Herbert C. Kraft

The museum collection includes objects produced from archaeological digs on Leni Lenape lands in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and northern Delaware.

Other Native American cultures are also represented in the collection including; the Aleut peoples of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska and Russia as well as Navajo, Hopi, Pima and Paiute artifacts.

Other objects in the collections include a smaller amount of Chinese, Japanese, West African, Greco-Roman and Byzantine artifacts.

[3] In the 1950”s Kraft served as a 6th grade teacher in PS 12 – Elmora Grammar School in Elizabeth, NJ.

In addition to Kraft's duties as a professor, director of a museum and membership in various organizations, he also found time to curate exhibitions and programs at Waterloo Foundation for the Arts in Andover, New Jersey.

portrait of Herbert C. Kraft
Herbert C. Kraft in the field, c. 1960's.