Culture or time period
- New World (the Americas and Oceania)837 objects
- South America711 objects
- Peruvian sequence343 objects
- Old World (Africa, Asia and Europe)270 objects
- Amazonian sequence231 objects
- Classical Civilizations200 objects
- Early Intermediate Period, ancient Peru (60–650 AD)176 objects
- Nasca Phase 1 (Proto Nasca), ancient Peru (ca. 100 BC–1 AD)176 objects
- Nazca style176 objects
- Proto Nazca (100 BC–1 AD)176 objects
- Egypt165 objects
- Ancient Egyptian163 objects
- Andean cultures117 objects
- Dynastic Period, Egypt (ca. 3000–343 BC)89 objects
- Predynastic Period, Egypt (ca. 5300–3000 BC)74 objects
- Middle Horizon, ancient Peru (800–1100 AD)73 objects
- Middle to Late Predynastic Period, Egypt (4000–3000 BC)73 objects
- North America69 objects
- Southwestern archaeology69 objects
- Mangueiras phase64 objects