On the cover: Above, food, mostly sweet potatoes and bushfowl eggs, wrapped in leaves, is distributed at a traditional feast by the men of the sponsoring hamlet, while the Big Men of other hamlets wait for their share. Below, a masked figure chasing terrified children, who flee for protection to Duako, who cannot be beaten because he is a man and also because he is carrying his baby.
Pictures taken by Ann Chowning in 1962 at Galilo, New Britain.
By: Ann Chowning
Except for the few who have managed to work in areas virtually unaffected by Western civilization, ethnographers are all too familiar with a feeling of regret at not having been able to study a particular group even ten years earlier, before so much was abandoned or forgotten. Over and over, we are told, “It’s too bad; So-and-so […]
By: Ruben E. Reina
Since the beginning of this century archaeologists and scientists in related disciplines have looked for clues and facts relating to the Maya occupation of Central Peten. The heavy forest area to the north of Late Peten-Itza and the savanna area to the south show signs of heavy population. The number of house mounds and the […]
By: Merle Green
The predominantly monumental art of the ancient Maya civilization in Classic times, from the third to the tenth century A.D., produced close to a thousand known stelae. These monolithic, upright stone slabs, usually bearing hieroglyphic inscriptions and figures of personages, plus the bas-relief tablets in the temples, are the carvings from which I have been […]
By: Vimala S. Begley
Due to the persistent efforts of archaeologists in India one of the most exciting developments which is taking place in the archaeology of South Asia is the gradual unfolding of the cultural patterns of the Ganga-Yamuna basin. A decade or two ago practically nothing was known about the material remains of the cultures which flourished […]