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The Booger Dance.
While looking through photos for a researcher, today, I was surprised by the following image: while this appears to be a picture of a visiting muppet, in actuality it is a Cherokee man, wearing a mask...
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The Ainu People and an Early Anthropological Friendship Across an Ocean
The Ainu (or “Utari”) people are a group of people indigenous to the island of Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan. Though just recently recognized officially by the Japanese government, it is...
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Processing the Satterthwaite Caracol Collection
Earlier this week I spent some time working on the collections of Linton Satterthwaite relating to the archaeological investigations in Caracol, Belize. The expeditions, in 1951 and 1953, were...
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How to protect your home and family, the Sassanian way.
Ok, I’ll be honest. At first I just chose this image of an Aramaic incantation bowl as the fun friday image of the week because: “look! cute child-like monster drawings!”. Penn Museum object B2945,...
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Thanks to cellulose and tourists.
It’s great when you find something that is beautiful and also conveys a great amount of information. This is not one of those circumstances. But it’s Friday, and we’ve been proofing catalog records all...
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