Guide to the North American ethnographic collections at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology / Lucy Fowler Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Contributor:

Williams, Lucy Fowler.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology--Guidebooks.

University of Pennsylvania.

University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Indians of North America--Material culture--Catalogs.

Indians of North America.

Indian art--North America--Catalogs.

Indian art.

Indians of North America--Material culture.

North America.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Guidebooks.

Physical Description:

xii, 97 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, [2003]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1931707324

1931707332

OCLC:

51944357