American Section

Vol. XX / No. 3-4
By: D. S. Davidson
The Lock Haven Expedition
THE Lock Haven Expedition of the University Museum was organized in June, 1929, for the purpose of investigating the archæological […]
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Vol. XX / No. 2
By: J. Alden Mason
Zapotec Funerary Urns from Mexico
THE average layman knows of but two great native civilizations in America, those of the Aztecs and of the Incas. […]
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Vol. XX / No. 2
By: J. Alden Mason
Turquoise Mosaics from Northern Mexico
GEMS and semi-precious stones of rich colours or delicate translucency have forever attracted the esthetic sense of man; their use […]
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Vol. XX / No. 2
By: Louis Shotridge
The Bride of Tongass: A Study of Tlingit Marriage Ceremony
MARRIAGE was honorable in all, and it was about this association of man and woman that all the Tlingit life […]
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Vol. XIX / No. 4
By: Louis Shotridge
The Emblems of the Tlingit Culture
RECENTLY the MUSEUM placed on exhibition in the Tlingit Hall of the American Section a collection of objects, the greater […]
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Vol. XIX / No. 3
By: J. Alden Mason
Some Unusual Spearthrowers of Ancient America
THE spearthrower is one of the most remarkable of the inventions of primitive man and for that reason has ever […]
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Vol. XIX / No. 2
By: J. Alden Mason
A Remarkable Stone Lamp from Alaska
THE archaeologist of a museum is presumed, above everything else, to be acquainted with all types of specimens and artefacts […]
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Vol. XVIII / No. 4
By: J. Alden Mason
What We Know About The Maya: (From a Lecture delivered at the Museum on November 13th)
THE land of the Maya nation in Guatemala and the surrounding countries of Yucatan, southern Mexico, Salvador, and northern Honduras […]
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Vol. XVIII / No. 3
By: J. Alden Mason
Eskimo Pictorial Art
THE Eskimo have always been a subject of the highest interest, not only to the popular mind, but also to […]
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Vol. XVIII / No. 2
By: Dr. J. Alden Mason
Mirrors of Ancient America
THE idea of a mirrorless world is far from being a purely hypothetical one; the human world was without mirrors […]
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