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A workroom with three textiles laid out on a long table. A researcher with a camera is photographing a large red textile in the foreground with a red and cream pattern running along the centre.

MAA administers two historic endowments, the Crowther-Beynon Fund and the Frederick Williamson Memorial Fund, from which research grants are made available annually.

Funding applications for 2026 are now closed.

A polished ebony wood figure of a heavily pregnant woman with her hands clasped under her stomach.

Polished ebony wood (gai) figure of Tudava's (the hero that killed the giant man-eater Dokanikani) pregnant mother Metigisi/Bolitukwa. Made by Patrick Maginiti. Alotau, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea.

This object is part of a collection (2018.3-2018.38) made by Sergio Jarillo de la Torre between November 2008-June 2010 in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. He was awarded a Crowther-Beynon Fund grant from MAA in 2008 to collect pieces for the museum. The collection was gathered during fieldwork leading to a Doctoral Degree in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.

MAA 2018.30.2. Photography by Javier Ruiz.