The HMA invites you to explore these remarkable textiles photographed during a recent Collections project. Travel around the world with the Collections Team through the HMA's textile collection, and learn about the collection care and photography process for these pieces. Created by the Collections Team, we invite you to explore the exhibition with themes including Decorative Traditions from Around the World, Creatures- Real and Imagined, and the Things that Make a Home.

Behind the Scenes: Engaging the Americas at the HMA Mellon Grant Project
(April 2018-May 2023)

The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University invites you behind the scenes and into the Engaging the Americas project, an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant funded enterprise that enabled us to re-house, re-catalogue, and photograph a large portion of the North American archaeological materials in our care. 

Tibetan Buddhist Wall Paintings of Mustang, Nepal: A Photographic Survey

This is a photographic survey of the wall paintings of three gompas or monastery-temples of Mustang, an ethnically and culturally Tibetan district in northwestern Nepal, on the edge of the Tibetan plateau. The photographs were taken by Philip Lieberman. The text was written by Marcia R. Lieberman and Lama Ngawang Jorden. Many images included here are now housed at the HMA.

Curated by Yannis Hamilakis, L. Darcy Hackley, Sherena Razek, and Ayşe Şanlı. Co-sponsored by the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology and the Decolonial Initiative at Brown University. Originally published online February 2020.