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Expedition Magazine Expedition Back Issues Volumes 31-40 Expedition Volume 33, Number 1 Spring 1991Expedition Volume 38, Number 3 Winter 1996
Cover: Photo by Robert McCraken Peck. Bat-Ochir with sheepskin, Hovsgol Aimag, Mongolia, June 1996.
Features
Nomads of the High Plateau--Photographs of Mongolia
Robert McCracken Peck
Social Messages and Cultural Information in the Clothing of Southern Lao Women
Dorothy K. Washburn
Wogosia--An Annual Renewal Rite in the Eastern Solomon Islands
William H. Davenport
Temples Along the Indus
Michael W. Meister
Expedition Volume 39, Number 1 Spring 1997
Cover: Vintage scenes from the tomb of Nakht, western Thebes, dating to the end of the reign of Amenhotep II or beginning of the reign of Tuthmosis IV (ca. 1400 BC), after N. de G. Davies, The Tomb of Nakht at Thebes (New York, 1917), pl. 26. Photo courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 15.5.19e (facsimile painting), Rogers Fund, 1915.
Features
The Beginnings of Winemaking and Viniculture in the Ancient Near East and Egypt
Patrick E. McGovern, Ulrich Hartung, Virginia R. Badler, Donald L. Glusker, and Lawrence J. Exner
The Copper Hoards of Northern India
Paul Yule
Military Hospitals on the Frontier of Colonial America
David R. Starbuck
Expedition Volume 39, Number 2 Summer 1997
Special Issue: Topics in Late Roman Life
Cover: Hagia Sophia, Constantinople, from Gaspard Fossati, Aya Sofia, Constantinople (London: Colnaghi & Co., 1852). British Library, London.
Features
Introduction
Helen Schenck
Glassware and the Changing Arbiters of Taste
Michael Vickers
The Lost Architecture of Ancient Rome--Insights from the Severan Plan and the Regionary Catalogues
David West Reynolds
Late Roman Glass at the University of Pennsylvania Museum--A Photo Essay
Stuart J. Fleming
Expedition Volume 39, Number 3 Winter 1997
Cover: Photo by Peggy Reeves Sanday. In Eggi's village, kite time comes after the rice harvest and before the next planting, the only time when large spaces of dry flat land are available.
Features
Of Coffins, Curses, and Other Plumbeous Matters--The Museum's Lead Burial Casket from Tyre
Donald White
No Longer the "Pitcairn Nike"--A Minerva-Victoria from Cyrene
Irene Bald Romano
Eggi's Village--Reconsidering the Meaning of Matriarchy
Peggy Reeves Sanday
The Ritual on the Ratinlixul Vase--Pots and Politics in Highland Guatemala
Elin Danien
Expedition Volume 40, Number 1 Spring 1998
Special Issue: Pomo Indian Basket Weavers, their Baskets and the Art Market
Cover: Photo by H. C. Meredith, ca. 1905. UPM Neg. No. S4-140386 and UPM NA 7946, L. 90 cm. Laura Burris Willum (1895-1919), a Pomo Indian basket weaver and her 3-rod coiled boat basket.
Hard copies of this issue are sold out.
Features
Change and Continuity--Transformations of Pomo Life
Victoria Patterson
The Development of the Commercial Market for Pomo Indian Baskets
Sherrie Smith-Ferri
Building a Collection--Native Californian Basketry at the University of Pennsylvania Museum
Judith Berman
Expedition Volume 40, Number 2 Summer 1998
Special Issue: The World of Ur
Cover: UPM Neg. T4-480. The great bull-headed lyre from Ur.
Hard copies of this issue are sold out.
Features
Introduction
Helen Schenck
Ur and Its Treasures--The Royal Tombs
Lee Horne
The Musical Instruments from Ur and Ancient Mesopotamian Music
Anne Draffkorn Kilmer
The "Boat-Shaped" Lyre--Restudy of a Uniqe Musical Instrument from Ur
Maude de Schauensee
Life on the Edge of the Marshes
Edward Ochsenschlager
Expedition Volume 40, Number 3 Winter 1998
Cover: Photo by Fred Schoch. Ceramic offering stand from Tel Beth Shean, Israel.
Features
New Perspectives on Shaker Life--An Archaeologist Discovers "Hog Heaven" at Canterbury Shaker Village
David R. Starbuck
Jamestown--A Personal Reminiscence
John L. Cotter
Frederica de Laguna and Her Reunion under Mount Saint Elias
Steve Ferzaca
Faces of the Canaanites and Israelites
"Those Nemi Sculptures . . ."--Marbles from a Roman Sanctuary in the University of Pennsylvania Museum
Pia Guldager Bilde
