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.
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Lucy Fowler Williams is Keeper of the American Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
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The North American ethnographic collections of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (UPM) contain nearly 40,000 objects from Canada, the United States, and the Caribbean which together document the remarkable diversity of past and present native peoples. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
American Indian, Louis Shotridge, Stewart Culin, George Gordon, New Mexico, Northwest Coast, British Columbia, South Dakota, Stephens Collection, Killer Whale, American Section, Frank Speck, Devil's Lake Reservation, Great Lakes, Kuskokwim River, Smithsonian Institution, United States, Franz Boas, Frederica de Laguna, George Catlin, Plains Indian, Point Barrow New!
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The North American ethnographic collections of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (UPM) contain nearly 40,000 objects from Canada, the United States, and the Caribbean which together document the remarkable diversity of past and present native peoples. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
American Indian, Louis Shotridge, Stewart Culin, George Gordon, New Mexico, Northwest Coast, British Columbia, South Dakota, Stephens Collection, Killer Whale, American Section, Frank Speck, Devil's Lake Reservation, Great Lakes, Kuskokwim River, Smithsonian Institution, United States, Franz Boas, Frederica de Laguna, George Catlin, Plains Indian, Point Barrow New!
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- South Dakota (Portrait of America) by Kathleen Thompson on page 10, and page 64
- Native Americans (Nature Company Discoveries Libraries) by Judith Simpson on page 2
- Handbook of North American Indians by Wilcomb E. Washburn on page 18
- The North American Indians: A Selection of Photographs by Edward S. Curtis by Edward S. Curtis on page 18
- Great Lakes by Linda Thompson on page 82
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