Volume 38 / Number 3
1996
On The Cover: Bat-Ochir with sheepskin, Hovsgol Aimag, Mongolia, June 1996. Photo by Robert McCraken Peck.
Vol. 38 / No. 3
By: Vincent C. Pigott
Musings and Visions from the Associate Director – Winter 1996
The University of Pennsylvania Museum ready to take on the next millennium? This question is prompted by a conference I […]
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By: Robert McCracken Peck
Nomads of the High Plateau: Photographs of Mongolia
For at least 10,000 years the people of Mongolia have dealt with minimal rainfall, sparse vegetation, and some of the […]
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By: Dorothy K. Washburn
Social Messages and Cultural Information in the Clothing of Southern Lao Women
Archaeologists typically classify the objects they excavate into “types,” that is, groupings of artifacts that appear similar, generally from the […]
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By: William H. Davenport
Wogosia: An Annual Renewal Rite in the Eastern Solomon Islands
Each year on the small island of Santa Catalina (locally called Aorilei) in the eastern Solomon Islands, a religious ceremony […]
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By: Michael W. Meister
Temples Along the Indus
High above the mighty Indus, on hills commonly called the Salt Range, stand important remains of forts with citadels and […]
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Vol. 38 / No. 3
By: Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway
Is the Hope Head an Italian Goddess?: A Case of Circumstantial Evidence
“Never forget that the most valuable acquisition a man of refined taste can make is a piece of fine Greek sculpture.” This […]
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