Volume 7 / Number 1

1964

On The Cover: A doorway carving from a ceremonial house on New Caledonia, South Pacific-Ocean. Collection Object Number: P3151A, natural wood finish, red paint applied in grooves of the geometric design, H. 54 inches.

Vol. 7 / No. 1

By: Theresa Howard Carter

Early Assyrians in the Sinjar

The 1964 staff of this expedition consisted of Mrs. Carter of the University Museum and David Oates, Director of the […]

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Vol. 7 / No. 1

By: William H. Davenport

Sculpture from La Grande Terre

From April 10 to May 31, 1964 the University Museum presented an exhibition of sculpture and other objects from the […]

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Vol. 7 / No. 1

By: David Crownover

Some Frit from Northern Mesopotamia

Frit, the word derived from the Italian “fritta,” (fried), is a chemical compound made up of silicate of lime and […]

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Vol. 7 / No. 1

Current University Museum Research – Fall 1964

AFRICA – Igor Kopytoff recently returned from the Ivory Coast and is now planning ethnographic research in Nigeria. ALASKA – A search for ancient […]

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Vol. 7 / No. 1

By: Robert Stuckenrath, Jr.

The Debert Site: Early Man in the Northeast

A few miles inland of the vast tidal flats of Novia Scotia’s Minas Basin lies a wasted field of red […]

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Vol. 7 / No. 1

By: Margaret Plass

The Fetish That Knew Too Much

A powerful fetish that also served as an oracle in the Kra or Tchien tribe of Liberia has recently been […]

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Vol. 7 / No. 1

By: Robert H. Dyson, Jr.

A Stranger From the East

The blank, staring eyes and elongated chin of this portrait have a dark, haunting quality about them which stays in […]

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