Search the NMNH Department of Anthropology Collections

Character What it does Description

* Wildcard / Partial search Catalog number A3196* would return any number that starts with that, including A319611 and A31962. Wildcard searches may be quite slow, please be patient.

<space> AND Searching culture Sauk Fox will return records that are cataloged as both Sauk and Fox, but not those that are cataloged only as Fox.

! NOT If you enter !Merina in culture, and Madagascar in country, you will get all items from Madagascar, except those cataloged as Merina. When using "not", you should always search on a term in another field, in addition to your "not" term.

" " exact phrase Searching "history museum" in donor will return items donated by the "Natural History Museum, Oxford" but not "Museum of Natural History". If you leave the quotation marks off, you get both, since it is searching on the word "museum" AND "history".

Character	What it does	Description
*	Wildcard / Partial search	Catalog number A3196* would return any number that starts with that, including A319611 and A31962. Wildcard searches may be quite slow, please be patient.
<space>	AND	Searching culture Sauk Fox will return records that are cataloged as both Sauk and Fox, but not those that are cataloged only as Fox.
!	NOT	If you enter !Merina in culture, and Madagascar in country, you will get all items from Madagascar, except those cataloged as Merina. When using "not", you should always search on a term in another field, in addition to your "not" term.
" "	exact phrase	Searching "history museum" in donor will return items donated by the "Natural History Museum, Oxford" but not "Museum of Natural History". If you leave the quotation marks off, you get both, since it is searching on the word "museum" AND "history".