Expedition Volume 29, Number 3 Winter 1987

Special Section: Crafts of India
Cover: Photo by Terry J. Reedy. The finishing touches are made to a statue produced by the traditional lost wax process in a casting workshop in Chamba, India.

Features
Traditional Navigation in the Western Pacific--A Search for Pattern
Ward H. Goodenough and Stephen D. Thomas

The Change from Stone Drills to Copper Drills in Mesopotamia--An Experimental Perspective
A. John Gwinnett and Leonard Gorelick

On Ostrich Eggs and Libyans--Traces of a Bronze Age People from Bates' Island, Egypt
David Conwell

Egyptians and Libyans in the New Kingdom--An Interpretation
David O'Connor

Artisans and Archaeologists--A Special Section on the Study of Crafts in India
Lee Horne

The Brasscasters of Dariapur, West Bengal--Artisans in a Changing World
Lee Horne

Modern Statues and Traditional Methods--A Casting Workshop in Chamba, Himachal Pradesh, Northwest India
Chandra L. Reedy

Traditional Potters of India--Ethnoarchaeological Observations in America
Marilyn P. Beaudry, J. Mark Kenoyer, and Rita P. Wright

Departments
Museum Staff

Index to Volume 29