Portland Art Museum

The Portland Art Museum will digitize and provide online accessibility to its collection of 8,000 works of Native American art for the benefit of scholars, students, and the general public. With objects dating from pre-European contact to the present, the collection features important works from nearly every tribal group in North America, with especially strong representation of tribes from the Northwest Coastal. Records will include high-quality images and authoritative metadata, as well as interactive features such as dynamic gallery views and links to related public programming, interviews, lectures, and interpretive texts. In addition to sharing images and authoritative information on its website, the museum will publish the collection to federated resources and leading scholarly databases including ARTstor.