2014–2015 ANNUAL REPORT - Penn Museum54 Leadership Supporters 58 The Loren Eiseley Society and...
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2014–2015 ANNUAL REPORT
INSIDE 3 EXECUTIVE MESSAGE
5 A STRATEGIC VISION
7 THE YEAR IN REVIEW
8 PENN MUSEUM 2014–2015: BY THE MONTH
20 PENN MUSEUM 2014–2015: BY THE NUMBERS
25 PENN MUSEUM 2014–2015: BY THE GEOGRAPHY
25 Teaching and Research: Student, Curator, and Consulting Scholar Field Projects
27 Smith Creek Archaeological Project (Mississippi, United States)
28 On the Wampum Trail: Restorative Research in North American Museums (North America)
29 Understanding Pueblo Cloth in Context (North America)
30 Silver Reef Project (Utah, United States)
31 The Caste War of the Yucatan: The Tihosuco Heritage
Preservation and Community Development Project (Mexico)
32 Early Hunters at Cuncaicha (Peru)
33 The La Florida Archaeology Project: Exploring an Ancient
Maya River Port (Guatemala)
34 Gordion Archaeological Project (Turkey)
— Historical Landscape Preservation at Gordion
— Gordion Jewelry Project
— Gordion Cultural Heritage Program
38 Kani Shaie Archaeological Project (Iraqi Kurdistan)
39 La Ferrassie (France)
40 The Georgia Genetic History Project (Georgia)
42 Excavations at the Mortuary Complex of Pharaoh Senwosret III
at Abydos (Egypt)
44 The Borders of Chinese Architecture (China and Mongolia)
45 Middle Mekong Archaeological Project (Laos)
46 Collections: New Acquisitions
50 Collections: Outgoing Loans and Traveling Exhibitions
53 SUPPORTING THE MISSION
54 Leadership Supporters
58 The Loren Eiseley Society and Expedition Circles
62 Corporate, Foundation, and Government
Agency Supporters
63 Sara Yorke Stevenson Legacy Circle
65 THE GIFT OF TIME
66 Penn Museum Volunteers
68 Women’s Committee
68 Young Friends of the Penn Museum
69 Board of Overseers
69 Director’s Council
70 Penn Museum Advisory Board
71 In Memoriam
72 Curatorial Sections and Museum Centers
74 Penn Museum Department Staff
Objects on the cover,
inside cover, and at right
were featured in the special
exhibition Beneath the
Surface: Life, Death, and
Gold in Ancient Panama, from
February 7, 2015 through
November 1, 2015. Cover:
Cast gold figurine. UPM
object #40-13-28. Right:
Painted ceramic vessel. UPM
object #40-16-75. More
information on all of these
objects can be found at
www.penn.museum/
exhibitions/past-exhibitions.
All photos by Penn Museum
unless otherwise stated.
2014–2015 ANNUAL REPORT
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EXECUTIVE MESSAGE
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 under-graduates 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 Phila-delphia 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 out-reach 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, partic-ularly 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
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.
Penn Museum Annual Report 2014–2015
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A STRATEGIC VISION
AS OUR PENN MUSEUM SAW, in 2014–2015, the launch of the Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials, the Un-packing 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 con-tain 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 de-cades, bringing air-conditioning to two thirds of the Museum’s public spaces and significantly improving stewardship of the col-lection as well as visitor comfort: adding new ramps and eleva-tors 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 oppor-tunity to upgrade shared spaces including the Museum’s freight elevator and loading docks, and to create a dramatic new pedes-trian 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 under-stand 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 col-lection 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 pe-destrian 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 trans-formation—includes that:
• Our Museum audiences will encounter an engaging environ-ment, 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 world-class galleries. Penn will be seen more than ever as a gener-ator 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 filtra-tion, and select climate-controlled cases, as well as a new collection storage facility.
• Efficiency will be enhanced and environmental conserva-tion fore-fronted, with new loading docks, energy efficien-cies including HVAC plants, and LED lighting for all new gal-leries.
• Revenue from increased visitors and members to our gal-leries, 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 renova-tion of its galleries and public spaces, it will fulfill our vision as a vibrant and engaging place of continual discovery.
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.
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THE YEAR IN REVIEW
THE YEAR IN REVIEW
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.
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.
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JULY 2014
2 The Philadelphia Songwriters Project showcases up-and-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 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.
9 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.
14 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.
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 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 Route Ensemble, honors diverse Middle Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean traditions in a concert for Summer Wonders series attendees.
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AUGUST 2014
6 Newspaper Taxis, an award-winning local group, celebrates the spirit of The Beatles with an energetic show at P.M. @ Penn Museum Summer Nights.
13 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.
16 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.
20 With a unique combination of Brazilian and American roots, 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.
27 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.
SEPTEMBER 2014
3 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.
6 The Clio Society, the Museum’s undergraduate student interest group, hosts its Open House Picnic.
11 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.
13 “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.
21 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.
27 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 lesser-known tombs in the Valley of the Kings, including the rediscovery of Hatshepsut’s tomb. Presented by the American Research Center in Egypt—Pennsylvania Chapter.
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30 Penn Museum celebrates the renovation of a suite of 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.
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.
OCTOBER 2014
1 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.
1 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.
2 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.
12 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.
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.
16 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.
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17 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.
18 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.
21 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.
23 In this Evening Program, the Junior Fellows of the Kolb Society at the Penn Museum present their current research.
25 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.
29 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.
30 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.
NOVEMBER 2014
1 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.
5 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.
5 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 Phil-adelphia-based jewelry designer, leads students as they make their own jewelry inspired by the ancient Near East Section collection.
7-8 The Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative hosted a conference on “Indigenous Knowledge in the Academy” fea-turing Doug George Kanentiio (Mohawk) from the Hiawatha Institute for Indigenous Knowledge and Dr. Scott M. Stevens (Mohawk) from Syracuse University, among many others.
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9 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.
9 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.
13 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.
14 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.
16 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.
22 At this Afternoon Lecture, Adrienne Mayor, Research Scholar, Stanford University Classics Department, reveals surprising details and new insights about the lives of flesh-and-blood women of the Eurasian steppes, who were mythologized as Amazons.
24 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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DECEMBER 2014
3 In this Great Wonders lecture, Dr. Clark Erickson, Curator-in-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.
3 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.
6 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.
14 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.
9 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.
11 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.
11 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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24 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.
25 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).
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.
FEBRUARY 2015
1 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.
4 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.
4 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.
5 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.
5 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.
7 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.
8 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.
8 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.
10 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.
12 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.
12 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.
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15 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.
16 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.
18 The Penn Museum’s second Homeschool Day serves 140 participants, who enjoy a wide variety of tours and interactive workshops.
18 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.
19 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.
21 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.
26 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.
27 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.
28 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.
MARCH 2015
4 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.
4 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.
8 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.
8 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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8 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.
14 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.
18 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.
21 Egyptomania is a celebration of all things Egyptian at this World Culture Day. The galleries come to life with a variety of activities to help visitors discover ancient Egypt, one of the world’s oldest civilizations.
21 The Penn Museum presents a Native American Voices performance, featuring Native American rap and hip-hop 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.
24 In this Evening Lecture, Dr. C. Brian Rose, Curator-in-Charge, 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.
25 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.
26 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.
27 The Penn Museum partners with the Penn Cultural Heritage Center for a program on the legal and ethical concerns surrounding work with cultural property.
28 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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APRIL 2015
1 As part of the Great Wonders Lecture Series, Dr. Tom Tartaron, Associate Professor, Classical Studies, discusses the Statue of Zeus at Olympia.
1 At this History Mystery Movie Night screening of The Mum-my: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008), Steve Lang, Lyons Keeper of Collections, Asian Section, with graduate students, displays objects from storage with humorous commentary.
3 In this Penn Student Access Series tour, Penn students learned about the conservation and collections management of mum-mies in the exhibition In the Artifact Lab with conservator, Molly Gleeson and Dr. Janet Monge, Keeper and Associate Cura-tor-in-Charge, Penn Museum Physical Anthropology Section.
10 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.
11 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.
12 In a Beneath the Surface Lecture, Dr. Katherine Moore, Zooarchaeologist and Mainwaring Teaching Specialist, consid-ers the burials at Sitio Conte to answer questions about the role of animals in ancient Panama.
12 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.
14 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.
15 P.M. @ Penn Museum offers an exploration of the Beneath the Surface: Life, Death, and Gold in Ancient Pana-ma exhibition—with gallery tours, an interactive dig site, pottery painting, and more. Supported by the Young Friends of the Penn Museum.
17 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 Presi-dential Recognition Award at the SAA’s annual meeting in San Francisco for their leadership efforts to assist Syrian archaeolo-gists, museum curators, and heritage experts in the protection of archaeological and other cultural assets inside Syria.
18 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).
18 Corn: From Ancient Crop to Soda Pop, the inaugural exhi-bition 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.
20 At the Museum’s Annual Volunteer Luncheon, Williams 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.
22 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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23 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.
26 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.
27 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.
MAY 2015
3 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.
4 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.
6 In this Great Wonders lecture, Dr. C. Brian Rose, Curator-in-Charge, Penn Museum Mediterranean Section, speaks about the history and legacy of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.
10 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.
10 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.
23 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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JUNE 2015
1 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.
3 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.
6 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.
4 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.
11 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.
17 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.
24 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.
29 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.
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CENTER FOR THE ANALYSIS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL MATERIALS
28,000 Elements of skeletal specimens
cleaned, labeled, and organized in
CAAM’s Zooarchaeology Lab
6,500Approximate 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
376Penn undergraduates and graduates
enrolled in courses in the Center
for the Analysis of Archaeological
Materials in its first year
75New ceramic thin sections studied and
added to CAAM’s Ceramics Lab teaching
and reference collection
4Dedicated CAAM teaching
specialists by the end of its
first year
VISITORS AND PROGRAMS
166,292Total visitors
32,016People who enjoyed a rental
event in the Penn Museum galleries,
gardens, and auditoriums
23,390People who attended one of 186
lectures, film screenings, family or
other public events
5,046Visitors who enhanced their Penn Museum
experience through a group tour
3,305Visits from Penn Museum members using
their unlimited free admission
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COLLEGE AND K-12
27,104School children, teachers,
and chaperones attending an onsite
workshop, program, or tour
4,777Penn students participating
in a class session in a classroom,
guided storage tour, or gallery
4,241 Participants in 131 International
Classroom programs
3,556Seventh grade students in Philadelphia
public or charter schools who came
with their classroom for onsite visits
through the Unpacking the Past program
3New exhibitions with
student curators
or curatorial assistance
COLLECTIONS USE AND STEWARDSHIP
25,382Artifacts and Physical Anthropology
collections moved for examination by 179
visiting researchers
6,180Visitors to In the Artifact Lab to
watch conservators treat ancient
Egyptian mummies and objects
4,743Artifacts surveyed for conservation
condition, of which 546 received active
conservation treatment
3,175Accessions to the collection,
including 334 cultural objects gifted
and 2,841 archival materials gifted
260Collections tours given to visiting
researchers by Penn Museum keepers
of collections
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CULTURAL HERITAGE PROTECTION AND EDUCATION
862Events of cultural heritage
destruction in Syria identified by
Penn Cultural Heritage Center
researchers
364 Scholars attending a program about
heritage destruction in conflict zones
150Penn ROTC students trained in
cultural heritage programming in the
Middle East by Curator Brian Rose
35 Iraqi heritage professionals
consulted and trained by the Penn
Cultural Heritage Center and
associated teams
RESEARCH AND LEARNING PROGRAMS
1,553Offsite K-12 students
participating in 47 Distance
Learning programs
573Research requests on collections,
research projects, or
object identification answered
195Penn Museum curators,
research project managers, and
consulting scholars engaged in active
research around the globe
183Classrooms in 65 schools
throughout Philadelphia where GRoW
Annenberg Unpacking the Past
educators drove a Mummy Mobile to
deliver workshops
25Countries where Penn Museum-
funded field projects or
student research took place in 2015
P E N N M U S E U M 2 0 1 4 – 2 0 1 5 : BY THE NUMBERS OUT IN THE WORLD
ARTIFACTS AND ARCHIVAL MATERIALS
32,030Number of miles flown by collections
staff couriering Penn Museum objects for
loans or traveling exhibitions
28,658Artifact images added to Online
Collections database
16,888Records added to Online
Collections database
299Artifacts loaned out to 11
borrowing institutions
200Entries of Penn Museum artifacts
featured in DK/Smithsonian’s History of
the World in 1,000 Objects book
DIGITAL VISITORS
983,957 Unique visitors to the Penn
Museum website
606,948Searches through the Online
Collections
579,339Views to the Penn Museum
YouTube channel
2,656Retweets of 1,005 Penn
Museum tweets
2,577 Facebook likes
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REVENUE FY15 FY14
Investment Income $ 3,827,523 $ 3,636,296
Gift Income 6,307,462 9,552,838
Sponsored Program Revenue 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
EXPENDITURES
Total Compensation 9,056,821 8,618,871
Current Expense:
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)
Communications & Computing 599,319 377,830
Professional & Other Services 1,662,070 1,380,039
Operations & Maintenance 922,108 1,188,770
Other 72,784 79,446
Total Current Expense: 4,716,638 4,757,752
Capital Transactions 939,673 1,406,229
Internal Penn Income (Expense Credits) (418,174) (217,258)
University Allocated Cost Charges:
Library Charges 727,000 696,000
Facilities Maintenance Charges 2,805,000 2,742,000
University Services Charges 1,363,000 1,349,004
Development Charges 1,265,000 1,220,004
Research Charges 8,000 6,000
Total University Allocated Cost Charges 6,168,000 6,013,008
TOTAL EXPENDITURES 20,462,958 20,578,603
TOTAL OPERATING SURPLUS/(DEFICIT) $ 11,424,619 $ 4,336,303
June 30, 2015 (with comparative totals for the year ended June 30, 2014)
PENN MUSEUM 2014–2015: BY THE NUMBERSStatement 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.
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Student Project(s)
Researcher Project(s)
Photo: Paul Mitchell, C13, G14, GR25
Photo: Elizabeth Clay, GR23
Photo: Alexandria Mitchem, C16
Photo: Anna Sitz, GR20
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Teaching and Research: 2014-2015 Penn Museum-Sponsored Field ProjectsStudent 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 proj-ects internationally. All told, in 2015, Penn students gained Museum-sponsored experience in the following countries:
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)
• Azerbaijan
• Canada
• China
• Egypt
• France
• French Guiana
• Republic of Georgia
• Greece
• Israel
• Italy
• Jamaica
• Lebanon
• Mexico
• Peru
• Romania
• Singapore
• Spain
• Thailand
• Turkmenistan
• United States
Photo: Annie Chan, GR21
Photo: Kamillia Scott, C16
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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.
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 (700–1000 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
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.
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.
Undergraduate student, Ashley Terry, screens excavated soil to systematically
recover small artifacts.
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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.
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.
Bellow: Sarah Parkinson and Stephanie Mach examine an odd 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.
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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
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.
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
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.
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Silver Reef Project (Utah, United States)Project Director: Robert L. Schuyler, Ph.D., Associate Curator-
in-Charge, Historical Archaeology Section
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.
Above: Professor
Schuyler leads a tour at Silver
Reef.
Right: Ad from Silver Reef
Miner (1880) for the Elk Horn
Saloon.
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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.
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)
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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.
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.
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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)
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
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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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)
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.
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 fan-shaped 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.
Right: The 2015 Gordion Project Staff. Gordion
Archives image #2015-01475. Photo by
Gebhard Bieg.
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.
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Historical Landscape Preservation at GordionProject Director: Naomi F. Miller, Ph.D., Consulting Scholar,
Near East Section
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.
Gordion Jewelry ProjectProject Director: Jane Hickman, Ph.D., Editor, Expedition
magazine and Consulting Scholar, Mediterranean Section
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.
Above: Students Eda Kaygusuz and Ișık
Abacı show off a freshly planted slope of native grasses. Photograph by
Naomi Miller.
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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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.
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/
CHEP students, with Project Director
Ayşe Gürsan-Salzmann, putting
together the skeleton of a
“Phrygian” sheep.Photograph by
Naomi Miller.
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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.
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)
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
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.
Above: View of the excavation in
the main area of La Ferrassie.
Right: Prof. Harold Dibble at the site of
La Ferrassie.
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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 long-standing 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.
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 (non-Kartvelian-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 10th–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)2014–15 Winter (December–January)
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
Humphrey, Valentina Anselmi (Near Eastern Languages and
Civilizations)
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.
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,
Matthew Olson (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
Other Team Members: Chelsea Cordle (Rowan University),
Jane Hill, Ph.D. (Rowan University)
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.
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.
Masonry restoration to the burial chamber of king Woseribre Senebkay (ca. 1650 BCE) at
South Abydos (May 2015)
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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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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
Remains of wall in Tongwan,
Shaanxi, in Ordos region near Inner
Mongolian border. Built by Xiongnu
ruler Helian Bobo from 419–425.
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,
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.
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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
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.
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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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.
Collections: New Acquisitions
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
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
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).
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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 #2015-16-1.2, 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
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) 10.
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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
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
Loans across the United States
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
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
Collections: Outgoing Loans and Traveling Exhibitions
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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
Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, ME 11 American objects for the exhibition Coming Home
Princeton University Art Museum, NJ 10 American objects for the exhibition Art of the Ancient Americas
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
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.
Museum of Culture and Environment at Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA Righteous Dopefiend (64 photographs), January 7, 2015 through March 21, 2015.
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1. Dish, Museum object #SA2279 Camutins, Marajo Island, Brazil, 1000–1500 CE Loaned to the Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
2. Flood Tablet, Museum object #B10673 Nippur, Iraq, 17th century BCE Loaned to the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta, GA
3. Queen Puabi’s Jewelry Ur, Iraq, 2600–2450 BCE Loaned to the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York, NY
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
6. Attic Black-Figure Hydria, Museum object #MS694 Vulci, Tomb 72, Etruria, Italy, ca. 500 BCE Loaned to Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
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
TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS
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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SUPPORTING THE MISSION
SUPPORTING THE MISSION
The resources to realize the vision of the Penn Museum’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
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 2014–2015 advanced our
mission to transform understanding of the human experience.
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
Anthropology.
Left: Learning
Programs staff talks to
Philadelphia students about
life in ancient Rome.
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TRANSFORMATIONAL DONORSDonald C. and Ingrid A. Graham, the Graham Foundation
The Kowalski Family Foundation
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
Gregory A. Weingarten, GRoW Annenberg Foundation
Shelby White, Leon Levy Foundation
Charles K. Williams II, Ph.D., GR78, HON97
GROUNDBREAKING DONORSDavid T. Clancy, W70, and McCarroll Sibley Clancy
Peter W. Davidson, J.M. Kaplan Fund
Daniel G. Kamin, C64
Frederick J. Manning, W69, and the Manning Family
Estate of Neil C. Miller, Jr.
Adolf A. Paier, W60, and Geraldine S. Paier, Ph.D.,
HUP66, NU68, GNU85, GR94
Frances Rockwell and John R. Rockwell, W64, WG66, PAR
Malcolm H. Wiener, The Institute for Aegean Prehistory
LEADERSHIP DONORSJoanne H. Conrad, C79, and William L. Conrad, PAR
Peter G. Gould, Ph.D., LPS10, and Robin M. Potter, WG80
Estate of Hermine L. Herzfeld
H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang, Ph.D., G98, GR04, and
Oscar Liu-Chien Tang
Lisa D. Kabnick, Esquire, C77, and John McFadden
Curtis S. Lane, W79, WG80, and Stacey Rosner Lane,
C80, GR13, PAR
Annette Merle-Smith
Estate of Ellen Cole Miller
Rosa Portell-Weinstock and Louis Weinstock
William L. Potter, WG88, and Joanne S. Ruckel, WG88, PAR
David C. Rilling, M.D., INT67, and Karina Rilling, PAR
David A. Schwartz, M.D., and Stephanie Schwartz
L EAD ERSH IP 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.
Bernard and Lisa Selz, The Selz Foundation
Patricia L. Squire and Elizabeth Jean Walker, SW74
Jeffrey Weiss and Jill Topkis Weiss, C89, WG93, PAR
PRINCIPAL DONORSAnonymous in memory of Michel and Nelly Abemayor
Lois and Robert M. Baylis
Cummins Catherwood, Jr., and Susan W. Catherwood
Dana Eisman Cohen, C88, and Michael E. Cohen, D.M.D., D89, PAR
Greg Danilow and Susan F. Danilow, Esquire, CW74, G74, PAR
Criswell Cohagan Gonzalez
Jacqueline W. Hover and John C. Hover II, C65, WG67
Ann M. Huebner and Ross Waller
Bonnie Verbit Lundy, CW67, and Joseph E. Lundy,
Esquire, W65
Carlos L. Nottebohm, W64, and Renee Nottebohm
Gretchen P. Riley, CGS70, and J. Barton Riley, W70, PAR
Barbara Rittenhouse
Alexandra Schoenberg and Eric J. Schoenberg, Ph.D.,
GEN93, WG93, PAR
Mary Ellen Simmons, O.D., C81, and Steve Simmons
Bayard T. Storey, Ph.D., and Frances E. Storey*
Helen P. Winston and Richard E. Winston, G48, PAR
Mo Zayan and Nanou Zayan, CW73, PAR
BENEFACTORSJohanna Berkman and Emanuel Weintraub, C87
Francis J. Carey, Esquire, C45, L49, PAR*
Marie A. Conn, Ph.D.
David Crane and Isabella de la Houssaye
Gretchen R. Hall, Ph.D., CGS97
Alexandra M. Harrison and Peter D. Harrison, Ph.D., GR70*
Gary Hatfield, Ph.D., and Holly Pittman, Ph.D.
Robert W. Kalish, M.D., C55
Judy and Peter Leone
Gregory S. Maslow, M.D., C68, M72, GM77, and
Laurie Maslow, CW69, PAR
John J. Medveckis, PAR
The 2015 exhibition
Beneath the Surface:
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.
SUPPORTING THE MISSION
Mary Ann D. Meyers, Ph.D., GR76, PAR
Karin Lindblad Yanoff, Ph.D., G67, GR88
PATRONSGeorge Harold Anderson
Wendy Ashmore, Ph.D., GR81
James Averill
Eileen Baird
Cheryl Louise Baker
Nicholas Bass, ENG09, and Emily Zenger, C09
Lauren Bayster-Morel and Donald Morel, Jr., Ph.D.
Arnold W. Bradburd, W49, and Julia A. Bradburd, CGS07
Sara M. Brown, Ph.D., GRD64
Arthur J. Burke, Esquire, C89, W89
G. Theodore and Nancie W. Burkett
Todd Carson and Elizabeth Tabas, C01
James Catrickes and Pauline Catrickes, CW75, PAR
Debra and Morris Chandler
Lawrence S. Coben, Ph.D., G03, GR12
Julie Comay and Dan Rahimi
Carrie and Kenneth Cox, PAR
Edwin D. Coyle, Ed.D., GED05, and Patricia Coyle
George E. Doty, Jr., W76, and Lee Spelman Doty, W76, PAR
A. Webster Dougherty, Jr., C57, and Janet S. Dougherty
Jane A. Duffy and Michael P. Duffy, L86
Cynthia J. Eiseman, Ph.D., GR79, and James Eiseman, Jr., L66
Gary A. Emmett, M.D., and Marianne Emmett, M.D.
Jason Fehntrich and Amie Spatz
Lily Ferry and Peter C. Ferry, C79
Marilyn Forney and Robert C. Forney, Ph.D., PAR
Esther G. Fox, ED53, and Robert A. Fox, C52
Pamela Freyd, Ph.D., GED68, GR81, and Peter Freyd, Ph.D., PAR
Kathleen and P. Gregory Garrison
Shannon Garrison and Nikil Saval
Lisa Gemmill
Elizabeth S. Gephart, CGS79, and George W. Gephart, Jr.,
WG79, PAR
Catherine A. Giventer, C95, and Craig M. Giventer, C92
Dale D. Graham and Gregory T. Graham, C73, PAR
Anthony Grillo, WG78, and Elaine Grillo
Anna Sophocles Hadgis, CGS70, G85, and
Nicholas J. Hadgis, Ph.D., PAR
Bryan R. Harris, C83
Hannah L. Henderson
Fredrik T. Hiebert, Ph.D., and Katherine Moore Hiebert, Ph.D.
James H. and Pamela M. Hill
Cindy and Matthew I. Hirsch
Jessica S. Johnson
Dr. Stephen T. Kelly
Harvey and Virginia Kimmel
H. Lewis Klein, C49, and Janet S. Klein, ED51, PAR
DruEllen Kolker and James D. Kolker, M.D., C76
Andrea R. Kramer, Esquire, L76, and Lee A. Rosengard, Esquire,
L76, PAR
Evelyn S. Kritchevsky, Ph.D., GR78
Robin Lehman
Eleanor Leventhal
Howard H. and Maxine S. Lewis
Rachel C. Lilley, CW66
Frank and Sharon N. Lorenzo
Marianne Lovink and Julian Siggers, Ph.D.
Marco L. Lukesch, C01, W01
Ole W. Lyngklip III, Esquire, C85
Donna Mackay, M.D., and Robert Mackay
Linda McCarthy and Thomas A. McCarthy, Jr., W78
Elizabeth Ray McLean, C78
Robert and Susan McLean
Missy McQuiston and Robert E. McQuiston, CGS07
Ella Warren Miller, CW51, and Paul F. Miller, Jr.,
W50, HON81, PAR
Amanda Mitchell-Boyask and Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Ph.D.
A. M. Mulroney, CW57, PAR
Stanley Muravchick, M.D., and Arlene Olson, PAR
Bonnie J. O’Boyle, CW68
Judith L. Oppenheimer, CW73
M. Kate Pitcairn, CGS77, G78
George R. Pitts, Ph.D., GR77
Annette Price and Vincent Price, Ph.D., PAR
Jay Reinfeld
Donna Conforti Rissman and Paul Rissman, Ph.D., C78, GR85
C. Brian Rose, Ph.D.
Randi L. Rust and William Rust III, Ph.D., GR08
Joseph B. and Rita P. Scheller
John R. Senior, M.D., M54, FEL59, and Sara Spedden Senior,
CW52, PAR
Georg U. Simon and Janet A. Simon
Kathryn Sorkin and Sanford Sorkin, W67
Matthew Jordan Storm, C94, WG00, and Natalia Storm
Lee Evan Tabas, C72, ME72, and Nancy Freeman Tabas, PAR
George H. Talbot, M.D., and Sheryl F. Talbot, M.D., GM84
Stephen Tinney, Ph.D., and Beatriz Urraca, Ph.D.
Jeannette G. Tregoe, PAR
Samuel Phineas Upham, Ph.D., WG05, GRW06
Ellis G. Wachs, and Peggy B. Wachs, Esquire,
CW59, GCP75, L86, PAR
Mary Warden and William G. Warden III
Caroline Waxler, C93
Andrea Weiss and Carl Weiss, Esquire, PAR
Joanne T. Welsh, CW52, and Raymond H. Welsh, W53
David Wood
Diane Dalto Woosnam and Richard E. Woosnam
SPONSORSBrett and Nancy Altman
Markus Aman and Carl Engelke
Janet Kestenberg Amighi and Lawrence Davidson
Bruce A. and Ellen Asam
Arthur K. Asbury, M.D., and Carolyn Asbury, Ph.D., GR82
Benjamin Ashcom, Ed.D., GRD74, and Jane Ashcom, Ph.D., G64
Vesna Bacic and Zlatko Bacic, Ph.D.
Carol Baker, LPS13 and Mark E. Stein
Sylva C. Baker, CW52, G53, PAR
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Peter A. Benoliel, G58, and Willo Carey, PAR
Gene B. Bishop, M.D., and Andrew M. Stone, M.D.
Matthew C. Blair and Michael J. Haas
Andrew F. Blittman and Linda Zaleski
John Bomalaski, M.D., FEL84, and Patricia Bomalaski, R.N., GNU98
Liza Bontecou
Samuel S. Brewer, WG04
Ira Brind, Esquire, C63, L67
Dr. Robert A. Brooks and Shirley Brooks
Keith D. Brown, Ph.D., GR90, and Patricia Flores-Brown, C87
Ann B. Brownlee, Ph.D., and David B. Brownlee, Ph.D.
Michael Buckley
Loyd and Maria Burcham
Elizabeth and John Bussard
Anne C. Butcher and McBee Butcher, C61, PAR
Rebecca Calder Nugent and Timothy Nugent
Carl J. Capista and Donna E. Ostroff, Esquire, C81
Jeff Cepull and Lynne A. Hunter, Ph.D.
Albert A. Ciardi III, W88
Elizabeth Spiro Clark and Warren Clark, Jr.
Joan I. Coale
Barbara R. Cobb
Abbi L. Cohen, Esquire, L83, and Thomas O’Connell, Esquire, PAR
Patricia Conard
Howard Coonley, C66, PAR
Mari and Robert Corson
Alexandre Costabile, WG08, G08, and Susan Dando
Patrick Coue, CGS07, and Sampath Kannan, Ph.D., PAR
Robert Coughlin, Ph.D., GR64, and Louisa H. Spottswood
James D. Crawford, Esquire, L62, and Judith N. Dean, Esquire,
CW59, L62
Raphael J. Dehoratius, M.D., M44, GM48
Caroline and Joseph W. Dellapenna
Robert J. Dixson
Lee Dodoo and Joy Frazier-Dodoo
Peggy Duckett
Howard J. Eisen, M.D., M81, INT84, and Judith E. Wolf, M.D., INT84
Harrison Eiteljorg II, Ph.D., GR73, and Linda I. Weiss
Lucia Esther, G82
Mary J. Fallon, G81, and Daniel Kurdilla
Catherine G. Fine, Ph.D., and Robert Fine, M.D., C70, PAR
Katherine M. Fisher
Jean Flood and Paul Nemeth
Andre Forney
Frank A. Franz, Ph.D. and Judy Franz
Elizabeth Gemmill, Esquire, CGS04, CGS06
Alice L. George, Ph.D., GGS96
Julie and Mitchell Gerstein
Robert Gilmour and Cynthia Mabry
James A. Glasscock, D.Min., and Lois R. Glasscock
Donna Glickstein and Stewart Krevolin
Marguerite P. Goff and Stephen Goff, AR62, PAR
Andrew R. Golden, W74, and Vickie G. Golden, W74, PAR
Frederick Golec, Jr., Ph.D., and Susan Robinson Golec
Janet H. Goren and Robert Goren, M.D., C73, GM81
Ann N. Greene, CW54
Mary G. Gregg and John M. Ryan
Randie and Robert Harmelin
Cynthia M. Harrison, Ph.D., GR82
Katie Hartner and William Russell Pfaff
Donna F. and Vincent W. Hartnett
Andrew and Kathleen Hazeltine
Meredith and Stephen Hecht
Jean Henry, Ph.D., M.S.S., B.C.D.
Paul Hirshorn, C62, GCP64, GAR72
Alan and Nancy J. Hirsig
Lynda K. and W. Anthony Hitschler
Hon. Harris N. Hollin, CCC57, and Sandra F. Hollin, PAR
W. Lynn Holmes, Ph.D., and Mary P. Osbakken, M.D., Ph.D.
Julie Laughlin Holt and Leo A. Holt
Danielle Hutjer
Lee M. Hymerling, Esquire, C66, L69, and Rosedale Hymerling
Shirley Jackiewicz
Francis B. Jacobs II and Patricia Harrison Jacobs
Elise F. Jones, G69, GR79
Donald Kajioka
Anne A. Kamrin and Robert P. Kamrin, M.D., M59, INT66
David Kaufman, M.D., and Geraldine Kaufman, D.V.M.
David S. Kirk, C65, WG67
Josephine Klein
Morrie E. Kricun, M.D., GM79, and Virginia M. Kricun, CGS04
Doranne M. Lackman and Richard D. Lackman,
M.D., M77, INT82, PAR
Margaret J. Laudise, GNU87, and Derek P. Warden, C83, PAR
Christopher and Misti Layser
Betsy and Robert Legnini
William Levant and Carol R. Yaster
Marshall Levine and Harriet Potashnick
Dale P. Levy, Esquire, L67, and Richard D. Levy
William Lobosco and Jane Rinn
Rebecca Marcus
Mary Ann and Raymond Marks, PAR
Michael and Therese Marmion
Betty and James M. Matarese
E. Ann Matter, Ph.D.
Robert M. Maxwell, C84, G86, and Julia R. Toner
Barbara W. McNerney, CW52, and William R. McNerney
Janet M. Monge, Ph.D., GR91
Anselene M. Morris
Martha and Peter Morse
June S. Morse, CGS84
William R. Muir, M.D., INT59
W. Gresham O’Malley III, W54
Dr. Robert F. Olszewski, Jr.
Sandra B. Portnoy, CW67, and Sidney Portnoy, Ph.D.
Sandra W. Posey and Warren M. Posey, WG65
Laura Raab
Kate S. and Michael A. Riccardi
Edward A. Richards, GAR59
Anthony B. Riley
Elizabeth R. Rivers and William H. Rivers, SW62
Matthew and Patricia Robertson
Michael D. Rose and Chelsey Sytsma
John Rosenau
Lawrence Rueger and Marjorie B. Rueger, CW70
Linda Ryan and Michael Ryan, M.D.
Helen Schenck, G81
Grace E. Schuler and Thomas Tauber, Ph.D.
Harlan Scott
Andrea Scott and H. Rodney Scott, C70
Carl A. Seaquist, Ph.D., C90, GR04
Marcia C. Shearer
Judith A. Silver and Donald F. Stevens, PAR
Theodore Simmons
Laird and M. Trudy Slade
James M. and Melissa P. Smith
James S. and Janis M. Smith
Renee Y. Snowten
Gregory Snyder
Edward J. Solomon, W76, and Cathy Weiss
Ann W. Spaeth and Karl H. Spaeth, Esquire
Alexander C.S. and Vanessa G. Spiro
Arthur Staddon, M.D., M72, FEL78, and
Marcia Robb Staddon, CGS74
Burke and Nancy Stinson
Francis R. Strawbridge III and Mary Jo Strawbridge
Elizabeth and Richard Szucs
Robert J. Wallner, M.D.
Franca C. Warden, PAR
Ada Warner and Frank W. Warner, Ph.D., PAR
Deborah R. Willig, Esquire, CW72
John Ellis Knowles Wisner
Daphne Wood
Michael Wood
Lauren and Mike Zabel
Victor Zhang
East Greek aryballos (ceramic
vase) in the shape of a helmeted
Hoplite soldier, ca. 600–570
BCE. UPM object #31-9-1.
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of Pennsylvania Museum of
Archaeology and Anthropology.
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LOREN EISELEY SOCIETY
WILLIAMS DIRECTOR’S CIRCLEJoanne H. Conrad, C79, and William L. Conrad, PAR
Peter G. Gould, Ph.D., LPS10, and Robin M. Potter, WG80
Donald C. and Ingrid A. Graham
H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang, Ph.D., G98, GR04, and
Oscar Liu-Chien Tang
Barbara D. and Michael J. Kowalski, The Kowalski Family Foundation
Curtis S. Lane, W79, WG80, and Stacey Rosner Lane,
C80, GR13, PAR
Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy, WG74
A. Bruce Mainwaring, C47, and Margaret R. Mainwaring,
ED47, HON85, PAR
Gregory A. Weingarten
Jeffrey Weiss and Jill Topkis Weiss, C89, WG93, PAR
Charles K. Williams II, Ph.D., GR78, HON97
PLATINUM CIRCLELois and Robert M. Baylis
David T. Clancy, W70, and McCarroll Sibley Clancy
Dana Eisman Cohen, C88, and Michael E. Cohen, D.M.D.,
D89, PAR
Greg Danilow and Susan F. Danilow, Esquire, CW74, G74, PAR
Jacqueline W. Hover and John C. Hover II, C65, WG67
Ann M. Huebner and Ross Waller
Bonnie Verbit Lundy, CW67, and Joseph E. Lundy, Esquire, W65
Frederick J. Manning, W69, and the Manning Family
Annette Merle-Smith
Carlos L. Nottebohm, W64, and Renee Nottebohm
Adolf A. Paier, W60, and Geraldine S. Paier, Ph.D.,
HUP66, NU68, GNU85, GR94
William L. Potter, WG88, and Joanne S. Ruckel, WG88, PAR
Gretchen P. Riley, CGS70, and J. Barton Riley, W70, PAR
Frances Rockwell and John R. Rockwell, W64, WG66, PAR
Alexandra Schoenberg and Eric J. Schoenberg, Ph.D.,
GEN93, WG93, PAR
Mary Ellen Simmons, O.D., C81, and Steve Simmons
Mo Zayan and Nanou Zayan, CW73, PAR
GOLD CIRCLEJohanna Berkman and Emanuel Weintraub, C87
David Crane and Isabella de la Houssaye
Robert W. Kalish, M.D., C55
Judy and Peter Leone
Gregory S. Maslow, M.D., C68, M72, GM77, and
Laurie Maslow, CW69, PAR
John J. Medveckis, PAR
David A. Schwartz, M.D., and Stephanie Schwartz
SILVER CIRCLECummins Catherwood, Jr., and Susan W. Catherwood
Lawrence S. Coben, Ph.D., G03, GR12
George E. Doty, Jr., W76, and Lee Spelman Doty, W76, PAR
Lisa Gemmill
Catherine A. Giventer, C95, and Craig M. Giventer, C92
Harvey and Virginia Kimmel
Andrea R. Kramer, Esquire, L76, and Lee A. Rosengard, Esquire,
L76, PAR
Frank and Sharon N. Lorenzo
Marco L. Lukesch, C01, W01
Donna Mackay, M.D., and Robert Mackay
Mary Ann D. Meyers, Ph.D., GR76, PAR
Stanley Muravchick, M.D., and Arlene Olson, PAR
George R. Pitts, Ph.D., GR77
John R. Senior, M.D., M54, FEL59, and Sara Spedden Senior,
CW52, PAR
THE LOREN E ISEL EY SOCIETY AND EXPED IT ION C IRCL ES
Unrestricted gifts to the Penn Museum membership program, annual fund, and Director’s Discretionary
Fund provide the most vital type of funding—available where needed at any time to support a vast range
of Museum activities on a day-to-day basis.
The Penn Museum is deeply grateful to the following 2014–2015 members of the Loren Eiseley Leadership
Giving Society (LES)—which was created to recognize donors to the membership program or annual fund
of $1,500 or more and to honor the memory of the long-time Penn Museum anthropologist, essayist, and
poet—and of the Expedition Circles, whose members donate $250 to $1,499 annually.
Special thanks to our LES Co-Chairs, Joanne and Bill Conrad for outstanding personal leadership.
SUPPORTING THE MISSION
Patricia L. Squire and Elizabeth Jean Walker, SW74
Matthew Jordan Storm, C94, WG00, and Natalia Storm
Andrea Weiss and Carl Weiss, Esquire, PAR
Joanne T. Welsh, CW52, and Raymond H. Welsh, W53
BRONZE CIRCLEElie M. Abemayor, M.D., C78, and Judith Abemayor
James Averill
Cheryl Louise Baker
Nicholas Bass, ENG09, and Emily Zenger, C09
Lauren Bayster-Morel and Donald Morel, Jr., Ph.D.
Eileen Baird
Arnold W. Bradburd, W49, and Julia A. Bradburd, CGS07
Arthur J. Burke, Esquire, C89, W89
G. Theodore and Nancie W. Burkett
James Catrickes and Pauline Catrickes, CW75, PAR
Debra and Morris Chandler
Edwin D. Coyle, Ed.D., GED05, and Patricia Coyle
Julie Comay and Dan Rahimi
A. Webster Dougherty, Jr., C57, and Janet S. Dougherty
Jane A. Duffy and Michael P. Duffy, L86
Gary A. Emmett, M.D., and Marianne Emmett, M.D.
Jason Fehntrich and Amie Spatz
Marilyn Forney and Robert C. Forney, Ph.D., PAR
Pamela Freyd, Ph.D., GED68, GR81, and Peter Freyd, Ph.D., PAR
Kathleen and P. Gregory Garrison
Shannon Garrison and Nikil Saval
Anthony Grillo, WG78, and Elaine Grillo
Fredrik T. Hiebert, Ph.D., and Katherine Moore Hiebert, Ph.D.
James H. and Pamela M. Hill
Cindy and Matthew I. Hirsch
H. Lewis Klein, C49, and Janet S. Klein, ED51, PAR
DruEllen Kolker and James D. Kolker, M.D., C76
Howard H. and Maxine S. Lewis
Rachel C. Lilley, CW66
Marianne Lovink and Julian Siggers, Ph.D.
Ole W. Lyngklip III, Esquire, C85
Missy McQuiston and Robert E. McQuiston, CGS07
Ella Warren Miller, CW51, and Paul F. Miller, Jr., W50, HON81, PAR
Amanda Mitchell-Boyask and Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Ph.D.
Linda McCarthy and Thomas A. McCarthy, Jr., W78
Robert and Susan McLean
A. M. Mulroney, CW57, PAR
Bonnie J. O’Boyle, CW68
Judith L. Oppenheimer, CW73
Donna Conforti Rissman and Paul Rissman, Ph.D., C78, GR85
C. Brian Rose, Ph.D.
Joseph B. and Rita P. Scheller
Mary Ellen Simmons, O.D., C81, and Steve Simmons
Theodore Simmons
Bayard T. Storey, Ph.D., and Frances E. Storey*
Lee Evan Tabas, C72, ME72, and Nancy Freeman Tabas, PAR
George H. Talbot, M.D., and Sheryl F. Talbot, M.D., GM84
Stephen Tinney, Ph.D., and Beatriz Urraca, Ph.D.
Jeannette G. Tregoe, PAR
Mrs. Robert L. Trescher
Samuel Phineas Upham, Ph.D., WG05, GRW06
Ellis G. Wachs, and Peggy B. Wachs, Esquire,
CW59, GCP75, L86, PAR
Caroline Waxler, C93
Helen P. Winston and Richard E. Winston, G48, PAR
Diane Dalto Woosnam and Richard E. Woosnam
EXPEDITION CIRCLES
EXPEDITION CIRCLE BENEFACTORSWendy Ashmore, Ph.D., GR81
Sara M. Brown, Ph.D., GRD64
Ann B. Brownlee, Ph.D., and David B. Brownlee, Ph.D.
Harrison Eiteljorg II, Ph.D., GR73, and Linda I. Weiss
Alice L. George, Ph.D., GGS96
Elizabeth S. Gephart, CGS79, and George W. Gephart, Jr.,
WG79, PAR
Ann N. Greene, CW54
Bryan R. Harris, C83
Hannah L. Henderson
Mary Ann and Raymond Marks, PAR
Annette Price and Vincent Price, Ph.D., PAR
Jay Reinfeld
Anthony B. Riley
Mary Warden and William G. Warden III
Deborah R. Willig, Esquire, CW72
EXPEDITION CIRCLE FELLOWSBrett and Nancy Altman
Arthur K. Asbury, M.D., and Carolyn Asbury, Ph.D., GR82
Peter A. Benoliel, G58, and Willo Carey, PAR
Andrew F. Blittman and Linda Zaleski
Elizabeth Spiro Clark and Warren Clark, Jr.
Marie A. Conn, Ph.D.
Robert J. Dixson
Jean Flood and Paul Nemeth
Sandstone human
effigy pipe, from
Ferguson Planation, Jefferson
County, Mississippi,
ca. 1200–1800 CE. UPM
object #14328.
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Elizabeth Gemmill, Esquire, CGS04, CGS06
Andrew R. Golden, W74, and Vickie G. Golden, W74, PAR
Meredith and Stephen Hecht
Alan and Nancy J. Hirsig
Lee M. Hymerling, Esquire, C66, L69, and Rosedale Hymerling
Elise F. Jones, G69, GR79
David S. Kirk, C65, WG67
Evelyn S. Kritchevsky, Ph.D., GR78
Margaret J. Laudise, GNU87, and Derek P. Warden, C83, PAR
Betsy and Robert Legnini
William Levant and Carol R. Yaster
Michael and Therese Marmion
Robert M. Maxwell, C84, G86, and Julia R. Toner
Janet M. Monge, Ph.D., GR91
June S. Morse, CGS84
Martha and Peter Morse
Renee Y. Snowten
Gregory Snyder
Franca C. Warden, PAR
EXPEDITION CIRCLE PATRONSMarkus Aman and Carl Engelke
Janet Kestenberg Amighi and Lawrence Davidson
Bruce A. and Ellen Asam
Vesna Bacic and Zlatko Bacic, Ph.D.
Carol Baker, LPS13 and Mark E. Stein
Sylva C. Baker, CW52, G53, PAR
Mona N. Batt
Gene B. Bishop, M.D., and Andrew M. Stone, M.D.
Matthew C. Blair and Michael J. Haas
John Bomalaski, M.D., FEL84, and Patricia Bomalaski, R.N., GNU98
Samuel S. Brewer, WG04
Ira Brind, Esquire, C63, L67
Dr. Robert A. Brooks and Shirley Brooks
Keith D. Brown, Ph.D., GR90, and Patricia Flores-Brown, C87
Michael Buckley
Elizabeth and John Bussard
Anne C. Butcher and McBee Butcher, C61, PAR
Carl J. Capista and Donna E. Ostroff, Esquire, C81
Jeff Cepull and Lynne A. Hunter, Ph.D.
Joan I. Coale
Barbara R. Cobb
Abbi L. Cohen, Esquire, L83, and Thomas O’Connell, Esquire, PAR
Patricia Conard
Howard Coonley, C66, PAR
Mari and Robert Corson
Alexandre Costabile, WG08, G08, and Susan Dando
Patrick Coue, CGS07, and Sampath Kannan, Ph.D., PAR
Robert Coughlin, Ph.D., GR64, and Louisa H. Spottswood
James D. Crawford, Esquire, L62, and Judith N. Dean, Esquire,
CW59, L62
Raphael J. Dehoratius, M.D., M44, GM48
Caroline and Joseph W. Dellapenna
Prema Deshmukh, WEV10, and Sanjay Deshmukh, PAR
Lee Dodoo and Joy Frazier-Dodoo
Peggy Duckett
Howard J. Eisen, M.D., M81, INT84, and Judith E. Wolf, M.D., INT84
Lucia Esther, G82
Mary J. Fallon, G81, and Daniel Kurdilla
Catherine G. Fine, Ph.D., and Robert Fine, M.D., C70, PAR
Katherine M. Fisher
Andre Forney
Frank A. Franz, Ph.D. and Judy Franz
Julie and Mitchell Gerstein
Robert Gilmour and Cynthia Mabry
James A. Glasscock, D.Min., and Lois R. Glasscock
Donna Glickstein and Stewart Krevolin
Marguerite P. Goff and Stephen Goff, AR62, PAR
Frederick Golec, Jr., Ph.D., and Susan Robinson Golec
Mary G. Gregg and John M. Ryan
Randie and Robert Harmelin
Cynthia M. Harrison, Ph.D., GR82
Katie Hartner and William Russell Pfaff
Donna F. and Vincent W. Hartnett
Andrew and Kathleen Hazeltine
Lynda K. and W. Anthony Hitschler
Standing male ceramic figure
from the Las Remojadas culture
in Mexico, ca. 500-700 CE.
He wears an animal head
headdress and skin shirt and is
adorned with earrings, armlets,
anklets, a necklace, and a
belt. UPM object #61-1-2.
Dorling Kindersley: University
of Pennsylvania Museum of
Archaeology and Anthropology.
SUPPORTING THE MISSION
Hon. Harris N. Hollin, CCC57, and Sandra F. Hollin, PAR
W. Lynn Holmes, Ph.D., and Mary P. Osbakken, M.D., Ph.D.
Julie Laughlin Holt and Leo A. Holt
Danielle Hutjer
Shirley Jackiewicz
Donald Kajioka
Anne A. Kamrin and Robert P. Kamrin, M.D., M59, INT66
David Kaufman, M.D., and Geraldine Kaufman, D.V.M.
Doranne M. Lackman and Richard D. Lackman, M.D.,
M77, INT82, PAR
Christopher and Misti Layser
Marshall Levine and Harriet Potashnick
Dale P. Levy, Esquire, L67, and Richard D. Levy
William Lobosco and Jane Rinn
Rebecca Marcus
Betty and James M. Matarese
E. Ann Matter, Ph.D.
Barbara W. McNerney, CW52, and William R. McNerney
Anselene M. Morris
William R. Muir, M.D., INT59
Rebecca Calder Nugent and Timothy Nugent
Dr. Robert F. Olszewski, Jr.
W. Gresham O’Malley III, W54
Sandra B. Portnoy, CW67, and Sidney Portnoy, Ph.D.
Sandra W. Posey and Warren M. Posey, WG65
Laura Raab
Kate S. and Michael A. Riccardi
Edward A. Richards, GAR59
Barbara Rittenhouse
Elizabeth R. Rivers and William H. Rivers, SW62
Matthew and Patricia Robertson
Michael D. Rose and Chelsey Sytsma
John Rosenau
Lawrence Rueger and Marjorie B. Rueger, CW70
Linda Ryan and Michael Ryan, M.D.
Helen Schenck, G81
Grace E. Schuler and Thomas Tauber, Ph.D.
Andrea Scott and H. Rodney Scott, C70
Harlan Scott
Marcia C. Shearer
Judith A. Silver and Donald F. Stevens, PAR
James S. and Janis M. Smith
Edward J. Solomon, W76, and Cathy Weiss
Ann W. Spaeth and Karl H. Spaeth, Esquire
Arthur Staddon, M.D., M72, FEL78, and
Marcia Robb Staddon, CGS74
Burke and Nancy Stinson
Francis R. Strawbridge III and Mary Jo Strawbridge
Elizabeth and Richard Szucs
Robert J. Wallner, M.D.
Ada Warner and Frank W. Warner, Ph.D., PAR
Karin Lindblad Yanoff, Ph.D., G67, GR88, and Myron Yanoff, M.D.,
C57, M61, PAR
Lauren and Mike Zabel
Victor Zhang
Andean hollow silver
figurine from Peru, 1476–1550
CE. This 8” votive figure of
a woman was probably paired
with a gold figure as an offering
at a human burial. It would
have been dressed in miniature
woven garments. UPM object
#SA2490. Dorling Kindersley:
University of Pennsylvania
Museum of Archaeology and
Anthropology.
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1984 Foundation
Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture
American Endowment Foundation
American Research Center in Egypt
Bank of America
Baylis Charitable Foundation
Louis N. Cassett Foundation
The Chingos Foundation
The Coca-Cola Company
Frederic W. Cook & Company
Cox Family Charitable Fund
The Dalton School
Delaware Investments/Macquarie Holdings, Inc
Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation
Dow Chemical Company
Friends of Upper Dublin Public Library
Fulbright Association
German Society of Pennsylvania
GlaxoSmithKline
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
The Graham Foundation
GRoW Annenberg Foundation
Mary B. and Alvin P. Gutman Fund
The Haney Foundation Trust
IBM Corporation Matching Gift Program
The Institute for Aegean Prehistory
International Visitors Council of Philadelphia
Johnson & Johnson
The J. M. Kaplan Fund, Inc.
The Hagop Kevorkian Fund
KeyBank National Association
Klasko, Rulon, Stock & Seltzer, LLP
Louis J. Kolb Foundation
The Kowalski Family Foundation
Curtis and Stacey Lane Fund
Leon Levy Foundation
The A.G. Leventis Foundation
Lockheed Martin Corporation
Loeb Classical Library Foundation
Lorenzon Brothers Company
Macquarie Holdings, Inc.
J. J. Medveckis Foundation
Merck Company Foundation
Fowler Merle-Smith Family Charitable Lead Trust
The Merops Foundation
Moorestown Free Library Association
PECO
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
The Philadelphia Cultural Fund
The Philadelphia Zoo
The PoGo Family Foundation Inc.
PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP
Luther I. Replogle Foundation
Restaurant Associates
Joseph Rosen Foundation
The Rust Family Foundation
Lee, Nancy, Samuel, Elizabeth, Theodore & Melissa Tabas Fund
Samuel Tabas Family Foundation
Vision Resources of Central PA
Weiss Family Donor Advised Fund
Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation
C.K. Williams Foundation
Winston Holding, Inc.
The Wistar Institute
The Women’s Committee
Painted wooden rowboat
with 16 figures from Tomb
of Khentkhety, Egypt, ca.
2130–1980 BCE. Ten of the
oars are preserved. UPM object
#E14347. Dorling Kindersley:
University of Pennsylvania
Museum of Archaeology and
Anthropology.
CORPORATE, FOUNDATION, AND GOVERNMENT AGENCY SUPPORTERS
The Penn Museum gratefully acknowledges the following foundations, corporations, government agencies,
and organizations for financial support of its general operations, exhibition, conservation, education, and
special research programs.
SUPPORTING THE MISSION
Special thanks to Sara Yorke Stevenson Legacy
Circle Chair, Joseph E. Lundy, Esquire, W65, whose
diligent work has helped to enhance this program
in 2014-2015, and to the following members:
Anonymous (2)*
Janet M. Andereck
Celeste Anderson, CW68, and Peter Anderson
Deborah L. Augusta
James D. Crawford, Esquire, L62*
Charlotte Garretson Cronin, CW45
Elin Danien, Ph.D., CGS82, G89, GR98
L. Daniel Dannenbaum
Charles H. Davis, W56, WG63
James DeHullu
Marcia Doelman
Marilyn Forney and Robert C. Forney, Ph.D., PAR
Beverly Caplan Freeman, OT54
Lisa Gemmill
Mrs. Louis Gerstley III, GM57
Helen H. Gindele, CW51
Mary E. Golin, GED63
Mary Bert Gutman
Luba Holowaty, Ph.D., ED53, GR70
Jacqueline W. Hover and John C. Hover II, C65, WG67
Josephine Arader Hueber, CW47, PAR
James H. Kinsman
Dr. Frank G. Klein
Rachel C. Lilley, CW66
Bonnie Verbit Lundy, CW67, and Joseph E. Lundy, Esquire, W65
Michael B. Luskin
A. Bruce Mainwaring, C47, PAR
Margaret R. Mainwaring, ED47, HON85, PAR
Therese Marmion
Rudolph Masciantonio, Ph.D., G66
Linda L. Mather, Ed.D., GRD77
Patricia A. Mattern, CW72, G72
James McClelland
Lois Meyers
Naomi F. Miller, Ph.D.
Mary Jo Mumford, M.D.
Sara Nerken
Scott A. Neumann
Adolf A. Paier, W60, and Geraldine Paier, Ph.D.,
HUP66, NU68, GNU85, GR94
Harold C. Putnam, Jr., C58
Edward A. Richards, GAR59
Barbara H. Roberts, CGS70
John R. Rockwell, W64, WG66, PAR
Ralph A. Rosenbaum, C65
Mitchell S. Rothman, Ph.D., GR88 and Leslie Simon, GR80
John R. Senior, M.D., M54, FEL59, PAR
Sara Spedden Senior, CW52, PAR
David P. Silverman, Ph.D.
Wilma S. Slyoff, CW64, GED68
Kathryn Sorkin and Sanford Sorkin, W67
Patricia Squire
Emily W. Starr and Harold P. Starr, L57
Curtis Eugene Thomsen, Ph.D.
Mrs. Robert L. Trescher
Diana T. Vagelos, PAR
Karen R. Venturini, CGS83
Robert Vosburgh, Jr.
Elizabeth Jean Walker, SW74
Jackie Wiegand, CW48, PAR
Carole and James Wilkinson
*New member in 2014–2015
SARA YORKE STEVENSON LEGACY CIRCLE
The Sara Yorke Stevenson Legacy Circle, named for the visionary curator of the Museum’s Egyptian and
Mediterranean Sections from 1890 to 1905, honors individuals who have committed financial resources to
support the Penn Museum through a planned gift of a bequest, living trust, retirement plan, life insurance
policy, or life income gift that will benefit the Museum in the future.
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THE GIFT OF TIME
In the following pages, the Penn Museum acknowledges—
with deepest thanks—the many volunteers and staff whose
dedication, loyalty, and outstanding efforts further its research,
teaching, stewardship, and public engagement day in, day out.
Above: Metal coin from
the Qing Dynasty, China,
1736-1795. Chinese
characters (as shown here)
are engraved on one side
and Manchu script appears
on the reverse side. UPM
object #2011-12-23.
Left: Embroidered
silk Mandarin square from
Korea, Yi Dynasty. One
of a pair of rank badges.
UPM object #17641B.
Dorling Kindersley:
University of Pennsylvania
Museum of Archaeology
and Anthropology.
Right: Using modern
versions of Greek helmets,
Docent Joe Balmos
describes how armor
protected soldiers in
antiquity.
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The following individuals were
recognized for their extraordinary
service at the Annual Volunteer
Luncheon in April 2015:
Volunteer of the Year
Elin C. Danien, Ph.D.,
CGS82, G89, GR98
10 Years of Service
David T. Clancy, W70
Michael Feng, C79
Vida M. Klemas, CW62, PAR
Frederick J. Manning, W69, PAR
Janet A. Simon
15 Years of Service
Gretchen R. Hall, Ph.D., CGS97
Joseph E. Lundy, W65
Barbara Rittenhouse
Lawrence Rosen
25 Years of Service
Criswell Cohagan Gonzalez
Gretchen Riley, CGS70, PAR
Glendora Trescher
30 Years of Service
Joan R. Holmes
Alida N. Lovell
Annette Merle-Smith
Charles K. Williams II, Ph.D.,
GR78, HON97
40 Years of Service
Joan Bachman
Helen P. Winston, PAR
Penn Museum recognizes with
gratitude the following
volunteers for service during
2014–2015.
CURATORIAL SECTIONS AND
MUSEUM CENTERS
African Section
Yin Liu
Sr. Dr. Ann M. McCloskey
American Section
Joseph Aguilar
George Fago
Virginia Greene, G68
Barbara J. Hayden, Ph.D.
Christopher Jones, Ph.D., G63,
GR69, PAR*
Emily Jean Leischner
David McCormick
Gail P. Wallis
William D. Wallis
Egyptian Section
Elizabeth Jean Walker, SW74
Historical Archaeology
Section
Leota Terry
Mediterranean Section
Francesca Saldan
Kevin Lee
Katharine Nelson, GCP09
Diane Panepresso, LPS15
Natalie Reynolds, C17
N. Saldan
Jane Sancinito
Near East Section
Lara Fields
Claire Gaposchkin
Kelly Lauer
Olivia Nardone
Tom Pedrick
Cindy Srnka, LPS16
Elena Yandola
Oceanian Section
Jessica Carmine
Natasha Cohen-Carroll
Sr. Dr. Ann M. McCloskey
Jim Millisky
Hilary Symes
Penn Cultural Heritage
Center
Maricruz Gutierrez-Villa
Lindsey Lyons
Kevin MacLary
Raymond McCormack, C17
Summer Sloane
Physical Anthropology
Section
Melissa Carpenter
Lisa Gemmill
Jean Henry, Ph.D., M.S.S., B.C.D.
Kevin Murphy
MUSEUM DEPARTMENTS
Archives
Jean E. Craig, G76
James R. DeWalt
Elisa Landaverde
Shapoor Pourshariati
Megan Reinprecht
Lawrence Rosen
Janet A. Simon
Wai Yan Zhao
Alberta Zuema
Conservation
Cassia Balogh
Liu Boxi
Laurel Burmeister
Stephanie Caratto
Yan Ling
Liz McDermott
Marissa Miller, C02, GED03, G05
Yifei Mu
Learning Programs
Carole Brewer
Ben Kelly
Elinor Roth Hesson
Faith Williams
Public Programs
Cameron Copeland
Rachel Crouch
Ariannis Hines
Ben Kelly
Paul Verhelst, G14, GR19
Registrar’s Office
Mary Campbell
Rebecca Cruz
Zhao Wai Yan
SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND
PROJECTS
Anthropologists in the
Making Summer Camp
Joe Abegg
Philippe Atallah
Drew Babin
Kenna Barrett
Staci Bell
Olivia Brintlinger-Conn
Claire Byrnes
Tabbi Cavaliere
Simone Chatham
Joseph Deegan
Danielle Falciani
Jonathan Falciani
Michael Geisinger
Mia Gold
Sara Gonzalez
Lorraine Grayson
Sarah Halpern
Grace Hong
Conrad Jones
Sierra Jones
Ben Kelly
Rachel Kline
Maria Leone
Laura Liu
Maryellen Martin
Peter Martin
PENN MUSEUM VOLUNTEERS
The Penn Museum gratefully acknowledges the work of more than 200 volunteers who contribute their time on a
regular, ongoing basis in almost every curatorial section, Museum department, and for many projects and programs.
Bronze door handle or
knocker from Beth Shean,
Israel. This Byzantine object
dates ca. 300–1100 BCE.
UPM object #29-108-
104. Dorling Kindersley:
University of Pennsylvania
Museum of Archaeology and
Anthropology.
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THE GIFT OF TIME
Sejal Menghani
Roman Nikonov
Arpit Prasad
Jana Pugsley
Aditya Risbud
Elinor Roth Hesson
Emma Sarr
Zach Smith
Katherine Wang
Emily White
Faith Williams
Ban Chiang Project
Leila Bolce-Schick
Dan Lo Mastro
Samuel K. Nash, Sc.D.
Beth Van Horn
Vivian Wolovitz, PAR
Biomolecular Archaeology
Program
Theodore Davidson
Gretchen R. Hall, Ph.D., CGS97
Patrick McGovern, Ph.D., GR80
Samuel K. Nash, Sc.D.
Cynthia G. Orr Day, C77, G87,
WG91
Cartifacts Program
Indu Achuthakumar
Carl Adamczyk
Claudia Ashworth
James Baffa
Joseph J. Balmos
Michele Belluomini
Theresa Boyer
Mary Brown
Sharon Burgess
Rebecca Butterfield
Emilio Caucci
Tabbi Cavaliere
Connie Chen
Karen Chernick
Sophia Clampet-Lundquist
Tuera Clark
Debra Crasnick
Katrina Denk
Stuart Draper
John Dwyer
Danielle Falciani
Jonathan Falciani
Becky Ferguson
Harrison Fishman
Julia Frances
Miriam Francisco
Frank Giorgilli
Jenna Goldman
Marjorie Haines
Emma Heath
Emma Hess
Ariannis Hines
Julian Hirsch
Kate Huangpu
Haleemah Jackson
Kimberly Jovinelli
Ben Kelly
Alex G. King
Brooke Krancer
Josephine Lippincott
Mike Maccherone
Julia Mackin-McLaughlin
Max Madero
Jose Magana
Peter Martin
Colin McCrossan
Kai McGinn
Caitlin Mongan
June S. Morse, CGS84
Megan O’Meara
Cristina Palma
Esther Payne, CGS82
Philip Perrone
Sarah Piotrowski
Anthony Rey
Aditya Risbud
Amy Rodriguez
Elinor Roth Hesson
Benjamin Rovito
Amy Serafino
Mozelle Shamash Rosenthal
Malika Shukurova
Ananya Sinha
Nina Spitofsky
Alex Stern
Donta J. Stevenson
Kevin Stewart
Lisa Marie Sticco
Moriah Taylor
Rebecca Vandewalle
Katherine Wang
Cathy Yang
Clio Society of
Student Docents
Monica Fenton, C15
Sarah Lynch, C15
Charlotte Matthai, C17
Leo Page-Blau, C18
Paige Parsons, C18
Elizabeth Peng, C18, W18
Sheridan Small, C18
Thomas Wille
Docent Program
Barbara Anglisz
Benjamin Ashcom, Ed.D.,
GRD74
Cheryl Louise Baker
Joseph J. Balmos
John P. Barry
Michele Belluomini
Elise Bromberg
Richard H. Burger
Charlotte N. Byrd
Adrian D. Copeland, M.D.
Ellen Copeland
Mark P. Curchack, Ph.D.
Elin C. Danien, Ph.D.,
CGS82, G89, GR98
James DeHullu
Michael F. Doyle
Arlene L. Goldberg, CW64
Anna Sophocles Hadgis, CGS70,
G85, PAR
Joan Harrison, NU60, PAR89
Gail Hauptfuhrer
Stephen Hecht
Theresa A. Joniec
Marcia Klafter
Vida M. Klemas, CW62, PAR
Elpida Kohler
Linda Lempert
Marilyn Lieberman
Eugene Magee
Lawrence McClenney
Richard N. McKinney, C61
Cheryl Grady Mercier
Nancy W. Naftulin, G69
Suzanne Y. Naughton
Dorothy Page
Esther Payne
Marjorie Robbins
T. Wayne Roberts
Toby Schwait
Krista Smart
Robert P. Sprafkin
Donald S. Todd, GED61
Dr. Joan Wider, PAR
Mindy Widman,
D.S.W., SW80, GRS85
Ken Wissler
Gordion Project
Samuel Butler
Phoebe A. Sheftel, Ph.D.,
GR74, PAR
International
Classroom Program
Tag Brewer
NAGPRA Program
Zhenia N. Bemko, LPS16
Ava L. Childers
Shlomit Heering, C16
*deceased
Penn Museum makes every effort to maintain its volunteer records. If you
volunteered at the Penn Museum during 2014–2015 and are not included in
the list above, or as a member of one of the volunteer groups recognized
in the preceding pages, please accept our deepest apologies and notify
us of the correction at [email protected].
Bronze figurine in the
shape of two oxen placed
back to back, with long
horns. From Umbria,
Italy, ca. 599-500 BCE.
Dorling Kindersley:
University of Pennsylvania
Museum of Archaeology and
Anthropology.
P E N N M U S E U M A N N U A L R E P O R T 2 0 1 4 – 2 0 1 5
WOMEN’S COMMITTEE
Founded in 1937, the Women’s Committee develops and champions programs to stimulate interest in the Penn
Museum, cultivates new audiences, and promotes Museum membership and attendance. The Committee provides
financial support for Museum fund-raising efforts, and creative ideas and funding for new and ongoing projects. The
Penn Museum is deeply grateful to Chair M. Trudy Slade, Vice Chair Lisa Siegel, and the following members of the
Women’s Committee for their service in 2014–2015:
Joan Bachman
Mrs. Francis J. Bagnell
Mary Margaret Ballinger, OT81
Mona N. Batt*
Ann M. Beal*
Anne C. Butcher, PAR**
Beth Howland Butler
Susan W. Catherwood
Pauline Catrickes, CW75, PAR
Joan I. Coale
Joanne H. Conrad, C79, PAR
Maude de Schauensee**
Bonnie C. Derr
Janet S. Dougherty*
Perry Durkin
Beth Fluke, CGS98
Mrs. Louis Gerstley III, GM57**
Anna Gniotek**
Marguerite P. Goff, PAR
Mrs. Herman H. Goldstine**
Criswell Cohagan Gonzalez**
Ingrid A. Graham
Ann N. Greene, CW54*
Mary Bert Gutman, PAR*
Katherine Hall
Nancy Hastings, PAR*
Suchinda Heavener*
Joan R. Holmes*
Josephine Arader Hueber, CW47, PAR
Patricia Hueber
Anne V. Iskrant
Holly M. Jobe
Esther D. Johnson*
Pamela C. Keon
Nancy Kneeland
DruEllen Kolker
Doranne M. Lackman, PAR
Joyce Cochrane Lewis**
Alida N. Lovell*
Bonnie Verbit Lundy, CW67
MaryAnn Marks*
Missy McQuiston
Rosa Myers
Margy Meyerson, G93**
John T. Murray**
Arlene Olson, PAR
Gretchen P. Riley, CGS70, PAR
Barbara Rittenhouse
Lisa Siegel
M. Trudy Slade
Ann W. Spaeth
Nancy Freeman Tabas, PAR
Mrs. Robert L. Trescher**
Nancy Tyminski
Nina Robinson Vitow, CW70, WG76
Helen S. Weary
Nancy Bendiner Weiss, CW62
Helen P. Winston, PAR*
Schuy Wood
*Associate Member
**Honorary Member
YOUNG FRIENDS OF THE PENN MUSEUM
The Young Friends of the Penn Museum is a group of Museum members aged 21 to 45 who work to raise awareness
of the Museum among the region’s young professionals through a variety of educational and social programs for
young professionals, planned and executed in conjunction with the Museum’s Public Programs and Membership
Departments by a Young Friends Board. The Penn Museum is deeply grateful to the following members of the Young
Friends Board for their time and ideas in 2014–2015:
Frances Emmeline Babb, Esquire, C03
Lauren Brown, CGS05, CGS07
Sara Castillo
Abigail Green, Esquire
Lisa A. Johns, C97, CGS03
Sarah Klem
John Kuehne, CGS06
Amanda Leslie
Bethany R. Schell
Nicole Stach, Esquire
Beth Uzwiak
Clinton Walker
Mike Zabel
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BOARD OF OVERSEERS
The Penn Museum extends grateful thanks to Chairman Mike Kowalski and the members of its Board of Overseers for
their personal philanthropic leadership, and their collective leadership in strategic guidance and service in 2014–2015:
Michael J. Kowalski, W74, PAR, Chairman
Robert M. Baylis
David Brownlee, Ph.D. (ex-officio)
Dana Eisman Cohen, C88, PAR*
William L. Conrad, PAR
Carrie S. Cox, PAR
Susan Frier Danilow, Esquire, CW74, G74, PAR
Peter C. Ferry, C79*
Steven J. Fluharty, Ph.D., C79, GR81, PAR (ex-officio)
Peter G. Gould, LPS10
Ingrid A. Graham
Amy Gutmann, Ph.D. (ex-officio)
John C. Hover II, C65, WG67
H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang, Ph.D., G98, GR04*
Stacey Rosner Lane, Esquire, C80, GR13, PAR
Diane von Schlegell Levy
Joseph E. Lundy, Esquire, W65
Bruce Mainwaring, C47, PAR (Emeritus)
Carlos L. Nottebohm, W64
Geraldine Paier, Ph.D., HUP66, NU68, GNU85, GR94
William L. Potter, WG88
Vincent Price, Ph.D. (ex-officio)
John R. Rockwell, W64, WG66, PAR
Eric J. Schoenberg, Ph.D., GEN93, WG93, PAR
M. Trudy Slade (ex-officio)
Julian Siggers, Ph.D. (ex-officio)
Adam D. Sokoloff, W84, PAR*
Gregory Annenberg Weingarten
Jill Topkis Weiss, C89, WG93, PAR
Charles K. Williams II, Ph.D., GR78, HON97 (Emeritus)
* New member in 2014–2015
DIRECTOR’S COUNCIL
Established in 2009, the Director’s Council advises the Williams Director through semi-annual meetings on engagement
areas critical to the Museum’s Strategic Plan. Penn Museum is deeply grateful to Chairman Peter G. Gould, Ph.D.,
LPS10 and the following members of the Director’s Council for their service in 2014–2015:
Samuel S. Brewer, WG04*
Lawrence S. Coben, Ph.D., G03, GR12
Isabella de la Houssaye*
Luis Fernandez-Moreno, WMP89
Derek Gillman
Catherine Giventer, C95*
Andrea R. Kramer, Esquire, L76, PAR
Sharon N. Lorenzo
Marco L. Lukesch, C01, W01
Gregory S. Maslow, M.D., C68 M72 GM77, PAR
John J. Medveckis, PAR
Adolf A. Paier, W60
George R. Pitts, Ph.D., GR77
J. Barton Riley, W70, PAR
David A. Schwartz, M.D.*
Matthew J. Storm, C94, WG00*
Brian P. Tierney, C79, PAR
Samuel Phineas Upham, Ph.D., WG05, GRW06*
Carl Weiss, PAR
Diane Dalto Woosnam
Nanou Zayan, C73, PAR
* New member in 2014–2015
Aztec pottery stamp from
Mexico. UPM object #31-
41-59. Dorling Kindersley:
University of Pennsylvania
Museum of Archaeology and
Anthropology.
P E N N M U S E U M A N N U A L R E P O R T 2 0 1 4 – 2 0 1 5
PENN MUSEUM ADVISORY BOARD
Established in 2009, the Penn Museum Advisory Board advises and assists the Williams Director and his team in
crafting outreach and programmatic initiatives to increase engagement by its University and public audiences.
Members of the Advisory Board are leaders in the University and cultural community professionals who represent
these audiences in their own professions. The Penn Museum is deeply grateful to the following members of the
Advisory Board for their time and ideas in 2014–2015:
David B. Brownlee, Chair
Shapiro-Weitzenhoffer Professor of the History of Art,
University of Pennsylvania
Karen Beckman
Jaffe Professor of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania
Rebecca Bushnell
School of Arts and Sciences Board of Overseers Professor of
English, University of Pennsylvania
Timothy Corrigan
Professor of English (Cinema Studies), University of Pennsylvania
Dennis DeTurck
Evan C. Thompson Professor for Excellence in Teaching,
Mathematics, and Dean of the College, University of Pennsylvania
Oliver St. Clair Franklin
O.B.E. Investment analyst (former President of
International House)
George W. Gephart Jr.
President & CEO, Academy of Natural Sciences of
Drexel University
Terry Gillen
Executive Director, Redevelopment Authority,
City of Philadelphia
Susan Glassman
Director, Wagner Free Institute
Jane Golden
Executive Director, City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program
Walter Licht
Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History and Civic House Faculty
Advisor, University of Pennsylvania
Will Noel
Director, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and
Manuscripts, and the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies,
University of Pennsylvania
Joseph J. Rishel
Gisela and Dennis Alter Senior Curator of European Painting before
1900, Philadelphia Museum of Art
H. Carton Rogers III
Vice Provost and Director of Libraries, University of Pennsylvania
Ralph M. Rosen
Rose Family Endowed Term Professor of Classical Studies, and
Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Ancestral Pueblo ceramic jar
from Northeast Arizona,
ca. 1100-1125 CE.
The painting technique
is described as Flagstaff
Black-on-White Ware.
UPM object #29-77-686.
Dorling Kindersley:
University of Pennsylvania
Museum of Archaeology and
Anthropology.
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THE GIFT OF TIME
IN MEMORIAM
The Penn Museum acknowledges with great sadness the loss of the following members of its family during 2014–2015.
We recognize their service and support with gratitude and extend deepest condolences to their families.
Ruth E. Brown, CW42
Volunteer and Supporter
Ms. Brown was a volunteer bibliographer in the Museum’s Ban
Chiang Archaeology Project for over ten years. She also generously
supported the project and the Museum as a loyal member
throughout her life. She died on February 14, 2015 at the age of 94.
Theresa Howard Carter, Ph.D., G54
Archaeologist, Near East
Dr. Carter was a pioneer female archaeologist. Her flash camera
produced the first images at the tomb of King Midas’ father at
Gordion in Turkey during the summer of 1957, where she worked
with a Penn Museum team led by Director Rodney Young. She died
on April 19, 2015 at the age of 85.
Helen T. Madeira
Supporter
Mrs. Madeira was a longtime and generous supporter of the Penn
Museum, most recently underwriting the special exhibition, MAYA
2012: Lords of Time in honor of Peter D. Harrison. She died on
August 4, 2014 at the age of 98.
Michael Parrington
Researcher, MASCA
Mr. Parrington was an archaeologist in the Philadelphia region and
a researcher in the Museum’s Museum Applied Science Center for
Archaeology (MASCA). In 1992, he co-wrote The Buried Past: An
Archaeological History of Philadelphia. He died on October 18, 2014
at the age of 70.
Åke Waldemar Sjöberg, Ph.D.
Faculty and Researcher, Babylonian Section
Dr. Sjöberg was the Emeritus Clark Research Professor of
Assyriology and Emeritus Curator of the Tablet Collection at the
Penn Museum. In 1974, together with Dr. Erle Leichty, Dr. Sjöberg
founded The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary, which is still a
work in progress, now in digital form, and managed by the Penn
Museum. Dr. Sjöberg died on August 8, 2014 at the age of 90.
Frances E. Storey
Volunteer and Supporter
Mrs. Storey was a volunteer in the Museum’s American Section.
Together with her husband, Bayard T. Storey, Ph.D., she was
a member of the Museum’s Loren Eiseley Society as well as a
supporter of exhibitions and capital projects. She died on October
5, 2014 at the age of 81.
Carved wooden comb from
the Benin Kingdom in
Nigeria. Collected before
1897. The comb depicts a
man on horseback dressed in
modern European clothing
and carrying a musket. UPM
object #AF5111. Dorling
Kindersley: University of
Pennsylvania Museum of
Archaeology and Anthropology.
P E N N M U S E U M A N N U A L R E P O R T 2 0 1 4 – 2 0 1 5
Stephen J. Tinney, Ph.D.,
Deputy Director and Chief Curator
AFRICAN SECTION
Dwaune Latimer, Friendly Keeper of
Collections
Consulting Scholars:
Lee V. Cassanelli, Ph.D.
Kathy Curnow, Ph.D.
Kathleen Ryan, Ph.D.
AMERICAN SECTION
Clark L. Erickson, Ph.D., Curator-in-Charge
Richard M. Leventhal, Ph.D., Curator
Simon Martin, Ph.D., Associate Curator
and Keeper of Collections
Lucy Fowler Williams, Ph.D., Associate
Curator and Sabloff Keeper of Collections
Megan Kassabaum, Ph.D., Weingarten
Assistant Curator
William Wierzbowski, Keeper
of Collections
Stacey Espenlaub, Kamensky NAGPRA
Project Coordinator
Consulting Scholars:
Ricardo Antonio Agurcia Fasquelle, Ph.D.
Casey Barrier, Ph.D.
Ellen Bell, Ph.D.
Judith E. Berman, Ph.D.
Lawrence S. Coben, Ph.D.
Elin Danien, Ph.D.
Nancy M. Farriss, Ph.D.
Pamela Geller, Ph.D.
Russell Dean Greaves, Ph.D.
Pamela Jardine, Ph.D.
Christopher Jones*, Ph.D.
Hattula Moholy-Nagy, Ph.D.
Katherine M. Moore, Ph.D.
Marilyn Norcini, Ph.D.
Ann H. Peters, Ph.D.
Timothy B. Powell, Ph.D.
Teri Rofkar
Frauke Sachse, Ph.D.
Loa P. Traxler, Ph.D.
Dorothy K. Washburn, Ph.D.
John Weeks, Ph.D.
CURATORIAL SECTIONS AND MUSEUM CENTERS
ASIAN SECTION
Nancy Steinhardt, Ph.D., Curator
Adam Smith, Ph.D., Assistant Curator
Stephen Lang, Lyons Keeper of Collections
Consulting Scholars:
Marcus Bingenheimer, Ph.D.
Virginia Bower
Roberto Ciarla, Ph.D.
Julie N. Davis, Ph.D.
David W. Fraser, Ph.D.
John M. Fritz, Ph.D.
Derek Gillman
Praveena Gullapalli, Ph.D.
Elizabeth Hamilton, Ph.D.
Victor H. Mair, Ph.D.
Justin McDaniel, Ph.D.
Bryan Miller, Ph.D.
Vincent C. Pigott, Ph.D.
Fiorella Rispoli, Ph.D.
Christopher P. Thornton, Ph.D.
Joyce White, Ph.D.
BABYLONIAN SECTION
Stephen J. Tinney, Ph.D., Associate
Curator-in-Charge
Grant Frame, Ph.D., Associate Curator
Philip Jones, Ph.D., Associate Curator and
Keeper of Collections
Jeremiah Peterson, Kowalski Family Re-
search Associate, Ur Digital Project
Consulting Scholars:
Ann Kessler Guinan
Nancy W. Leinwand, Ph.D.
Jamie Novotny, Ph.D.
Karen Sonik, Ph.D.
Ilona Zsolnay, Ph.D.
CENTER FOR THE ANALYSIS
OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL MATERIALS
Stephen J. Tinney, Ph.D., Director
Marie-Claude Boileau, Ph.D., Research
Associate, Conservation and
Teaching Labs
Katherine M. Moore, Ph.D., Mainwaring
Teaching Specialist
Faculty Steering Committee:
Clark Erickson, Ph.D., Anthropology
Frank Matero, Historic Preservation,
Architectural Conservation Lab
Holly Pittman, Ph.D., Art History
C. Brian Rose, Ph.D., Classical Studies
Robert Schuyler, Ph.D., Anthropology
Adam Smith, Ph.D., East Asian Languages
& Civilizations
Thomas Tartaron, Ph.D., Classical Studies
Richard Zettler, Ph.D., Near Eastern Lan-
guages & Civilizations
EGYPTIAN SECTION
David P. Silverman, Ph.D.,
Curator-in-Charge
Jennifer Houser Wegner, Ph.D.,
Associate Curator
Josef W. Wegner, Ph.D., Associate Curator
Stephen Phillips, Ph.D., Curatorial
Research Coordinator
Elizabeth Jean Walker, Keeper
of Collections
Consulting Scholars:
Jane Hill, Ph.D.
Joshua Roberson, Ph.D.
EUROPEAN ARCHAEOLOGY SECTION
Harold L. Dibble, Ph.D., Curator-in-Charge
Consulting Scholars:
Carolyn Corinne Barshay-Szmidt, Ph.D.
Philip G. Chase, Ph.D.
James R. Mathieu, Ph.D.
Deborah Olszewski, Ph.D.
Dennis Michael Sandgathe, Ph.D.
HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY SECTION
Robert L. Schuyler, Ph.D., Associate
Curator-in-Charge
Consulting Scholars:
Joel T. Fry
Jed Levin
Teagan Schweitzer, Ph.D.
Richard Veit, Ph.D.
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MEDITERRANEAN SECTION
C. Brian Rose, Ph.D.,
Curator-in-Charge
Ann Blair Brownlee, Ph.D.,
Associate Curator
Gareth Darbyshire, Ph.D., Research
Associate, Gordion Archivist
Lynn Makowsky, DeVries Keeper of
Collections
Consulting Scholars:
Ann H. Ashmead, Ph.D.
Philip P. Betancourt, Ph.D.
Elizabeth Barringer Fentress, Ph.D.
Susan Ferrence, Ph.D.
Michael D. Frachetti, Ph.D.
Ayşe Gürsan-Salzmann, Ph.D.
Lothar Haselberger, Ph.D.
Sebastian Heath, Ph.D.
Ellen Herscher, Ph.D.
Jane Hickman, Ph.D.
Ann L. Kuttner, Ph.D.
Margaret L. Laird, Ph.D.
Justin Leidwanger, Ph.D.
Richard F. Liebhart, Ph.D.
Camilla MacKay, Ph.D.
Frank G. Matero
Joseph Nigro
G. Kenneth Sams, Ph.D.
Lynne A. Schepartz, Ph.D.
Alessandro Sebastiani, Ph.D.
Elizabeth Simpson, Ph.D.
Joanna S. Smith, Ph.D.
Robert F. Sutton, Jr., Ph.D.
Thomas Tartaron, Ph.D.
Compton James Tucker, Ph.D.
Jean Turfa, Ph.D.
Karen Vellucci
Mary Voigt, Ph.D.
Gregory P. Warden, Ph.D.
Charles K. Williams II, Ph.D.
NEAR EAST SECTION
Richard L. Zettler, Ph.D., Associate
Curator-in-Charge
Renata Holod, Ph.D., Curator
Holly Pittman, Ph.D., Curator
Brian J. Spooner, D.Phil., Curator
Lauren Ristvet, Ph.D., Dyson
Associate Curator
Katherine Blanchard, Fowler/Van
Santvoord Keeper of Collections
William B. Hafford, Ph.D., Kowalski
Family Project Manager, Ur
Digitization Project
Kyra Kaercher, Kevorkian Fund Research
Assistant, Ur Digitization Project
Consulting Scholars:
Janice Barrabee, Ph.D.
Eliot Braun, Ph.D.
Megan Cifarelli, Ph.D.
Michael Danti, Ph.D.
Theodore Davidson, Ph.D.
Richard S. Ellis, Ph.D.
Michael W. Gregg, Ph.D.
Gretchen H. Hall, Ph.D.
Andreas Michael Hauptmann, Ph.D.
Fredrik T. Hiebert, Ph.D.
Sabine Klein, Ph.D.
Michelle I. Marcus, Ph.D.
Patrick McGovern, Ph.D.
Naomi Miller, Ph.D.
James Muhly, Ph.D.
Sam Nash, Ph.D.
Robert G. Ousterhout, Ph.D.
Brian L. Peasnall, Ph.D.
Aubrey Baadsgaard Poffenberger, Ph.D.
Yelena Z. Rakic, Ph.D.
William C.S. Remsen, Ph.D.
Mitchell S. Rothman, Ph.D.
Bruce Routledge, Ph.D.
Karen Rubinson, Ph.D.
Marinus Anthony van der Sluijs
Jill Weber, Ph.D.
Irene J. Winter, Ph.D.
Paul Zimmerman, Ph.D.
OCEANIAN SECTION
Adria Katz, Fassitt/Fuller Keeper
of Collections
PENN CULTURAL HERITAGE CENTER
Richard M. Leventhal, Ph.D.,
Executive Director
Brian I. Daniels, Ph.D., Director
Katharyn Hanson, Ph.D.,
Post-doctoral Fellow
Salam Al Kuntar, Ph.D.,
Post-doctoral Fellow
Margaret M. Bruchac, Ph.D.,
Associate Faculty
Deanna Bell, Administrative Coordinator
(to April 2015)
Shannon Renninger, Administrative
Coordinator (from April 2015)
Consulting Scholars:
Suzanne Abel
Ricardo Antonio Agurcia Fasquelle, Ph.D.
Mariano J. Aznar, Ph.D.
Mariam Bachich
Joanne Baron, Ph.D.
Peter Gould, Ph.D.
Elizabeth Greene, Ph.D.
Ben Jeffs
Morag Kersel, Ph.D.
Sarah Kurnick, Ph.D.
Louise Krasniewicz, Ph.D.
Justin Leidwanger, Ph.D.
Christina Luke, Ph.D.
Ali Othman, Ph.D.
Sasha Renninger
Shaker Shbib
Corine Wegener
Susan Wolfinbarger, Ph.D.
PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY SECTION
Janet M. Monge, Ph.D., Associate
Curator-in-Charge and Keeper of
Collections
Consulting Scholars:
Meredith Bastian, Ph.D.
Jacqueline Bowman, Ph.D.
Kevin Boyd, M.S., D.D.S.
Francesca Candilio, Ph.D.
Samantha Cox
Anna Dhody, M.F.S.
Marianna Evans, D.D.M.
Morrie E. Kricun , M.D.
Robert W. Mann, Ph.D.
Nancy Minugh-Purvis, Ph.D.
Herbert Poepoe
Emily Renschler, Ph.D.
L. Christie Rockwell, Ph.D.
Lynne A. Schepartz, Ph.D.
P. Thomas Schoenemann, Ph.D.
Page Selinsky, Ph.D.
Ann-Marie Tillier, Ph.D.
Michael Weisberg, Ph.D.
Richard S. Wilson, Jr., DMD
Michael A. Yudell, Ph.D., MPH
Michael Zimmerman, M.D., Ph.D.
* Deceased
P E N N M U S E U M A N N U A L R E P O R T 2 0 1 4 – 2 0 1 5
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
Julian Siggers, Ph.D., Williams Director
Melissa P. Smith, CFA, Chief Operating Officer
Dan Rahimi, Executive Director of Galleries
James R. Mathieu, Ph.D., Chief of Staff to the Williams Director and
Head of Collections
Margaret R. Spencer, Executive Assistant to the Williams Director
Maureen Goldsmith, Administrative Coordinator
OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR
Stephen J. Tinney, Ph.D., Deputy Director
Marie-Claude Boileau, Ph.D., Research Associate,
Conservation and Teaching Labs
Sasha Renninger, Kowalski Family Project Programmer,
Ur Digital Project
ACADEMIC ENGAGEMENT
Stephen J. Tinney, Ph.D., Head of Academic Engagement
Anne Tiballi, Ph.D., Mellon Curricular Facilitator
Stephanie Mach, Student Engagement Coordinator
James Moss, Academic Engagement Coordinator (to April 2015)
Karen Thomson, Collections Assistant
ARCHIVES
Alessandro Pezzati, Senior Archivist
Eric W. Schnittke, Assistant Archivist
Kate R. Pourshariati, Film Archivist
Jody Rodgers, Processing Archivist
Daniel DelViscio, Digital Images Coordinator
Maureen Goldsmith, Rights and Reproductions Coordinator
BUILDING OPERATIONS
Brian McDevitt, Director of Building Operations
Edgardo Esteves, Chief Custodial Supervisor
Michael Burin, Night Supervisor
David Young, Supervisor
Kevin Calvert, Supervisor
Monica Mean, Financial Administrative Coordinator
Robert Lawlor, Part-time Custodian
BUSINESS OFFICE
Mary Dobson, Business Administrator
Kris Forrest, Finance Manager
Linda Halkins, Administrative Assistant
Matthew McGregor, Administrative Assistant
Andrea Mules, Grants Coordinator (from March 2015)
Veronica Sewell, Administrative Assistant
PENN MUSEUM DEPARTMENT STAFF
COMPUTING & INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Shawn Hyla, IT Project Leader
Rajeev Thomas, IT Network Administrator
Michael Condiff, IT Programmer/Analyst
CONSERVATION
Lynn Grant, Head Conservator
Julia Lawson, Conservator
Nina Owczarek, Williams Associate Conservator
Tessa de Alarcon, Kowalski Family Project Conservator,
Ur Digital Project
Molly Gleeson, Rockwell Project Conservator
Alexis North, Project Conservator
Cassia Balogh, Conservation Intern and Technician
Morgan Burgess, Conservation Intern and Technician
Stephanie Carrato, Conservation Technician
Laura Iwanyk, Conservation Technician
DEVELOPMENT
Amanda Mitchell-Boyask, Director of Development
Tracy H. Carter, Director of Major Gifts (from April 2015)
Robert Vosburgh, Jr., Esquire, Director of Major Gifts
(to December 2014)
Kate Fox, Associate Director, Membership & Annual Fund
(from May 2015)
Therese Marmion, Associate Director, Major Gifts
Christine Fox, Corporate & Foundation Officer
Emily Goldsleger, Assistant Director, Membership & Annual Fund
(to March 2015)
Jane Hickman, Ph.D., Editor, Expedition Magazine
Lisa Batt, Administrative Coordinator
Kelley Stone, Administrative Assistant, Membership & Annual Fund
EXHIBITIONS
Kate Quinn, Director of Exhibitions
Michael Barker, Preparator & Multimedia Technician
Jessica Bicknell, Interpretive Planning Manager (from January 2015)
Matthew Gay, Preparator & Mountmaker
Benjamin Neiditz, Chief Preparator
Yuan Yao, Graphic Designer
FACILITY RENTALS
Atiya German, Director of Facility Rentals
Stefanie Sutton, Facility Rentals Coordinator
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GIFT SHOP
Scott Lloyd, Gift Shop Manager
Dan Ellerbroek, Gift Shop Sales Clerk
Gabriel Vanlandingham-Dunn, Gift Shop Sales Clerk
HOUSEKEEPING
Yolanda Connelly, Custodian
James Coppedge, Custodian
Timothy Crawford, Custodian
Reinaldo Del Valle, Custodian
James Drumm, Custodian
Ayele Habtemichael, Custodian
Cherita Holden, Custodian
Lateef July, Custodian (to October 2014)
John Lawler, Custodian (from May 2015)
Bruce Mason, Custodian
David McBride, Custodian
John Notte, Custodian
Linda Wood, Custodian
KOWALSKI DIGITAL MEDIA CENTER
James R. Mathieu, Ph.D., Director of Digital Media
Jennifer Bornstein, Grants and Resource Coordinator
(through December 2014)
Michael Condiff, Web Developer
Lee Roueche, Digital Media Developer
Francine Sarin, Head Photographer
Jennifer Chiappardi, Assistant Photographer
LEARNING PROGRAMS
Ellen Owens, Merle-Smith Director of Learning Programs
Emily Hirshorn, GRoW Annenberg Program Manager
Allyson Mitchell, Outreach Program Manager
Kevin Schott, Guide Program Manager
Hitomi Yoshida, Diversity Programs Manager
Megan Becker, GRoW Annenberg Museum and School Educator
Jennifer Leibert, GRoW Annenberg Museum and School Educator
Thomas Leischner, GRoW Annenberg Museum and School Educator
Kelley Hirsch, Museum Programs Associate
MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS
Teri Scott, Director of Marketing and Communications
Pam Kosty, Public Relations Director
Christina Jones, Art Director
Yuan Yao, Graphic Designer
Tom Stanley, Public Relations/Social Media Coordinator
Jemmell’z Washington, Public Relations Associate
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Kate Quinn, Director of Public Programs
Tena Thomason, Assistant Director, Public Programs
Jennifer Reifsteck, Public Programs Manager
Rachelle Kaspin, Administrative Coordinator, Public Programs
PUBLICATIONS
James R. Mathieu, Ph.D. Director of Publications
Jennifer Quick, Senior Editor
Maureen Goldsmith, Administrative Coordinator
Page Selinsky, Ph.D., Copyeditor and Book Designer
REGISTRAR’S OFFICE
Xiuqin Zhou, Ph.D., Senior Registrar
Robert Thurlow, Special Projects Manager
Chrisso Boulis, Registrar, Records
Anne Brancati, Registrar, Loans
Danielle Peters, Database Administrator
Celina Candrella, Assistant Registrar (from August 2014)
Yin Liu, Collections Inventory Assistant
Daniel LoMastro, Collections Inventory Assistant
Laura Hazeltine, Collections Inventory Assistant
Ashley Scott, Collections Inventory Assistant
Taylor Barrett, Collections Inventory Technician (from March 2015)
Jacqui Bowen, Collections Inventory Technician (from March 2015)
Severine Craig, Collections Inventory Technician (from March 2015)
Caroline Western, Collections Inventory Technician (from March 2015)
VISITOR SERVICES
Conor Hepp, Director of Visitor and Gallery Services
Cynthia Whybark, Visitor Services Manager
Katherine Thorburn, Group Tours Coordinator
Bonnie Crosfield, Receptionist
Layla Ballner, Visitor Services Representative
Laurel Burmeister, Visitor Services Representative
Claire Burns, Visitor Services Representative
Katherine Driggs, Visitor Services Representative
Stephanie Gruver, Visitor Services Representative
Jonnie Handschin, Visitor Services Representative
Sarah Morawczynski, Visitor Services Representative
Shannon Renninger, Visitor Services Representative
Tang Dynasty painted clay
mortuary figurine of a dancer.
From China, ca. 618—906
CE. Part of a set that
contained two dancers and
three musicians. UPM object
#C421. Dorling Kindersley:
University of Pennsylvania
Museum of Archaeology and
Anthropology.
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Design: Eastern Standard
FSC Logo to be applied by printerFPO
This view of the north side of Trench 2 shows the excavation of several
burials at Sitio Conte, Panama, 1940. Objects from this excavation
were featured in the exhibition Beneath the Surface: Life, Death, and
Gold in Ancient Panama.
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