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National Museum of the American Indian

Collections of objects, photographs, archives, and media held by the NMAI

National Museum of the American Indian

A diverse and multifaceted cultural and educational enterprise, the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) is an active and visible component of the Smithsonian Institution, the world's largest museum complex. The NMAI cares for one of the world's most expansive collections of Native artifacts, including objects, photographs, archives, and media covering the entire Western Hemisphere, from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego.

The collections search page, https://americanindian.si.edu/explore/collections/search, allows you to search all of the NMAI collections available online. By searching for 'Native American photographs', you are taken to their collection of images of objects, photographs, artifacts, and media that ca be filtered by tribe, culture, name, place, object type, culture area, and continent.

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