Penn Museum Annual Report 2014/2015 by Eastern Standard

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EXECUTIVE MESSAGE

A STRATEGIC VISION

THE YEAR IN REVIEW

PENN MUSEUM 2014–2015: BY THE MONTH

PENN MUSEUM 2014–2015: BY THE NUMBERS

PENN MUSEUM 2014–2015: BY THE GEOGRAPHY

Teaching and Research: Student, Curator, and Consulting Scholar Field Projects

Smith Creek Archaeological Project (Mississippi, United States)

On the Wampum Trail: Restorative Research in North American Museums (North America)

Understanding Pueblo Cloth in Context (North America)

Silver Reef Project (Utah, United States)

The Caste War of the Yucatan: The Tihosuco Heritage

Preservation and Community Development Project (Mexico)

Early Hunters at Cuncaicha (Peru)

The La Florida Archaeology Project: Exploring an Ancient

Maya River Port (Guatemala)

Gordion Archaeological Project (Turkey)

— Historical Landscape Preservation at Gordion — Gordion Jewelry Project — Gordion Cultural Heritage Program

Objects on the cover,

Kani Shaie Archaeological Project (Iraqi Kurdistan)

La Ferrassie (France)

The Georgia Genetic History Project (Georgia)

Excavations at the Mortuary Complex of Pharaoh Senwosret III

at Abydos (Egypt)

The Borders of Chinese Architecture (China and Mongolia)

Middle Mekong Archaeology Project (Laos)

Collections: New Acquisitions

Collections: Outgoing Loans and Traveling Exhibitions

SUPPORTING THE MISSION

Leadership Supporters

inside cover, and at right

The Loren Eiseley Society and Expedition Circles

were featured in the special

Corporate, Foundation, and Government

exhibition Beneath the

Agency Supporters

Sara Yorke Stevenson Legacy Circle

THE GIFT OF TIME

Penn Museum Volunteers

object #40-13-28. Right:

Women’s Committee

Painted ceramic vessel. UPM

Young Friends of the Penn Museum

Board of Overseers

Director’s Council

www.penn.museum/

Penn Museum Advisory Board

exhibitions/past-exhibitions.

In Memoriam

All photos by Penn Museum

Curatorial Sections and Museum Centers

unless otherwise stated.

Penn Museum Department Staff

Surface: Life, Death, and Gold in Ancient Panama, from February 7, 2015 through November 1, 2015. Cover: Cast gold figurine. UPM

object #40-16-75. More information on all of these objects can be found at

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Left: In the new Conservation Lab opened in September 2014, conservators Julia Lawson (foreground) and Nina Owczarek prepare objects for the February 2015 exhibition Beneath the Surface: Life, Death, and Gold in Ancient Panama.

FOR MORE THAN 127 YEARS, the Penn Museum has been one of the leading museums of archaeology and anthropology in the world, with a collection of more than one million objects that we have largely excavated ourselves. As this report on our activities for 2014–2015 documents, our influence is felt far beyond our walls by means of loans to leading museums everywhere, through our excavations around the world, and through scholarly and popular publications that are read widely. So it was no surprise when, in February 2014, the British publisher Dorling Kindersley, in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, approached us about photographing our objects for a new book—History of the World in 1,000 Objects. But even we were not quite prepared for the fact that in the final fall 2014 publication, 200 of the entries are from our collection, including the famed Bull’s Head of the Great Lyre of Ur in a magnificent double spread on the title pages, and a detail from one of our beautifully illuminated Persian manuscripts in another double spread on the foreword pages. This invaluable testimonial was a timely reminder of the responsibility that comes with stewardship of such an extraordinary collection, just as we embark on a comprehensive renovation of many of the galleries and storage areas that house it. 2014–2015 saw significant advances in planning that renovation of our Harrison and Coxe (Egyptian) Wings, as well as the completion—in September 2014—of a similarly comprehensive project on the West Wing of the original 1899 portion of our building. The final phase of that West Wing renovation was a stunning transformation, designed by Samuel Anderson Architects, of a now-beautiful set of conservation and teaching labs, with ancillary spaces including a classroom, seminar room, and offices, in perfect time for the launch of the Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials (CAAM)—our Museum’s joint initiative with Penn Arts & Sciences—in October 2014. Three courses were offered through CAAM in each of the fall and spring semesters, at levels ranging from undergraduate freshman seminar to graduate; all had enrollment beyond inaugural year projections. Several other classes visited CAAM for specific sessions to interact with teaching specialists, or see its spaces and collections. In addition, the labs were used for mentoring by teaching specialists, and for individual research projects conducted by undergraduates, graduate students, and post-docs. In sum, this implementation of one of the major new initiatives of our strategic plan just 18 months after its endorsement by our Board of Overseers exceeded our highest hopes and expectations. We owe a debt of gratitude to the donors who provided funding for both the lab renovation and the new CAAM teaching positions, and to our Faculty Steering Committee led by CAAM Director Steve Tinney, with Lab Coordinator Marie-Claude Boileau, for extraordinary work in planning and implementation. As the West Wing of our Museum came alive with undergraduates energized by their classes, the Kress Entrance and classrooms on the eastern side were similarly animated by thou-

sands of seventh grade students visiting through Unpacking the Past, a partnership program with the School District of Philadelphia and KIPP and Mastery Charter Schools lead funded by the GRoW Annenberg Foundation, which brings our collections in ancient Egypt and ancient Rome to life. During the first full year of Unpacking the Past, over 100 teachers attended four professional development events, and our GRoW Annenberg educators reached every corner of Philadelphia through outreach lessons, teaching in 183 classrooms in 65 different schools spread evenly throughout the City. The team reached a total of 4,318 7th grade students in its first year, including 152 in Autistic Support and Life Skills Support classrooms who rarely, if ever, participate in comparable opportunities. A total of more than 3,500 students came with their classrooms for on-site visits. All participating students were given free family memberships to the Penn Museum, 63 of which were activated through the end of the school year. For support of this high impact program, we are deeply grateful to the GRoW Annenberg Foundation and the many individual, foundation, government agency, and corporate donors who made generous matching gifts in 2014–2015, particularly our Overseer Diane von Schlegell Levy with her husband Robert M. Levy. The highlights above show different ways our remarkable archaeological collection can be used to transform understanding of our human experience; a fourth is, of course, exhibitions. In our own galleries, Beneath the Surface: Life, Death, and Gold in Ancient Panama offered new insights into the excavation that uncovered a spectacular burial not far from Panama City in the 1940s, and Corn: From Ancient Crop to Soda Pop was our first exhibition with curatorial development and design entirely by students. Loans and collaborations increased the reach of Penn Museum collections through a wide range of exhibitions beyond our own walls; of special mention must be our partnership with NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World in the exhibition From Ancient to Modern: Archaeology and Aesthetics, which gave New York audiences a chance to see a selection of our objects and archival materials from the great ancient Mesopotamian site of Ur, including the headdress, jewelry, and cape of Queen Puabi. For all of the many contributions of time, talent, and financial resources that made these highlights and the myriad other research, teaching, conservation, and public programming initiatives possible, we are, of course, deeply appreciative.

Michael J. Kowalski, W74

Julian Siggers, Ph.D.

Chairman

Williams Director

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A STRATEGIC VISION

Left: Chairman Mike Kowalski and Williams Director Julian Siggers in the 3rd floor Egyptian Gallery with the statue of Ramses II, the great Pharaoh and father of Merenptah, whose throne room will be installed at dramatic height in the Museum’s new galleries.

AS OUR PENN MUSEUM SAW, in 2014–2015, the launch of the Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials, the Unpacking the Past partnership program with the School District of Philadelphia, and the completion of a full renovation of the galleries, labs, and lecture room in the West Wing of our original 1899 building, we now stand poised to initiate the 3rd major goal of our 2013–2020 Strategic Plan: the complete redevelopment and reinstallation of the Upper and Lower Egyptian Galleries, the iconic Rotunda, and the Near East Galleries. These spaces contain some of our strongest collections, originating from many of the Museum’s important excavations. They also contain several of our iconic art objects, pertaining to subject matter of great public appeal. Our remarkable collections, when used to full dramatic effect, have the potential to tell compelling narratives. And, opened in 1915 and 1926 respectively, the Harrison and Coxe Wings offer soaring and distinctive architecture and a spectacular setting for both object display and events. The planned renovation will upgrade both front and back of house areas which have been left more-or-less untouched for decades, bringing air-conditioning to two thirds of the Museum’s public spaces and significantly improving stewardship of the collection as well as visitor comfort: adding new ramps and elevators to make all Museum areas fully ADA and stroller accessible, and improving visitor amenities including new 1st and 3rd floor restrooms. With the concurrent construction by the University of Pennsylvania Health System of a new Patient Pavilion designed by noted architects Foster and Associates, comes a timely opportunity to upgrade shared spaces including the Museum’s freight elevator and loading docks, and to create a dramatic new pedestrian walkway from the University City SEPTA station across from the Museum’s Kress Entrance to 34th Street. A firm belief that the Museum should strive to transform the way our visitors see the past, and the way in which they understand the world and their place in it, is at the heart of everything we set out to achieve. The creation of new galleries of the ancient Near East, Egypt, and Asia—comprising over 35,000 square feet of new installation—will cast Penn’s iconic collections in a new light, exploring the origins of great world civilizations by showcasing and contextualizing their art and artifacts in spectacular, engaging, and educational galleries at the highest level of interpretive museum design. Chief among many highlights will be the installation of elements from the 3,200-year-old palace of Merenptah, the only Egyptian royal palace substantially represented in a museum collection outside Egypt, with the potential, once installed at its full height in the 59-foot high 3rd floor Egyptian gallery, to become a marquee destination for visitors to Philadelphia. Already underway in fall 2015 with the creation of a new pedestrian entrance ramp and cleaning and repointing of the South Street façade, the renovations and gallery reinstallations will be implemented—pending funding—in a three-phased project with the important milestone of new Galleries of the Middle East in fall 2017 and overall completion by fall 2020. Phasing the project will allow the Museum to stay open throughout.

Our vision for this significant project—a true building transformation—includes that: • Our Museum audiences will encounter an engaging environment, filled with new ideas and experiences, as comfortable as it is beautiful. Many become Museum members to return for unlimited, deeper exploration of the galleries. • Visitors of all ages will appreciate the universal accessibility in all areas and new amenities. Their number and diversity will grow, from families with children in strollers enjoying the interior and garden spaces, to senior groups engaged in daytime tours and lectures. • Our Penn Museum reputation, and with it the University of Pennsylvania’s, will grow internationally with the new worldclass galleries. Penn will be seen more than ever as a generator of knowledge in the cultural and scientific worlds. • Learning in the galleries and beyond will be enhanced for University and K-12 students through careful and relevant interpretation, an increase in the focus on diversity, and a broad range of content digitally available. • Stewardship of the world heritage represented in the Penn Museum’s archaeological and anthropological collection will be significantly improved through gallery environments including better lighting, casework materials, particle filtration, and select climate-controlled cases, as well as a new collection storage facility. • Efficiency will be enhanced and environmental conservation fore-fronted, with new loading docks, energy efficiencies including HVAC plants, and LED lighting for all new galleries. • Revenue from increased visitors and members to our galleries, Pepper Mill Café, and Museum Shop, will enable the Museum to serve more populations through community, outreach, and learning programs. The Penn Museum is a dynamic research institution with many ongoing research projects. With the completed renovation of its galleries and public spaces, it will fulfill our vision as a vibrant and engaging place of continual discovery.

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TH E YE AR IN RE VIE W Right: Glazed pottery camel found in tomb, Tang Dynasty, China, 618–907 CE. UPM object #C466. Left: Students in the freshman seminar Food and Fire: Archaeology in the Laboratory, taught by Kate Moore, Mainwaring Teaching Specialist, in the new Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials.

2014–2015 was, by any measure, an extraordinary year of activity at the Penn Museum, with the implementation of two of the major new initiatives of its strategic plan—the new teaching center in archaeological science in the form of the Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials, and the School District Partnership program Unpacking the Past—alongside a global testimonial to its collections through the inclusion of 200 of its artifacts in the DK/Smithsonian History of the World in 1,000 Objects. Beside these highlights, 2014–2015 saw a continuation of a breadth of activities under the four “pillars” of what we do—research, teaching, collections stewardship, and public engagement. The following pages offer a brief snapshot of both the highlights and the myriad additional activities.

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PENN MUSEUM 2014–2015:

BY THE MONTH

JULY 2014

In this Summer Wonders concert, local musicians Kurt Jung and Qin Qian perform using various Chinese instruments and discuss the history and development of Chinese music.

Penn Museum Learning Programs hosts the first of three summer 2014 Professional Development Days introducing the Unpacking the Past program to a total of 71 teachers in the Philadelphia School District.

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coming musicians who have a diverse array of sounds that engage audiences with their lyrical and musical nuance. This P.M. @ Penn Museum Summer Nights performance features the winner of their 9th annual songwriting contest. 2

Young participants in this Summer Wonders family series have fun learning basic, age-appropriate belly dance—a traditional dance common to Egypt and the Middle East—demonstrated by accomplished dancer Michele Tayoun of Meesha Belly Dance.

9 Zydeco-A-Go-Go combines Creole Zydeco and Cajun 2-steps

16 Trinidelphia performs at the Penn Museum for P.M. @ Penn

Museum Summer Nights, delighting audiences with its fusion of Trinidadian Soca and Calypso with Latin jazz, reggae, salsa, and American top 40. 16

to create a mix of New Orleans rhythm and blues and vintage Louisiana rock ‘n roll for this P.M. @ Penn Museum Summer Nights concert.

Master puppeteer Steve Abrams mesmerizes Summer Wonders series attendees with his puppetry of Aesop’s fables, in which a brave mouse, a lazy fox, and a very determined turtle are the featured players.

23 M’oudswing, a Moroccan fusion band, layers oud (a musical

instrument) and modal jazz improvisation over North African grooves, allowing Arabic music and jazz to coexist in harmony while still retaining their distinctive sounds. A P.M. @ Penn Museum Summer Nights concert. 23

Michele Belluomini shares creation stories from around the world with Summer Wonders series attendees. Presented by Blue Deer Storytelling.

30 The West Philadelphia Orchestra performs the poignant

melodies and propulsive rhythms of Eastern Europe for P.M. @ Penn Museum Summer Nights audiences. 30 A group of internationally acclaimed musicians, the Spice

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Route Ensemble, honors diverse Middle Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean traditions in a concert for Summer Wonders series attendees.

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Newspaper Taxis, an award-winning local group, celebrates the spirit of The Beatles with an energetic show at P.M. @ Penn Museum Summer Nights.

Philadelphia-based drum and music ensemble, Leana Song, performs for P.M. @ Penn Museum Summer Nights. The ensemble specializes in Afro-Cuban and West African drumming that combines traditional call-and-response patterned Yoruba songs with modern folk and jazz instruments and harmony.

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Bill Koutsouros’ internationally acclaimed ensemble, Animus, performs the season finale of the P.M. @ Penn Museum Summer Nights concert series, offering an exciting fusion of ancient and modern music with traditional elements of Greek, rock, Middle Eastern, blues, Indian, jazz, and African music.

The Clio Society, the Museum’s undergraduate student interest group, hosts its Open House Picnic.

In this Brown Bag Lecture, Dr. Tom Scheinfeldt, Associate Professor of Digital Media and Design and Director of Digital Humanities in the Digital Media Center at the University of Connecticut, recounts his experiences as a member of the team that helped build the Web Archives after 9/11. Presented by the Penn Cultural Heritage Center.

“Borneo Odyssey” is a FringeArts experimental performance, based on the 1896–1898 Penn Museum expeditions to northern Borneo made by William Furness III, Alfred Harrison, Jr., and Hiram Hiller. This event is supported in part by Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts, PECO, the Provost’s Interdisciplinary Seminar Fund, and the Penn Art and Culture Initiative.

The Penn Museum joins Philadelphia’s observance of International Peace Day with a community-wide poetry celebration featuring Sonia Sanchez, poet laureate emeritus of Philadelphia and an international peace activist, as well as the art and poetry of more than 100 Philadelphia children, participating in the ACE (Artistic and Cultural Enrichment) Program in West Philadelphia.

In this afternoon lecture, Donald P. Ryan, Division of Humanities, Pacific Lutheran University, shares some of the discoveries he made while investigating some of the lesserknown tombs in the Valley of the Kings, including the rediscovery of Hatshepsut’s tomb. Presented by the American Research Center in Egypt—Pennsylvania Chapter.

The Year of Color: Stone and Marble from Antiquity to the Present, developed in conjunction with the Penn Humanities Forum 2014-15 theme, opens in the Special Exhibitions Gallery.

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Minas’ innovative yet timeless sound blends north and south for magical music that hints at folk, blues, jazz, scat, and samba in this P.M. @ Penn Museum Summer Nights concert. 24

Penn Museum hosts the New Student Orientation Toga Party. Students are invited to dress in the garb of the ancient world, and creative togas abound.

The Jimmy Pritchard Band, an International Blues Challenge semi-finalist, noted for its sharp sound that respects the tradition of blues while pushing its contemporary boundaries, performs for P.M. @ Penn Museum Summer Nights visitors.

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conservation and teaching laboratories in its West Wing and dedicates the new Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials with a ceremony led by Provost Vincent Price, Dean of Penn Arts and Sciences Steven J. Fluharty, Chairman Michael J. Kowalski, and Williams Director Julian Siggers, and an Open House in the labs and ancillary study spaces.

12 Filmmaker Rowena Potts kicks off the Second Sunday Culture

Films series, “Local Color” with two of her short films: Kaker Kolkata/Kolkata of the Crows (2012) and Mecho Bazaar/The Fish Market (2013). Manjita Mukharji, Lecturer, Penn South Asian Studies, helps to lead the post-screening discussion. Co-sponsored by the Penn Humanities Forum, Penn Cinema Studies, and the South Asia Center. 15

Part of P.M. @ Penn Museum evening programming for young professionals, visitors partake in this “Paranormal Museum” event, featuring flashlight tours, eerie ghost stories, and close encounters with a mummy. Supported by the Young Friends of the Penn Museum.

In this Brown Bag Lecture, Ron Maldonado, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, Navajo Nation Preservation Department, and Jon Berkin, Principal, National Resource Group, LLC, discuss conflicts over the management of Navajo traditional cultural properties. Presented by the Penn Cultural Heritage Center.

30 In this Evening Lecture, Dr. Yannis Galanakis, Lecturer in

Greek Prehistory, University of Cambridge, explores how, through the 19th-century European antiquities trade, the commodification of the past became inextricably interwoven with power and politics. Sponsored by the American Institute of Archaeology.

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Dr. David Silverman, Curator-in-Charge, Penn Museum Egyptian Section, presents the opening lecture in the Great Wonders Lecture Series on Giza’s pyramids and Sphinx.

At this event, the first in a series of Making Workshops for students to learn about and make something related to the Museum’s collections, students spend the evening learning about atlatls—ancient spear-throwing instruments—with Dr. Bruce Kothmann of Penn’s Engineering Department and Dr. Clark Erickson, Curator-in-Charge, Penn Museum American Section.

In this Brown Bag Lecture, Dr. Margaret Bruchac, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Penn, combines archival research with Indigenous consultation to recover the forgotten object histories of wampum belts. Presented by the Penn Cultural Heritage Center.

In this Family Second Sunday Workshop, guests learn about the funerary practices of the ancient Etruscans and have the chance to sculpt with Model Magic, depicting a person reclining for an afterlife feast.

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The International Student Reception, attended by over 1,000 students, takes place at the Penn Museum. Activities include tours of the Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials (CAAM), and adventure and craft activities.

The Penn Museum celebrates International Archaeology Day with tours of the Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials (CAAM) and adventure and craft activities for families. Cosponsored by the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Institute of Archaeology.

Penn President Amy Gutmann joins Superintendent Dr. William Hite, Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell, and Williams Director Julian Siggers for a press event officially announcing the Penn Museum’s partnership program with the School District of Philadelphia, Unpacking the Past, and a tour and interactive workshop with students from the Penn Alexander School.

In this Evening Program, the Junior Fellows of the Kolb Society at the Penn Museum present their current research.

In this Afternoon Lecture, Dr. Steve Vinson, Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Indiana University, Bloomington, discusses the association between renowned Egyptologist Battiscombe Gunn and the notorious occultist Aleister Crowley. Presented by the American Research Center in Egypt—Pennsylvania Chapter.

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The Penn Museum, the Mexican Cultural Center, and the Mexican Consulate in Philadelphia join forces to present the family-friendly, annual Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos) celebration. This event is supported in part by the William M. King Charitable Foundation.

In this Great Wonders lecture, Dr. Megan Kassabaum, Weingarten Assistant Curator, Penn Museum American Section, explores the exceptional variability in Mississippi Valley mounds and the prehistoric cultures that constructed them. In the second installment of the Making Workshop series, students are joined by Dr. Jane Hickman for a presentation of jewelry from the Museum’s collection. Justine Frederick, a Philadelphia-based jewelry designer, leads students as they make their own jewelry inspired by the ancient Near East Section collection.

The Women’s Committee of the Penn Museum hosts a gala preview for the Sixth Treasures Sale & Show, co-chaired by Druellen Kolker, Doranne Lackman, and Arlene Olson, running October 30–November 2. Treasures features jewelry by 26 distinguished dealers and designers.

The Clio Society hosts a Halloween Party, featuring mummy tours with Dr. Janet Monge, Keeper and Associate Curator-in-Charge, Penn Museum Physical Anthropology Section, as well as ancient Egyptian games and crafts, and the first installment of a series of History Mystery Movie Nights—National Treasure: Book of Secrets.

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a conference on “Indigenous Knowledge in the Academy” featuring Doug George Kanentiio (Mohawk) from the Hiawatha Institute for Indigenous Knowledge and Dr. Scott M. Stevens (Mohawk) from Syracuse University, among many others.

Kids and families join in this Family Second Sunday Workshop to tour the Mexico and Central American Gallery with a scavenger hunt, and work with paint and mosaic tiles to decorate a death mask in the style of the ancient Maya. In this edition of Second Sunday Culture Films, renowned muralist Cesar Viveros presents two films about life in Mexico. Day of the Dead (2010), a short film about the Zapotec Dia de los Muertos in Teotitlán del Valle; and Tiempo de Vals (2006), a film about the quinceañera as a rite of passage in Tlaxcala. Co-sponsored by the Latin American and Latino Studies Program, the Mexican Consulate of Philadelphia, Casa Latina, Cinema Studies, the Penn Museum Library, and the Penn Humanities Forum.

In this Brown Bag Lecture, Dr. Douglas Boin, Assistant Professor of History, Saint Louis University, discusses some of the ethical “gray areas” that are the source of current debate among archaeologists, classicists, papyrologists, ancient historians, and religious scholars. Sponsored by the Penn Cultural Heritage Center.

The first event of the 2014-2015 40 Winks with the Sphinx takes place. This popular sleepover program is geared to ages 6 to 12 and their parents or chaperones. A scavenger hunt and a flashlight expedition through the galleries offer ways to connect with ancient artifacts. This sleepover program takes place several times during the year.

New music ensemble Relâche begins a Three-Concert Residence with this afternoon performance, featuring three silent films by Maya Deren, the first female Avant-Garde filmmaker: Meshes of the Afternoon, At Land, and The Very Eye of Night. 19 Penn Museum Learning Programs Departments hosts Homeschool Day, the first in a new program serving homeschool families. Fifty participants enjoyed gallery tours and special interactive workshops.

19 At P.M. @ Penn Museum’s Drinks with the Sphinx, guests

can show off their moves during a belly dancing workshop, test their knowledge in a “What in the World” object trivia game, and more, with drinks available at a cash bar. Attendees also explore the galleries with a flashlight tour. Supported by the Young Friends of the Penn Museum. 22

Penn Museum hosts a One-Day Symposium, The History of Music in China, with Penn’s Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. Early Chinese instruments in the collection are brought out for participants to examine.

At this Afternoon Lecture, Adrienne Mayor, Research Scholar, Stanford University Classics Department, reveals surprising details and new insights about the lives of flesh-andblood women of the Eurasian steppes, who were mythologized as Amazons.

This Brown Bag Lecture introduces a research project called “Trafficking Culture,” funded by the European Research Council, which aims to produce an evidence-based picture of the contemporary global trade in looted cultural objects. Speakers included Simon Mackenzie, Neil Brodie, and Donna Yates, all of the University of Glasgow. Presented by the Penn Cultural Heritage Center.

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In this Great Wonders lecture, Dr. Clark Erickson, Curatorin-Charge, American Section, discusses how the existence of Western Amazonian monumental earthworks—called geoglyphs—shows the ability of native peoples to transform their landscapes on a massive scale.

At De-Stress Fest, held during exams, Penn students are invited to relax at the Museum with a Lego station, Nintendo 64 and Wii video game room, and therapeutic coloring station. In the galleries students can calm their minds and bodies with yoga and guided meditation.

In celebration of our World Culture Series, the Penn Museum hosts its 19th annual Peace around the World holiday celebration. Visitors receive Museum “passports for peace” upon arrival, then “depart” on a world tour through the Museum’s international galleries to explore holiday festivals, history, cuisine, and traditions from various cultures. Supported in part by the William M. King Charitable Foundation, the Women’s Committee of the Penn Museum, and CxRA.

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At this Second Sunday Family Workshop, families work together to create a kente cloth-inspired paper weaving, learn some Akan proverbs, and discover unique gold weights in the Africa Gallery.

14 In this edition of Second Sunday Culture Films, director

Lane Clark presents his newly remastered film, Kyeremu Proverbs (1995) about Twi language proverbs and how they inform and instruct. Co-sponsored by the African Center, CAMRA, the Office of the Provost, Cinema Studies, and Penn Humanities Forum. JANUARY 2015 7

In this Great Wonders lecture, Dr. Grant Frame, Associate Curator of the Penn Museum’s Babylonian Section, discusses the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II (604–562 BCE) and his Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

Dr. C. Brian Rose, Curator-in-Charge, Mediterranean Section, receives the Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement, the highest honor of the Archaeological Institute of America, at the AIA’s annual award ceremony in New Orleans, for his work in the field, his visionary efforts to provide cultural heritage training to members of the US military, and his role as an educator.

At this Second Sunday Family Workshop, participants craft a wesekh—an ancient Egyptian collar necklace worn by men, women, and mummies alike—and discover other Egyptian jewelry and fashions through tours of the Egypt Galleries.

In this edition of the Second Sunday Culture Films Series, H. Kristina Haugland, Associate Curator of Costume and Textiles, Philadelphia Museum of Art, presents Pront in ‘t Kleed/ In a State of Dress (2010)—a film about the few remaining elder ladies in a small town in Holland who still painstakingly dress in 16th-century clothes as a matter of tradition. Cosponsored by Cinema Studies, Penn’s History of Art department, the Penn Museum Library, and Penn Humanities Forum.

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The Free Library of Philadelphia selected Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline (2013) as its One Book, One Philadelphia 2015 selection. Dr. Lucy Fowler Williams, Associate Curator and Sabloff Keeper of Collections, Penn Museum American Section, offers a special workshop that picks up on themes from the book. New music ensemble Relâche continues their Three-Concert Residence, “Music for the Mystery of Silents,” at the Penn Museum with this afternoon performance—featuring a brand new score by Mike Stambaugh for Ernst Lubitsch’s silent film, The Eyes of the Mummy (1918).

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In this illustrated Afternoon Lecture, Dr. Jodi Magness, Professor of Religious Studies, UNC Chapel Hill, discusses recent archaeological finds at the Talpiyot tomb within the context of ancient Jewish tombs and burial customs in Jerusalem in the time of Jesus (late Second Temple Period). Cosponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America.

In this Great Wonders lecture, Dr. Simon Martin, Associate Curator and Keeper of Collections, Penn Museum American Section, investigates Chichen Itza’s true designers and their intentions, guided by the symbolism behind the city’s stone glyphs.

During the second movie in the History Mystery Movie Nights series, Penn students are joined by Dr. Jennifer Wegner, Associate Curator, Penn Museum Egyptian Section, for a screening of The Mummy (1999), accompanied by humorous commentary.

The Penn Museum and Penn Cultural Heritage Center present a Brown Bag Lecture, featuring Dr. Brian Daniels, Penn Cultural Heritage Center, and Dr. James Sarmento, University of California-Davis. The talk focuses on cultural and linguistic reclamation among a Northern California Native American community.

Members of the Museum’s Loren Eiseley Society are offered a first preview of Beneath the Surface: Life, Death, and Gold in Ancient Panama, before the annual dinner hosted in their honor.

The opening day celebration for the Museum’s new exhibition, Beneath the Surface: Life, Death, and Gold in Ancient Panama, includes Latin American music, dance, curators’ talks, and more.

At this Second Sunday Family Workshop, participants sharpen their skills at paper-cutting, craft a puppet in honor of the Chinese New Year, and enjoy an animal-themed tour of the China Gallery.

For this edition of the Second Sunday Culture Film Series, Dr. James Chan, Cultural Consultant, Penn’s Center for East Asian Studies, presents two films from the Long Bow Village group: Stilt Dancers of Long Bow Village (1980) and Guomen: A Village Wedding (2003.) Co-sponsored by Cinema Studies, Penn East Asia Center, the Penn Museum Library, and Penn Humanities Forum.

Nearly 60 students attend the first-ever exhibition reception for students for Beneath the Surface. This event includes an introduction to the Museum’s newest exhibition from Curator, Dr. Clark Erickson and student curators Monica Fenton, Ashley Terry, and Sarah Parkinson.

The exhibition From Ancient to Modern: Archaeology and Aesthetics, presented by NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) in collaboration with the Penn Museum, opens in ISAW’s galleries showcasing iconic objects excavated by the Museum at Ur in Mesopotamia.

In collaboration with the Penn Cultural Heritage Center, the Penn Museum hosts a play reading and panel discussion of My Father’s Bones, a short play by nationally renowned Native American writers and activists Suzan Harjo and Mary Kathryn Nagle.

30 Dr. Brian Daniels, Penn Cultural Heritage Center, discusses

an alternative model for protecting heritage in Syria and Iraq that focuses on community activists and local professionals in this Brown Bag Lecture. Sponsored by the Penn Cultural Heritage Center. 31

Visitors of all ages are invited to help shepherd in the Year of the Sheep at this daylong Chinese New Year Celebration, part of the Museum’s World Culture Series.

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Local Girl Scouts visit the Penn Museum on Scout Badge Days to earn the “Playing the Past” Junior badge, touring the Egyptian Galleries and focusing on women in ancient Egypt.

At the hot chocolate Making Workshop, students learn how the ancient Maya turned cacao beans into a drink for the gods with Penn Anthropology’s Dr. Joanne Baron and Dr. Kate Moore.

The Penn Museum’s second Homeschool Day serves 140 participants, who enjoy a wide variety of tours and interactive workshops.

At this rendition of P.M. @ Penn Museum, guests learn about some ancient romantic customs during R-Rated Romans, a humorous talk by Dr. C. Brian Rose, Curator-in-Charge, Penn Museum Mediterranean Section, followed by a guided tour of suggestive objects in the galleries. Supported by the Young Friends of the Penn Museum.

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The Penn Museum and Penn Cultural Heritage Center present a Brown Bag Lecture by Dr. Sarah Parcak, University of Alabama at Birmingham, on protecting global heritage in the 21st century and the implications of new technology in this effort.

In this afternoon lecture, Dr. Kathryn Bard, Professor of Archaeology, Boston University, speaks about Punt and discusses new insights on its possible location in antiquity. Presented by the American Research Center in Egypt—Pennsylvania Chapter.

The Penn Museum hosts the FebClub Class of 2015 Party. The iconic Rotunda sets the stage for a bookending of the Class of 2015’s collegiate experience.

As part of the Penn Student Access Series, Dr. C. Brian Rose, Curator-in-Charge, Mediterranean Section gives a tour of the Roman Gallery to a group of Penn students.

The rich cultures of Africa and the African diaspora take center stage in the Museum’s Celebration of African Cultures, an annual World Culture Series celebration featuring drum and dance workshops, storytelling, crafts, games, cuisine, art, and artifacts.

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Nearly 200 parents and children from the West Philadelphia Lea School make their own Egyptian amulets, participate in a scavenger hunt, and enjoy huge slices of a “Celebrate Fami-Lea” cake at the Museum’s first Lea School Family Night.

In this Great Wonders lecture, Dr. Jennifer Wegner, Associate Curator, Egyptian Section, considers the history of the Lighthouse at Alexandria, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.

In this Beneath the Surface Lecture, Dr. Clark Erickson, Curator-in-Charge, Penn Museum American Section and Co-Curator of Beneath the Surface, discusses old and new insights from the collection.

Families join this Second Sunday Family Workshop to celebrate the start of spring by crafting a lotus flower, one of eight auspicious symbols of Buddhism, and learn more about lotuses and other symbols during a tour of the Japan Gallery.

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MAR 4

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Speakers Dr. Amardeep Singh and Samian Kaur offer insights into the film Himself He Cooks (2011), directed by V. Berteau and P. Witjes, for this edition of the Second Sunday Culture Film Series. Sponsored by the South Asia Center, the Penn Museum Library, Cinema Studies, and the Penn Humanities Forum.

In the annual Korsyn Lecture, Dr. Ronald Leprohon, Professor of Egyptology, University of Toronto, offers a description of the scenes of the 18th Dynasty tomb chapel of Pahery, the tomb chapel of the mayor of El Kap. Presented by the American Research Center in Egypt—Pennsylvania Chapter.

At this rendition of P.M. @ Penn Museum, guests explore the art of tattoos and body modification. Dr. Julian Siggers, Penn Museum Williams Director, speaks about techniques used for hundreds of years and compares them with those used by tattoo artists today. Supported by the Young Friends of the Penn Museum.

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The Penn Museum presents a Native American Voices performance, featuring Native American rap and hiphop artists Def-I, Tall Paul, and Frank Waln. This public programming is underwritten by the Delaware Investments/ Macquarie Group Foundation. Co-sponsored by Natives at Penn, Greenfield Intercultural Center, and Dubois CCCP.

In this Evening Lecture, Dr. C. Brian Rose, Curator-inCharge, Penn Museum Mediterranean Section, and Frank Matero, Professor of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, present an overview of the most recent archaeological and conservation fieldwork at Gordion under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania.

At this installment of the Making Workshop series, Penn students are joined by artist Kathryn Sclavi to learn about the ancient Japanese art of shibori tie-dye. Over 40 students attend this event to design and dye their own silk scarves.

The Penn Museum and the Penn Cultural Heritage Center collaborate to present a talk by Dr. Mariano J. Aznar Gomez on the judicial decisions in the United States regarding several Spanish State shipwrecks.

The Penn Museum partners with the Penn Cultural Heritage Center for a program on the legal and ethical concerns surrounding work with cultural property.

In collaboration with the Penn Cultural Heritage Center and Natives at Penn, the Penn Museum hosts the sixth Annual University of Pennsylvania Powwow, featuring traditional dancing and music.

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As part of the Great Wonders Lecture Series, Dr. Tom Tartaron, Associate Professor, Classical Studies, discusses the Statue of Zeus at Olympia.

At this History Mystery Movie Night screening of The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008), Steve Lang, Lyons Keeper of Collections, Asian Section, with graduate students, displays objects from storage with humorous commentary.

In this Penn Student Access Series tour, Penn students learned about the conservation and collections management of mummies in the exhibition In the Artifact Lab with conservator, Molly Gleeson and Dr. Janet Monge, Keeper and Associate Curator-in-Charge, Penn Museum Physical Anthropology Section.

In partnership with the Penn Cultural Heritage Center, Dr. Morag Kersel of DePaul University uses case studies from across the Eastern Mediterranean to explore the impact of humans on the archaeological landscape.

In an Afternoon Lecture, Dr. Aidan Dodson, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol, explores the facts and theories regarding the reigns of Tutankhamun and Horemheb. Presented by the American Research Center in Egypt—Pennsylvania Chapter.

In a Beneath the Surface Lecture, Dr. Katherine Moore, Zooarchaeologist and Mainwaring Teaching Specialist, considers the burials at Sitio Conte to answer questions about the role of animals in ancient Panama.

At a Family Second Sunday Workshop, families explore the Museum’s new exhibition, Beneath the Surface: Life, Death, and Gold in Ancient Panama, and work with foil to etch gold plaques inspired by the exhibition’s artifacts.

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P.M. @ Penn Museum offers an exploration of the Beneath the Surface: Life, Death, and Gold in Ancient Panama exhibition—with gallery tours, an interactive dig site, pottery painting, and more. Supported by the Young Friends of the Penn Museum.

Dr. Brian I. Daniels, Director of Research and Programs, and Dr. Salam Al Kuntar, Associate Faculty, Penn Cultural Heritage Center, receive the Society for American Archaeology’s Presidential Recognition Award at the SAA’s annual meeting in San Francisco for their leadership efforts to assist Syrian archaeologists, museum curators, and heritage experts in the protection of archaeological and other cultural assets inside Syria.

At this World Culture Series event, attendees enjoy music, food, and activities like gladiatorial bouts and toga wrapping in celebration of Rome’s birthday (April 21, 753 BCE).

Corn: From Ancient Crop to Soda Pop, the inaugural exhibition of a new internship program for students to develop exhibitions aligned with Penn’s Provost Office theme year focus, opens in the 2nd floor lobby. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

At the Penn Museum’s Quaker Days Open House, students explore the Museum through tours by student members of the Clio Society, and learn about the Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials, and related departments.

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Director Julian Siggers and Museum staff thank volunteers who gave at least 14,706 hours of their time during 2014–2015. Nineteen volunteers are recognized for an extraordinary 10 to 40 years of service. Dr. Siggers presents the annual Volunteer of the Year award to Elin C. Danien, Ph.D., CGS82, G89, GR98, whose more than 40 years of service includes founding the annual Maya Weekend.

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Dr. Julia Mayo, the Panamanian archaeologist leading excavations at the site of El Caño, gives a Beneath the Surface Evening Lecture on exciting recent research about the Coclé Culture at El Caño.

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Christopher McDougall, bestselling author of Born to Run, hosts an Evening Program based on his newest book, Natural Born Heroes, which examines the ancient wellness practices and traditions on the island of Crete and their role in modern athleticism. The program includes parkour, knife-throwing, and “Wildfitness” demonstrations.

At this Explorer Sunday Workshop, visitors learn the physics behind the atlatl, an important hunting tool for the early Native Americans, and then practice using one. Presented in conjunction with the Philadelphia Science Festival.

The Penn Cultural Heritage Center partners with the Penn Museum to present a Brown Bag Lecture by Dr. Lamya Khalidi, National Center for Scientific Research, in which he discusses new data that sheds light on Afro-Arabian prehistoric interactions.

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Internationally acclaimed new music ensemble Relâche concludes their Three-Concert Residence season at the Penn Museum with this afternoon performance. The program features the silent film Rocks of Kador (1912) accompanied by music of French composer Régis Huby.

The Women’s Committee of the Penn Museum presents Digging Dames: Women Archaeologists Come Clean, a benefit luncheon lecture program featuring Dr. Kate Moore, Mainwaring Teaching Specialist, and an archaeologist who has conducted fieldwork in South America and Central Asia.

In this Great Wonders lecture, Dr. C. Brian Rose, Curatorin-Charge, Penn Museum Mediterranean Section, speaks about the history and legacy of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.

Dr. Janet Monge, Keeper and Associate Curator-in-Charge, Physical Anthropology Section, gives a talk for the Beneath the Surface Lecture Series about the challenges posed for physical anthropologists when only photographs remain of an excavated burial site.

At this Second Sunday Family Workshop, families craft an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus, complete with a mummy inside, and discover ancient Egyptian sarcophagi, mummies, tomb goods, and more during a tour of both floors of the Museum’s Egyptian galleries.

At this Afternoon Lecture, Dr. Elizabeth S. Bolman, Professor of Medieval Art, Temple University, speaks about the results of a 10-year conservation project at the Red Monastery church.

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An orientation session launches the 10-week summer Internship Program for 17 participating undergraduate and graduate students, who work in a total of 15 departments, curatorial sections, and teaching centers across the Museum. In addition to gaining hands-on experience, the students participate in eight weekly talks with Museum staff, five research talks, a field trip to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and a career panel.

This Great Wonders lecture by Dr. Adam Smith, Assistant Curator, Penn Museum Asian Section, examines the Great Wall—actually a series of walls constructed over two centuries by the Ming dynasty—from the perspective of contemporary and later observers, both foreign and Chinese.

The American Research Center in Egypt—Pennsylvania Chapter presents an afternoon of Egyptology at the Penn Museum, with talks by Dr. Betsy Bryan, Professor of Egyptian Art and Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University, and Dr. Catharine Roehrig, Curator of Egyptian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

In this Beneath the Surface Lecture, Conservator Julia Lawson discusses what was involved, both in the past and now, in transforming broken, dirt-encrusted fragments from the Sitio Conte excavation into objects in an exhibition.

Through a Live From the Field Skype event, Penn Museum Members travel virtually from Rainey Auditorium to Smith Creek, Mississippi, where the excavation project of Dr. Megan Kassabaum, Weingarten Assistant Curator, Penn Museum American Section, sheds light on Coles Creek cultures.

The Harrisburg Mandolin Ensemble kicks off the Museum’s sixth annual P.M. @ Penn Museum Summer Nights Concert Series with original tunes and arrangements, as well as selections of jazz, swing, bluegrass, old-time, folk, and world music.

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With a sound as rich and diverse as his native São Paulo, Xande Cruz adeptly blends urban and traditional styles in this soulful P.M. @ Penn Museum Summer Nights concert.

The popular Museum summer camp program Anthropologists in the Making begins. The eight-week camp includes themes as varied as Rome, World Mythology, and Ancient Egyptian Magic. About 60-70 campers, aged 7 to 13, attend each week.

PENN MUSEUM 2014–2015:

BY THE NUMBERS AT THE MUSEUM

VISITORS AND PROGRAMS

166,292 Total visitors

32,016 People who enjoyed a rental event in the Penn Museum galleries, gardens, and auditoriums

23,390 People who attended one of 186 lectures, film screenings, family or other public events

5,046

CENTER FOR THE ANALYSIS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL MATERIALS

28,000

Elements of skeletal specimens cleaned, labeled, and organized in CAAM’s Zooarchaeology Lab

6,500 Approximate years of age of a skeleton from Ur used as a student lab report case study in the Human Skeletal section of CAAM’s Living World in Archaeological Science course

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3,305 Visits from Penn Museum members using their unlimited free admission

376 Penn undergraduates and graduates enrolled in courses in the Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials in its first year

75 New ceramic thin sections studied and added to CAAM’s Ceramics Lab teaching and reference collection

4 Dedicated CAAM teaching specialists by the end of its first year

COLLEGE AND K-12

27,104

School children, teachers, and chaperones attending an onsite workshop, program, or tour

4,777 Penn students participating in a class session in a classroom, guided storage tour, or gallery

4,241 Participants in 131 International Classroom programs

COLLECTIONS USE AND STEWARDSHIP

25,382

Artifacts and Physical Anthropology collections moved for examination by 179 visiting researchers

6,180 Visitors to In the Artifact Lab to watch conservators treat ancient Egyptian mummies and objects

4,743 Artifacts surveyed for conservation condition, of which 546 received active conservation treatment

3,556 Seventh grade students in Philadelphia

3,175

public or charter schools who came

Accessions to the collection,

with their classroom for onsite visits

including 334 cultural objects gifted

through the Unpacking the Past program

3 New exhibitions with student curators or curatorial assistance

and 2,841 archival materials gifted

260 Collections tours given to visiting researchers by Penn Museum keepers of collections

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RESEARCH AND LEARNING PROGRAMS

1,553

Offsite K-12 students participating in 47 Distance Learning programs

573 Research requests on collections, research projects, or object identification answered

CULTURAL HERITAGE PROTECTION AND EDUCATION

862

Events of cultural heritage destruction in Syria identified by

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Penn Museum curators, research project managers, and consulting scholars engaged in active research around the globe

Penn Cultural Heritage Center researchers

364 Scholars attending a program about heritage destruction in conflict zones

183 Classrooms in 65 schools throughout Philadelphia where GRoW Annenberg Unpacking the Past educators drove a Mummy Mobile to

150 Penn ROTC students trained in cultural heritage programming in the Middle East by Curator Brian Rose

deliver workshops

25 Countries where Penn Museumfunded field projects or student research took place in 2015

35 Iraqi heritage professionals consulted and trained by the Penn Cultural Heritage Center and associated teams

DIGITAL VISITORS

983,957

Unique visitors to the Penn Museum website

ARTIFACTS AND ARCHIVAL MATERIALS

32,030

Number of miles flown by collections staff couriering Penn Museum objects for

606,948 Searches through the Online Collections

579,339 Views to the Penn Museum YouTube channel

loans or traveling exhibitions

28,658 Artifact images added to Online

2,656 Retweets of 1,005 Penn Museum tweets

Collections database

16,888 Records added to Online Collections database

299 Artifacts loaned out to 11 borrowing institutions

200 Entries of Penn Museum artifacts featured in DK/Smithsonianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s History of the World in 1,000 Objects book

2,577 Facebook likes

PENN MUSEUM 2014â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2015: BY THE NUMBERS Statement of Museum Fiscal Year Activity THE PENN MUSEUM is funded through a variety of sources, including investment income (managed with the University of Pennsylvania endowments); gifts from individuals, foundations, and corporations; grants; subvention from the University of Pennsylvania; and earned revenue from admissions, catering, and rental fees, artifact loan fees, traveling exhibition fees, publications, and K-12 and public programs. REVENUE

FY15

Investment Income

Gift Income

3,827,523

FY14 $

3,636,296

6,307,462

9,552,838

887,204

1,015,513

University Subvention (Programmatic & Allocated Costs)

9,296,000

8,937,000

Transfers / Other

11,569,388

1,773,259

Total Revenue

31,887,577

24,914,906

9,056,821

8,618,871

Traveling Exhibitions and Loan costs, Other Travel & Entertainment

818,026

948,505

Supplies & Minor Expense

536,476

712,972

Non-Capitalized Equipment

278,069

323,681

Rental Income (internal)

(172,214)

(253,491)

Sponsored Program Revenue

EXPENDITURES Total Compensation Current Expense:

Communications & Computing

599,319

377,830

1,662,070

1,380,039

922,108

1,188,770

72,784

79,446

4,716,638

4,757,752

939,673

1,406,229

(418,174)

(217,258)

727,000

696,000

2,805,000

2,742,000

University Services Charges

1,363,000

1,349,004

Development Charges

1,265,000

1,220,004

8,000

6,000

6,168,000

6,013,008

20,462,958

20,578,603

Professional & Other Services Operations & Maintenance Other 24 25

Total Current Expense:

Capital Transactions

Internal Penn Income (Expense Credits) University Allocated Cost Charges: Library Charges Facilities Maintenance Charges

Research Charges Total University Allocated Cost Charges

TOTAL EXPENDITURES TOTAL OPERATING SURPLUS/(DEFICIT)

11,424,619

4,336,303

June 30, 2015 (with comparative totals for the year ended June 30, 2014)

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PENN MUSEUM 2014â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2015:

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Student Project(s) Researcher Project(s)

Photo: Anna Sitz, GR20

Photo: Paul Mitchell, C13, G14, GR25

Photo: Alexandria Mitchem, C16

Photo: Elizabeth Clay, GR23

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Teaching and Research: 2014-2015 Penn Museum-Sponsored Field Projects Student Fieldwork

The Penn Museum provides opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to gain invaluable experience working as part of a team (often with both international experts and local workers) in the field. A total of 41 students (13 undergraduate and 28 graduate) were team members of the Museum-supported projects referenced below right. Through designated gift and endowment funds, the Museum was able to provide funding assistance with travel expenses to 13 of these students, plus an additional 17 working on other projects internationally. All told, in 2015, Penn students gained Museum-sponsored experience in the following countries: • Azerbaijan

• Jamaica

• Canada

• Lebanon

• China

• Mexico

• Egypt

• Peru

• France

• Romania

• French Guiana

• Singapore

• Republic of Georgia

• Spain

• Greece

• Thailand

• Israel

• Turkmenistan

• Italy

• United States

Photo: Kamillia Scott, C16

Photo: Annie Chan, GR21

Curator, Keeper, and Consulting Scholar Research Projects

Penn Museum-affiliated researchers in 2014–2015 included 41 curators, project managers, and keepers and 154 consulting scholars across 11 curatorial sections and two teaching and research centers, most engaged in active field research around the globe. Of the numerous recent and current research projects directed or co-directed by these scholars, the Penn Museum was pleased to support, through the Director’s Field Fund, 17 projects in the United States and 13 other countries, which took place in the winter, spring, or summer of 2015, and are summarized in the pages that follow. • Smith Creek Archaeological Project (Mississippi, USA)

• On the Wampum Trail: Restorative Research in North

American Museums (North America) • Understanding Pueblo Cloth in Context (North America) • Silver Reef Project (Utah, USA) • The Caste War of the Yucatan: The Tihosuco Heritage Preservation and Community Development Project (Mexico) • Early Hunters at Cuncaicha (Peru) • The La Florida Archaeology Project: Exploring an Ancient Maya River Port (Guatemala) • Gordion Archaeological Project (Turkey) – Historical Landscape Preservation at Gordion – Gordion Jewelry Project – Gordion Cultural Heritage Program • Kani Shaie Archaeological Project (Iraqi Kurdistan) • La Ferrassie (France) • The Georgia Genetic History Project (Georgia) • Excavations at the Mortuary Complex of Pharaoh Senwosret III at Abydos (Egypt) • The Borders of Chinese Architecture (China and Mongolia) • Middle Mekong Archaeological Project (Laos)

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Smith Creek Archaeological Project (Mississippi, United States) Project Director: Megan C. Kassabaum, Ph.D., Weingarten Assistant Curator, American Section Penn Graduate Student Team Members: Stacey Espenlaub, Susannah Fishman, Kyle Olson (Anthropology) Penn Undergraduate Team Members: Zhenia Bemko, Monica Fenton, Alexandria Mitchem, Benjamin Reynolds, Jordi Rivera-Prince, Sheridan Small, Ashley Terry Other Penn Team Members: Tom Stanley, Penn Museum Social Media Coordinator The team also included students from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and the University of Alabama. Top Right: Project Director, Dr. Megan Kassabaum (center), demonstrates coring as a method of site survey to undergraduates Zhenia Bemko (left) and Sheridan Small (right). Top Left: Project Director, Dr. Megan Kassabaum (background), and graduate student, Stacey Espenlaub (foreground), clean the walls of the excavation in the southern plaza to prepare for final photos.

SUMMER 2015 marked the inaugural season of the Smith Creek Archaeological Project (SCAP). This project serves as both a research project and a volunteer field school. As a research project, SCAP investigates important social, political, and economic changes that took place within the Native groups of the late prehistoric American South. As a field school, SCAP trains Penn students in the techniques of archaeological excavation and the prehistory and history of the Lower Mississippi Valley. Director Meg Kassabaum hopes that it will soon be offered for credit. Smith Creek is a Coles Creek period (700â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1000 CE) mound site in southwestern Mississippi. Like most sites from this time period, it consists of three earthen mounds surrounding an open plaza. Due to its similarity with later, decidedly hierarchical sites of the Mississippi period, this site layout has been interpreted as indicating chiefly political activities. However, recent excavations at contemporary sites have suggested that Coles Creek mound centers likely served as nonresidential locations for communal feasting and ritual activities aimed at bringing together a large, dispersed population. In addition to site layout, test excavations in 2013 revealed other similarities between Smith Creek and other Coles Creek ritual sites including standing posts and bear ceremonialism. The 2015

Undergraduate student, Ashley Terry, screens excavated soil to systematically recover small artifacts.

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excavations allowed for the testing of these hypothesized similarities through systematic coring and targeted excavation. The investigations revealed much about the methods and chronology of mound construction and the patterns of use on the mound summits and in off-mound, plaza areas, suggesting that the long history of occupation at the site may span the transition from hunter-gatherer subsistence to corn agriculture and from vacant ceremonial centers to semi-hierarchical villages. Analyses of the ceramic, plant, and animal remains from the site are currently being undertaken in the Anthropology Department and the Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials.

On the Wampum Trail: Restorative Research in North American Museums (North America) Project Director: Margaret Bruchac, Ph.D., Consulting Scholar, American Section Penn Graduate Student Team Members: Stephanie Mach, Lise Puyo (Anthropology) Penn Undergraduate Student Team Members: Sarah Parkinson, Zhenia Bemko

THE “WAMPUM TRAIL” project directed by Dr. Margaret Bruchac combines archival research, material analysis, ethnographic interviews, and object cartography to document wampum (shell bead) belts, collars, and strings. During May of 2015, Dr. Bruchac, Stephanie Mach, Sarah Parkinson, and Zhenia Bemko examined wampum in the Harvard Peabody Museum, Canadian Museum of History, McCord Museum, and Royal Ontario Museum, among others. Meanwhile, Lise Puyo continued close studies of wampum in French collections including Chartres Cathedral and Quai Branly. The team also consulted with Indigenous tribal leaders and wampum experts, most notably Richard W. Hill Sr. (Tuscarora), Coordinator of the Deyohahá:ge Indigenous Knowledge Centre in Ohsweken, Ontario. In July, Bruchac and Mach were invited to witness the Recital of the Great Law of Peace at Akwesasne, where they were offered a unique opportunity to study some of the iconic historic

wampum belts that had been repatriated from the New York State Museum to Haudenosaunee Wampum-Keepers. To date, the team has conducted comparative analyses of more than 80 wampum belts in collections across the northeast, documenting previously overlooked distinctions in construction that include: visibly different sources of shell beads (quahog, whelk, conch); anomalous beads (stone, bone, clay, glass); weaving techniques (using sinew, hemp, leather); treatments of warp strands (dyed, knotted, braided); and clear evidence of the routine re-use of older beads and repurposed warp strands in newer belts. These details bespeak important artisanal, aesthetic, practical, and symbolic choices, reflecting the complexity of wampum as an Indigenous system of communication and diplomacy. Some details have enabled the identification of historical mysteries. More information about “On the Wampum Trail” can be found at wampumtrail.wordpress.com.

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wampum belt collected from John Wampum (alias Chief Waubuno) in

the collections of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario. Object #ROM911.3.130B. Photograph by Margaret Bruchac.

Above: Richard W. Hill Sr. with Stephanie Mach, discussing Haudenosaunee wampum belts at the Recital of the Great Law (Kaianerasere’ Kówa) in Akwesasne (Mohawk Nation territory), New York. Wampum belts shown on display were crafted by Ken Maracle. Photograph by Margaret Bruchac. Right: Margaret Bruchac studying the construction of the original Hiawatha wampum belt that depicts the five founding nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Photograph by Stephanie Mach.

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Understanding Pueblo Cloth in Context (North America) Project Director: Lucy Fowler Williams, Ph.D., Associate Curator, and Jeremy A. Sabloff, Keeper of Collections, American Section

IN 2015 Lucy Fowler Williams worked with Pojoaque Pueblo in New Mexico as Guest Curator of the tribe’s Poeh Museum and Cultural Center. Since 2001 she has worked with Pueblo embroiderers to study the production, use, and meanings of Pueblo ceremonial cloth. This year the tribe asked for her help in mounting an exhibition of the work of two textile artists: Isabel Gonzales of Jemez/San Ildefonso Pueblos and Shawn Tafoya of Santa Clara Pueblo. For Williams, this was a special opportunity to support her Pueblo colleagues while observing the nuanced presentation of cloth within a tribal museum. She traveled to Pojoaque to help gather 55 garments now owned by Pueblo families, and to help plan and write labels and text panels. Paths of Beauty: Isabel Gonzales and ShawnTafoya ran from August 20–November 16, 2015. The exhibit was developed primarily for a Pueblo audience and emphasized cloth in its lived contexts as expressions of Pueblo prayer. Pueblo textiles represent the garments of the gods and mark sacred domain. Embroidered with motifs that signify prayers for rain and other blessings, Pueblo people wear them today, as they have for hundreds of years, during annual religious

Above: Isabel Gonzales (left) and Shawn Tafoya (right) with the Catholic deacon at the opening celebration of Paths of Beauty. The exhibition highlights the ongoing production and meaning of Pueblo cloth. Right: Invitation for Paths of Beauty: Isabel Gonzales and Shawn Tafoya.

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events and to mark life achievements and milestones. The exhibit combined ritual and wedding garments with text and video about the artists, the history of Pueblo cloth and design, and explanations of the utilitarian and ceremonial roles of each textile. Notably, the artists constructed an interior alter to show how cloth is used to create the appropriate space for prayer to Catholic saints and Pueblo spirits. For the opening, the gallery was decorated with fresh lavender, sunflowers, corn stalks, fruits and vegetables, and freshly baked bread and pies to feed the spirits; a Catholic Mass was held in the gallery for the artists and their extended families, and 400 community members were served a traditional Pueblo feast. Throughout the process, there was no clear division between the secular and the sacred as the tribal museum was transformed into a space for prayer and community celebration. This project is part of Williams’ broader research interests in the meanings and materiality of indigenous cloth in North America, representation in museums, and her methodological goals to practice collaborative anthropology that supports tribal communities.

Silver Reef Project (Utah, United States) Project Director: Robert L. Schuyler, Ph.D., Associate Curatorin-Charge, Historical Archaeology Section

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Above: Professor Schuyler leads a tour at Silver Reef. Right: Ad from Silver Reef Miner (1880) for the Elk Horn Saloon.

THE SILVER REEF PROJECT, directed by Robert L. Schuyler, continued its follow-up and public outreach aspects in Southwest Utah and back at Penn. During May 2015 Dr. Schuyler again presented a number of public lectures and archaeological site tours at the ruins of Silver Reef, a Western American mining town (ca. 1875-1895). Archival research also continued in St. George, Utah and during June, July, and August at Penn. A complete documentary inventory was organized on the 10 to 15 saloon owners in the town who dispensed their wares to a population of just over 1,000 (U.S. Census, 1880). George Miller, owner of the Elk Horn Saloon, which the project excavated in 1982, turned out to be the best documented in the written sources (newspapers, voter lists, ads, signatures on petitions, country records) with well over 300 references to him in the 19th century sources. The Elk Horn itself, as an institution, has now been traced back almost to the Comstock Lode, the greatest silver discovery in American history in 1859 and the early 1860s on the border of Nevada and California.

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The Caste War of the Yucatan: The Tihosuco Heritage Preservation and Community Development Project (Mexico) Project Director: Richard M. Leventhal, Ph.D., Curator, American Section; Executive Director, Penn Cultural Heritage Center Co-Directors: Carlos Chan Espinosa (Museo de la Guerra de Castas), Eladio Moo Pat (La Comunidad de Tihosuco), Demetrio Poot Cahun (La Comunidad de Tihosuco), Elias Chi Poot (Ejido de Tihosuo) Penn Student Team Members: Tiffany C. Cain (Graduate Student, Anthropology; Kolb Junior Fellow), Kathryn C. Diserens (Graduate Student, Anthropology), Aldo Anzures Tapia (Graduate School of Education), Frances Kvietok (Graduate School of Education), Kathryn Schaeffer (Anthropology), Whit Schroder (Graduate Student, Anthropology), Christa Cesario, Ph.D. Other Team Members: Suzanne Abel (Stanford University), Julio Hoil Gutierrez (CIESAS and UNO, Mexico), Marcelina Chan Canche (La Comunidad de Tihosuco), Secundino Cahun Balam (La Comunidad de Tihosuco), Maria del Socorro Poot Dzib (La Comunidad de Tihosuco), Beatriz Poot Chable (Museo de la Guerra de Castas), Rosy Carolina Pat Puc (Alcaldia, Tihosuco), José Arturo Poot Caamal (La Comunidad de Tihosuco), Antonia Poot Tuz (Museo de la Guerra de Castas), Norma Linda Uh Uicub (Museo de la Guerra de Castas), Nuria Matarredona, (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain), Drew R. Leventhal (Vassar College)

Below: Frances Kvietok (Penn GSE), Beatriz Poot Chable, and Antonia Poot Tuz (Museo de la Guerra de Castas) play with children at the Caste War Museum of Tihosuco (Quintana Roo, Mexico), as they work to preserve and promote the Yucatec Maya language. Photograph by Aldo Anzures Tapia, Tihosuco Project.

DURING THE 2015 season of the Tihosuco Heritage Preservation and Community Development Project, the team expanded our knowledge of the 19th century Caste War rebellion and continued to work closely within the Tihosuco community on a variety of development programs. The Caste War rebellion, when the Maya fought against Mexico, was one of the most successful indigenous rebellions in the Americas. During our work this year, we identified and mapped eight 19th century haciendas, an entire series of small habitation sites, jungle paths, and a small town, K’i’ixil, that might have been a place of refuge during and after the rebellion. Other 19th century houses and remains were identified and mapped within the modern town of Tihosuco. The 2015 Tihosuco project continued to work within the community. Most importantly, team members from the Penn Graduate School of Education expanded our work

on the preservation of the Maya language. This language program included the publication, in Spanish and Maya, of a short graphic book on the life of one of the leaders of the 19th century rebellion, Jacinto Pat. In addition, we initiated a new project of self-portraiture of the people and families of Tihosuco. These photographs are structured by the people of the community and include autobiographical information.

Hilario Canul Catzin, 59 Felipa Poot Poot, 70 Estamos enfrente del altar para que salga el lugar donde hago la fiesta de la Santa Cruz el tres de Mayo. Toco el Mayapax algunos con el nombre de Sakpakal y P’at íicham. We are in front of our altar to demonstrate the place where we hold the celebration of Santa Cruz on the third of May. I play the Mayapax, some songs with names like Sakpakal and P’at íicham. Above: Photograph by Drew Leventhal, Tihosuco Project.

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Above: A view of our tents one snowy morning with the cave mouth in the hillside behind them. The weather highlights the cave’s role as a shelter from the elements. In the background, a glacier peeks over the mountains. Left: Excavator Judith Beier examines a newly exposed early Holocene burial. Ochre and soot stains the cave, all overhanging the grave site.

Early Hunters at Cuncaicha (Peru) Project Director: Kurt Rademaker, Ph.D. (Universität Tübingen) Co-Director: Elsa Tomasto, Ph.D. (Catholic Pontifical University of Peru) Other Team Members: Katherine Moore, Ph.D., Mainwaring Teaching Specialist (Penn Museum), Sonia Zarillo, Ph.D. (University of Calgary), Greg Hodgkins, Ph.D. (University of Arizona), Chris Miller, Ph.D. (Universität Tübingen), Hervé Bocherens, Ph.D. (Universität Tübingen) Penn Student Team Member: Katherine Morucci, undergraduate (BBB, Anthropology)

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IN JULY AND AUGUST, 2015, Katherine Moore helped lead a team of scholars at the rockshelter site of Cuncaicha, in the Peruvian department of Arequipa. The site, at 14,700 feet (4480 m) is surrounded by spectacular snowcapped peaks which rise to 20,000 feet (6000 m). Previous excavations at Cuncaicha established that the site was occupied from the very end of the last glacial period (more than 12,000 year ago) making it one of the highest late Pleistocene sites in the world. This year’s excavation opened up new areas of the deepest part of the shelter, revealing four burials in addition to one found previously. Another set of excavation units explored the remains along the outer rim of the cave. The Penn team’s major research goal was to find evidence for hunting and food preparation in ancient times using the animal bones recovered from the site. Other team members were gathering related information on the isotopic signatures of the bones, the seeds and charred

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plant remains found using flotation, and the geological traces of ancient behavior in soil thin sections. Taking these different sources of information together will help the team assess how well the early hunters coped with the difficult environmental conditions of persistent cold and thin air. Were occupations brief and limited to gathering a few resources before descending to lower altitudes, or could they have used such sites as base camps for hunting wild animals over many years? The local community of the Pucuncho basin became increasingly involved in the excavations as the work progressed, designating a community member to observe the research process on a daily basis in the excavations and tent laboratory. Team members also produced an illustrated booklet about the archaeological research at Cuncaicha and protecting cultural resources for the families in the community.

The La Florida Archaeology Project: Exploring an Ancient Maya River Port (Guatemala) Project Director: Joanne Baron, Ph.D., Consulting Scholar, Penn Cultural Heritage Center Project Co-Director: Liliana Padilla (licenciatura, Guatemala) Team Members: Joshua Freedline (Brandeis University); José Subuyuj (Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala); Walter Ochoa (Universidad de san Carlos de Guatemala)

IN JULY OF 2015 the La Florida Archaeology Project explored and mapped this Classic Period Maya city. We are investigating this ancient polity’s use of strategically placed architecture to dominate the San Pedro River Valley. This corridor once served as an important route of travel between Maya urban centers and agricultural regions further west. The rulers of La Florida built two distinct site centers approximately 2 km apart, to control visibility around a set of river bends. These twin groups were inter-visible from the tops of their tallest structures. Each also controlled its own formal port for canoe access. We believe these ports may have played a vital role in the Maya economy, moving agricultural products from the Tabasco Plain to large cities like Tikal and Piedras Negras (both subjects of Penn investigations). We will investigate this commercial activity with excavations starting in 2016.

Above: Students from El Naranjo present their ideas about archaeology in a school workshop. Photograph by Joanne Baron. Top Right: Setting off to explore a new part of the site. Photograph by José Subuyuj. Bottom Right: Group Photo: Project Members Walter Ochoa, Rene Aguilar, Joshua Freedline, Joanne Baron, José Subuyuj, and Total Station “Camille.” Photograph by José Subuyuj.

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In 2014, we identified a carved hieroglyphic altar at La Florida that had not previously been documented. This year we conducted nighttime photography to decipher its poorly preserved inscription. This new information indicates that the altar is probably La Florida Altar E, missing since 1944. But its text raises more questions than answers, appearing to reference a political relationship with a yet unidentified Maya site. The project is also working closely with the modern community of El Naranjo to promote site preservation and eco-tourism development. We ran workshops with children from four schools within the community, discussing students’ ideas about the site and archaeology. In coming years, we plan to collaborate with El Naranjo leaders in the creation of a site museum.

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Gordion Archaeological Project (Turkey) Project Director: C. Brian Rose, Ph.D., Curator-in-Charge, Mediterranean Section Director, Site Conservation Program: Frank Matero, Director, Historic Preservation Program, Penn Design (in 2014); Elisa Del Bono (in 2015) Assistant Director: Ayşe Gürsan-Salzmann, Ph.D., Consulting Scholar, Mediterranean Section Penn Graduate Student Team Members: Peter Cobb, Olivia Hayden, Samuel Holzman, Kathryn Morgan, Janelle Sadarananda, Lucas Stephens, Kurtis Tanaka (Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World) Penn Undergraduate Student Team Members: Braden Cordivari, Emma McNamara (College of Arts and Sciences) Additional Penn Team Members: Gareth Darbyshire, Ph.D., Gordion Archivist (Penn Museum), Jane Hickman, Ph.D., Editor of Expedition magazine and Consulting Scholar, Mediterranean Section (Penn Museum), Naomi Miller, Ph.D., Consulting Scholar, Near East Section (Penn Museum) Left: Conservation of the Early Phrygian Citadel Gate. Gordion Archives image #2015w-1. Photo by Gebhard Bieg. Excavation of medieval (Seljuk period) camel bones in Area 4 on the Citadel Mound. With Selen Soysal (Ankara University), Janine van Noorden (Groeningen University), and Catalin Pavel (New Europe College, Bucharest). Gordion Archives image #2015-02483. Photo by Gebhard Bieg.

OUR MAIN RESTORATION PROJECT at Gordion in 2015 was the Early Phrygian Gate, the best-preserved citadel gate in Iron Age Asia Minor (9th century BCE), which was in desperate need of stabilization. With generous support provided by the J. M. Kaplan Fund, the Selz Foundation, and the Merops Foundation, we had the resources to acquire and erect a new scaffolding system for the gate, above which we placed an aluminium gantry crane capable of lifting 1500 kilos. This gave us the capability of removing the damaged or displaced stones from the Gate and moving them to the scaffolding where they were conserved. The conservation of the Early Phrygian Terrace Building, an eight-room industrial complex with a length of over 100 m, has continued since 2009. Our focus in 2015 included epoxy repair of fractured blocks, rebuilding the walls with the newly conserved blocks, and the insertion of stainless-steel bars to reinforce the conserved stones. One of the treasures of the Gordion Museum is the multi-colored pebble mosaic (ca. 850 BCE) from one of the elite Early Phrygian buildings, Megaron 2. It ranks as the oldest colored stone mosaic ever discovered, and in 2015 we finished the conservation of one of the panels that will be traveling to the Penn Museum for the Gordion exhibition that opens in February.

Right: The 2015 Gordion Project Staff. Gordion Archives image #2015-01475. Photo by Gebhard Bieg.

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Some of our most exciting discoveries this year were made on the southern side of the mound, including a network of entrances, fortification walls, and bastions that span a period from the 9th to the 4th century BCE. Excavation produced a new bastion with a thickness of 8 m that was constructed on the west side of a road leading into the citadel; a complementary bastion also 8 m thick was discovered at the east. The two bastions created a fanshaped entrance to a road that has a width of nearly 5 m, both sides of which are formed by walls with enormous multi-colored stones. A new trench in the center of the mound yielded five medieval occupation phases spanning the 13th and the early 14th centuries. Pig bones were found in a dozen contexts, suggesting that this was a Christian settlement operating during the Seljuk period. An unexpected discovery was the presence of camel bones in the pits, which is the first evidence we have found of their presence in medieval Gordion. Since 2007 we have devoted considerable attention to a reconstruction of Gordion’s city plan, and in 2015 a new campaign of remote sensing revealed the outlines of a monumental mudbrick fort in the Outer Town, which means that the residential districts were protected by at least three forts between the 8th and 6th centuries BCE.

Gordion Jewelry Project Project Director: Jane Hickman, Ph.D., Editor, Expedition magazine and Consulting Scholar, Mediterranean Section

Historical Landscape Preservation at Gordion Project Director: Naomi F. Miller, Ph.D., Consulting Scholar, Near East Section Above: Students Eda Kaygusuz and Ișık Abacı show off a freshly planted slope of native grasses. Photograph by Naomi Miller.

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PLANT AND VEGETATION management at Gordion serves the larger purposes of regional biodiversity, historical landscape, and archaeological site preservation. We treat the Citadel Mound as a specialized kind of native plant garden—the flat, conserved walls of the Citadel Gate Building and the Terrace Buildings are topped with a soft vegetative roof capping of shallow-rooted grass. The wild plants were particularly lush this rainy year, so Project Director Naomi F. Miller developed a more efficient approach to maintaining the treated walls—removing only the most noxious weeds, like deep-rooted thistle. A newer initiative aims at controlling the spread of deep-rooted and invasive plants by planting and encouraging native steppe grasses on the slopes of the old excavation. Dr. Miller field-tested the walking tours of Gordion, which are now posted online (https://www.sas.upenn.edu/ ~nmiller0/gordion.html). They are intended to promote the visitor’s understanding of the natural and cultural resources within walking distance of the site and museum.

Above right: Some objects, such as these three gold floral or tassel pendants, were damaged. The melted bronze cores are evident. Photograph by Gebhard Bieg. Right: This gold bracelet with lion head terminals was recovered in excellent condition from Tumulus A. Lion’s head bracelets, dated to the 6th century BCE, are found at other sites in ancient Anatolia as well as in Greece and Cyprus. Photograph by Gebhard Bieg.

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DURING THE 2015 field season at Gordion, Jane Hickman began her study of jewelry from four Late Phrygian cremation burials. The focus in 2015 was on Tumulus A, which was excavated by Rodney Young and the Penn Museum in 1950. Dated 540–520 BCE, this burial of a young girl contained a horse-drawn funerary carriage and numerous objects of value, including 79 gold or electrum beads and 82 other objects of gold or electrum. In addition to beads, classes of jewelry represented in Tumulus A included pendants and chains, earrings, bracelets, and miscellaneous gold objects such as a small lion’s head and a spool-shaped box. Some objects were melted or blackened, indicating they were placed with the burial at the time of cremation or soon after. Excavation notebooks, plans, catalog cards, photography files, and an unpublished manuscript by Ellen Kohler were reviewed. The Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara granted permission to study and photograph 23 objects from storage. Dr. Hickman also traveled to the Uşak Museum of Archaeology to study comparable objects from the Lydian Treasure. Analysis of the jewelry from Tumulus A will be included in a comprehensive article on the construction of the tomb, the burial, and the grave goods.

CHEP students, with Project Director Ayşe GürsanSalzmann, putting together the skeleton of a “Phrygian” sheep. Photograph by Naomi Miller.

Gordion Cultural Heritage Program Project Director: Ayşe Gürsan-Salzmann, Ph.D., Consulting Scholar, Mediterranean Section Coordinators: Halil Demirdelen (Museum Educator, Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara), Naomi Miller Ph.D, (Consulting Scholar, Near East Section) Penn Graduate Student Team Member: Janelle Sadarananda (Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World)

THE SECOND YEAR of the Gordion Cultural Heritage Program (CHEP) served eight high school students, most from villages near Gordion, as well as one university student studying forensic anthropology in Ankara. The program included guided visits to local and distant sites and museums and hands-on work experiences at Gordion. The students cleaned and examined excavated objects and animal bones, reconstructed the whole skeleton of a Phrygian sheep, and helped to dig the remains of a medieval hearth. Guided trips provided an opportunity to ask questions of other archaeologists, including the Japanese excavation team at the Kaman site and the German director of the monumental Hittite capital site at Boğazkale. Other trips included visits to an authentic Japanese garden at Kaman and a bird sanctuary teeming with bird life and many species of butterflies near the Roman cemetery of Juliopolis, which widened our perspectives of what the local environment of the Roman landscape might have been. TH E YEAR I N RE VI E W

The program fulfills multiple goals: building sensitivity in the local community to value cultural heritage toward preserving Gordion and its environment, through education of high school students; fostering cross-cultural interaction between local villagers, students, and non-Turkish-speaking members of the Gordion Project; and increasing the willingness of the students to share their knowledge with and get feedback from their communities. At the end of an excursion, one student remarked on the objective of the program. Using two examples, one of a Roman bath in Ankara, which was built over an ancient Phyrgian settlement, and another example of a contemporary Turkish bath constructed on the remains of a 15th century Ottoman mosque, she wrote, “I learned the earth I step on is not just earth; it embodies many civilizations that connect humankind.” CHEP link to blogs: http://www.penn.museum/blog/ tag/gordion-cultural-heritage-education-project/

Kani Shaie Archaeological Project (Iraqi Kurdistan) Project Directors: Steve Renette, M.A., Ph.D. Candidate, Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World; André Tomé, M.A. (University of Coimbra); Ricardo Cabral, M.A. (University of Coimbra) Specialist Team Members: Tiago Costa (University of Coimbra), Ceramicist; Alan Farahani (UCLA, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology), Archaeobotanist; Susannah Fishman (University of Pennsylvania), Ceramicist; Giulia Gallio (University of Sheffield), Osteologist; Holly Pittman (University of Pennsylvania), Glyptic and Small Finds Specialist; Hannah Lau (UCLA), Archaeozoologist

IN THE SPRING of 2015, the Kani Shaie Archaeological Project (KSAP), with permission of the Sulaimaniyah and Iraqi Kurdish General Directorate of Antiquities, undertook its second season of excavations at Kani Shaie in the Bazyan Valley on the road between Kirkuk and Sulaimaniyah. The site sits on a major road connecting north Iraq with the central Zagros region in Iran. The Bazyan Valley is best known as the location of the Babite Pass where rebels built a wall to stop the advancement of the Neo-Assyrian king Assurnasirpal II in the 9th century BCE. This act would be repeated in 1805 by the Kurdish prince ‘Abd al-Rahman Baban against advancing Ottoman forces, and in 1919, the Bazyan Pass was the location of a milestone in the history of Kurdish nationalism when Shaykh Mahmud Barzani was defeated by the British army.

The goal of KSAP is to explore the origins of the Bronze Age in the Zagros Mountains (ca. 3000 BCE), a time when long distance trade between Mesopotamia and the Iranian highlands intensified giving rise to the first political entities and cities. Our work has revealed that during this poorly understood period, Kani Shaie was a small administrative center facilitating trade through a mountainous region and a node within a network spanning Mesopotamia, northwestern Iran, and the Zagros Mountains. In 2015, we started exposing a larger area of the site to reveal the layout of the Early Bronze Age site and its architectural units. In addition, we focused on the more recent history of the site through excavation of a cemetery, most likely used by a Kurdish community in the 18th century CE.

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Above: Kani Shaie Archaeological Project 2015 team with project directors Steve Renette (center back), André Tomé (to right of Steve), and Ricardo Cabral (standing, far left). Right: Drone photograph of Kani Shaie in the Bazyan Valley.

Above: One of 23 18th century CE burials at Kani Shaie. This young girl was buried wearing bracelets and a necklace made of typical Kurdish beads.

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La Ferrassie (France) Project Directors: Harold L. Dibble, Ph.D., Curator-in-Charge, European Archaeology Section; Alain Turq, Conservateur en Chef du Musée National de Préhistoire, Les Eyzies, France Penn Graduate Student Team Members: Sam Lin (Anthropology), Zeljko Resek (Anthropology), Aylar Abdolahzadeh (Anthropology), Annie Chan (East Asian Languages and Civilizations) Above: View of the excavation in the main area of La Ferrassie. Right: Prof. Harold Dibble at the site of La Ferrassie.

IN 2011, excavations began at the site of La Ferrassie, located in southwestern France, with primary funding from the National Science Foundation, the Leakey Foundation, and the Penn Museum. La Ferrassie is one of the classic Neandertal sites, and it was there that the remains of several individual Neandertals were discovered in the early 1900s. The goals of this new project were to obtain absolute dates for the Neandertal layers, to reconstruct the formation processes that have affected the sediments there, and to obtain fresh samples of the archaeological assemblages. Excavations ended in 2014, and in 2015 the processing of the recovered artifacts (over 24,000 stone tools and animal remains) was finished. Given that the original excavations at La Ferrassie were conducted so long ago, it is not a surprise that the recent excavations have resulted in many new interpretations of the site and its remains. For example, while La Ferrassie was originally thought to be a single site, the new work has revealed multiple and independent occupations at various loci, and contrary to earlier interpretations, not all of the Neandertal human remains are contemporaneous. It has also been possible to demonstrate that the nature TH E YEAR I N RE VI E W

and composition of the stone tool industries—one of which defined what is called the “Ferrassie Mousterian”—is primarily a result of bias in terms of what kinds of tools were saved during the earlier excavations. All of these findings and more are leading to a radical change in the way we understand Neandertal behavior.

The Georgia Genetic History Project (Georgia) Project Director: Theodore G. Schurr, Ph.D., Consulting Scholar, American and Physical Anthropology Sections Penn Student Team members: Aram Yardumian, Ph.D. 2015 (Anthropology), Akiva Sanders (Anthropology), Andrew Azzam (Biology), Kristi Edleson (Anthropology) Georgian Scholars: Ramaz Shengelia, M.D., Ph.D. (Tbilisi State Medical University), Lia Bitadze, Ph.D., David Chitanava, Ph.D., Shorena Laliashvili, Ph.D., Irma Laliashvili (Ivane Javakhishvili Institute of History and Ethnology)

THE OVERARCHING GOAL of this study is to determine what the patterns of genetic variation in Georgia, placed within archaeological, historical, and linguistic contexts, can tell us about the population history of the South Caucasus. In 2012, we initiated work on this project in Svaneti, a historically autonomous region situated in the northwestern Georgian highlands. Its relative geographic and linguistic isolation from its neighbors has raised longstanding questions as to the origins of Svans, and their relationships to contemporaneous regional groups. To explore these questions about Svan history, we characterized genetic diversity in 184 individuals from 13 village districts and townlets throughout Upper Svaneti, including Ushguli. This analysis focused on the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which reveals information about female genetic lineages, and the Y-chromosome, which reveals information about male genetic lineages. We also conducted interviews with participants about their genealogies and knowledge of local history, as this information was crucial for the interpretation of the genetic data.

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Our genetic results were fascinating. Svans exhibited a great diversity of mtDNA lineages (H, I, J, K, U1-U7, M1, R0a1, N1b1, T, X2, W6), with the majority being of putative West Eurasian or Near Eastern origin. We also found low frequencies of East Eurasian lineages (C and D) that were likely brought to the Caucasus by expanding Turkic or Mongolic populations. From a Y-chromosome perspective, Svans had far fewer lineages (G2a, I2, J2a, N, R1a), with one (G2a) being present in 80% of Svan men. Interestingly, G2a showed great haplotype (sublineage) diversity, suggesting either a great antiquity for this lineage in the region or considerable interregional gene flow in the South Caucasus. Geographically speaking, G2a is found in eastern Anatolia, the Caucasus and Iran, while R1a may have its roots in the Pontic steppe region, J2a in the Near East, I2 in eastern and central Europe (Balkans), and N in eastern Eurasia. These contrasting results attest to a complex set of geographic sources and pre- and proto-historic settlement epochs shaping the ethnogenesis of Svans. On a broader level, our data reveal genetic similarities between Svans and neighboring Ossetian, Aydege, and Abkhaz (nonKartvelian-speaking) populations, but also distinct patterns of mtDNA and Y-chromosome variation amongst them. This anthropological genetic study represents the beginning of a comprehensive analysis of genetic variation in Georgia that will situate its history more firmly within the broader context of the Caucasus and the Near East. Eventually, we will be in a position to assess the extent to which Georgians are the genetic descendants of Bronze Age (e.g. Kura-Araxes), Neolithic, or even Upper Paleolithic settlers in the region. For these reasons, this interdisciplinary project is of great national interest to Georgians.

David Chitanava interviewing a Svan man from the village of Etseri about his genealogical history. Photograph by Aram Yardumian.

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Above: The village of Ushguli in Svaneti, built in the 10thâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;13th centuries. Photograph by T. Schurr. Right: Ramaz Shengelia speaking with Svan women from the village of Laghani. Photograph by Aram Yardumian.

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Excavations at the Mortuary Complex of Pharaoh Senwosret III at Abydos (Egypt) Below left: detail of the skull of Woseribre Senebkay showing an axe wound (marked A) to the cranium. Analysis completed in January 2015 shows the king died violently in battle. Below right: facial reconstruction of Senebkay by Maria Poblete Arias.

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2015 Summer (May–June)

Project Director: Josef W. Wegner, Ph.D., Associate Curator,

Egyptian Section

Co-Director: Jennifer Houser Wegner, Ph.D., Associate Curator,

Egyptian Section

Penn Graduate Student Team Members: Paul Verhelst, Leah

Penn Graduate Student Team Members: Paul Verhelst,

Humphrey, Valentina Anselmi (Near Eastern Languages and

Matthew Olson (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)

Civilizations)

Other Team Members: Chelsea Cordle (Rowan University),

Other Team Members: Maria Rosado, Ph.D. (Rowan University),

Jane Hill, Ph.D. (Rowan University)

WORK AT ABYDOS during the winter of 2014–15 expanded the investigation of the large late Middle Kingdom royal tomb (tomb “S10” attributed now to king Sobekhotep IV of Egypt’s 13th Dynasty) adjacent to the tomb of king Senebkay discovered in 2014. Excavations led down into the huge superstructure of this monument as we searched for further evidence of the relationship between this tomb and that of Senebkay located right next to it. At the same time, osteological analysis of the remains of king Senebkay and other skeletal remains of the Abydos Dynasty kings was completed. The body of Senebkay provided some surprising evidence: extensive remains of traumatic injuries including axe blows to the king’s skull showed that Senebkay died in battle. Other physical evidence from the royal bodies suggest these were kings who emerged from a military tradition reflecting the territorial competition that defined the era of Egypt’s Second Intermediate Period.

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Masonry restoration to the burial chamber of king Woseribre Senebkay (ca. 1650 BCE) at South Abydos (May 2015)

EXCAVATIONS AT ABYDOS during the summer of 2015 saw the culmination of the investigation of the tomb of king Sobekhotep. This work has unfolded over the last two years following the discovery of a huge 60-ton royal burial chamber that initially appeared to have been removed from Sobekhotep’s tomb by later rulers of the Abydos Dynasty. Upon reaching the lower substructure of Sobekhotep’s tomb the burial chamber was found remarkably preserved, still in-situ. This discovery suggests that tombs of three late Middle Kingdom pharaohs were constructed near the burial of Senwosret III. The excavation program inside the tomb of Senwosret III continued with strong indications for additional parts of the tomb. With support from the American Research Center in Egypt, restoration work was completed on the tomb of Senebkay including stabilization of the burial chamber. Excavations in the nearby town site produced a large new sample of administrative seal impressions and other material remains of the ancient settlement at South Abydos.

Excavations in the substructure of Tomb S10 at South Abydos (June 2015). The tomb is attributed to king Sobekhotep IV of Dynasty 13 (ca. 1720 BCE).

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Remains of wall in Tongwan, Shaanxi, in Ordos region near Inner Mongolian border. Built by Xiongnu ruler Helian Bobo from 419–425.

The Borders of Chinese Architecture (China and Mongolia) Project Director: Nancy S. Steinhardt, Ph. D., Curator of Chinese Art, Asian Section Penn Student Team Members: Qu Lian (graduate student), Wang Bowen (undergraduate) Other Team Members: Ah-Rim Park, Ph. D., Professor, Sookmyong Women’s University, Seoul

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Site of Liao pagoda, Balin zuoqi, Inner Mongolia, left to right: Wang Bowen, Qu Lian, chief excavator Dong Xinlin (CASS), Nancy Steinhardt, Chinese postdoc.

THE RESEARCH TRIP during July and August of 2015 was the third of three summers of field research in China and (the Republic of ) Mongolia to study architectural remains at China’s borders, particularly to the west, north, and east. The project demonstrates the use of the Chinese building tradition by people of the Goguryeo, Xianbei,

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Türk, Uyghur, Balhae, Khitan, Jurchen, and Mongol ethnicities. The Max Van Berchem Foundation, University Research Foundation, and Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art also supported this research. These questions were addressed in the Reischauer Lectures at the Fairbank Center at Harvard in April 2014. A book entitled The Borders of Chinese Architecture is under contract at Harvard University Press. Fieldwork this summer focused on the architecture of states of the Xiongnu, Northern Wei (493–534), Balhae kingdom (698–926), and Jin dynasty (1115–1234). The latter two flourished in today’s China, Russia, and North Korea. The search for Balhae remains brought us to Hunyuan where Russians are able to come by boat to China and North Korea in the same day, and to the Korean autonomous counties of Jilin.This summer we saw 10 of the 47 identified Balhae Buddhist monastery sites and four of the Balhae capitals. We also saw stone sculpture in situ in wooded areas of Jilin. Colleagues at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Archaeology Division, took us to China’s two oldest Chinese Buddhist monasteries, both still unpublished, built in northern Shanxi in the 5th century, and to the remains of a hexagonal Liao (907–1126) pagoda where excavation began in 2012 and is ongoing.

Middle Mekong Archaeological Project (Laos) Project Director: Joyce C. White, Ph.D., Consulting Scholar, Asian Section Co-Director: Bounheuang Bouasisengpaseuth, Deputy Director of the National Museum, Vientiane, Laos Penn Alumni Team Members: Elizabeth Hamilton, Ph.D., Consulting Scholar, Asian Section; Shawn Hyla, Penn Museum IT Project Leader Other Team Members: Kathleen Johnson, Ph.D. (University of California, Irvine), Michael Griffiths, Ph.D. (William Patterson University), Andrea Borsato, Ph.D. (University of Newcastle, Australia), Christopher Wood, graduate student (University of California, Irvine)

THE MIDDLE MEKONG Archaeological Project (MMAP) was initiated by the Penn Museum in 2001 when a visit to Laos by Joyce White revealed that the Luang Prabang region has evidence of thousands of years of human occupation. Since then, surveys have identified 85 sites along several tributaries to the Mekong, four cave sites have been excavated, and specialists in geology, human remains, archaeobotany, and faunal remains have studied collections retrieved from the surveys and excavations. In 2014–15, the emphasis was on collecting data on the paleoclimate; speleothems (stalagmites and other formations) from caves help reconstruct the earth’s climate going back tens of thousands of years. This season the palaeoclimate team revisited Tham Mai to conduct cave monitoring work, which is critical for understanding the linkage between speleothem chemistry and climate. The team collected samples of modern calcite from glass plates Top right: Dr. Andrea Borsato (University of Newcastle, Australia) and Dr. Michael Griffiths (William Patterson University, USA) at Tham Mai retrieving a glass plate that had been left since 2013 to collect modern calcite. This calcite will be used to calibrate the environmental signals that are recorded in Tham Mai speleothem geochemistry. Bottom right: Ph.D. student Christopher Wood (University of California, Irvine) measures the concentration of CO2 in soil gas sampled from above the cave. Radiocarbon measurements of these gas samples will be utilized to improve our understanding of speleothem carbon isotope variations. Far Right: Ph.D. student Christopher Wood (University of California, Irvine) samples cave drip water for isotopic and elemental analysis. These data will be utilized to calibrate the geochemical signals incorporated in speleothems from this cave.

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placed in the cave in 2013. They also collected samples of cave drip water, soil overlying the cave, and soil gas (CO2) for radiocarbon analysis. Finally, the team downloaded and serviced data from loggers that have been continuously recording cave temperature, relative humidity, and drip rate since 2010. Documenting changing human adaptation in the Southeast Asian subtropics as climate changed, beginning with a drier cooler late Pleistocene, is one objective of MMAP research. Several subsequent changes in temperature and monsoon rainfall particularly over the last 10,000 years also likely impacted the societies of the Middle Holocene. The next MMAP field season’s plan is to conduct archaeological site surveys close to Tham Mai along the Ou River in northern Laos to begin to find evidence of changes in the human occupation of the Middle Mekong Region close to this important paleoclimate record.

Collections: New Acquisitions DURING 2014-2015, the Penn Museum Acquisitions Committee reviewed offers of gifts to its Curatorial Sections, Archives, and Learning Programs collections on three occasions in the fall, winter, and spring. Based on recommendations from the Acquisitions Committee as well as from the Curatorial Sections and the Archives, Williams Director Julian Siggers accepted fourteen donations of cultural objects to its Curatorial Sections; ten donations of photographic collections, research records, and other materials; and one cultural object to its Learning Programs Teaching Collection. The 334 cultural objects from 17 individual and institutional donors came from Africa, including Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Mali, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe; Oceania including Easter Island, Indonesia, and Australia; the Americas, including Guatemala, Canada, and the United States; from Asia, including China, Japan, and Vietnam; and from Europe including Turkey and Italy. Gifts to the Curatorial Sections: Gift of Ann Bradley Anderson in memory of Rev. John Chester Hyde Forty-one African artifacts, procured by Rev. John Chester Hyde (1864–1941) when he was in missionary services in Mataldi/ Lukolela, Belgian Congo around 1890 Gift of Mark P. and Peggy L. Curchack Three beaded necklaces and one wooden lock, procured from Mali Gift of Robert and Marilyn Forney, PAR Six Oceanian objects from Thursday Island, Easter Island, Indonesia, and Australia, one of which was accessioned to the Penn Museum Teaching Collection, and four First Nations objects from Canada, procured during their world trips. Gift of David W. Fraser, M.D., INT75, and Barbara G. Fraser Twenty-seven ethnographic textiles from Indonesia assembled during their research work in the past 40 years

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Gift of the Philadelphia Zoo Two groups of animal (monkey, gorilla, and primate) remains, transferred from the Philadelphia Zoo as part of an ongoing collaboration between the Philadelphia Zoo and Penn Museum Gift of David C. Rilling, M.D., INT67, and Karina Rilling Eighty-three African objects including 38 varieties of currency, 24 pottery vessels, and 21 pieces of textiles from Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, and Mali. Six Fali beaded dolls from Cameroon Gift of Marianna Shreve Simpson, CW71, in memory of Ann Townsend Simpson A Naga Hills basket and crossbow, procured by Ann Ingersoll Townsend (Simpson) while serving in WWII with the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the 20th General Hospital in Asia Gift of Louis Weinstock and Rosa Portell-Weinstock A collection of 141 Guatemalan textiles, assembled by Louis Weinstock when he was in Guatemala with the Peace Corps from 1967 to 1970

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1. Pants, Museum object #2014-19-133, Guatemala. Man’s pants with alternating vertical white and purple stripes, and five horizontal bands of brocade animals at lower end of each pant leg. 2 Basket and basket lid, Museum objects #2014-16-28.1 and #2014-16-28.2, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Plaited and coiled rectangular basket with lid. Fiber is worked to create zig-zag and diagonal lines on basket base, chevron designs on basket lid, and multi-directional plaiting on sides of basket. 3 Head rest, Museum object #2014-16-2, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Wood head rest with step pyramid base, undecorated central post and curved or cresent shaped head support. Carved geometric design on top of head support. 4. Box lid, Museum object #2014-16-3.2, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Box lid intricately carved to form an amused face. Boxes such as this are typically used to hold camwood powder or ceremonial objects. 5. Bracelet/Money, Museum object #2014-17-7, North Africa. Spikes and bands of detailed designs cover entire bracelet. A woman’s jewelry, such as this bracelet, can be used for adornment and as currency (savings).

Gift of the Westervelt Family Trust A Mid-Late 19th Century Vietnamese robe Gift of Lynn W. Williams One Tibetan prayer box from Szechuan, China Gift of Vincent Williams in celebration of the opening of the Native American Voices: The People, Here and Now exhibition Two feather fans made by Vincent Williams, one given in honor of Dr. Ann Dapice Gift of Wendell Woolman One Lenape stone tool

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6. Doll, Museum object #2015-15-5, Cameroon. Fertility doll, given by a young man to his fiancée. Wood, glass beads, cowrie shells, and leather. Wood doll is dressed with layers of beads around body and neck. Arms and legs are made of strips of leather and cowrie shells. Hair is made of twined cotton topped with trade beads. 7. Blouse or huipil, Museum object #2014-19-45, Guatemala. Two pieces of hand-woven cotton cloth sewn together. Red background with vertical stripes (moving outward from center) in dark blue, white, green, pink, purple, yellow, and light blue. Multicolored embroidered flowers around neck area, horizontal bands of multicolored embroidery cover joins at center and sides, green embroidered arm holes at top. 8. Box and lid, Museum objects #2015-13-9.1 and #2015-13-9.2, Canada. Bentwood box (single piece of wood, bent and joined together at one corner) with elaborate animal design on long front and back panels. Design on one side has two single eyes, design on other side has two double eyes. Smaller designs on side panels are identical. All the designs are carved out and painted in red and black.

9. Robe, Museum object #2015-11-1, Vietnam. Mangao or formal robe in burgundy silk. Embroidered with ten, four-clawed dragons typical of wedding attire. This type of robe would have been worn with a pleated skirt with a dragon and phoenix. The neckband may be a later addition. 10. Amulet box and lid, Museum objects #2015-16-1.1 and #201516-1.2, Tibet. Woman’s double-square amulet box (ga’u). This amulet box would have been worn, suspended by a strap or sash, for protection against evil. The central motif is a stylized lotus bud with elaborate filigree work and semi-precious stones. It holds a Tibetan prayer printed on a folded piece of paper. 11. Pot, Museum object #2014-17-61, Zimbabwe. Vessel with bulbous body, vertical medium-sized neck, and slightly out-turned rim. Clay with red and green pigment. Used to store water, beer, or grain.

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Gifts to the Archives: Gift of Robert C. Clothier III A collection of 373 lantern slides from the trip of Clarkson Clothier, with his family, to Asia and the Middle East, ca. 1903 Gift of Harrison (Nick) Eiteljorg II, Ph.D., GR73 Twenty-four color slides, taken by the donor, from Penn Museum archaeology project at Gravina di Puglia, in the Province of Bari, Italy, in 1971 Gift of Emily Brinton Thompson Gable Complete set of publications and five scrapbooks by Daniel Garrison Brinton (1837–1899), one of the founders of the Penn Museum and the Museum Library

Gift of German Society of Pennsylvania Two typed manuscripts, one on Ancient Mexican Material Culture and the other on A Comparative Study of Aztec Hieroglyphs, each with tipped-in, hand-colored photographs (published by the Penn Museum in the 1940s) Gift of Scott W. Hawley, C92, W92 A group of 117 letters written by George F. Dales (1927–1992; former Penn employee) to his family from Pakistan, India, Thailand, Afghanistan, and other places while pursuing his career in archaeology Gift of William Potter, WG88, and Joanne Ruckel, WG88, PAR Thirteen vintage silver gelatin prints by three photographers, Marilyn Bridges, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Leonard Freed Gift of Stephen B. Richmond Approximately 2,200 35mm color slides taken in Truk (Chuuk), Micronesia, 1960s, associated with the 89 Chuukese objects donated in 2013 Gift of Dana Lydon Strome Scrapbook of George Byran Gordon’s (1870–1927; Penn Museum Director 1910–1927) personal correspondence Gift of Bension Varon, Ph.D., WG67, PAR A group of 98 post cards from Turkey and the Ottoman Empire

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Gift of Dilys Winegrad, Ph.D., GR70, PAR Five cassette tape recordings of interviews with Penn Museum curators, 1984–1988, for Winegrad’s history of the Museum, Through Time, Across Continents (UPM, 1993)

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Collections: Outgoing Loans and Traveling Exhibitions BETWEEN JULY 1, 2014 and June 30, 2015, the Penn Museum lent over 400 different items from its Curatorial Sections and Archives to eight U.S. states and Canada, with many of the objects making multiple stops along their itinerary. These loans generally formed part of larger exhibitions curated and designed by other museums. In addition, two traveling exhibitions curated and designed by the Penn Museum were seen by a total of 7,200 visitors in borrowing museums in South Carolina and Washington. International Loans

Loans across the United States

TELUS World of Science, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 69 objects from across Curatorial Sections and four Archival documents for the exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology

Museum of Science, Boston, MA 31 American objects for the exhibition Maya: Hidden Worlds Revealed San Diego Natural History Museum, CA 31 American objects for the exhibition Maya: Hidden Worlds Revealed 3. Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York, NY Three Egyptian objects for the exhibition When the Greeks Ruled Egypt: From Alexander the Great to Cleopatra Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York, NY 132 Near East objects and 24 Archival documents for the exhibition From Ancient to Modern: Archaeology and Aesthetics

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Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta, GA One Babylonian object for the exhibition Two of Each: The Nippur Deluge Tablet & Noah’s Flood

ON LOAN 1. Dish, Museum object #SA2279 Camutins, Marajo Island, Brazil, 1000–1500 CE Loaned to the Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ

Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, ME 11 American objects for the exhibition Coming Home

2. Flood Tablet, Museum object #B10673 Nippur, Iraq, 17th century BCE Loaned to the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta, GA

Princeton University Art Museum, NJ 10 American objects for the exhibition Art of the Ancient Americas

3. Queen Puabi’s Jewelry Ur, Iraq, 2600–2450 BCE Loaned to the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York, NY

Jewish Museum, New York, NY 12 Near East objects for the exhibition Repetition and Difference Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA Two Mediterranean objects for the exhibition Ancient Life on Greek Pottery

4. Lime Flask, Museum object #SA2751 Quimbaya, Columbia, ca. 200 BCE–1000 CE Loaned to the Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ 5. Belt, Museum object #30-12-559 Ur, Iraq, 2600–2450 BCE Loaned to the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York, NY

National Geographic Museum, Washington, DC 69 objects from across Curatorial Sections and four Archival documents for the exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology Traveling Exhibitions Art Museum of Myrtle Beach, Myrtle Beach, SC Rainbow Serpent (19 loaned-in objects), May 2014 through September 2014.

7. Cast Gold Bat Effigy Pendant, Museum object #40-13-33 Sitio Conte, Panama, 500–900 CE Loaned to TELUS World of Science, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and to the National Geographic Museum, Washington, DC

Museum of Culture and Environment at Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA Righteous Dopefiend (64 photographs), January 7, 2015 through March 21, 2015. 6.

6. Attic Black-Figure Hydria, Museum object #MS694 Vulci, Tomb 72, Etruria, Italy, ca. 500 BCE Loaned to Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA

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8. Sugar Leaf Dreaming Australia From the Penn Museum traveling exhibition Rainbow Serpent 9. Frank, Side of Freeway San Francisco, CA From the Penn Museum traveling exhibition Righteous Dopefiend

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S U PPO RT IN G T H E M ISSIO N Right: Zapotec Grey Ware human figure from Mexico. This ceramic object is an urn. UPM object #29-41-705. Dorling Kindersley: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and

The resources to realize the vision of the Penn Museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strategic plan come from a deeply generous cadre of members and supporters. The vast range of teaching, research, conservation, learning, exhibition, and event programs documented in the

Anthropology. Left: Learning Programs staff talks to Philadelphia students about life in ancient Rome.

previous pages were made possible by their support, and had impact on audiences across our Penn campus, our city and region, and around the world. The Penn Museum expresses profound thanks to the individuals and organizations recognized in the following pages, whose leadership financial support during 2014â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2015 advanced our mission to transform understanding of the human experience.

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LEADERSHIP SUPPORTERS The Penn Museum recognizes and salutes with profound thanks the following donors for leadership cumulative support during 2014–2015—programmatic, capital, endowment, and operational—which made possible everything reported in this annual summary of activity. The 2015 exhibition

TRANSFORMATIONAL DONORS

Bernard and Lisa Selz, The Selz Foundation

Beneath the Surface:

Donald C. and Ingrid A. Graham, the Graham Foundation

Patricia L. Squire and Elizabeth Jean Walker, SW74

The Kowalski Family Foundation

Jeffrey Weiss and Jill Topkis Weiss, C89, WG93, PAR

Life, Death, and Gold in Ancient Panama contained many gold objects, including this large embossed plaque. Perforations indicate it was sewn onto clothing. UPM object #40-13-11.

Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy, WG74 A. Bruce Mainwaring, C47, and Margaret R. Mainwaring, ED47, HON85, PAR Adam D. Sokoloff, W84, and Susan Drossman Sokoloff, M.D., C84, PAR

PRINCIPAL DONORS Anonymous in memory of Michel and Nelly Abemayor Lois and Robert M. Baylis Cummins Catherwood, Jr., and Susan W. Catherwood

Gregory A. Weingarten, GRoW Annenberg Foundation

Dana Eisman Cohen, C88, and Michael E. Cohen, D.M.D., D89, PAR

Shelby White, Leon Levy Foundation

Greg Danilow and Susan F. Danilow, Esquire, CW74, G74, PAR

Charles K. Williams II, Ph.D., GR78, HON97

Criswell Cohagan Gonzalez Jacqueline W. Hover and John C. Hover II, C65, WG67

GROUNDBREAKING DONORS

Ann M. Huebner and Ross Waller

David T. Clancy, W70, and McCarroll Sibley Clancy

Bonnie Verbit Lundy, CW67, and Joseph E. Lundy,

Peter W. Davidson, J.M. Kaplan Fund

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Esquire, W65

Daniel G. Kamin, C64

Carlos L. Nottebohm, W64, and Renee Nottebohm

Frederick J. Manning, W69, and the Manning Family

Gretchen P. Riley, CGS70, and J. Barton Riley, W70, PAR

Estate of Neil C. Miller, Jr.

Barbara Rittenhouse

Adolf A. Paier, W60, and Geraldine S. Paier, Ph.D.,

Alexandra Schoenberg and Eric J. Schoenberg, Ph.D.,

HUP66, NU68, GNU85, GR94

GEN93, WG93, PAR

Frances Rockwell and John R. Rockwell, W64, WG66, PAR

Mary Ellen Simmons, O.D., C81, and Steve Simmons

Malcolm H. Wiener, The Institute for Aegean Prehistory

Bayard T. Storey, Ph.D., and Frances E. Storey* Helen P. Winston and Richard E. Winston, G48, PAR

LEADERSHIP DONORS

Mo Zayan and Nanou Zayan, CW73, PAR

Joanne H. Conrad, C79, and William L. Conrad, PAR Peter G. Gould, Ph.D., LPS10, and Robin M. Potter, WG80

BENEFACTORS

Estate of Hermine L. Herzfeld

Johanna Berkman and Emanuel Weintraub, C87

H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang, Ph.D., G98, GR04, and

Francis J. Carey, Esquire, C45, L49, PAR*

Oscar Liu-Chien Tang

Marie A. Conn, Ph.D.

Lisa D. Kabnick, Esquire, C77, and John McFadden

David Crane and Isabella de la Houssaye

Curtis S. Lane, W79, WG80, and Stacey Rosner Lane,

Gretchen R. Hall, Ph.D., CGS97

C80, GR13, PAR

Alexandra M. Harrison and Peter D. Harrison, Ph.D., GR70*

Annette Merle-Smith

Gary Hatfield, Ph.D., and Holly Pittman, Ph.D.

Estate of Ellen Cole Miller

Robert W. Kalish, M.D., C55

Rosa Portell-Weinstock and Louis Weinstock

Judy and Peter Leone

William L. Potter, WG88, and Joanne S. Ruckel, WG88, PAR

Gregory S. Maslow, M.D., C68, M72, GM77, and

David C. Rilling, M.D., INT67, and Karina Rilling, PAR David A. Schwartz, M.D., and Stephanie Schwartz

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Laurie Maslow, CW69, PAR John J. Medveckis, PAR

Mary Ann D. Meyers, Ph.D., GR76, PAR

Eleanor Leventhal

Karin Lindblad Yanoff, Ph.D., G67, GR88

Howard H. and Maxine S. Lewis Rachel C. Lilley, CW66

PATRONS

Frank and Sharon N. Lorenzo

George Harold Anderson

Marianne Lovink and Julian Siggers, Ph.D.

Wendy Ashmore, Ph.D., GR81

Marco L. Lukesch, C01, W01

James Averill

Ole W. Lyngklip III, Esquire, C85

Eileen Baird

Donna Mackay, M.D., and Robert Mackay

Cheryl Louise Baker

Linda McCarthy and Thomas A. McCarthy, Jr., W78

Nicholas Bass, ENG09, and Emily Zenger, C09

Elizabeth Ray McLean, C78

Lauren Bayster-Morel and Donald Morel, Jr., Ph.D.

Robert and Susan McLean

Arnold W. Bradburd, W49, and Julia A. Bradburd, CGS07

Missy McQuiston and Robert E. McQuiston, CGS07

Sara M. Brown, Ph.D., GRD64

Ella Warren Miller, CW51, and Paul F. Miller, Jr.,

Arthur J. Burke, Esquire, C89, W89

W50, HON81, PAR

G. Theodore and Nancie W. Burkett

Amanda Mitchell-Boyask and Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Ph.D.

Todd Carson and Elizabeth Tabas, C01

A. M. Mulroney, CW57, PAR

James Catrickes and Pauline Catrickes, CW75, PAR

Stanley Muravchick, M.D., and Arlene Olson, PAR

Debra and Morris Chandler

Bonnie J. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Boyle, CW68

Lawrence S. Coben, Ph.D., G03, GR12

Judith L. Oppenheimer, CW73

Julie Comay and Dan Rahimi

M. Kate Pitcairn, CGS77, G78

Carrie and Kenneth Cox, PAR

George R. Pitts, Ph.D., GR77

Edwin D. Coyle, Ed.D., GED05, and Patricia Coyle

Annette Price and Vincent Price, Ph.D., PAR

George E. Doty, Jr., W76, and Lee Spelman Doty, W76, PAR

Jay Reinfeld

A. Webster Dougherty, Jr., C57, and Janet S. Dougherty

Donna Conforti Rissman and Paul Rissman, Ph.D., C78, GR85

Jane A. Duffy and Michael P. Duffy, L86

C. Brian Rose, Ph.D.

Cynthia J. Eiseman, Ph.D., GR79, and James Eiseman, Jr., L66

Randi L. Rust and William Rust III, Ph.D., GR08

Gary A. Emmett, M.D., and Marianne Emmett, M.D.

Joseph B. and Rita P. Scheller

Jason Fehntrich and Amie Spatz

John R. Senior, M.D., M54, FEL59, and Sara Spedden Senior,

Lily Ferry and Peter C. Ferry, C79

CW52, PAR

Marilyn Forney and Robert C. Forney, Ph.D., PAR

Georg U. Simon and Janet A. Simon

Esther G. Fox, ED53, and Robert A. Fox, C52

Kathryn Sorkin and Sanford Sorkin, W67

Pamela Freyd, Ph.D., GED68, GR81, and Peter Freyd, Ph.D., PAR

Matthew Jordan Storm, C94, WG00, and Natalia Storm

Kathleen and P. Gregory Garrison

Lee Evan Tabas, C72, ME72, and Nancy Freeman Tabas, PAR

Shannon Garrison and Nikil Saval

George H. Talbot, M.D., and Sheryl F. Talbot, M.D., GM84

Lisa Gemmill

Stephen Tinney, Ph.D., and Beatriz Urraca, Ph.D.

Elizabeth S. Gephart, CGS79, and George W. Gephart, Jr.,

Jeannette G. Tregoe, PAR

WG79, PAR Catherine A. Giventer, C95, and Craig M. Giventer, C92 Dale D. Graham and Gregory T. Graham, C73, PAR

Samuel Phineas Upham, Ph.D., WG05, GRW06 Ellis G. Wachs, and Peggy B. Wachs, Esquire, CW59, GCP75, L86, PAR

Anthony Grillo, WG78, and Elaine Grillo

Mary Warden and William G. Warden III

Anna Sophocles Hadgis, CGS70, G85, and

Caroline Waxler, C93

Nicholas J. Hadgis, Ph.D., PAR

Andrea Weiss and Carl Weiss, Esquire, PAR

Bryan R. Harris, C83

Joanne T. Welsh, CW52, and Raymond H. Welsh, W53

Hannah L. Henderson

David Wood

Fredrik T. Hiebert, Ph.D., and Katherine Moore Hiebert, Ph.D.

Diane Dalto Woosnam and Richard E. Woosnam

James H. and Pamela M. Hill Cindy and Matthew I. Hirsch