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 The Archives of Ontario is located on York University's Keele campus.

The Museum conserves and exhibits numerous objects-over three thousand five hundred- which make up the collection of local and extra regional ethnographic and anthropological history.
This collection was donated mainly by the eclectic naturalist, musician, citizen, ethnographer from La Spezia, Giovanni Podenzana (1864-1943) who built up this collection between the years 1891 to 1936. For nearly thirty years he dedicated himself to anthropological research visiting Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea, Fiji Islands, Japan and North America bringing home many examples of the culture of these peoples.
At the beginning of the twentieth century G. Podenzana give up traveling to far-away countries and dedicated himself to Lunigiana, his territory,  to the customs and traditions of his people, in particular to the pastoral- agricultural communities of the middle and upper areas of Val di Magra. Significant is the collection of products of female labor and traditional jewels. A ‘rotation exhibit’ is going to be soon on release in order to show a greater number of pieces

The Hallowell Collection at the APS is of particular interest to GRASAC members.

The APS funded the GRASAC research of Dr Cory Willmott at the National Museum of the American Indian and the Peabody Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology in 2008 and at the Royal Ontario Museum in 2010, through the Phillips Fund Grant.

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in Florence, Italy.

The Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology, founded in Florence by Paolo Mantegazza in 1869 as a section of the Museum of Natural History, is one of the most important anthropological museums in Europe. It houses more than 25.000 objects of ethnological interest and about 7.000 anthropological finds, plaster casts, hair. Its holdings include an important collection for Captian Cook’s third voyage to the Pacific as well as numerous others of particular interest.  A brief outline of the directors who oversaw its development and of the major collections they assembled will suggest the complexity and diversity of the collections. In 1869 Mantegazza, having gathered together the paleo-ethnological collection of R. Foresi, the early anatomical collections, and the collection of the "Tools of Barbaric Nations,” obtained institutional recognition of the museum by Royal Decree.  He considered Anthropology "the natural History of man" and collected anything which would illustrate the usages and customs of peoples and the anatomical differences between humans and primates. Mantegazza died in 1910 and Aldobrandino Mochi succeed him and supervised the transfer of the collections to their present site in the Palazzo Nonfinito. In 1913 Nello Puccioni succeeded Mochi, and it was during this period that the anthropological and ethnographic explorations of the Italian colonies were completed. In 1937 the directorship passed to Lidio Cipriani who enriched the museum with material from south-central Africa.  Giuseppe Genna took the museum through the difficult period of the second world war.  In the post-war period new acquisitions reached the museum, such as the casts of the skulls of the Medici family and, in 1948, the Hokkaido Ainu collection collected  and donated by Fosco Maraini.  In 1950 Galileo Chini, who had been a court artist in Bangkok in 1911, donated material from Siam which he had collected. In 1955, the new director, Paolo Graziosi gathered material pertaining to Kafirs of Chitarl in Pakistan  obtained during an expedition to Karakorum.

also known as the Museo Nazionale Preistorico ed Etnografico, in Rome, Italy

The museum, inaugurated in 1876, is named after its founder Luigi Pigorini. It was originally housed in a 17th-century building which already housed the Kircher Museum, a collection of antiquities belonging to the Gesuit Athanasius Kircher. After the unification of Italy, the building was acquired by the government and part of the original collection was included in the new institution founded by Pigorini. Between 1962 and 1977 the museum material was relocated to the House of Sciences were is currently housed. The museum collection is divided in two sections devoted to pale-ethnology and ethnography. The pale-ethnological section mainly concentrates on Latium prehistory and protohistory, with exhibits from the local human settlements dating from the Iron Age onwards. The ethnographical section gathers various material (more than 6,000 items) of the indigenous cultures of Africa, America and Oceania, collected by missionaries, travelers, scholars and merchants.