Museum Collections

• American Museum of Natural History
  262 objects mentioning Kiribati (here under Gilbert Islands) incuding armors, cuirass, shark teethed weapons, tools, daggers.
  
  
• Australian Museum
  606 objects mentioning Kiribati including weapons, ornaments, shell money.
  
  
• Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum
  588 items mentioning Kiribati including spears, baskets, money, belts, canoes, necklaces, hats. - Direct access to the Kiribati collection
  
  
• British Museum
  531 items mentioning Kiribati, including weapons, tools, armors, 85 photographic prints. - Direct access to the Kiribati collection
  
  
• Burke Museum
  94 objects from Kiribati including basketry, daggers, weapons, skirts, mats, armors. - Direct access to the Kiribati collection
  
  
• California Academy of Sciences
  17 items mentioning Kiribati inclduing weapons, skirts and tools.
  
  
• Horniman Museum & Garden
  9 objects from Kiribati mostly fish hooks. - Direct access to the Kiribati collection
  
  
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
  5 objects from Kiribati including adze, weapons and sleeping mats. - Direct access to the Kiribati collection
  
  
• Musem of Anthropology
  79 objects mentioning Kiribati including swords, model paddles, necklaces. - Direct access to the Kiribati collection
  
  
• Museo Nacional de Antropologia (Madrid)
  4 items mentioning Kiribati including 2 funerary mask and 2 weapons.
  
  
• Museum Volkenkunde Leiden
  122 items mentioning Kiribati baskets, armor, weapons.
  
  
• Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
  10 objects mentioning Kiribati including cuirass, sword, club, helmet; 36 photographic prints, .
  
  
• Musée Royal de L'Afrique centrale, Tervuren
  11 records mentioning Kiribati, mostly fish hooks. Several other items among the 50 recorded under Micronesia are from Kiribati.
  
  
• Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève
  33 objects from Kiribati including necklaces, armbands, cuirass, wooden sword. - Direct access to the Kiribati collection
  
  
• Musée du quai Branly
  44 items mentioning Kiribati, mostly armors, clothes, weapon, fishing hook.
  
  
• National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka
  26 records mentioning Kiribati including wooden boxes and basketry.
  
  
• Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University
  228 records mentioning Kiribati including weapons, fishing gear, necklaces, spears, etc. and photographic prints. - Direct access to the Kiribati collection
  
  
• Penn Museum
  91 objects Mentioning Kiribati (here under Gilbert Islands) including weapons, armors, currency. - Direct access to the Kiribati collection
  
  
• Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
  51 objects from Kiribati including necklaces, bracelets, beads, woven mats, etc.. - Direct access to the Kiribati collection
  
  
• Pitt Rivers Museum
  252 items mentioning Kiribati including fish hooks, tools, sharktooth weapons.
  
  
• Smithsonian Institution Washington
  244 records mentioning Kiribati including fish skin helmet, swords, armours, sprears, dagger, shelle and bone ornaments. - Direct access to the Kiribati collection
  
  
• Te Papa Tongarewa
  79 objects mentioning Kiribati as a production place including armors, sharktooth weapons, . - Direct access to the Kiribati collection
  
  
• Tropenmuseum Amsterdam
  39 objects mentioning Kiribati including spears, armor, necklaces, swords, etc..
  
  
• UCL Museum
  2 objects from Kiribati, 1 sword, 1 necklace.
  
  
• Universitetets Kultuhistoriske Museer, Oslo
  83 records mentioning Kiribati inclduding shark teeth weapons, weaved boxes, necklaces, cuirass, ornaments, etc.. - Direct access to the Kiribati collection
  
  
• Världskultur Museerna
  32 records mentioning kiribati incuding photographic prints, baskets, clubs, shell implements.
  
  
• Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
  3 items mentioning Kiribati (here under Gilbert islands): swords.