An ancestor from one of Michigan’s Odawa communities made this quillwork box, ca. 1890-1910, for sale to tourists. Such baskets were, and still are, created for utilitarian use.

North American Collections

Early Bird

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National Science Foundation (NSF)

NSF Funded Vertebrate Tree of Life Projects

Media for Emerging Pathogens Project

Emerging Pathogens Project

Media for PEET - BIVALVES: Taxonomy on the half-shell

PEET - BIVALVES: Taxonomy on the half-shell

Supplement to the Synopsis of Philippine Mammals

Media for Museum Archives Moving Image Collection

Museum Archives Moving Image Collection

Mount Kilimanjaro

Mammals of Tanzania

Mashteuiatsh Sharing Project: Solving Complex issues with Good Will

Collage of training resources

IMLS Empowering Museums: Training modules, templates, and resources

Media for Asian Textile Collections

Asian Textile Collections

Detail of an embroidered cotton sleeve band, Mianyang, Sichuan, China. Collected by Carl Schuster. Catalog Number 2724.234232. © The Field Museum.

Schuster Collection

Boone Collection

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Detail from Untitled panel In Edo no Nishiki (Pictures of Edo Women) by Ikeda Terukata. Meiji period, undated. Book; Ink on paper. Catalog Number 3656.223008.B

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New Guinean Clays

RI-33 Riverine floodplains (várzea)

Brazil

Dwarf Spider ID Gallery

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Face of a female Dwarf Spider.

LinEpig: Dwarf Spider ID Gallery

PEET: Lasiosphaeriaceae

A. W. F. Fuller Collection

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Mask from Northern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea collected by A.W.F. Fuller (originally given to the Chichester Museum by Miss Newman of Midhurst, England in 1859.  This wooden mask, with opercula eyes, fiber hair, and painted with red ochre, lime, and black pigment, is one of the earliest known masks from New Ireland.  Catalog Number 2616.276499. Photo Archives ID # A114455_02d.

Melanesian Collections

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Mask in the shape of a long house (daimo) collected by A. B. Lewis in 1912 from the Kerewa People of Goaribari Island, Gulf of Papua, Papua New Guinea.  Catalog Number 1113.142720. © The Field Museum, A114408_02d*, Photographer John Weinstein.*

Chinese Rubbings Collection

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carved and painted masks in storage boxes

Drama masks (topeng) from West and Central Java, Indonesia, c.1880. Used in a wayang topeng dance drama in the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. About 80 such masks are in the collection of The Field Museum. Carved from soft wood and painted in traditional patterns and colors, they are among the oldest and most beautiful Indonesian masks in the United States.  GN91437_14d

Photo Archives - Anthropology Collection

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Javanese Mask Collection

Fishes Dried Skeleton Collection

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Fishes Collection

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Close-up view of a gecko showing only its head and frog-like eyes.

Amphibian and Reptile Collections

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Media for Andean Clays

Andean Clays

Andean Fine-grained Volcanics

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Mazon Creek Fossil Invertebrates

Bird Egg Collection

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Costa Rican Fungi

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Early Pacific Collections

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Malanggan (also malagan) figure - carved and painted wooden bird with outstretched wings holding a serpent in its beak from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.  Catalog Number 967.98641.  Received from J. F. G. Umlauff.  © The Field Museum, A110311c, Photographers* Ron Testa and Diane Alexander White.*

Contemporary Pacific Collections

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A part of dress called kiekie, an ornamental girdle worn by women in the Kingdom of Tonga around the waist and over a skirt or tupenu (wrapped garment) underneath.  This kiekie was purchased for the Museum’s collections *by Regenstein Collections Manager Christopher J. Philipp in 2010.  Temporary Number T2010.0017.  © The Field Museum, Photographer Christopher J. Philipp.

Edward E. Ayer Collection

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Media for Latin American Textile Collections

Latin American Textile Collections

Media for Mazon Creek flora

Mazon Creek flora

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Photo Archives - Charles Knight Collection

Africa Collections

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vTypes

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Polynesian Collections

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Detail of mahau - exterior porch panels from Ruatepupuke II – wharenui – Maori meeting house from Tokomaru Bay, New Zealand. Catalog Number 967.143961. © The Field Museum, A109973_15c, Photographer Ron Testa.

A cropped photo of the African Water Hole diorama, featuring a family of giraffe on the left, a rhinoceros in the bottom center, and several zebra on the right.

Photo Archives - Zoology Collection

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A low relief panel, or frieze, by Henry Hering depicting a winged female figure wearing a flowing gown and holding a globe with North and South American continents and a torch representing fire.

Photo Archives - Geology Collection

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A composite image of four photos from past museum expeditions.

Photo Archives - Expedition Collection

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Illinois Woodland diorama photo made in 1985 by Ron Testa, B83204c.

Photo Archives - Botany Collection

A. B. Lewis Collection

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Erythroxylum

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Plate showing a Roseate Spoonbill, from John James Audubon's Birds of America.

John James Audubon Collection

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Two monarch butterflies are perched atop a flower in downtown Chicago.

Cities are Key to Saving Monarch Butterflies

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Urban Pollinator Conservation

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Calumet Region 

View Over Garden Full Bloom

City of Chicago

View of the Putumayo River

Putumayo-Içá Biocultural Corridor

Milli-PEET: The class Diplopoda

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Illinois Peregrines

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A peregrine falcon

Synopsis of Philippine Mammals

Assembling the Tree of Life

Southern Amazonian birds and their symbionts

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BSI project logo

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Field Guides

Handline fishing on RI-32

Local Ecological Knowledge

RI-32 Camp Amuku landscape

Guiana Shield

Pembroke Savanna / Bald Hill

The Pembroke Region

PEET - Bivalves Affiliated Project:  Florida Keys Bivalve Diversity

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Generalized anatomy of Florida bivalves

PEET - Bivalves Affiliated Project:  Pearls

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Cover of ‘Pearls: A Natural History’

PEET - Bivalves Project: Veneroidea Phylogeny

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PEET - Bivalves Project: Venerinae

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PEET - Bivalves Project: Siphonal Structure in Veneridae

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PEET - Bivalves  Project: Isognomon

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PEET - Bivalves Project Pterioidea

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PEET - Bivalves Project: Pterioidea

PEET - Bivalves Project: Bivalve Sperm Ultrastructure

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Beaubien Celebration 2012 7

Youth and Family-Centered Conservation

Gathering Spaces event

Roots and Routes

RI-32 team at work

Rapid Biological and Social Inventories

The PEET Program

Media for PEET: Austral Staphylinidae

PEET: Austral Staphylinidae

Media for The Körös Regional Archaeological Project

The Körös Regional Archaeological Project

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