Volume 63 / Number 2

2021

Spotlight On: Keeping the Tlingit Thought World Alive

On The Cover: A new commission in Native American Voices: Bill Wierzbowski, Keeper, American Section, installing the mixed media work Our Language Is Encoded Within Us by X̱’unei Lance Twitchell and Yéil Ya-Tseen Nicholas Galanin.

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By: Kate Pourshariati

From the Archives: Second Sunday Culture Films

Documentaries Without Borders SECOND SUNDAY CULTURE FILMS began in 2010, after I proposed a film series connecting the Wolf Humanities […]

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Welcome News

Awards, New Gifts, and On the Trail of Smugglers New Gifts and Grants THE PENN MUSEUM is pleased to announce […]

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Membership Matters: Member Spotlight

Doug Dietrich, WG00 Doug Dietrich, WG00, grew up in Pittsburgh and has been a member of the Penn Museum Director’s […]

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Artifact Perspective: Seeing Baghdad in Queen Puabi

Yaroub Al-Obaidi, Global Guide for the Middle East Galleries, drew inspiration from Queen Puabi’s burial headdress and jewelry to create […]

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By: Anne Tiballi, Sabirah Mahmud, Zahra Rice and Sophie Roach

Learning Lessons: Engaging Our University Community

Jazz Combos Student Exhibition Interns Explore Jazz Past, Present, and Futures WHEN PENN CLOSED ITS CAMPUS in March 2020, the […]

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Vol. 63 / No. 2

By: Tom Tartaron

In The Labs: Raising the Penn Museum's Profile as a Leader in Materials Analysis

IN JULY 2020, I was honored to be named the Executive Director of the Center for the Analysis of Archaeological […]

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The Stories Behind The Stories We Wear: The Making and Meanings of Our Upcoming Special Exhibition

The Stories Behind The Stories We Wear The Making and Meanings of Our Upcoming Special Exhibition [authors] On September 25, […]

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By: Lucy Fowler Williams and X̱'Unei Lance Twitchell

Keeping the Tlingit Thought World Alive

Keeping the Tlingit Thought World Alive The Vaunting Ambition of King Pyrrhus at Butrint [authors color=”white”] A new rotation of […]

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By: David Hernandez and Richard Hodges

Kalivo: The Vaunting Ambition of King Pyrrhus at Butrint

Kalivo The Vaunting Ambition of King Pyrrhus at Butrint [authors] THE MAJESTIC, fortified hilltop site of Kalivo is always overshadowed […]

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In His Own Words: George F. Bass and the Birth of Underwater Archaeology

GEORGE FLETCHER BASS, the pioneering archaeologist who was the first to dive on an underwater site rather than directing divers […]

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By: Richard L. Zettler

An Unforgettable Smile: Remembering Lee Horne, GR88

LEE HORNE, Editor of Expedition 1990–1996, whose infectious smile and ready sense of humor lit up the Penn Museum for […]

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By: Charles K. Williams, II

Surprise and Luck in a Roman Fresco Project

ARCHAEOLOGY always has a certain element of surprise and luck connected to it, for it is unpredictable to divine what […]

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Vol. 63 / No. 2

By: Christopher Woods

From the Williams Director: Community Partnerships

Dear Friends, By the time you read these thoughts, my family and I will have officially taken up residence in […]

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Vol. 63 / No. 2

By: Amanda Mitchell-Boyask

From the Publisher: A Snapshot in Time

Our cover image offers a glimpse behind the scenes this past spring, as Bill Wierzbowski, Keeper, American Section, worked with […]

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