Volume 54 / Number 2

2012

On The Cover: The Undersea Grizzly Bear Helmet was collected by Penn Museum Curator Louis Shotridge in 1917. The helmet, dated ca. 1770–1790, is Tlingit and comes from Klukwan, Alaska. It is made of wood, pigment, spruce root, human hair, abalone shell, and copper. Shotridge wears a similar helmet on page 12 of this issue. Collection Object Number: NA5739 Penn Museum Image #151906

Vol. 54 / No. 2

By: Lucy Fowler-Williams

Louis Shotridge and the Penn Museum

Penn Museum’s first and only indigenous curator was Stuwukáa, also known as Louis Shotridge, a talented and ambitious Tlingit native […]

Vol. 54 / No. 2

By: Peter D. Harrison

Midden Finds

The most surprising finds in the kitchen garbage dump were fragmented, burned, and gnawed human bones, recovered among burned animal […]

Vol. 54 / No. 2

By: Lawrence Rosen

A New Look at What in the World?

Sometime in the early 1950s I stumbled upon a strange television show that featured objects emerging from a cloud of […]

Vol. 54 / No. 2

By: Peter Bogucki and Uzma Z. Rizvi

Greg Possehl: A Portrait

I always knew when Dr. P was in his office at the Penn Museum. His car with the license plate […]

Vol. 54 / No. 2

An Interview with Julian Siggers: Communicating the Thrill of Discovery

Expedition sat down with Julian Siggers during his second week as Williams Director of the Penn Museum. Below are excerpts […]

Vol. 54 / No. 2

By: Peter Cobb

The Father of American Archaeological Photography: Book News & Reviews

John Henry Haynes: A Photographer and Archaeologist in the Ottoman Empire 1881–1900 by Robert G. Ousterhout (Istanbul: Kayık Yayıncılık; Hawick, […]

Vol. 54 / No. 2

Museum Mosaic – Fall 2012: People, Places, Projects

New Collections Study Room Opens In March 2012, the Museum opened a new facility as part of an initiative to […]

Vol. 54 / No. 2

By: John H. Walker

Hidden Earthworks in the Forests of the Bolivian Amazon

The Andes and the coast of Peru are famous for spectacular places and things: the mountaintop city of Machu Picchu, […]

Vol. 54 / No. 2

By: Paul Mitchell

Analyzing Race: Book News & Reviews

Race? Debunking a Scientific Myth by Ian Tattersall and Rob DeSalle (College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 2011). 256 pp., […]

Vol. 54 / No. 2

Communicating the Thrill of Discovery: An interview with Julian Siggers

Expedition sat down with Julian Siggers during his second week as Williams Director of the Penn Museum. Below are excerpts […]

Vol. 54 / No. 2

By: Lucy Fowler Williams

The Ghost of a Courageous Adventurer

Tlingit art holds Tlingit histories and, as Louis Shotridge insisted, the native point of view enables us to understand its […]

Vol. 54 / No. 2

By: Peter Bogucki, Genevieve Fisher, Ron Hicks, Susan A. Johnston, Tom McCulloch, Bailey Young and Pam Crabtree

Remembering Bernard Wailes: A Portrait

Dr. Bernard Wailes was Associate Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Associate Curator Emeritus of the Penn Museum’s European Archaeology Section. […]

Vol. 54 / No. 2

By: Jean MacIntosh Turfa

Buried in the Height of Fashion: Research Notes

“Lock of hair from the skull of the skeleton” was penned in a bold 19th century hand across the lid […]

Vol. 54 / No. 2

By: John Cloud

The Tlingit Map of 1869: A Masterwork of Indigenous Cartography

In July 1869, George Davidson of the US Coast Survey and a small party of men climbed into several large […]

Vol. 54 / No. 2

By: Peter D. Harrison

A Marvel of Maya Engineering: Water Management at Tikal

Maya structures are often described as great feats of engineering. Perhaps no site in the Maya Lowlands illustrates this more […]