The Berthold Laufer Collections

The Berthold Laufer collections is a set of artifacts and objects collected by Berthold Laufer, an anthropologist and Sinologist at the Field Museum in the early twentieth century (click here to learn more about him). The collection, which contains nearly 15,000 objects, is strong in objects from East Asia, particularly China.

Please click on a subcollection to read more about it.