Guide to the North American Ethnographic Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

by University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; Williams, Lucy Fowler

• ISBN13: 9781931707329
• ISBN10: 1931707324
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

Summary

Totaling approximately 40,000 objects, the University Museum's ethnographic holdings represent native peoples from ten North American culture areas--the Arctic, Subarctic, Northwest Coast, California, Plateau, Great Basin, Southwest, Great Plains, Northeast, and the Southeast. This guide highlights the strength of the collections and demonstrates how objects are tied to history and people living within different cultural and social contexts. It also underscores that objects have different multiple meanings. Some objects illustrate intertribal relations; others best reflect collecting attitudes at the turn of the century when much of the Museum's collections was acquired. Visitors and off-site readers will learn about such related archival resources as documentation and photographs, past and present Museum exhibitions, current research, repatriation, and contemporary collections development.

Author Biography

Lucy Fowler Williams is Keeper of the American Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	vii
Foreword,
Robert W. Preucel	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Of Spirits and Science: Meaning and Material Culture Crossing Boundaries	1	(17)
The North American Ethnographic Holdings	3	(2)
The Edward Avery McIlhenny Collection	5	(1)
The Stewart Cutin Collection	6	(2)
The George Byron Gordon Collection	8	(3)
The Louis Shotridge Collection	11	(2)
The Frank G. Speck Collection	13	(2)
NAGPRA and Beyond	15	(3)
Readings	18	(1)
Plates	19	(73)
Appendix: Major North American Ethnographic Collections at the University of Pennsylvania Museum	92	(3)
Index	95	(3)
About the Author	98