Guide to the North American Ethnographic Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Corporate Author)/ Williams, Lucy Fowler

ISBN 10: 1931707332 / ISBN 13: 9781931707336

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003

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1st edition. 97 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Guide to the North American Ethnographic Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1931707332
• ISBN 13: 9781931707336
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.25 kilograms

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Synopsis

Totaling approximately 40,000 objects, the University Museum's ethnographic holdings represent native peoples from ten North American culture areas—the Arctic, Subarctic, Northwest Coast, California, Plateau, Great Basin, Southwest, Great Plains, Northeast, and the Southeast.

This guide highlights the strength of the collections and demonstrates how objects are tied to history and people living within different cultural and social contexts. It also underscores that objects have different multiple meanings. Some objects illustrate intertribal relations; others best reflect collecting attitudes at the turn of the century when much of the Museum's collections was acquired.

Visitors and off-site readers will learn about such related archival resources as documentation and photographs, past and present Museum exhibitions, current research, repatriation, and contemporary collections development.

About the Author

Lucy Fowler Williams is Keeper of the American Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.