Volume 61 / Number 2
2019
Spotlight On: Our New Penn Museum
On The Cover: Top, Asante double lizard brass weight used to measure gold dust, PM object AF2422. Bottom, small gold crab figurine from Central America, PM object SA2778.
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By: Alessandro Pezzati
The Last Step in a Long Journey: Moving Monuments From Piedras Negras Into the Penn Museum, 1933; Looking Back
IN 1930, J. Alden Mason, American Section Curator, arranged for an unprecedented loan from the Government of Guatemala of Maya […]
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Museum News
Museum Welcomes New Overseers The Penn Museum is delighted to welcome three new Overseers in fall 2019. As an Anthropology […]
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Member News
Member News and Events New Benefit for ALL Members! SHARE THE MUSEUM you love with the people you love. Beginning […]
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Global Classroom: News From Learning Programs
Teens Learn College and Work-Ready Skills THE MUSEUM’S teen programs continue to expand the skills of Philadelphia youth. Teen Ambassadors […]
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By: Jane Hickman
Portrait: Elin Danien (1929-2019)
—To the memory of my hero, my co-conspirator, and my very good friend. ELIN DANIEN was more than a force […]
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By: Heather J. Sharkey
A Famous Queen Mother from Benin: Favorite Object
THE QUEEN MOTHER, or “Iyoba,” was a powerful figure in the Edo kingdom of Benin, which ruled parts of the […]
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By: Marie-Claude Boileau, Moritz Jansen, Janet Monge, Katherine Moore and Chantel White
In the Labs: Celebrating Five Years of CAAM
AS A JOINT ENDEAVOR between the Penn Museum and the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences, the Center […]
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By: Christina Griffith
The Lost Wax Casting Technique: A Step-By-Step Guide
THE PROCESS FOR CASTING GOLD objects like ornaments and jewelry is the same as that for casting Asante brass weights. […]
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By: Christina Griffith
The Asante Gold Weights: Practical, Unique, Artistic Tools of the Trade
Within the glass cases in the Africa Galleries, they appear as miniaturized trophies, toys, or jewelry, but these beautifully crafted […]
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By: Jane Hickman, Lauren Cooper, Dwaune Latimer, Alioune Diack and Jessica Bicknell
A Selection of Objects from Our Africa Galleries
THE AFRICA COLLECTION at the Penn Museum includes objects that were purchased by or gifted to the Museum or collected […]
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By: Jane Hickman and Alyssa Connell Haslam
Making the Africa Galleries: A Conversation with Tukufu Zuberi
TUKUFU ZUBERI, PH.D., is the Curator of the Africa Galleries. He is the Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, and […]
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By: Lucy Fowler Williams
A Continuous Thread: Subversion and Solidarity in Maya Cloth
FOR 1,500 YEARS, MAYA WOMEN HAVE WOVEN cotton garments with designs that depict the Maya cosmos and supernatural beings that […]
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By: Simon Martin
Divinity and Power in the Ancient Americas: The Reimagine Mexico and Central America Gallery
November 2019 marks the opening of the transformed Mexico and Central America Gallery. The new space displays some of the […]
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The Penn Museum Has a New Look: At the Museum
OPEN TO ALL OUR MUSEUM has been known by a few names throughout its history—the Free Museum of Science and […]
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By: Julian Siggers
Welcome to the New Penn Museum: From the Director
Dear Friends, In 1926, the Coxe (Egyptian) Wing opened, and visitors thronged the lower gallery to see the great Sphinx […]
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By: Jane Hickman
Ten Years as Editor: From the Editor
I began as Editor of Expedition in 2009, just after I finished graduate school at Penn. Issue 51.2 that year […]
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