Volume 1 / Number 2

1959

On The Cover: "The Landing at Middlesburgh [Eua], one of the Friendly Isles [Tonga]" from James Cook, A Voyage Towards the South Pole, and Round the World...in the Years 1772, 1773, 1774, 1775. London. 1777.

Vol. 1 / No. 2

By: Robert H. Dyson, Jr.

An Iranian Drinking Vessel

The mountains of western Iran are today the home of sheep-herding tribesmen as they have been since animals were first […]

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Vol. 1 / No. 2

By: David Crownover

Once and Again

“…During the past summer a large and beautifully lighted room was granted us. Necessary cases were built, and in September […]

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By: Froelich Rainey

The Vanishing Art of the Arctic

But of the land on the other side of the bald men none can give any trustworthy account because it […]

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Vol. 1 / No. 2

By: Alfred Kidder, II

Editorial

Anthropologists, archaeologists, and their colleagues in such fields as linguistics, folklore, and ethnomusicology like to get together from time to […]

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Vol. 1 / No. 2

Museum News – Winter 1959

Drexel Medal Awarded to Dr. A.V. Kidder For the first time since 1903, the year of its first presentation, the […]

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image of Omai

Vol. 1 / No. 2

By: Marianne L. Stoller

Te-moana-nui-o-Kiwa

The second in a series of articles about the finding and naming of some of the islands in the Pacific- […]

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Happy new year written in different languages.

Vol. 1 / No. 2

Happy New Year!

An old greeting used by many people through the centuries. Here are some of the ways it is written. How […]

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