Culture or time period
- American cultures217 objects
- North American cultures217 objects
- North American native cultures171 objects
- Old World (Africa, Asia and Europe)121 objects
- Classical Civilizations120 objects
- Ancient Egyptian99 objects
- Egypt99 objects
- Great Basin cultures71 objects
- Dynastic Period, Egypt (ca. 3000–343 BC)58 objects
- California tribes56 objects
- Paiute47 objects
- North American historic cultures46 objects
- Northern California tribes46 objects
- United States Historic46 objects
- New World (the Americas and Oceania)44 objects
- South America44 objects
- Middle to Late Predynastic Period, Egypt (4000–3000 BC)41 objects
- Peruvian sequence41 objects
- Predynastic Period, Egypt (ca. 5300–3000 BC)41 objects
- New Kingdom of Egypt (1550–1069 BC)40 objects