Volume 4 / Number 1
1961
On The Cover: Tripod pottery vessel of incised thin black ware from the painted tomb at Tikal. A long-legged bird stands on the lid.
Vol. 4 / No. 1
By: Lee A. Parsons
A Fiji-Iroquois War Club: An Unusual Case of Diffusion
The museum anthropologist occasionally has the unique opportunity of making inferences in regard to cultural process from the study of […]
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Vol. 4 / No. 1
By: Tatiana Proskouriakoff
The Lords of the Maya Realm
We Mayanists spend an inordinate amount of time deciphering half obliterated hieroglyphic texts. Often it seems that our results are […]
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Vol. 4 / No. 1
By: Thor Heyerdahl
Sea Routes to Polynesia
Sea Routes to Polynesia was read by Mr. Heyerdahl at a dinner in honor of The Fellows of The University […]
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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. 4 / No. 1
By: MacEdward Leach
The Men Behind the Lore
The folklorist is a prosaic character alongside an archaeologist or ethnologist. Even a handful of arrowheads is likely to arouse […]
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Vol. 4 / No. 1
By: Ruth Linker
Philippine Hats: On northern Luzon a man's suklang told his age, marital status, and village--and, sometimes, whether he was a successful head-hunter.
Sometime in the second decade of this century, the Misses Elizabeth H. and Sarah L. Metcalf made their way through […]
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Vol. 4 / No. 1
Expedition News – Fall 1961
The Ain Shems Collection From 1928 to 1933, the late Dr. Elihu Grant, who was then Professor of Biblical Literature […]
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Vol. 4 / No. 1
By: George Dessart
What in the World: A Television Institution
In the realms with which Expedition is normally concerned, eleven years is not a long time. To the anthropologist, it is […]
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