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Other South Asia Collections at Michigan

Asian Art Archives

The South Asian Art Archive has approximately 13,000 photographs of Indian architecture, sculpture, and painting. The strength of the collection is its extensive coverage of cave temples of Western India. The Archive supplied visual resources to the Ajanta microfiche published by the American Council for Southern Asian Art (ACSAA). These photographs are filed separately.

Islamic Art Archive

The Islamic Art Archive is the oldest photographic archive of Islamic art in the United States. It consists of approximately 10,000 photographs of manuscript paintings, monuments, and decorative arts. The major focus of the collection is in the area of book illumination.

The Koelz Collection

The Museum possesses a large collection of textiles collected in the early 1930's by Dr. Walter Koelz The collection contains a wide variety of fine pieces documenting the sophisticated textile arts of South and Central Asia and Iran. Included in the collection are embroidered woolen shawls from Kashmir and the Delhi/Jaipur region, as well as embroidered cotton sheets, turbans and shawls from Amritsar (Punjab), and various garments from Bombay and Kahore.

UMMA Collections

The University of Michigan Museum of Art is home to the largest collection of Asian art in the state of Michigan, with more than 4000 objects that range in time from the third millennium BCE to the present and represent cultures from Afghanistan to Java and Japan. India is well represented by religious sculpture and miniature painting, while the holdings in Southeast Asian art are primarily in Buddhist sculpture.