The ethnographic collection includes thousands of objects from a variety of cultural areas around the globe. The online galleries highlight a selected number of objects within the museum holdings.

Pearsall Collection of American Indian Art

With representative pieces from most of the major tribal cultures in North America, the Pearsall collection is especially rich in examples of North American Indian art made during the Reservation Period (1890-1920), a time of transition for American Indian cultures. Many of these pieces were originally purchased by Pearsall between 1900-1960, which makes the collection an important resource for studying the origins of the North American Indian art market.

The Pearsall gallery includes a selection of 500 objects, about 20% of the collection, from the United States and Canada, as well as a few Siberian artifacts from the Western Arctic.

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