There's a very ambitious project trying to archive all languages of the world, called the Rosetta Project. I was very surprised to find also information on seldom languages like shipibo, although it's not much. But for a lot of indigenous languages like Sirion, Pampanagan or Tadaksahak (no, I don't know them either ;-) they even have short word lists. And it's an open source project, so they need assistance. More information about the project in an recent article at Wired.

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A great tool for research in scientific articles is The Anthropological Index of the Royal Anthropological Institute. You can search the database by author, titel, region or subject area and get a result of a mostly long list of articles to find in all kinds of publications. Thanks for this input by mail to Jürgen Plieninger. We are waiting for more hints like this, a weblog is not only for news!

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"The permanent research collection of the Department of Anthropology comprises approximately 17,000 objects, most of which are ethnographic. The Department actively collects material of the indigenous cultures of western North America (exclusive of Mexico) and of the Pacific Rim, including all Pacific islands and East Asia. Current strengths of the collection are general holdings from the U.S. Southwest and the Pacific Islands, and basketry from California. Earlier years of collecting have yielded both ethnographic and archaeological materials from East Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and Central and South America. The database includes digital images of collection objects. Currently there are over 7,000 images available (...)"

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