiding research in solving a centuries old shipwreck.
Digging into Oregon’s Native Plants
UO Researcher digs into grass and stems to study early Americans.
Samoan researchers visit to see collection of tapa cloth
A kind of bark cloth known as tapa cloth in Polynesia recently drew a team of Samoan researchers to the Museum of Natural and Cultural History to dig into its extensive collection of the culturally important material.
Volunteer Spotlight: Refining our Ethnographic Basketry Database
by Elizabeth Kallenbach
Four of the museum’s Anthropological Collections volunteers pivoted to remote work in 2020, completing a comprehensive review of the images in our new, online Native American Ethnographic Basketry Collection database.
Preserving Cressman’s fieldwork films
by Kristen Strommer
The National Film Preservation Foundation generously awarded the museum $18,000 to support the preservation of archaeological fieldwork films housed in our collections vaults.
Connecting through Collections
by Pam Endzweig
New Acquisition: Donation of tapa cloth shows worldwide connections, from the Samoan artisans to Margaret Mead to Luther Cressman.
Reeling in the Years
How the museum is preserving the mid-century films of Luther Cressman.
Artifacts go digital: expanding public access to the history of the desert west
by Pam Endzweig
We are delighted to announce the launch of our new Northern Great Basin Archaeological Perishables online catalog—an extensive, searchable database of more than 3,000 artifacts that is now accessible to viewers around the world.
Oregon Rock Art Research Archive
by Pam Endzweig
We recently established the University of Oregon Rock Art Research Archive (UO RARA) at the MNCH, an endeavor dedicated to the preservation of this irreplaceable record.
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