Volume 63 / Number 2
2021
Spotlight On: Keeping the Tlingit Thought World Alive
On The Cover: A new commission in Native American Voices: Bill Wierzbowski, Keeper, American Section, installing the mixed media work Our Language Is Encoded Within Us by X̱’unei Lance Twitchell and Yéil Ya-Tseen Nicholas Galanin.
Vol. 63 / No. 2
By: Amanda Mitchell-Boyask
From the Publisher: A Snapshot in Time
Our cover image offers a glimpse behind the scenes this past spring, as Bill Wierzbowski, Keeper, American Section, worked with […]
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Vol. 63 / No. 2
By: Christopher Woods
From the Williams Director: Community Partnerships
Dear Friends, By the time you read these thoughts, my family and I will have officially taken up residence in […]
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Vol. 63 / No. 2
By: Charles K. Williams, II
Surprise and Luck in a Roman Fresco Project
ARCHAEOLOGY always has a certain element of surprise and luck connected to it, for it is unpredictable to divine what […]
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Vol. 63 / No. 2
By: Richard L. Zettler
An Unforgettable Smile: Remembering Lee Horne, GR88
LEE HORNE, Editor of Expedition 1990–1996, whose infectious smile and ready sense of humor lit up the Penn Museum for […]
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Vol. 63 / No. 2
In His Own Words: George F. Bass and the Birth of Underwater Archaeology
GEORGE FLETCHER BASS, the pioneering archaeologist who was the first to dive on an underwater site rather than directing divers […]
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Vol. 63 / No. 2
By: David Hernandez and Richard Hodges
Kalivo: The Vaunting Ambition of King Pyrrhus at Butrint
Kalivo The Vaunting Ambition of King Pyrrhus at Butrint [authors] THE MAJESTIC, fortified hilltop site of Kalivo is always overshadowed […]
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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. 63 / No. 2
The Stories Behind The Stories We Wear: The Making and Meanings of Our Upcoming Special Exhibition
The Stories Behind The Stories We Wear The Making and Meanings of Our Upcoming Special Exhibition [authors] On September 25, […]
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Vol. 63 / No. 2
By: Tom Tartaron
In The Labs: Raising the Penn Museum's Profile as a Leader in Materials Analysis
IN JULY 2020, I was honored to be named the Executive Director of the Center for the Analysis of Archaeological […]
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Vol. 63 / No. 2
By: Anne Tiballi, Sabirah Mahmud, Zahra Rice and Sophie Roach
Learning Lessons: Engaging Our University Community
Jazz Combos Student Exhibition Interns Explore Jazz Past, Present, and Futures WHEN PENN CLOSED ITS CAMPUS in March 2020, the […]
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Vol. 63 / No. 2
Artifact Perspective: Seeing Baghdad in Queen Puabi
Yaroub Al-Obaidi, Global Guide for the Middle East Galleries, drew inspiration from Queen Puabi’s burial headdress and jewelry to create […]
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Vol. 63 / No. 2
Membership Matters: Member Spotlight
Doug Dietrich, WG00 Doug Dietrich, WG00, grew up in Pittsburgh and has been a member of the Penn Museum Director’s […]
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Vol. 63 / No. 2
Welcome News
Awards, New Gifts, and On the Trail of Smugglers New Gifts and Grants THE PENN MUSEUM is pleased to announce […]
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Vol. 63 / No. 2
By: Kate Pourshariati
From the Archives: Second Sunday Culture Films
Documentaries Without Borders SECOND SUNDAY CULTURE FILMS began in 2010, after I proposed a film series connecting the Wolf Humanities […]
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