The Southeastern Native American Collections Project (SNACP) is a new research effort that seeks to document, recontextualize, and make available ethnographic museum collections made among the Native American communities of the Southeastern United States. During fall 2009, work began studying the Eastern Cherokee and Florida Seminole holdings of the Mathers Museum of World Cultures. The project will draw upon work previously undertaken at the American Museum of Natural History, the Field Museum, the Gilcrease Museum, and the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History.
SNACP People
- Project Director: Jason Baird Jackson (Indiana University)
- Project Researcher: Rhonda S. Fair (University of Oklahoma/Oklahoma Department of Transportation)
- Project Researcher: Jody Perkins (Indiana University)
SNACP Funding and Support
SNACP’s initial phase was supported by the Mathers Museum (with funds from the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, Indiana University). Additional assistance has been provided by the IU Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, the IU College of Arts and Sciences, the IU Digital Library Program, and the Division of Ethnology at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History.
