Guide to the North American Ethnographic Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
Published:18th Apr '03
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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.
ISBN: 9781931707336
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
Weight: 666g
112 pages