Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology
- Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology
The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology is Brown University's anthropology museum, set within 376 acres (1.52 km²) of woodland on the shores of Mount Hope Bay on Tower Street, Bristol, Rhode Island, and with a satellite location on the university campus in Providence, Rhode Island. The Museum grounds on Mount Hope (Rhode Island) include King Philip's Seat, a large rock formation where Wampanoag chief King Philip held meetings.
The museum and its Bristol grounds were donated to Brown by the family of Rudolf F. Haffenreffer in 1955. It is one of the finest centers in New England for research on Native American material culture. Its holdings total more than 110,000 items, of which 73,000 are archaeological artifacts and 15,000 are ethnographic. While strongest in Native North American materials, the museum also contains significant material from Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, including:
* 69,966 archeological and 6,000 ethnological objects from North America
* 2,534 archeological and 3,000 ethnological items from South and Central America
* 40 archeological and 3,000 ethnological items from Africa, some by contemporary artisans
* 399 archeological and 400 ethnological items from Europe
* 1,100 ethnological items from Asia
* 5 archeological and 1,500 ethnological items from Oceania
The museum is also a federally-designated repository for 20,000 archaeological objects excavated by Arctic researchers from National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management lands in Alaska. Mount Hope Farm, where many artifacts were found, is also nearby.
The Museum closed on August 30, 2008. It will be moved to Providence, RI within 5 years.
External links
* [http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/Haffenreffer/ The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University]
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