Volume 29 / Number 1
1987
Special Edition: Museum Artifacts
On The Cover: Dukduk Lumlum on beach with a big man in traditional decoration, Southern New Ireland. Photo by Stephen M. Albert
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By: Alan Mann and Janet Monge
Technology of Casting
Making a Mold A mold of most fossil bones is made of two or more parts. When the design of […]
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By: Salah Hassan
The Adrim or “Virginity Disc”: Marking the Passage to Womanhood in Siwah
In 1985 a handsome necklace from the Oasis of Siwah in the Western Desert of Egypt was donated to The […]
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By: Stephen Epstein
The Sanusi
The Sanusi order, founded by Muhammad Ibn al-Sanusi (ca. 1787-1859), is part of the Sunni or orthodox branch of Islam. […]
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By: Steven M. Albert
Tubuan: Masks and Men in Southern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
Two rather obscure axes in The University Museum’s Melanesian collection (Figs. 1, 2) reveal interesting facets of a secret male […]
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By: David O'Connor
The Earliest Pharaohs and the University Museum: Old and New Excavations: 1900-1987
Although the detailed discussion of a significant ancient art work or archaeological artifact can in itself be a fascinating exercise, […]
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By: William D. Glanzman
Etruscan and South Italian Bird-Askoli: A Technological View
The pottery vessels of Classical antiquity represent some of the finest ever produced in the Old World. They come in […]
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By: Jeanny Vorys Canby
A Monumental Puzzle: Reconstructing the Ur-Nammu Stela
The puzzle began with bits and pieces of limestone found in the 1920s at ancient Ur. Now part of the […]
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By: Richard Zettler
The Empire of Ur-Nammu under His Descendants
Ur-Nammu established an independent state centered on Ur in 2112 B.C. After Ur-Nammu’s death, his son Shulgi expanded the territorial […]
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The Worn “Back” Face: Isolated Scenes
In the new reconstruction, the top register shows the king in a common position of adoration, with one hand raised […]
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By: Elisabeth Tooker
Frank G. Speck
Frank G. Speck In 1951, A. Irving Hallowell wrote an obituary of Frank Speck in American Anthropologist. Following are excerpts […]
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By: Elisabeth Tooker
The “Speck Iroquois Collection” in The University Museum
Among the objects of Iroquois manufacture in The University Museum are a number collected by Frank G. Speck, some given […]
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By: Alan Mann and Janet Monge
Reproducing Our Ancestors: The University Museum's Casting Program
A hundred and thirty-one years ago, quarry workers in the Neander Valley (“Tal” in German) came across the mineralized remains […]
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