A I C L S

   *Due to facility renovations the material collections (baskets etc.) will not be visited during this Breath of Life Workshop. However, other items are still available. 

   The Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, formerly the Lowie Museum of Anthropology, was founded in 1901. It has major collections of material culture, including large collections on California.

   Most relevant to Breath of Life are its photographic collections, film and sound recordings. The museum has the largest sound collection in an American anthropology museum. One of the largest and oldest ethnographic sound collections in the country, it is the largest and most comprehensive sound collection for California Indian song and language and the third largest ethnographic wax-cylinder collection in America (2, 713 items, produced 1901-1938.) There are also important holdings from Africa and Asia. It also has one of the largest collections of research footage on North American Indians in the country. Most of the collection was formed by Samuel A. Barrett (first UC Berkeley anthropology doctorate in anthropology, 1908), on his NSF-funded American Indian Film Project (1960-65), yielding 362,569 feet of film from many tribes in the American West.