News & Stories

After nearly a century of silence, Kodiak youth and adults learn how to build a traditional model Angyaat.

Referencing Burke collections to reverse-engineer how this material was made and used in the past so it can be used again in the present.

Study finds egg masses of snailfishes deposited inside the gill cavity of North Pacific king crabs using molecular techniques.

Plants were an integral part of the Coast Salish diets prior to Euro-American colonization but also played central roles in social systems.

30 million years ago, the world lacked its grass-dominated environments, but 70 million years ago, grasses had not evolved—or so we think.

Various bat species have different needs to survive, which can severely decrease their ability to cope with habitat fragmentation.

Cory Fuavai researches Samoan objects from the Burke’s collection not only for his coursework, but also to become a matai chief.

Megapodes cleverly harness environmental heat sources to incubate their eggs.

Collector and photographer Bob Thomson’s affinity for spiders had a lasting impact on the Burke’s collections.