On the cover: Tiwi Burial Poles.
Cover design by James House, Jr.
By: Jane C. Goodale
From April through August 1954, the National Geographic Society sponsored an expedition to Melville Island, Australia, led by Mr. C. P. Mountford of Australia, to study the art, myth, and ceremony of the Tiwi. Miss Goodale accompanied Mr. Mountford to gather material for her Ph.D. dissertation on the Tiwi objects for the University Museum. After […]
By: Rhys Carpenter
In 438 B.C. there was dedicated in the Parthenon at Athens the colossal gold and ivory statue of Athena, one of the major works of Pheidias, commissioned by Pericles. Of this majestic statue, over forty feet high, the cult image of the goddess for nearly a thousand years, only a few copies in other materials, […]
By: William C. Brice
This article is the first of a series planned for Expedition to give our readers some knowledge of what other nations are doing in anthropology around the world. Studies in archaeology, ethnology, and human paleontology are now proceeding at an unprecedented rate in many regions, many of which were little known prior to the last […]
By: Alfred Kidder, II
This modelled stirrup-spouted vessel, painted in dark red on cream, is the Museum’s most recent acquisition in the field of pre-Columbian Peruvian art. It was presented to us posthumously by Mrs. George Smith Patton, Jr. through her daughter, Mrs. James Totten. The Mochica people, who buried thousands of vessels of similar style with their dead, […]
By: James B. Pritchard
In a Near Eastern country such as Jordan an archaeologist learns quickly that it is usually best to discount, if not disregard completely, local rumors about ancient wonders which lie underground. Too often these alleged treasures have been found to exist only in hear-say embroidered by folk imagination. Yet, what seemed to be a highly […]
By: Froelich Rainey
To the Readers of Expedition: Because of the increased interest in archaeology and the study of man, The University Museum decided, in the spring of 1958, to revise its quarterly bulletin and issue a magazine which would be designed for the public as well as the members of the Museum. The purpose was not only to […]
The 1959 season’s work of all three of the University Museum Expeditions to the Near East was completed by early September. In this issue of Expedition there is a report by Dr. Pritchard of the results at el-Jib where he is Field Director; reports by Dr. Young on Gordion and by Mr. Dyson on Hasanlu will appear […]
By: James House, Jr.
Nothing in time so much alters the character of the concretion which is a work of sculpture as technological change, in tools, materials, and methods, and the sequential play of the sculptor’s imagination upon these developments. This imagination is conditioned by his culture as well as by his craft and by those personal resources which […]
By: Frank G. Speck
Several visits which I made among the Huron Indians at Lorette, P.Q., near Quebec, some years ago, gave me the opportunity of studying the decorative art and manufactures of these interesting descendants of one of the most prominent tribes. One of the chiefs possessed a handsome belt of white wampum which commemorated some treaty of […]
By: Frank G. Speck
The biennial election of governor, lieutenant-governor, representative, council and other officers of the Penobscot tribe of Indians took place last fall, and the inaugural ceremonies followed on January first. At the invitation of the Indian officials I was present on this occasion, combining the opportunity of witnessing the ceremonies with regular field work in connection […]