Vol. 33 / No. 2
By: Lucy Fowler Williams
The Calusa Indians: Maritime Peoples of Florida in the Age of Columbus: Behind the Scenes
The University Museum has an exceptional collection of artifacts from the Calusa site at Key Marco, Florida. The pelican, wolf, […]
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Vol. 41 / No. 3
By: Lucy Fowler Williams and Robert Preucel
The Here and Now of Pueblo Pottery: What in the World
How are contemporary Pueblo people interpreting their rich cultural heritage and how is this affecting their traditional arts? These, and related […]
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By: Lucy Fowler Williams and Melissa Wagner
American Collections Inspire Native Artists and Indian Communities
The American Section of University of Pennsylvania Museum has developed a rewarding relationship with the National Museum of the American […]
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Vol. 43 / No. 2
By: Lucy Fowler Williams
Seeing Through the Eyes of an Artist: What in the World
Roxanne Wentzell, from Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, is a highly accomplished artist who specializes in sculpting human […]
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By: Robert W. Preucel, Lucy Fowler Williams, Stacey O. Espenlaub and Janet Monge
Out of Heaviness, Enlightenment: NAGPRA and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
On September 29,2000, John Johnson of the Chugach Alaska Corporation arrived in Philadelphia to take formal possession of ancestral Eskimo […]
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Vol. 47 / No. 2
By: Robert W. Preucel and Lucy Fowler Williams
The Centennial Potlatch
On June 2004, Harold Jacobs, the cultural resource specialist of the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of […]
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By: Lucy Fowler Williams, Isabel C. Gonzales and Shawn Tafoya
WaHa-belash adi Kwan tsáawä / Butterflies and Blue Rain: The Language of Contemporary Eastern Pueblo Embroidery
Pueblo people of the American Southwest say that as long as there is Pueblo religion there will be handmade cloth. […]
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By: Lucy Fowler Williams
Guerilla Fashion: Textiles in Motion Push Change in Indian Art: From the Field
Patricia Michaels is not new to fashion, but she is new to Santa Fe’s celebrated Southwest Indian Art Market, a […]
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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 […]
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Vol. 55 / No. 3
By: Lucy Fowler Williams
Native American Voices Today: From the Guest Editor
This special issue of Expedition is an extension of our new exhibition, Native American Voices: The People—Here and Now, and […]
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Vol. 56 / No. 3
By: Lucy Fowler Williams
The Excavations at Sitio Conte: Beneath the Surface
The Penn Museum’s excavations at Sitio Conte began in 1940 with an invitation from private landowner, Miguel Conte. Since discovering […]
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Vol. 58 / No. 1
By: Lucy Fowler Williams, Stacey O. Espenlaub and Janet Monge
Finding Their Way Home: Twenty-five Years of NAGPRA at the Penn Museum
On November 2, 2015, Mr. Lalo Franco and Mr. Pete Alanis of the Tachi Yokut Tribe of the Santa Rosa […]
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Vol. 61 / No. 2
By: Lucy Fowler Williams
A Continuous Thread: Subversion and Solidarity in Maya Cloth
FOR 1,500 YEARS, MAYA WOMEN HAVE WOVEN cotton garments with designs that depict the Maya cosmos and supernatural beings that […]
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Vol. 62 / No. 2
By: Dan Lomastro, Jessica Carmine and Lucy Fowler Williams
Research Notes: High Volume Digitization: Bringing Southwest Collections to Light
OVER 17,130 Southwest archaeological and ethnographic objects in the Penn Museum’s American collection are now visible and accessible online to […]
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Vol. 63 / No. 1
By: Lucy Fowler Williams and Fernando Madrid
Tikal—Oasis in Time and War
Tikal—Oasis in Time and War [authors] Fernando Madrid was born 20 miles from Tikal in El Remat Village at the […]
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Vol. 63 / No. 2
By: Lucy Fowler Williams and X̱'Unei Lance Twitchell
Keeping the Tlingit Thought World Alive
Keeping the Tlingit Thought World Alive The Vaunting Ambition of King Pyrrhus at Butrint [authors color=”white”] A new rotation of […]
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Vol. 65 / No. 2
By: C. Brian Rose, Lucy Fowler Williams, Jason Herrmann, Katherine Moore, Michael Danti, Richard Zettler and Josef W. Wegner
Dispatches From the Field
Gordion (Ancient Phrygia / Modern Türkiye) The 2023 season at Gordion was one of the team’s most successful summers. Excavation […]
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