By: Margaret Plass
Volume XXI / Number 4
The new African Gallery has been designed to exhibit, simply and honestly, a selection of sculptures from our permanent collections. Proudly we present them as works of art; where possible they are arranged in tribal groups for convenience and comparative study. They are labeled briefly and clearly. Here are the materials from which our visitors […]
By: Carleton S. Coon
Volume XXI / Number 4
As you will shortly see-or have just seen-like other racial and ethnic areas, Negro Africa has its own special kind of genius in the art of communication, or in communication by art. The emphases – on sculpture rather than on two-dimensional art, on the choice of the human body – as the principal subject, on […]
By: Lincoln Kirstein
Volume XVI / Number 3
Mr. Kirstein was the only selector to choose a piece from the Museum’s large New Ireland collection. Of this dance mask, he said: Being neither an art-historian nor an anthropologist, the galaxy of objects in the reserve collections of the University Museum attract me primarily as having links with my own work, which is in […]
By: Charles Addams
Volume XVI / Number 3
Charles Addams chose this figure of a whale from a Tlingit helmet, Southeast Alaska, and remarked: These objects were selected by me because they’re funny and were probably intended to be when they were executed. I like this killer whale helmet because I like the crazy interesting construction, although I can never think it was […]
By: C.-J. H.
Volume XIV / Number 3
WARP AND WOOF, the University Museum’s current exhibit of historic and contemporary textiles, has a double aim: to spread before the visitor the almost miraculous products of the primitive loom, and to suggest how infinite are the decorative possibilities to be discovered in ancient and primitive design. Side by side with the rich fabrics of […]
Volume XIII / Number 1
By: H. A. Weischhoff
Volume XI / Number 3
In enumerating the most important types of money which have had validity among primitive peoples, the following arrangement has been according to the commodities which were utilized as money. Several other arrangements may suggest themselves, but since the commodity value appears to have had some bearing upon the selection of the monetary basis, such a […]
By: H. A. Weischhoff
Volume XI / Number 3
The origin of money, like all problems of a similar nature, is a question which is invariably raised by scholars and laymen alike. As such a question can very rarely be answered with any degree of certainty, cautious investigators are therefore content merely to advance theories describing the possible ways in which money could have […]
By: H. A. Weischhoff
Volume XI / Number 3
In an age in which money has become the ultima ratio of human society and in which its function has become interwoven with the political interplay of notions, it is difficult to realize that in the not too distant past money had a less exacting position in human economy. While even today money may still […]
By: H. A. Weischhoff
Volume XI / Number 1-2
Tribal Monographs Evans-Pritchard, E. E., Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande, London, 1937. Herskovits, M. J., Dahomey; an Ancient West African Kingdom, 2 vols., New York, 1938. Hunter, M., Reaction to Conquest, London, 1936. Krige, E. J., and J. D., The Realm of a Rain-Queen. A Study of the Pattern of Lovedu Society, London, […]