Vol. 1 / No. 2
By: Alfred Kidder, II
Editorial
Anthropologists, archaeologists, and their colleagues in such fields as linguistics, folklore, and ethnomusicology like to get together from time to […]
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Vol. 1 / No. 4
By: Alfred Kidder, II
Archaeological Visitors
I first became aware of the archaeological visitors (we called them tourists), in the early twenties, when our family used […]
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Vol. 2 / No. 1
By: Alfred Kidder, II
A Mochica Diety
This modelled stirrup-spouted vessel, painted in dark red on cream, is the Museum’s most recent acquisition in the field of […]
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Vol. 4 / No. 1
By: Edwin M. Shook and Alfred Kidder, II
The Painted Tomb At Tikal: An important discovery by the Museum's expedition in Guatemala.
One day, perhaps late in March of the year A.D. 457, masons set the final stone in the wall they […]
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Vol. 5 / No. 2
By: Alfred Kidder, II
A Unique Peruvian Weaver
The Museum has recently acquired a very unusual specimen. It is a pillow on which is seated an effigy of […]
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Vol. 7 / No. 4
By: Alfred Kidder, II
Two Stone Figures from the Andes: Question: What Part?
One of the most exasperating but at the same time challenging things that can happen to an archaeologist working in […]
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Vol. 8 / No. 1
By: Alfred Kidder, II
Tikal: 1965
As we approach the final year of extensive archaeological work at Tikal it is quite obvious, as the reader of Dr. Coe’s […]
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Vol. 9 / No. 2
By: Alfred Kidder, II
Percy Childs Madeira, Jr.: February 8, 1889 - January 29, 1967
Percy Childs Madeira was a member of the Board of Managers of the University Museum for thirty-six years and served […]
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Vol. 9 / No. 4
By: Alfred Kidder, II
A Mochica Potato Bird
Peru is famous for rich, natural resources, animal, vegetable and mineral, that about in its varied geographical zones from the […]
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Vol. 10 / No. 2
By: Alfred Kidder, II and Linton Satterthwaite
J. Alden Mason: January 14, 1885—November 7, 1967
The death of J. Alden Mason brought sadness to all of his colleagues at the University Museum and to many […]
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Vol. 10 / No. 4
By: Alfred Kidder, II
Two Peruvian Frogs
On a recent expedition to my optician’s on Chestnut Street I spotted an interesting Peruvian pottery frog effigy (now Museum […]
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Vol. 11 / No. 1
By: Alfred Kidder, II
The Conservation Program at Tikal
In 1956, when the Museum undertook the tremendous task of making a thorough archaeological study of the ruins of Tikal, […]
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