Museum Collections

• American Museum of Natural History
  601 objects mentioning Samoa including various kind of artefact from mats, to cooking ustensils fromthe early 20th century.
  
  
• Australian Museum
  1356 items mentioning Samoa including 692 ethnological objects.
  
  
• Berndt Museum of Anthropology
  3 artefacts mentioning Samoa, 1 club, 1 staff and 1 necklace.
  
  
• Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum
  2602 objects mentioning Samoa including, adzes, mats, tattoo implements, combs, barkcloth, basketry. - Direct access to the Samoa collection
  
  
• Bristish Museum
  1334 items mentioning Samoa, including objects, drawings, 579 photographic prints, . - Direct access to the Samoa collection
  
  
• Burke Museum
  369 objects from Samoa including fly whisks, kava bowls, nckelaces, tools, ustensils.
  
  
• California Academy of Sciences
  130 objects from Samoa including mats, kava bowls, basketry from the 20th century.
  
  
• Horniman Museum & Garden
  5 objects mentioning Samoa including 3 fish hooks. - Direct access to the Samoa collection
  
  
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
  20 records mentioning Samoa including 18th century painting, drawings and photographic prints, and ethnographic objects. - Direct access to the Samoa collection
  
  
• Museum Volkenkunde Leiden
  404 items mentioning Samoa, including mats, headrest, fans, tools.
  
  
• Museum of Anthropology
  130 objects mentioning Samoa including combs, fans, clubs, baskets, barkclothes. - Direct access to the Samoa collection
  
  
• Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
  418 objets mentioning Samoa, 399 photographic prints, 9 archival documents.
  
  
• Musée Royal de L'Afrique centrale, Tervuren
  12 records mentioning Samoa mostly fish hooks and barkcloths.
  
  
• Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève
  81 obects from Samoa including clubs, barkclothes, fans, tapa beaters. - Direct access to the Samoa collection
  
  
• Musée d'ethnographie de Neuchatel
  48 records mentioning Samoa including fly whisks, fans, head ornaments, barkclothes.
  
  
• Musée du quai Branly
  264 items mentioning Samoa, including barkcloth, necklaces, headrest, fans, weapons, fishing gear.
  
  
• National Museum Australia
  8 objects mentioning Samoa mostly weaved fans form the end of the 20th century. - Direct access to the Samoa collection
  
  
• National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka
  287 records mentioning Samoa including basketry, cooking stones, kava cups, slit drums, clubs, ornaments, etc...
  
  
• Natural History Museum Los Angeles
  11 objects from Samoa including mainly feather ornaments.
  
  
• Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University
  540 items mentioning Samoan including combs, barkclothes, necklaces, clubs, basketry, spears, fishing gear,fine mats, footages and photographic prints from late 1890's. - Direct access to the Samoa collection
  
  
• Penn Museum
  561 items mentioning Samoa including fans, clubs, barkclothes, combs, necklaces .
  
  
• Pheobe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
  135 objects from Western Samoa including mostly mats and barkcloth. - Direct access to the Samoa collection
  
  
• Pitt Rivers Museum
  303 items mentioning Samoa including barkcloth, tattooing implement, necklaces, wooden clubs, stone adzes, fans.
  
  
• Smithsonian Institution Washington
  1449 records mentioning Samoa including kava bowls, whisks, tapa, weapons and ustensils, photographs and drawings.. - Direct access to the Samoa collection
  
  
• Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
  971 items mentioning Samoa photographic prints, war clubs, basketry, paddles, tapa clothes, finemats, fishing gear.
  
  
• Te Papa Tongarewa
  1536 objects mentioning Samoa including, stone adzes, garments, tools, large collection of decorated barkcloth and war clubs. - Direct access to the Samoa collection
  
  
• TropenMuseum Amsterdam
  30 object from Samoa including mainly fans, tapa and clubs; 19 photogrphic prints from the 1980's..
  
  
• UCL Museum
  2 objects from Samoa: 1 club, 1 comb.
  
  
• Universitetets Kultuhistoriske Museer, Oslo
  464 Records mentioning Samoa including basktry, fans, stone axes, kava bowls, cooing ustensils, etc... - Direct access to the Samoa collection
  
  
• University of Queensland Anthropology Museum
  15 items mentioning Samoa inclduing combs, clubs and 2 photographs. - Direct access to the Samoa collection
  
  
• Världskultur Museerna Göteburg
  1033 records mentioning Samoa including photographic prints and matériel culture items such as fly wisks, clubs, boxes, combs, tapa clothes.
  
  
• Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
  1 club from Samoa.