Volume 28 / Number 3
1986
Special Edition: Museum Artifacts
On The Cover: "Ming Huang's Journey to Shu." Chinese painting on silk from the Ming period (14th-15th centuries). Collection Object Number: C-137 Photo by Fred Schoch
Vol. 28 / No. 3
By: Adria Holmes Katz
The Gilbert Islands
The Gilbert Islands are sixteen coral atolls in that part of the Pacific known as Micronesia (the region of “small […]
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Vol. 28 / No. 3
By: Stuart Fleming
The Mummies of Pachacamac: An Exceptional Legacy from Uhle's 1896 Excavations
While, in the wake of Johann Winkelmaun’s appraisal of the Greek contribution to art and of the scholarship stimulated by […]
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By: Elizabeth Lyons
Ming Huang’s Journey to Shu: The History of a Painting
During its five-hundred-year history, this painting has been admired, looted, rescued, honored, forgotten, found and restored to esteem. Hanging on […]
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By: Richard L. Zettler
From Beneath The Temple: Inscribed Objects From Ur
Perhaps the most widely known of the objects in The University Museum’s Near Eastern collection are those from Tell al-Mugaiyar, […]
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By: Donald White
The Morris Coin: A Masterpiece by Euaenetus
“Somewhere in the misty field if the seas / where Ortygia lies by Thrinakria / Apheiis’s bubbling miuth intermingles / […]
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By: Bien D. Chiang
Paiwan Qeluz: A Carved Slate Pillar from Taiwan
Standing outside in the Sharpe Circle of The University Museum is a 9- foot slate pillar from the Paiwan peoples […]
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By: Adria Holmes Katz
Corselets of Fiber: Robert Louis Stevenson's Gilbertese Armor
In November 1914 and January 1915 the Anderson Auction Company of New York offered for sale a collection of letters, […]
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Vol. 28 / No. 3
By: Robert H. Dyson, Jr.
Introduction – Winter 1986
For many people, a museum is a place where interesting “things” can be accumulatcd. displayed, and stored. In the case […]
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By: Christopher Jones
A Ruler in Triumph: Chocolá Monument 1
At times the lack of a published line drawing will prevent an exquisite piece of sculpture from receiving the attention […]
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