Volume 28 / Number 3

1986

Special Edition: Museum Artifacts

On The Cover: "Ming Huang's Journey to Shu." Chinese painting on silk from the Ming period (14th-15th centuries). Collection Object Number: C-137 Photo by Fred Schoch

Vol. 28 / No. 3

By: Christopher Jones

A Ruler in Triumph: Chocolá Monument 1

At times the lack of a published line drawing will prevent an exquisite piece of sculpture from receiving the attention […]

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Vol. 28 / No. 3

By: Robert H. Dyson, Jr.

Introduction – Winter 1986

For many people, a museum is a place where interesting “things” can be accumulatcd. displayed, and stored. In the case […]

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Vol. 28 / No. 3

By: Adria Holmes Katz

Corselets of Fiber: Robert Louis Stevenson's Gilbertese Armor

In November 1914 and January 1915 the Anderson Auction Company of New York offered for sale a collection of letters, […]

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Vol. 28 / No. 3

By: Bien D. Chiang

Paiwan Qeluz: A Carved Slate Pillar from Taiwan

Standing outside in the Sharpe Circle of The University Museum is a 9- foot slate pillar from the Paiwan peoples […]

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Vol. 28 / No. 3

By: Donald White

The Morris Coin: A Masterpiece by Euaenetus

“Somewhere in the misty field if the seas / where Ortygia lies by Thrinakria / Apheiis’s bubbling miuth intermingles / […]

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Vol. 28 / No. 3

By: Richard L. Zettler

From Beneath The Temple: Inscribed Objects From Ur

Perhaps the most widely known of the objects in The University Museum’s Near Eastern collection are those from Tell al-Mugaiyar, […]

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Vol. 28 / No. 3

By: Elizabeth Lyons

Ming Huang’s Journey to Shu: The History of a Painting

During its five-hundred-year history, this painting has been admired, looted, rescued, honored, forgotten, found and restored to esteem. Hanging on […]

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Vol. 28 / No. 3

By: Stuart Fleming

The Mummies of Pachacamac: An Exceptional Legacy from Uhle's 1896 Excavations

While, in the wake of Johann Winkelmaun’s appraisal of the Greek contribution to art and of the scholarship stimulated by […]

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Vol. 28 / No. 3

By: Adria Holmes Katz

The Gilbert Islands

The Gilbert Islands are sixteen coral atolls in that part of the Pacific known as Micronesia (the region of “small […]

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