Oceania
Vol. 59 / No. 1
By: Billie Lythberg
Captain Cook’s Barkcloth Books: A Tale of Three 18th-Century Sample Books
In the Summer of 1919, George Byron Gordon, the Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, […]
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Vol. 58 / No. 2
By: Page Selinsky and Paul Mitchell
Journeys of the Mummy Scientist: An Exclusive Interview with Dr. Ronald G. Beckett
Doctor Ronald Beckett is a pioneer in using minimally invasive imaging techniques, particularly endoscopy (examining the inside of the body […]
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Vol. 57 / No. 1
By: Adria H. Katz
Curiosities & Commodities: Oceanian Objects From Two World’s Fairs
In the fall of 2003, the Oceanian Section of the Penn Museum acquired materials from New Caledonia and the Philippines […]
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Vol. 54 / No. 3
By: Alessandro Pezzati
An Angu Funeral in New Guinea
Born in 1919, Ward Goodenough is a world-renowned linguist and anthropologist, who has studied the connection between language and culture […]
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Vol. 54 / No. 3
By: Alessandro Pezzati
Furness in Borneo and East Asia
William Henry Furness III, scion of a notable Philadelphia family that included architect Frank Furness and Shakespearean scholar Horace Howard […]
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By: Stuart Kirsch
History and the Birds of Paradise: Surprising Connection from New Guinea
How can a woman’s hat made in New York City (ca. 1915) and decorated with iridescent bird of paradise plumes […]
View ArticleVol. 47 / No. 3
By: Paul S. C. Taçon
The World of Ancient Ancestors: Australian Aboriginal Caves and Other Realms within Rock
In 1986, while documenting rock painting sites in Kakadu National Park, east of Darwin in northern Australia, I came upon […]
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By: William Davenport
Henri Rey: The Inventor from Tahiti
Imet Henri Rey in Tahiti in 1965. He was living in semi-retirement in the district of Pirae, about three kilometers […]
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By: Sharon Aponte Misdea
Museum Mosaic – Summer 2002: : People, Places, Projects
Worlds Intertwined: The Etruscans, Greeks, and Romans will open to the public in Spring 2003. The $3 million project completes the reinstallation of […]
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By: Adria H. Katz
Decorated Canoe Prow-boards from the Trobriand Islands
The University Museum recently came into possession of three canoe prow-boards (Fig. I) collected in the Trobriand Islands in 1983 […]
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