American Museum of Natural History

I've just begun a collections management internship in the Division of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Myself and two other interns are cataloging artifacts in the South American artifact collections. Much of what we've seen this week is ceramic, although there have been some textiles, as well as bone tools. My favorites so far are the Peruvian whistling vessels, which are essentially two conjoined jugs, often in the form of humans or animals.