Culture or time period
- American cultures498 objects
- New World (the Americas and Oceania)352 objects
- Mesoamerican chronology325 objects
- North American cultures317 objects
- North American historic cultures216 objects
- United States Historic216 objects
- Mesoamerican peoples181 objects
- Classic Era, Mesoamerica (200–1000 AD)161 objects
- Mexican152 objects
- Preclassic Era, Mesoamerica (1800 BC–200 AD)116 objects
- North American native cultures103 objects
- Olmec79 objects
- Southwest North American cultures53 objects
- California tribes52 objects
- Southwestern Native American50 objects
- Pueblo tribes48 objects
- Archaic Era, Mesoamerica (ca. 3500–2000 BC)40 objects
- Mogollon culture (ca. 200–1540 AD)27 objects
- North America27 objects
- Post-Archaic Southwestern cultures27 objects