During
the 1920's, 1930's, 1940's and 1960's, archaeologists from the Los Angeles County
Museum of Natural History (LACMNH, previously called the Los Angeles Museum)
conducted archaeological research on the Channel Islands. Arthur Woodward
and later Charles Rozaire, former curators at the museum, both made significant
systematic collections with excellent documentation that is curated at the LACMNH.
The Woodward and Rozaire collections are supplemented by smaller earlier collections
and by a variety of donations of different sizes. These collections, from
San Nicolas and San Miguel Islands constitute a major resource in California
archaeology, and they include unique and important assemblages and items including
extremely scarce perishable artifacts such as large fragments of seagrass textiles.
These web pages
provide a summary of archaeological collections from San Miguel and San Nicolas
Islands curated at the LACMNH. They list both small donated collections
and systematic collections that were made in the course of archaeological
research, as well as photographic materials related to the collection.
Collections are listed under their museum accession number, i.e. A.1664 and
name of collector/ donor, i.e., Sanger, Hatton and Bryan. Site
numbers are comprised of the island designation, SMI = San Miguel Island or
SNI = San Nicolas Island, and the site number, i.e. SMI-1, SMI-2, etc..
All collections summarized here are curated by the Anthropology Section, LACMNH.
