Smithsonian National Anthropological Archives

The National Anthropological Archives (NAA), in partnership with the Recovering Voices Initiative plans to digitize all ethnographic sound recordings, estimated at 3,000 hours, and 35,000 pages of manuscript materials. "In collaboration with communities and partner organizations, Recovering Voices seeks to improve access to the Smithsonian’s diverse collections – archival, biological and cultural – and to support interdisciplinary research, documentation and revitalization... The NAA collections contain anthropological fieldnotes, journals, manuscripts, photographs, moving images, sound recordings, artwork, maps, and over 60,000 digital images. "Resources are held and cared for within the four units of [Collections and Archives Program] CAP: Collections Management (Ethnology, Archaeology, and Physical Anthropology divisions), the Anthropology Conservation Lab, the National Anthropological Archives (manuscripts, photographs, recorded sound, digital media), and the Human Studies Film Archives (moving image collections)." The NAA website also contains a list of research publications and links to select material. An appointment is necessary to access collections in any of the physical repositories, some material in collections are restricted, see website for details.