American Section

Concerning Iconology and the Masking Complex in Eastern North America

IROQUOIAN LINGUISTIC STOCK NORTHERN DIVISION Iroquois Cayuga, Onondaga, Seneca (Ontario and New York State) An outstanding feature in the religious […]

Introduction

The use of the mask in various forms of symbolic activity, religious or dramatic, is found in many parts of […]

Traces of Early Man on the North Bering Sea Coast

(Mr. Giddings, who is associated with the University Museum during his year’s leave of absence from the University of Alaska […]

Warp and Woof

WARP AND WOOF, the University Museum’s current exhibit of historic and contemporary textiles, has a double aim: to spread before […]

Masks

Attu Treasure

FOR Attu, the international date-line deflects from its even curve, thus, in the sense of time, annexing to our hemisphere […]

Incense Burning at Piedras Negras

WHY do institutions like our Museum dig out the dead bones of the past? Certainly a prime consideration is often […]

Houses and Homes

SOME one has said it takes a heap of living to make a home. This statement suggests that while a […]

III. Types of Money: Primitive Money

In enumerating the most important types of money which have had validity among primitive peoples, the following arrangement has been […]

II. Origin of Money: Primitive Money

The origin of money, like all problems of a similar nature, is a question which is invariably raised by scholars […]