Volume 42 / Number 3
2000
On The Cover: A Kalighat painting of the goddess Chandi with elephant. See Kalighat Paintings from Nineteenth Century Calcutta in Maxwell Sommerville’s ‘Ethnological East Indian Collection’ Collection Object Number: 29-225-37 Photo credit: Francine Sarin.
Vol. 42 / No. 3
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. 42 / No. 3
By: Kathleen Ryan
Edible Wild Plants as Digestive Aids: Ethnoarchaeology in Maasailand: Science & Archaeology
Indigenous cultures around the world retain knowledge of a diversity of plants in their environments, including plants used for medicinal […]
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Vol. 42 / No. 3
By: Julia Lawson
Unraveling Threads: Conservation of the Weaving Lady: Research Notes
In the early 1960s the University of Pennsylvania Museum acquired an unusually precolumbian figural object. It consists of a doll-like […]
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Vol. 42 / No. 3
By: Alex Pezzati
Painted Walls, Painted Faces: From the Archives
The University of Pennsylvania Museum is not known for its collections of oil paintings, but the Archives displays a few […]
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Vol. 42 / No. 3
By: Fredrik T. Hiebert
Unique Bronze Age Stamp Seal Found in Central Asia: What in the World
The University of Pennsylvania Museum Central Asia archaeology project has recently completed its third season of investigation at Anau depe […]
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Vol. 42 / No. 3
By: Jeremy A. Sabloff
From the Director
As I write this column, work on our new collections storage and research addition, the Mainwaring Wing, is moving along […]
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Museum Mosaic: People, Places, Projects – Winter 2000: International Classroom; Searching for Ancient Egypt; Dr. David Silverman; The University of Pennsylvania Museum on the Road
Welcome! Bienvenue! Swagatam! Willkommenl! INTERNATIONAL CLASSROOM hosted its annual International Student Reception on October 20, 2000. International students, scholars, and […]
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By: William Davenport
A Melanesian Wedding: Santa Cruz Island
Marriage is a social institution that appears to be universal to all human societies, but only some societies mark the […]
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By: Rebecca Huss-Ashmore
‘The Real Me’: Therapeutic Narrative in Cosmetic Surgery
At 10:25, Kim gets out of her chair and paces across the examining room for at least the tenth time. […]
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By: Ellen E. Bell, Robert J. Sharer, David W. Sedat, Marcello A. Canuto and Lynn Grant
The Margarita Tomb at Copan, Honduras: A Research Update
In an earlier issue of Expedition (41[2]), we reported on the first five years of work in an Early Classic […]
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By: Pika Ghosh
Kalighat Paintings from Nineteenth Century Calcutta in Maxwell Sommerville’s ‘Ethnological East Indian Collection’
Kalighat paintings, as the name suggests, were created in the Kali Temple area on the ghat (bank) of the Burin […]
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