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annual report

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2010-2011

2010-2011 ANNUAL REPORT

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Penn Museum Staff Office of the Director Richard Hodges, Ph.D. The Williams Director Robert H. Dyson, Jr., Ph.D. Director Emeritus Jeremy A. Sabloff, Ph.D. Director Emeritus Melissa P. Smith, CFA Chief Operating Officer 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 Jane Hickman, Ph.D. Special Assistant for Museum Programs

Bea Jarocha-Ernst Membership & Annual Giving Coordinator

Archives Alessandro Pezzati Senior Archivist Eric Schnittke Assistant Archivist Maureen Goldsmith Rights and Reproductions Coordinator

Exhibits Kate Quinn Director of Exhibits, Lead Exhibit Designer Tara Poag Exhibit Project Manager Mary Anne Casey Exhibit Graphic Designer Allison Francies Exhibit Developer Kevin Schott Exhibit Developer Aaron Billheimer Exhibit Technician Benjamin Neiditz Exhibit Fabricator Courtney O’Brien Exhibit Assistant

Building Operations Brian McDevitt Director of Building Operations William Stebbins Chief Custodial Supervisor Edgardo Esteves Mechanical Supervisor Michael Burin Night Events Supervisor David Young Mechanical Supervisor Business Office Alan Waldt Associate Director for Administration Mary Dobson Financial Coordinator Linda Halkins Administrative Assistant Matthew MacGregor Administrative Assistant Veronica Sewell Administrative Assistant Community Engagement Jean Byrne Merle-Smith Director of Community Engagement Tena Thomason Assistant Director, Special Events Prema Deshmukh Outreach Programs Manager Erin Jensen School Programs Manager Jane Nelson Volunteer and Staffing Manager Jennifer Reifsteck Family Programs Manager Kristin Hoeberlein Administrative Assistant, Community Engagement Rachelle Kaspin Administrative Assistant, Special Events 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 Assistant Conservator Development Amanda Mitchell-Boyask Director of Development Therese Marmion Major Gifts Officer Christine Fox Corporate and Foundation Officer Emily Goldsleger Assistant Director, Membership & Annual Giving Lisa Batt Administrative Coordinator

Digital Media Center James R. Mathieu, Ph.D. Director of Digital Media Jennifer Bornstein Grants and Resource Coordinator Michael Condiff Web Developer Amy Ellsworth Digital Media Developer Francine Sarin Head Photographer Jennifer Chiappardi Assistant Photographer

Facility Rentals Atiya German Facility Rentals Manager Rachel Sanders Facility Rentals Coordinator Public Relations Pam E. Kosty Public Relations Director Darien Sutton Public Relations Assistant Publications James R. Mathieu, Ph.D. Director of Publications Jennifer Quick Senior Editor Jane Hickman, Ph.D. Editor Expedition Maureen Goldsmith Administrative Coordinator Registrar Office Xiuqin Zhou, Ph.D. Senior Registrar Chrisso Boulis Registrar, Records Tara Kowalski Registrar, Loans Robert Thurlow Traveling Exhibits Coordinator Scott Williams Database Administrator Student Programs Loa P. Traxler, Ph.D. Mellon Associate Deputy Director Elizabeth Heaney Assistant for Student Programs Visitor Services Conor Hepp Director of Visitor Services Bonnie Crosfield Receptionist, Kress Entrance Darius Jones Receptionist, Main Entrance Cynthia Whybark Visitor Services Supervisor Deanna Bell Visitor Services Receptionist Deja Wolf Visitor Services Receptionist Katherine Wong-Thorburn Group Tours Assistant Women’s Committee Barbara Rittenhouse Chair Anna Gniotek Administrative Assistant

Curatorial Sections African Section Dwaune Latimer Friendly Keeper of Collections American Section Robert W. Preucel, Ph.D. Weingarten Curator Richard M. Leventhal, Ph.D. Curator Clark L. Erickson, Ph.D. Associate Curator Simon Martin Associate Curator Lucy Fowler Williams, Ph.D. Sabloff Keeper of Collections William Wierzbowski Associate Keeper Stacey Espenlaub Kamensky NAGPRA Project Coordinator Asian Section Nancy Steinhardt, Ph.D. Curator Joyce C. White, Ph.D. Associate Curator Marie-Claude Boileau, Ph.D. Research Associate, Ban Chiang Elizabeth Hamilton, Ph.D. Research Coordinator, Ban Chiang Stephen Lang Lyons Keeper of Collections Babylonian Section Stephen J. Tinney, Ph.D. Associate Curator Grant Frame, Ph.D. Associate Curator Egyptian Section David P. Silverman, Ph.D. Curator Jennifer Houser Wegner, Ph.D. Associate Curator Josef W. Wegner, Ph.D. Associate Curator European Archaeology Section Harold L. Dibble, Ph.D. Curator Historical Archaeology Section Robert L. Schuyler, Ph.D. Associate Curator Mediterranean Section C. Brian Rose, Ph.D. Curator Ann Blair Brownlee, Ph.D. Associate Curator David G. Romano, Ph.D. Research Project Manager Lynn Makowsky DeVries Keeper of Collections Gareth Darbyshire, Ph.D. Gordion Archivist Near East Section Richard L. Zettler, Ph.D. Associate Curator Renata Holod, Ph.D. Curator Holly Pittman, Ph.D. Curator Brian J. Spooner, D.Phil. Curator Philip Jones, Ph.D. Associate Curator Lauren Ristvet, Ph.D. Dyson Assistant Curator Oceanian Section Adria Katz Fassitt/Fuller Keeper of Collections Physical Anthropology Section Janet M. Monge, Ph.D. Associate Curator and Keeper of Collections

Current as of July 1, 2011

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3 Letter from the Chair of the Board of Overseers 4 Letter from the Williams Director 5 THE YEAR IN REVIEW Collections and Programs 6 Collections Showcase: New Exhibitions and Traveling Exhibits 13 A Living Museum: Special Programs, Events, and Public Lectures 21 A Rich History: The Museum Archives 24 Preserving Our Collections: Conservation Work 26 Stewarding Our Collections: The Museum’s Repatriation Office and Committee 28 Sharing Our Collections: Outgoing Loans and Traveling Exhibits 31 Expanding Our Collections: New Acquisitions Outreach and Collaboration 33 Community Outreach: Educational Programs and Collaborations 41 Protecting the World’s Cultural Heritage: The Penn Cultural Heritage Center 43 Student Involvement: Academic Enrichment, Advisory Boards, Internships, Docents, and Summer Research Research and Dissemination 48 Generating Knowledge: Research Projects around the World 64 Preserving Knowledge: Digitizing Collections, Archives, and New Endeavors 68 Disseminating Knowledge: Penn Museum Publications 69 Engaging the World: The Museum Website and Social Media Financial and Operational Highlights 71 Statement of Museum Fiscal Activity 71 Operational Highlights: Becoming a Destination 72 In Grateful Acknowledgment 73 74 78 80 92

Destination 2012 Leadership and Special Gifts Perpetual and Capital Support Annual Sustaining Support Penn Museum People

ON THE COVER Visitors to Secrets of the Silk Road examine Yingpan Man. Photo by Darien Sutton. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 3260 South Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6324 © 2011 University of Pennsylvania All rights reserved.

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Photo by Kim Bowes.

l e tter from th e ch a ir of th e b o a rd of overse ers

On the eve of its 125th anniversary in 2012, the Penn Museum celebrated two remarkable firsts in 2010–2011: the installation of a centralized climate control system in the West Wing of its original, 1899 building, and the presentation of its first specially ticketed exhibition. The West Wing renovation—including refurbishment of its five public galleries and the creation of a teaching laboratory for ceramic petrography in addition to climate control—was made possible by spring 2010 leadership commitments from A. Bruce and Margaret Mainwaring and Dr. Charles K. Williams II, and generous additional support from the Frederick J. Manning Family, Diane von Schlegell Levy and Robert M. Levy, and the 1956 Otto Haas Charitable Trust. Thanks to them, and to the hard work and creativity of an extraordinarily dedicated and hardworking project team, the first phase of this project was completed in a remarkable four months. Visitors to Secrets of the Silk Road, the Museum’s first specially ticketed exhibition, were the first to enjoy the climate control, elegant setting, and new lighting in three of the renovated galleries. The exhibition, featuring two incredibly preserved mummies, the magnificent dressings of a third, and a resplendent 150+ piece collection of artwork and artifacts all excavated in the Tarim Basin desert region of China, was originally planned to run from February 5 through June 5, 2011. Due to an unanticipated request by Chinese authorities, the objects were displayed from February 18 through March 28, 2011. For the remainder of the planned run, visitors enjoyed the oversized timeline and maps, and many interactive features that brought the Silk Road story to life, with reproductions of the two mummies crafted by our Exhibits Department, and lifesized cut-out photographs of the objects. The exhibition met with enormous media acclaim, garnering extensive positive coverage in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The New York Review of Books, among others; and drawing just under 43,000 visitors in the February 18 thru March 28 ticketed period. It also attracted over 1,500 new household members. In addition, attendance at special exhibition-related programs was high, the exhibition catalog and a specialthemed issue of the Museum’s Expedition magazine (with a doubled print run of 6,000 copies) sold out. Penn Museum has never before presented an exhibition of this size and importance, or experienced such high visitor numbers. The Museum was also able to conduct—for the first time—a comprehensive visitor survey, and gather enormously

valuable visitor information to help inform future exhibitions. Visitation since the close of Secrets of the Silk Road has remained over seven percent higher than in previous years; at the close of its fiscal year on June 30, 2011, the Penn Museum registered 198,000 visitors—well on the way to its stated goal of 300,000 visitors by 2014, and a strong step toward the underlying institutional goal agreed by Williams Director Richard Hodges with the University, his management team, and our Board of Overseers in the five-year strategic plan (2009–2014) to make the Penn Museum a real destination. Secrets of the Silk Road was made possible by the dedication of an enormous group of hardworking staff, volunteers, and by the generosity of a large number of individual, corporate, foundation, and government underwriters, acknowledged on pages 10 and 88. Our thanks go to each and every one of them. Other 2010–2011 building improvements completed in the run up to Secrets of the Silk Road include refurbishment of the Kress Entrance area, thanks to generous support from the Women’s Committee; the installation of a comprehensive way-finding system, thanks to a grant from the William Penn Foundation; and refurbishment of the re-named Pepper Mill Café, in partnership with Wolfgang Puck Catering. Capital improvements continue apace thanks to funding secured in 2010–2011. Next year, it will be my pleasure to report on additional renovations, including new lighting in the Dietrich, Kintner, and Upper Baugh galleries, thanks to the generosity of Judy and Bill Bollinger, the William B. Dietrich Foundation, and the 1956 Otto Haas Charitable Trust; the restoration of the magnificent, landmark wooden doors at the upper level of the Main Entrance, thanks to thoughtful and generous gifts from and in honor of the Women’s Committee; and the creation of a dedicated, state-of-the-art Community Engagement classroom for school-group presentations, made possible by Jo Klein and Annette Merle-Smith. The challenges are by no means over for the Penn Museum as its first 125 years draw to a close, but it is making significant steps in meeting them, thanks to the loyalty and generosity of the donors and volunteers named above and in the following pages. My fellow Overseers and I are deeply grateful.

michael j. kowalski chair, board of overseers

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Tom Tartaron, Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, and Dr. Marie-Claude Boileau, a post-doctoral researcher, with students from six of Penn’s academic departments. Likewise, an increasing number of undergraduate courses were able to benefit from a refocusing of the Museum’s collections stewardship toward providing easier access to the collections via more gallery tours and class visits. This shift in collections stewardship was significantly aided by the internal launch of the Museum’s new KE EMu collections management database system in December 2010, and will be further promoted when a version of this database goes live on the Museum’s website in December 2011. On a larger stage, we continue to be actively engaged in world archaeology. Thanks to a generous planning grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we are exploring an exciting partnership with six university-affiliated museums to create exhibitions and related academic and public programming using the Penn Museum’s collections. A ground-breaking grant from the Leon Levy Foundation is enabling us to begin the planning phase of an important project to digitize the archives and artifacts from Sir Leonard Woolley’s celebrated expedition to Ur—now housed among the British Museum, the Iraq National Museum, and the Penn Museum—and make it accessible to a global audience via the Internet, digitally reuniting them for the first time. As always, this letter allows only a brief overview of the events and activities, designed to continue to serve the Museum’s many audiences and to reach out to new ones— many others are summarized in the following pages. I am deeply grateful to the dedicated Museum staff and all the volunteers whose work made them possible, and to the members of our Board of Overseers, Director’s Council, and Advisory Board, whose wise counsel and support along the way makes the journey toward our strategic goals lively, more focused, and a good deal more manageable. My special thanks to Mike Kowalski for his steadfast Board leadership and enormous personal support. I join him in thanking all of our supporters, visitors, and patrons.

richard hodges, ph.d. the williams director

Photos by Darien Sutton.

In 2010–2011, we welcomed 198,000 visitors to the Museum— over 40 percent more than the previous year’s 140,000 visitors. And as Mike Kowalski mentioned, we were able for the first time to understand who they were through a survey of more than 570 visitors to Secrets of the Silk Road. This survey told us who came to this extraordinary exhibition and how they reacted to their Penn Museum experience. This is essential feedback for planning all future exhibitions and programs, and, in particular, our upcoming community engagement project Imagine Africa with the Penn Museum currently under installation as I write, thanks to generous funding from the PoGo Foundation and the Heritage Philadelphia Program at the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage. Mike Kowalski mentioned the Museum’s many challenges. One of these is to engage and serve different audiences. The Museum did this successfully in 2010–2011 with a broad range of continuing and new onsite programs. In addition to the diverse museum-going audience attracted to our exhibition program, scholarly audiences were presented with several symposia, which examined new scholarship in Maya Archaeology, South East Asian ceramics, Cleopatra and the End of the Hellenistic World, and various themes focused around the Silk Road and Penn’s “Year of Water” programming. The Museum attracted local audiences of families and young adults from the Penn community and its neighbors from both sides of the South Street Bridge by hosting regular summer Wednesday evening garden events with live music and a new program of Wednesday evening events during the academic year under the banner of “P.M. @ Penn Museum.” The Museum increased its K-12 schoolchildren audience through numerous funded field trips and a new Spring Break Camp similar to the long-popular Summer Camp at the Museum. And there were new adult group tour offerings and special outreach to veterans and military personnel and families that provided free admission programs, such as the moving Theater of War presentation. In sum, the Museum has taken President Gutmann’s Penn Compact to heart and has hopefully engaged many first-time visitors to our wide range of exhibitions and programs. The Museum has also been reaching out to the University. A new ceramic petrography lab—the first in what we hope will be a new suite of labs establishing the Penn Museum as a leading teaching center in archaeological science—hosted the second part of a graduate seminar co-taught by Dr.

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Collections Showcase

New Exhibitions and Traveling Exhibits

Fulfilling a Prophecy: The Past and Present of the Lenape in Pennsylvania (September 13, 2008 – July 11, 2011) Jacqueline W. and John C. Hover II Gallery This exhibition featured never-before-displayed objects from the private collections of Lenape people in Pennsylvania, in addition to historic and contemporary photographs and archaeological objects from the collections of the Penn Museum. Conventional histories of Pennsylvania declare that all but a few elderly Lenape people left the state by the opening of the 19th century. Yet, many remained in secret. Children of the little known Lenape-European marriages of the 1700s stayed on the Lenape homelands, practicing their traditions covertly. Now, the descendants of these people have come forward to tell their story in this exhibition. Ancient masks, dolls, jewelry, and other traditional arts were featured, as well as a number of once-secret family heirlooms, rich with hidden Lenape symbolism, dating from the early 19th century. The exhibition also addressed the activities and aspirations of the Lenape of Pennsylvania today. This exhibition was organized by the Penn Museum together with the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania (one of many Native American groups in the United States that is not recognized by federal or state authorities). It was co-curated by Chief Robert Red Hawk Ruth, Shelley DePaul, and Abigail Seldin.

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Photo by Lauren Hansen-Flaschen.

Besides the extensive long-term and permanent galleries found within the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the Penn Museum has an active exhibition program. This program involves creating new exhibitions and reworking old ones based on its collections and the knowledge generated through the Museum’s research projects. At the same time, the Museum occasionally welcomes traveling exhibits from beyond its walls. During 2010–2011, the Penn Museum extended the run of two of its recent popular exhibitions, completed the run of another one, reopened a third, produced five small exhibitions, installed one traveling exhibit, and hosted its first ever separately ticketed major exhibition in its galleries.

Support for this Exhibition This exhibition was made possible by Diane von Schlegell and Robert Levy, University Scholars at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships, the Penn Center for Native American Studies, the National Science Foundation’s Research Experience for Undergraduates “Native Voices” program, the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, and by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities’ We the People initiative on American History.

Photo by Penn Museum.


Iraq’s Ancient Past: Re-discovering Ur’s Royal Cemetery (reopened April 30, 2011 – ongoing) Third Floor Galleries This exhibition (reopened after a 9-month closure to allow renovations of the Museum’s original West Wing) highlights the Penn Museum’s famous excavation of the Royal Cemetery of Ur—one of the top ten archaeological discoveries of all time. In 1922, Charles Leonard Woolley began excavations near the town of Nasiriyah in Iraq at the site of Ur. His most remarkable discovery was a massive cemetery with thousands of burials, including a small number of rich tombs belonging to the kings and queens of Ur from around 2500 BCE. The Royal Cemetery of Ur and its spectacular finds still fascinate and challenge us today. In this exhibition, visitors not

only encounter the amazing artifacts uncovered by Woolley’s excavations, but also the fascinating story of the excavation team itself (including Agatha Christie, the wife of Woolley’s assistant Max Mallowan) and the ongoing research that continues to challenge Woolley’s original interpretations. The exhibition was co-curated by Richard L. Zettler and Holly Pittman of the Museum’s Near East Section.

Support for this Exhibition This exhibition was made possible with lead support from the Women’s Committee and additional support from Mrs. H.J. Heinz II, Diane von Schlegell and Robert Levy, and Annette Merle-Smith.

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Photo by Jeff Schonberg.


Righteous Dopefiend: Homelessness, Addiction, and Poverty in Urban America (December 5, 2009 – ongoing) Merle-Smith Galleries This exhibition documents the daily lives of homeless drug users—heroin injectors and crack smokers—who survive on the streets of San Francisco’s former industrial neighborhoods. Forty black-and-white photographs are interwoven with edited transcriptions of tape-recorded conversations, field notes, and critical analysis to explore the intimate experience of homelessness and addiction. Revealing the social survival mechanisms and perspectives of this marginalized “community of addicted bodies,” the exhibition also sheds Support for this Exhibition

light on the often unintended consequences of public policies that can exacerbate the suffering faced by street-based drug users in America. The exhibition was co-curated by Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg. What in the World? (January 28, 2010 – ongoing) Third Floor Video Theater What in the World? is an interactive installation created by multi-disciplinary artist Pablo Helguera as part of the 2010 Philagrafika contemporary art festival. The exhibition is based on the Penn Museum’s popular 1950s TV show, What in the World?, and offers a new perspective on the Museum’s collection based on the vast archival resources and memory of the institution.

This exhibition was made possible with support from the Penn Center for Public Health and the Slought

Support for this Exhibition

Foundation. Research was funded by Richard Perry and

This exhibition was made possible with support from the

the National Institutes of Health.

Barra Foundation.

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Photo by Darien Sutton.

Year of Water: 2010–2011 (September 2010 – June 2011) Trescher Entrance/Merle-Smith Galleries Long before the Bible, the story of a “Great Flood” was written on clay tablets in ancient Mesopotamia (now modern-day Iraq). As part of Penn’s “Year of Water” program, the Museum featured some examples of its exceptional collection of ancient Mesopotamian artifacts. With a focus on the sustaining and destroying powers of water in a region some have called the “cradle of civilization,” the objects on display included one of the most famous of the Sumerian “Flood Tablets,” featuring the story of King Ziusudra who built a boat to save his family from a great flood.

and Excavations at Nippur. The exhibition was co-curated by Renata Holod and Robert Ousterhout of Penn’s History of Art Department.

Support for this Exhibition This exhibition was made possible by Leslee HalpernRogath and David Rogath, through the Halpern-Rogath Curatorial Seminar Fund. The catalog was made possible by the Joukowsky Family Foundation, the Turkish Cultural Foundation, and Penn’s Center for Ancient Studies, Middle East Center, and the History of Art Department.


Fang! The Killing Tooth (October 21, 2010 – ongoing) Sharpe Hallway and Main Entrance This small exhibition explores the biology of the “killing” canine and the history of the vampire myth. Through objects, video, and text, visitors are able to compare fangs from a range of different animals, investigate stories of ancient bloodsucking beings, and even get a new perspective on their own killing teeth. A video of Janet Monge, Associate Curator and Keeper of the Museum’s Physical Anthropology Collections discusses the physical and cultural aspects of blood and the evolution of the canine tooth as they relate to vampire mythology.

Support for this Exhibition This exhibition was made possible with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Provost’s Office

Archaeologists & Travelers in Ottoman Lands (September 26, 2010 – June 26, 2011) Merle-Smith Galleries In the late 1800s, the University of Pennsylvania began excavating the ancient city of Nippur in present-day Iraq. This marked the first American expedition in the Middle East. Over a decade, the excavation team unearthed a remarkable collection of nearly 30,000 cuneiform tablets. This exhibition told the stories of three men whose lives intertwined during Penn’s first excavation. In particular, Osman Hamdi Bey, director of the Imperial Museum in Istanbul (now the Istanbul Archaeological Museum) was the gatekeeper for all excavations in the Ottoman Empire. An accomplished painter, Hamdi Bey created the two major paintings on display in this exhibition—At the Mosque Door

Photo by Lauren Hansen-Flaschen.

of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Support for this Exhibition The presentation of Secrets of the Silk Road was made possible through the generosity of the following individual, corporate, foundation, and government underwriters: Lead Sponsors Judith L. and William G. Bollinger, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, A. Bruce and Margaret Mainwaring

Photo by Aaron Warkov.

Secrets of the Silk Road (February 5, 2011 – June 5, 2011) Kintner and Dietrich Galleries This first ever specially ticketed exhibition at the Penn Museum explored the history of the vast desert landscape of the Tarim Basin, located in Western China, and the mystery of the peoples who lived there. Located at the crossroads between East and West, oasis towns within the Tarim Basin were key way stations for anyone traveling on the legendary Silk Road. Extraordinarily well-preserved human remains found at these sites reveal ancient people of unknown descent. Caucasian in appearance, these mummies challenge long-held beliefs about the history of the area, and early human migration. The material excavated suggests the area was active for thousands of years, with diverse languages, lifestyles, religions, and cultures present. This exhibition—organized by the Bowers Museum, but reinterpreted by the Penn Museum with the assistance of curatorial consultant and catalog editor Victor Mair (below right)—provided a chance to investigate this captivating material and to begin to uncover some of the secrets of the Silk Road, including the camels (top right) that graced our opening weekend celebration.



Partnering Sponsors Lois and Robert M. Baylis, Barbara D. and Michael J. Kowalski, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Selz Foundation Supporting Sponsors Cummins Catherwood, Jr., and Susan W. Catherwood, Alexandra and Eric J. Schoenberg, Ph.D., Tiffany & Co.

Education Sponsors Annette Merle-Smith, PNC Foundation, Subaru of America, Wachovia-Wells Fargo Foundation Media Sponsors NBC10, The Inquirer/philly.com

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Silk Sponsors Gretchen R. Hall, Ph.D., Host Hotels and Resorts, Titan

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Photo by Jeffery Newbury.

Photographed by Bolojinsky, whose studio was located in Tashkent, no further details of this photographer’s career are known to the Museum Archives.

Mummies of the Tarim Basin: Photographs by Jeffery Newbury (April 2011 – June 5, 2011) Archives Corridor, Second Floor Jeffery Newbury’s photographs of the Tarim Basin mummies define these ancient people for our age, and probably for all time. On assignment for Discover magazine in 1994, Mr. Newbury went to Urumchi without a guide or interpreter. Despite many challenges, his photographs became the most revealing portraits of the Tarim Basin mummies ever made. Support for this Exhibition

Battleground: War Rugs from Afghanistan (April 30, 2011 – July 31, 2011) Upper Baugh Gallery The rug weavers of Afghanistan, long renowned for their artistry, depict on their rugs the world that they see. Like television news, their rugs “report” current events. Since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and throughout more than three decades of international and civil war, Afghan weavers have borne witness to disaster by weaving unprecedented images of battle and weaponry into their rugs. Flowers have turned into bullets, landmines, and hand grenades. Birds have turned into helicopters and fighter jets. Sheep and horses have turned into tanks. These are the images on a new and electrifying kind of Oriental rug—the “war rugs” from Afghanistan. Dozens of Afghan “war rugs” woven since 1980 were featured in this traveling exhibit, organized by the Textile Museum of Canada and curated by Max Allen.

The presentation of this exhibition at the Penn Museum was made possible by Victor Mair, curatorial consultant for the Secrets of the Silk Road exhibition.

Support for this Exhibition The presentation of this exhibition at the Penn Museum was made possible by ARZU STUDIO HOPE/Kadrovach-

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Duckworth Family Foundation, and an anonymous donor.

Photo by Jennifer Reifsteck.

On the Silk Road: Tashkent – Photographs by Bolojinsky (April 2011 – ongoing) Archives Corridor, Second Floor This exhibition—a collection of albumen prints from the early 1890s—was curated by the Museum’s Senior Archivist Alessandro Pezzati from photographs purchased for the Museum in 1896 during the coronation of Czar Nicholas II and the Czarina Alexandra. Illustrating the manners and customs of the Kyrgyz people, as well as localities in the vicinity of Tashkent and Samarkand in Uzbekistan, these rare images offer a glimpse into a world now remote.

A Living Museum

Special Programs, Events, and Public Lectures No active museum would be complete without a lively component of special programs, events, and public lectures to fill its galleries, auditoriums, and classrooms. The following are highlights from the Museum’s extensive programs in 2010– 2011. PUBLIC LECTURES Great Adventures along the Silk Road Lecture Series In 2010–2011, the Penn Museum continued its “first Wednesday” lecture and reception series, this year focused on “Great Adventures along the Silk Road.” With attendance more than doubling from the previous year’s numbers, the Museum shifted these lectures from its 250-seat Rainey Auditorium to its 750seat Harrison Auditorium. Beginning in October 2010 and occurring the first Wednesday of each month through June 2011, the audience was entertained with an illustrated presentation showcasing a great story along the Silk Road. These included a survey of “Great Sites along the Silk Road” (Nancy Steinhardt on October 6, 2010), “The Mummies of the Tarim Basin” (Victor Mair on November 3, 2010), “Alexander and Early Greek Contact with the Silk Route” (Jeremy McInerney on December 1, 2010), “From Baghdad to Bukhara” (Renata Holod on January 5, 2011), “The Plague” (Lester Little on February 2, 2011), “Samarkand in the Age of Tamerlane” (Renata Holod on March 2, 2011), “Afghanistan” (Fredrik Hiebert on April 6, 2011), “Byzantium and the Silk Road” (Robert Ousterhout on May 4, 2011), and “Marco Polo’s Silk Road Adventure” (Paul Cobb on June 1, 2011).


Penn Museum Scholars Series Penn Museum continued its series of weekly Wednesday lunchtime talks offered by scholars associated with the Museum. Audience members invited to “brown bag” their lunch enjoyed 30 presentations highlighting field research, conservation efforts, and cultural heritage programs around the world. Douglas G. Lovell, Jr., Annual “Reports from the Field” On December 2, 2010, Williams Director Richard Hodges and Associate Curator Janet Monge shared the stage for the annual Douglas G. Lovell, Jr., “Reports from the Field” with Penn students who took part in their respective Summer 2010 research projects, as well as Dr. Michelle Hobart, co-director

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2010–2011 Speakers at the Penn Museum The following individual scholars also gave public lectures at the Penn Museum during 2010–2011: James P. Allen (September 11, 2010); Henry Macguire (September 27, 2010); Deborah Carlson (October 5, 2010); Roger Bagnall (October 14, 2010); Roberto Nardi (October 19, 2010 and March 30, 2011); Jeffery Soles (October 20, 2010); C. Brian Rose (October 30, 2010); Richard Hodges (November 3, 2010); Barry Kemp (November 6, 2010); JJ Shirley (December 4, 2010); Kelly Ann DiamondReed (January 22, 2011); Yekaterina Barbash (February 17, 2011); Michel Amandry (February 24, 2011); Maria Iacovou (March 15, 2011); Victor Mair (March 15, 2011); Leslie Preston Day (April 13, 2011); and Charles Higham (April 19, 2011).

Other Lectures and Presentations Other lectures and presentations of note included the Rodney Young Memorial Lecture, delivered by Dr. Charles K. Williams II, former director of the Corinth Excavations, on “The Roman Theater at Corinth: The Evolution of the Neighborhood”; an “Evening with Mystery Writer Jenny White”; “Fakes and Forgeries with Robert Wittman”; the Annual Petersen Lecture, delivered by Dr. Spencer Wells, Explorer-in-Residence and Director of the Genographic Project at the National Geographic Society, on “Where East Meets West: Genetic Perspectives on the Tarim Basin Mummies”; “Iraq Cultural Heritage and National Identity,” by H.E. Samir Shakir Mahmoud Sumaida’ie, Ambassador of Iraq; and “Glazed Luohan in Context: Art during the 10th– 12th Centuries,” by Derek Gillman, Executive Director and President of the Barnes Foundation.

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Turkish Delight! On September 26, 2010, visitors to the Penn Museum experienced an afternoon of pure “Turkish Delight!” as the Museum celebrated the opening of Archaeologists & Travelers in Ottoman Lands. The afternoon featured Turkish dancing and music, authentic cuisine demonstrations, talks on ancient and modern Turkey, and arts and crafts. This PECO World Culture Day was sponsored by the Turkish American


of the San Pietro d’Asso project. In Tuscany, Italy, a number of Penn students uncovered a small hilltop monastery (ca. 7th-10th centuries) at San Pietro d’Asso as part of the Penn Museum Global Archaeology Field Project. Closer to home, Penn undergraduate Samantha Cox made international headlines on CNN and beyond, studying the bones of 1830s Irish immigrant laborers from a mass grave by “Duffy’s Cut” in Malvern, Pennsylvania.

PECO WORLD CULTURE DAYS Penn Museum’s popular “World Culture Day” series is designed to introduce visitors of all ages to the rich cultural traditions found throughout the Museum’s galleries and, indeed, throughout the world. Special thanks go to PECO, an Exelon company, for sponsorship of the 2010–2011 World Culture Days series.

Friendship Society of the United States (TAFSUS), the Middle East Center of the University of Pennsylvania, and the International Classroom at the Penn Museum. Viva Mexico! On November 7, 2010, visitors to the Penn Museum were able to discover the diverse cultures of Mexico with food, music, traditional children’s games, and crafts. Highlights of the day’s events included a Mariachi band, pre-Columbian and folkloric dancing, story-telling, a Mexican “mercado” for arts and crafts, children’s games, and the making of public mural art. This PECO World Culture Day was cosponsored by the Mexican Cultural Center of Philadelphia.


Celebrate Japan! On November 14, 2010—the 150th anniversary of the first Japanese diplomatic mission to the U.S.—the Penn Museum offered an afternoon introduction to the rich and unique culture of Japan. The day featured the mesmerizing, vigorous beats of Japanese taiko drums, sword demonstrations, kimono dressing, and opportunities to try the deceptively simple-looking art of origami. This PECO World Culture Day was co-sponsored by the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia and Penn’s Center for East Asian Studies. Fifteenth Annual Peace around the World Celebration On December 5, 2010, the Penn Museum celebrated its 15th annual “Peace around the World” family-oriented afternoon. The theme was once again a “Holiday Passport to Cultures,” where visitors received “passports” to visit international

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speakers and explore holiday traditions from around the world. The day also featured choir music, storytelling, face painting, balloon art, international family crafts, and free treats for children. This PECO World Culture Day was cosponsored by International Classroom at the Penn Museum, the Middle East Center, the Center for East Asians Studies, the South Asian Center, and the African Studies Center, all of the University of Pennsylvania, the Penn Museum’s volunteer Women’s Committee, the Bharatiya Temple, the Chinmaya Mission, Haitian Professionals of Philadelphia, and the Canada Dry Bottling Company of the Delaware Valley. Twenty-Second Annual Celebration of African Cultures On January 22, 2011, the Penn Museum celebrated African Cultures Day with music, dance, storytelling, arts and crafts, games, and cuisine from Africa and the African Diaspora communities. Performances for this year’s PECO World Culture Day included the African Rhythms dance group, the Women’s Sekere Ensemble, storytelling by Momma Sandi and Queen Nur, and the Neo-African Drum and Dance group of La Salle College.

Along the Silk Road On March 26, 2011, the Penn Museum allowed visitors to explore what life was like along the Silk Road a thousand years ago—and what life is like in that region of the world today. Demonstrations of arts, foods and spices, music, and dance that originated and evolved along the world’s most famous set of trading routes, made clear the link between Eurasian cultures East and West. During this PECO World Culture Day visitors were able to examine items from the Silk Road in the Museum’s permanent galleries, and take a tour through thousands of years of Silk Road history when they visited the special exhibition Secrets of the Silk Road.

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Thirtieth Annual Chinese New Year Celebration On February 12, 2011, the Penn Museum celebrated Chinese New Year, ushering in the Year of the Rabbit with music and dance performances, healing and martial arts demonstrations, games, workshops, and children’s activities. This PECO World Culture Day ended with the traditional Chinese Lion Dance grand finale in the Museum’s Warden Garden.


Gladiator Day On April 23, 2011, the Penn Museum celebrated Rome’s birthday and explored Italy during ancient Roman times. Visitors enjoyed gladiatorial bouts, tried on helmets and shields, and re-enacted battle formations. This PECO World Culture Day was also highlighted by a lecture on gladiators in ancient Rome by Kathleen Coleman, Harvard Classics professor and consultant on the Russell Crowe blockbuster, Gladiator. FAMILY PROGRAMS 40 Winks with the Sphinx Penn Museum’s sleepover program, 40 Winks with the Sphinx, launched in spring 2009, grew in popularity through 2010– 2011 with several of the monthly scheduled events selling out. Children and chaperones enjoyed scavenger hunts and flashlight expeditions through ancient Egypt, the mummies and hieroglyphs, ancient Greece and Rome, and the world of the ancient Maya. Later, explorers rolled out their sleeping bags to doze at the foot of the third largest Sphinx outside of Egypt and by the 3,200-year-old pillars of the great palace of Merenptah, son of Ramesses II. Special thanks go to the Tasty Baking Company and Popchips for providing Tastykakes and Popchips, respectively, for all 40 Winks events in 2010–2011.

P.M. @ Penn Museum On Wednesday, September 8, 2010, the Penn Museum launched its first ever series of regular evening hours. Under the banner of “P.M. @ Penn Museum” the Museum’s galleries remain open every Wednesday night until 8 pm, with a rotating series of special programming that changes weekly. For example, second Wednesdays have become synonymous with Quizzo, hosted by Quiztine. The launch of these new hours and programming coincided with the opening of the Museum’s new Pepper Mill Café (run by Restaurant Associates, now Wolfgang Puck Catering), which offers a “happy hour” bar featuring wines, beers, sodas, and light supper offerings. The Museum Shop also remains open until 8 pm.

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Photo by goldenbergphotography.com.



Afghanistan: Ten Years Later What is the political, social, and religious configuration of Afghanistan ten years after the beginning of American military involvement in the country? On April 18, 2011, three panelists representing the U.S. Marine Corps and Manhattan District Attorney’s Office (Colonel Matthew Bogdanos) and Penn’s Departments of Political Science (Michael Horowitz) and Anthropology (Brian Spooner) took part in a wide-ranging discussion in Rainey Auditorium that tried to address these questions. Penn Museum Summer Nights On Wednesday, June 22, 2011, the Museum brought back the popular “Penn Museum Summer Nights” series, which continued through August 24, 2011. Featuring a different musical group in the Stoner Courtyard each week from 5 to 8 pm, the series is a family-friendly destination for hundreds of Penn Museum fans looking for a shaded location to avoid the heat, enjoy the weather, and join in the happy-hour atmosphere.

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Theater of War Theater of War is an innovative project created by the New York City-based group Outside the Wire that presents readings of ancient Greek plays as a catalyst for town hall discussions about the challenges faced by service members, veterans, and their families. On April 2, 2011, Harrison Auditorium hosted a staged reading of Sophocles’ play “Ajax” performed by Academy Award nominated actor, David Strathairn and actors from the People’s Light and Theatre Company. The reading was followed by an emotional series of testimonials from a select panel of veterans, a soldier’s wife, and a veteran’s hospital mental health care provider. The event was enthusiastically embraced by the audience, who were encouraged to dialogue with the panel.

Photo by Robert Harrell, Smithsonian Institution.

PUBLIC SYMPOSIA AND FORUMS Water in the Ancient World As part of Penn’s “Year of Water,” the Penn Museum offered an afternoon program on October 2, 2010, highlighting the challenges of water management in ancient times. Topics included the myths around and evidence for the Great Flood, the engineering marvels of Roman and Indus civilizations, and the watery landscapes of Amazonia and Mesoamerica. The program included National Geographic Society archaeologist Fredrik Hiebert, whose underwater research with Robert Ballard in the Black Sea identified the remains of ancient floods, and Vernon Scarborough from the University of Cincinnati, who discussed how sustainable water use by ancient civilizations can provide models for our current response to global climate change. Cleopatra and the End of the Hellenistic World On October 30, 2010, the Penn Museum hosted the second day of a two-day symposium that was jointly sponsored by the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology (based at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford) to complement the exhibition Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt at The Franklin Institute. The focus of discussion was the continuity and discontinuity in Alexandria and the wider world of the Roman Mediterranean. This symposium was sponsored by Hilti Arts and Culture. Southeast Asian Ceramic Archaeology From November 4 through 8, 2010, more than 30 international scholars (seen above) from all over the world came together for the first ever International Workshop on Southeast Asian Ceramic Archaeology: Directions for Methodology and Collaboration. The two-part symposium was co-hosted at the Smithsonian Institution’s Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, DC, and the Penn Museum. The

program was made possible with funding from the Henry Luce Foundation and the University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation. Religions along the Silk Road The renowned “Silk Road” is known for the travelers and trade goods that moved great distances between the East and the West. However, aspects of culture were also transferred, including knowledge and practice of various religions. This special program on November 13, 2010, featured four short lectures, followed by an open discussion on the role of Islam, Buddhism, Christianity, and Judaism, and their impact, along the Silk Road. The Anatomy of the Mummy On February 26, 2011, the Penn Museum unraveled the mysteries of the world’s mummies using state-of-the-art technology. Led by Associate Curator Janet Monge of the Museum’s Physical Anthropology Section, and a national group of scholars presented the latest approaches in the study of mummies, including new techniques using CT scans and MRIs. Strangers in a Strange Land On March 4 and 5, 2011, a two-day graduate student conference sponsored by the Center for Ancient Studies was held at the Penn Museum that considered how travel has played a fundamental role in shaping history. As ancient peoples moved from one place to another, they left behind material remains, and in a few rare cases, literary accounts of their journeys. Today, scholars of the ancient world follow in their footsteps, visiting ancient sites, museums, and libraries across the world. This conference brought together graduate students and faculty from a variety of disciplines in order to explore different approaches to travel in the ancient world.

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The Blue Frontier: Water in the Modern World On April 10, 2011, as part of Penn’s “Year of Water,” a symposium held at the Penn Museum explored water as a force in modern societies around the world. From local concerns to global impacts, speakers addressed issues surrounding access and rights to water, the health impacts of water quality and community practices, and the power to decide how water is used.

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Twenty-Ninth Annual Maya Weekend On April 15–17, 2011, the Penn Museum welcomed international scholars and specialists actively involved with research within Mexico and Central America for a lively and engaging look at the “The Ancient Maya in the 21st Century: Advances in Analysis and Presenting the Past.” This year’s Maya Weekend explored advances in the fields of scientific analysis

Photo by Arlen and Diane Chase.

Reconfiguring the Silk Road On March 19, 2011, the Penn Museum hosted the first major event in over 15 years to focus on the history of the Silk Road and the origins of the mysterious Tarim Basin mummies. Since the last milestone conference was held on the topic at the Penn Museum in 1996, new archaeological discoveries and scholarly advances have been made, creating a need to critically reshape the very idea of the “Silk Road.” Major topics presented included ancient transportation and economies, the origins of early westerners in Central Asia, the excavations of textiles in Xinjiang, and a reinvestigation of the Tarim Basin mummies. Distinguished speakers (seen above) included David W. Anthony, Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Peter Brown, Michael Frachetti, Philip L. Kohl, Victor Mair, J.P. Mallory, Joseph G. Manning, and Colin Renfrew. Funding for the symposium was generously provided by the Henry Luce Foundation and Penn’s Center for Ancient Studies.

and visual presentation of ancient Maya culture. Specialists in 3-D modeling of architecture and remote sensing joined archaeologists focused on the close study of materials and physical remains from the ancient kingdoms of the Classic Maya. As always, the weekend combined illustrated talks by world-renowned scholars with interactive hieroglyphic workshops for beginners and more advanced glyph readers.

A Rich History

The Museum Archives The Museum Archives is the repository for the administrative and scientific documentation and research produced by the Museum. In addition to its role as preserver of Museum history, the Archives is involved in all aspects of Museum work, contributing to the research mission, public exhibitions, digital projects, documentation of collections, and the sale of rights and reproductions of Museum images. The creation of data and records continues, and archival collections (including textual records, photographic materials, art on paper, maps and plans, Museum publications, and objects) are growing at a faster rate than any other Museum collection. Thanks to new initiatives, research accessibility to this material continues to expand. The Archives staff includes Senior Archivist Alessandro Pezzati, new Assistant Archivist Eric Schnittke, part-time Archival Assistant Jody Rodgers, and part-time Film Archivist Kate Pourshariati. The Archives also benefits from the work of numerous work-study students, interns, and volunteers throughout the year. During 2010–2011, these included two graduate students from the archival programs of Drexel and Temple University, college and high school students from the Philadelphia area, and a Penn undergraduate intern funded by Penn’s Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships (CURF). Collaboration with Penn Library Thanks to collaboration with SCETI (Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image) at the Penn Library and the Museum’s American Section, the Louis Shotridge Digital Archive is now available online at www.penn.museum/collections/shotridge/ index.html. This database includes all correspondence, research notes, and photographs of Louis Shotridge, a Tlingit who worked for the Museum from 1912 to 1932. The union catalog for Penn archival collections, established by the Penn Libraries last year, has increased access to the Museum Archives’ collections. New collections of papers have been processed this year and continue to make the resource more valuable. Although this project is ongoing, many of the finding aids for the Museum’s archival collections are already available online at dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/ead/ index.html.

Louis Shotridge, dressed in the robes of a high-ranking Tlingit, assembled unique collections in his native Alaska. The robes are now in the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution. UPM#140236 Photo by Penn Museum.

Ongoing and New Collaborations The Archives continually lends expertise to other Museum projects (e.g. Gordion, Hasanlu, Ban Chiang, and Al-Hiba) on digitization standards and procedures. In particular, the Archives continues to collaborate with the Gordion Archives to encapsulate in Mylar several hundred Gordion plans and drawings. Beyond the Museum, Kate Pourshariati and Alessandro Pezzati have collaborated with the Library of Congress to digitize and make preservation copies of the films from the “Navajo Film Themselves/Through Navajo Eyes” project, conducted in 1966 by Penn professor Sol Worth (1922–1977) that resulted in a historic collection of seven films by Navajo filmmakers. These films are in the National Film Registry of important American films, maintained by the Library of Congress.

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Conservation and Preservation Grants The Museum Archives continues to oversee two grants totaling $122,000 from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to cover the conservation treatment and re-housing of over 200 works by Museum artist M. Louise Baker (1872–1962). The drawings and paintings have returned from treatment from the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, and a catalog of the artwork together with a biography of the artist is being prepared. For the fourth year in a row, the National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) awarded the Museum Archives a grant for the preservation and digitization of part of its film collection. This year’s grant focused on a 1927 16mm film by pioneer Penn anthropologist Frank G. Speck (1881–1950), Glimpses of Life among the Catawba and Cherokee Indians of the Carolinas. The grant covers the cost of making a new negative and print of the film, as well as a digital copy of same. Through the efforts of Penn professors Robert Ousterhout and Renata Holod, a painting by Osman Hamdi Bey, At the Mosque Door, purchased by the Museum in 1895, was cleaned, restored, and framed. It was one of two paintings by Hamdi Bey displayed in the Penn Museum exhibition Archaeologists & Travelers in Ottoman Lands. Research Requests, Rights, and Reproductions The Archives continues to scan its collections on demand as users request images for research or publication. Important collections digitized during 2010–2011 include archaeological plans from the Museum’s excavations at Denderah, Egypt (1916–1918), photographs from Minturnae, Italy (1931–1933), and plans and drawings from the first modern underwater archaeological excavation at Cape Gelidonya, Turkey (1960). The Archives handles over 750 research requests per year, from Penn students, independent researchers, commercial publishers, and scholars all over the world. Sales of rights and reproductions earned $26,500 this year. Since the Museum motion picture films were digitized and served online by the Internet Archive (www.archive.org/details/UPMAA_ films), there has been a steady increase in the demand for Museum footage for documentaries on many subjects. One documentary of note was The Panama Canal, which aired on PBS’s “The American Experience.” The National Archives of Singapore is currently streaming the Museum’s Kate and Arthur Tode films of Singapore (1930).

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At the Mosque Door, oil painting by Osman Hamdi Bey, 1891. UPM #184892. Photo by Penn Museum.

New Acquisitions and Inventories This year’s new acquisitions to the Archives include the papers and photographs of Penn anthropologist Ruben Reina (faculty 1952–1991), two small collection of papers relating to painter and early collector Alexander Scott (1854–1925) and anthropologist Jane C. Goodale, respectively; and the diaries, scrapbooks, and other papers of Museum artist M. Louise Baker (employed 1908–1936) acquired through the generosity of Alan Noble. Jamie and Haim Handwerker donated the first portion of a stunning photography collection revolving around anthropological and archaeological themes, comprising work by five renowned photographers, Ken Heyman (1930– ), Pierre Verger (1902–1996), Marilyn Bridges (1948– ), Danny Lyon (1942– ), and Patrick Nagatani. Over 65,000 negative records have been entered into the Museum’s photographic database, 15,000 this year alone. The inventory of the Museum’s entire collection of negatives is also ongoing. Using only volunteer staff, 30,000 negatives have been inventoried for location and condition (10,000 this year) of more than 150,000.

Still from The Hoax (1931). This short movie about a Bororo boy was recently rediscovered. UPM #27454. Photo by Penn Museum.

Collections processed and prepared for researcher access include the papers of Gregory L. Possehl, Sara Yorke Stevenson, and the records of the Museum’s Education Department, and the photographs and slides of Elizabeth Lyons. A collection of video footage from Paula Sabloff, taken on her research trip to Mongolia in 2000, was added to the Internet Archive. New Exhibitions The Archives plays a key role in assisting with exhibitions in the Museum, regularly providing archaeological drawings, archival photographs, historic documents, and even paintings for upcoming exhibitions. During the past year, Alessandro Pezzati was instrumental in the production of the exhibition Archaeologists & Travelers in Ottoman Lands, which was comprised almost entirely of photographs and drawings from the Archives. Several items from the Archives were included in the major international traveling exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology. Finally, Alessandro Pezzati curated, designed, and installed an archival exhibition of rare 19th-century photographs from Tashkent and Samarkand in the Archives Corridor called On the Silk Road: Tashkent: Photographs by Bolojinsky. New Discoveries During the past year, three discoveries of note were made regarding the Archives film collection. The first is a children’s film, called The Hoax, a companion to the first synchronized sound-on-film field documentary Matto Grosso (1931). The film, directed by the acclaimed cinematographer Floyd Crosby, was thought to have been lost, but a copy was found in the Human Studies Film Archives at the Smithsonian Institution. The second is an extremely rare 1913 film Native Life in the Philippines, which had remained hidden in the Museum’s collections until identified by researcher Dr. Mark Rice of St. John Fisher College, Rochester. This film is very important to Philippine history and it is believed that the Museum’s is the only extant copy. The Archives also located in its collection a number of glass lantern slides taken by the same photographer that complement the film. Also uncovered by a researcher is footage in a film by Harry Wright on Brazil that shows the 1946 Roncador-Xingu expedition led by the Villas-Bôas brothers to the interior of the country. Orlando, Claudio, and Leonardo Villas-Bôas were famous Brazilian Indian rights activists who were

instrumental in the creation of the great Xingu National Park in 1971. Community Engagement Beyond the Museum, the Archives is actively involved in engaging multiple audiences. This past year Alessandro Pezzati gave special presentations (including temporary exhibitions) for a number of groups, including Penn undergraduate students, archival graduate students from Drexel University, Mesoamerican fellows from Dumbarton Oaks, Emily Wilson’s Classical Tradition class at Penn, a Greek and Roman Sculpture class from Temple University, and a special visit from professor Mark Dion and his visual arts class from Columbia University. The Archives staff hosted a reception for the annual meeting of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, held jointly with the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual archivists, on November 2, 2010. The Archives presented its famous documentary, Matto Grosso (1931). In December 2010, Alessandro Pezzati was a presenter at Dumbarton Oaks for a conference on “Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives in a Digital Age” together with Gareth Darbyshire and Gabriel Pizzorno of the Digital Gordion Project. In February 2011, Alessandro Pezzati and Kate Pourshariati gave a presentation to the public for the Penn Museum Scholars series, featuring a screening of the recently rediscovered 16mm film, The Hoax. Alessandro Pezzati helped organize a cultural film series curated by Kate Pourshariati. The initial film Afghan Trucks (1971) was screened on April 30, 2011, and the Archives will continue to present difficultto-find films on world cultures in the fall of 2011 on the first Sunday of each month. Kate Pourshariati gave a talk at the National Archives of Malaysia on the history of the film collections at the Penn Museum, which was well received, and has led to collaboration with film archivists at the Philippine Information Agency on the film Native Life in the Philippines.

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Conservator Julie Lawson working in the old conservation lab, which was badly in need of renovation, updating, and enlargement. Photo by Lynn Grant.

Preserving Our Collections Conservation Work

Assistant Conservator Nina Owczarek chats with Samuel Anderson (right) and Eddie Gormley (center) from Samuel Anderson Architects prior to their lecture entitled “Rules and Wisdom of Conservation Lab Design with Insights into Museum Expansion Projects.” Photo by Jessica Walthew.

The Museum’s Conservation Department plays a key role in the preservation and care of the Museum’s roughly one million objects. The Museum’s Conservation staff includes Head Conservator Lynn Grant, Conservator Julia Lawson, Assistant Conservator Nina Owczarek, and numerous interns throughout the year. This year brought several changes for the Conservation Department, heralding a bright future. New Venue After 44 years in the West Wing of the Museum’s original 1899 building, the conservation laboratory moved to temporary quarters in the Mainwaring Wing in order to make way for the West Wing renovations. The temporary space is smaller and spread over several rooms on four different floors so this move required much ingenuity, organization, and hard work. Planning is underway for an enlarged and improved conservation laboratory suite as the West Wing renovation continues. Once this is completed, the Conservation

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Department will be better equipped to provide support for the Museum’s preservation efforts. New Staff In January, Nina Owczarek joined the conservation staff as Assistant Conservator. The Department’s expansion, made

Nina Owczarek uses the portable x-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzer from Bruker Elemental to examine metallic threads on a robe from the Asian Section. Photo by Jessica Walthew.

possible by a generous grant from the 1956 Otto Haas Charitable Trust, will enable us to better fulfill our strategic goal of being a world-class museum that stewards and exhibits its collections to contemporary international museological standards. In addition to her work on Penn Museum collections, Nina has been instrumental in setting up the Philadelphia Area Conservation Association (PACA), a group bringing together conservation professionals from the Greater Philadelphia area. PACA’s inaugural event, a lecture by architects from Samuel Anderson Architects held at the Penn Museum, was a great success, with over 50 attendees. New Tools In preparing for the new lab, the Conservation Department has begun exploring additional technologies available to assist conservation efforts. In the spring of 2011, the Department had a temporary loan of a portable X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzer, a device capable of non-destructively identifying elements. In just two weeks, the unit was used to investigate 94 artifacts, collecting over 170 datasets over a full range of materials. During the short trial period, the XRF proved very useful for answering questions regarding the qualitative composition of artifacts and identifying the presence of heavymetal pesticides. Shortly after this, the Department received a grant which enabled us to acquire an analyzer of our own. In the

future, the Conservation Department hopes to acquire a digital x-radiography unit, a laser for cleaning, and new polarized light microscopes. Such acquisitions will enable the Department to carry out more effective treatments and analyses.

American Section Keepers Bill Wierzbowski (left) and Lucy Fowler Williams (center) consult with Nina Owczarek on the XRF analysis of a painted buffalo robe. The analysis identified barium-based lemon yellow, suggesting that the robe dates from the 1830s to the 1850s. Photo by Julie Lawson.

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Stewarding Our Collections The Museum’s Repatriation Office and Committee

The Repatriation Office and Repatriation Committee are responsible for the Penn Museum’s compliance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) (PL101-601). Overseen by Robert W. Preucel, the Sally and Alvin V. Shoemaker Curator-in-Charge of the American Section, and Lucy Fowler Williams, the Jeremy A. Sabloff Keeper of the American Section, the Repatriation Office is staffed by Stacey O. Espenlaub, the Euseba and Warren Kamensky NAGPRA Coordinator, with assistance from Virginia Ebert, Carolyn Moneymaker (Penn work-study), Ting Cho Lau (Penn CURF summer intern), and Adine Mitrani (Penn Student Volunteer). The Repatriation Committee is chaired by Lucy Fowler Williams and currently consists of Robert W. Preucel (Vice Chair), Stacey O. Espenlaub, Clark L. Erickson (Curator of South America), Janet Monge (Associate Curator of the Physical Anthropology Section), Theodore G. Schurr (Consulting Curator in both the American and Physical Anthropology Sections), Bill Wierzbowski (Associate Keeper, American Section), Adria H. Katz (Fassitt/Fuller Keeper of the Oceanian Section), Xiuqin Zhou (Senior Registrar), Kenric Tsethlikai (Wharton School), Brenda Fraser (Penn’s Office of General Counsel), and Andrea Baldeck (Penn Museum Board of Overseers). During 2010–2011, the Repatriation Committee met a total of nine times to evaluate repatriation claims and advise on scientific testing requests. Members of the Repatriation Office attended a Tlingit potlatch, advised on the Museum’s presentation to the NAGPRA Review Committee, and gave professional papers and presentations. New Repatriation Claims During 2010–2011, the Penn Museum received a new claim from the Sitka Tribe of Alaska for five cultural items [the Wolf helmet (NA8507), the Ganook hat (NA6864), the Noble Killer hat (NA11741), the Eagle hat (NA11742), and the Shark Helmet (29-1-1)]. These same objects have also been claimed by the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska (CCTHITA) and were approved by the University Trustees for repatriation (see below). These objects were purchased in 1918 and 1929 by Louis Shotridge from the Kaagwaantaan clan of Sitka. The Museum is working with both the Sitka Tribe and the Central Council to attempt to resolve these competing claims.

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Repatriation Evaluations The Museum hopes to be able to negotiate a complete resolution of the repatriation claim submitted by the Tlingit T’akdeintaan clan of Huna, Alaska, for the return of 45 objects from Huna in the Louis Shotridge collection. Eight of the 45 objects claimed were found to fit NAGPRA’s definitions of “Objects of Cultural Patrimony” and/or “Sacred Objects.” The University agreed to repatriate these eight objects and published a Notice of Intent to Repatriate in the Federal Register on December 14, 2010. The University also proposed a joint custodial agreement for the remaining 37 objects. Unfortunately, the claimants rejected this proposal and the matter was brought before the NAGPRA Review Committee on November 17–19, 2010, in Washington, DC. At the end of the proceedings, the Review Committee verbally communicated its finding that all of the objects are objects of cultural patrimony and sacred objects and that the Museum does not have the right of possession to the objects but the Museum has not yet, however, received any written communication regarding the Committee’s decision. During the spring, the Repatriation Office began working with the clan on arrangements for the packing and shipping of the eight objects the Museum agreed to repatriate. It is expected that the repatriation of these objects will occur in September 2011. The Museum Committee also evaluated the revised repatriation claim submitted by the Central Council for 11 clan hats on behalf of the Tlingit Kaagwaantaan and L’ooknax.ádi clans of Sitka. Eight of 11 objects were found to fit NAGPRA’s definitions of “Objects of Cultural Patrimony” and/or “Sacred Objects” and the Committee recommended their repatriation. In addition, the Committee recommended a partnership with the clans and a joint custodial agreement for the remaining three objects. Stacey Espenlaub with Wendy White, Penn Sr. Vice President and General Counsel, and Jim Mathieu, Chief of Staff to the Williams Director and Head of Collections at the Penn Museum, attended the University’s Board of Trustees meeting on October 28, 2010, to present the Museum’s recommendations. The Trustees passed a “Resolution to Repatriate Clan Objects and Establish a Partnership between the Tlingit Kaagwaantaan Clan and the Tlingit L’ooknax.ádi Clan of Sitka, Alaska, and the University of Pennsylvania Museum.” The claimants accepted this proposal. However, a second Tlingit entity, the Sitka Tribe of Alaska, later made a competing claim for five of the Kaagwaantaan objects covered by the resolution (see above).

View of the Kaagwaantaan potlatch in Angoon, Alaska. Photo by Robert W. Preucel.

In addition, the Repatriation Committee evaluated the cultural affiliation of human remains identified as Pawnee, Arikara, and Assiniboine in preparation for consultation with the relevant tribes. News, Inventories, and Education At the invitation of Andrew Gamble and the Kaagwaantaan clan of Sitka, Alaska, and facilitated by the CCTHITA, Lucy Williams and Robert Preucel attended a Tlingit Kaagwaantaan potlatch in honor of Fenton James and Melvin Gamble on October 29, 2010, in Angoon, Alaska. They hand-carried the Eagle hat and Shark helmet for use in the memorial ceremonies as part of the Museum’s potlatch loan program. The hats were then placed on temporary loan at the Alaska State Museum pending the outcome of the competing claim (noted above). Bob was adopted into the Kaagwaantaan clan and given the name “Stuwukaa katskoo” in honor of Louis Shotridge. Lucy was adopted into the Kiks.adi clan and given the name “Koodaneék” in honor of the clan leader’s sister, Bea Wilson. The Repatriation Committee was saddened by the passing of Warren Kamensky on April 8, 2011. Warren was a longtime volunteer in the American Section and endowed the position of the NAGPRA Coordinator in the spring of 2010. The Repatriation Committee provided advice regarding research and scientific testing requests related to collections that fall under NAGPRA. These included two requests by Doug Owsley of the Smithsonian Institution related to objects from the Great Plains and human remains from Tranquillity, California; and a request from Steven LeBlanc,

Peabody Museum, Harvard University, related to human remains in the Hazzard-Hearst Collection from Grand Gulch, Utah. The Repatriation Office assisted Kari Mans, NAGPRA Coordinator, Southwest Museum of the American Indian, Autry National Center of the American West, and Susan Bierer, Navajo National Monument, with information requests related to our Native American collections. Collections inventories were prepared for the Osage Nation of Oklahoma and the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon. Finally, as part of the Repatriation Office’s educational efforts, Stacey Espenlaub presented two summer lectures about NAGPRA and the Penn Museum to the CURF Summer Interns, July 13, 2010, and August 9, 2010. Lucy Williams and Stacey Espenlaub presented a spring lecture about NAGPRA to the Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership program, May 19, 2011. Lucy Williams presented a lecture about NAGPRA to the 2011 Summer Interns on July 26, 2011. Stacey Espenlaub participated in a National Park Service NAGPRA webinar training session: “NAGPRA for Museums” (July 28, 2010), and the National NAGPRA Program and the Department of the Interior’s Office of the Solicitor’s public telephonic meeting to discuss the discretionary review of the NAGPRA regulations, May 19, 2011. Stacey Espenlaub and Bill Wierzbowski attended a Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation symposium entitled “Ethical Issues in Ethnographic Collections” at the Winterthur Museum, Delaware, April 22, 2011. Lastly, Stacey Espenlaub attended the NAGPRA Review Committee meetings in Syracuse, New York, June 21–22, 2011.

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Sharing Our Collections

Outgoing Loans and Traveling Exhibits Between July 1, 2010, and June 30, 2011, the Penn Museum lent 341 different items from its collections to 26 institutions around the world, with many of the objects making multiple stops along their itinerary. Encompassing artifacts from the Museum’s many Sections—African, American, Asian, Babylonian, Egyptian, Mediterranean, Near East, and Oceanian—as well as the Museum Archives, these loans generally formed part of larger exhibitions curated and designed by other museums, either for showcase in their own galleries or for the purpose of traveling the show to multiple venues. By agreeing to loan our objects and participate in these exhibitions, we not only share our amazing collections with museum visitors who may otherwise never visit Philadelphia, we also provide other scholars the opportunity to interpret our collections in the light of their own interests, giving voice to elements of the past and to human culture that might otherwise remain silent. Outgoing Loans (2010–2011) “Six Civilizations Across the World” (48 Near Eastern objects) Beijing World Art Museum, Beijing, China (October 1, 2006 to September 12, 2010) “Gods, Myths, and Mortals: Discovering Ancient Greece” (35 Mediterranean objects) Children’s Museum of Manhattan, New York, NY (May 25, 2007 to September 6, 2010) “Yuungnaqpiallerput (The Way We Genuinely Live): Masterworks of Yup'ik Science and Survival” (10 American objects) National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC (March 6, 2010 to May 25, 2010) “Uncommon Threads: Wabanaki Textiles, Clothing, and Costume” (3 American objects) Maine State Museum, Augusta, ME (May 23, 2009 to September 4, 2010) “Heroes! Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece” (1 Mediterranean object) San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA (May 22, 2010 to September 5, 2010)

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“Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea” (77 American objects) Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA (March 27, 2010 to July 18, 2010) Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (August 29, 2010 to January 2, 2011) Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO (February 13, 2011 to May 8, 2011) “Through African Eyes: The European in African Art, 1500 to Present” (1 African object) Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (April 11, 2010 to August 8, 2010) Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO (September 25, 2010 to January 9, 2011) “A Gift from the Desert: The Art, History, and Culture of the Arabian Horse” (24 Near Eastern objects) International Museum of the Horse, Lexington, KY (May 29, 2010 to October 15, 2010) “Cloisonné: Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties” (1 Asian object) Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, New York, NY (January 25, 2011 to April 17, 2011) “Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples at Xiangtangshan” (6 Asian objects) David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (September 30, 2010 to January 16, 2011) Smithsonian Institution Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, DC. (February 26, 2011 to July 31, 2011)

Penn Museum Loans to Traveling “Xiangtangshan” Exhibition In 2010, the Penn Museum loaned six important Chinese pieces for the traveling exhibition “Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan.” Using a combination of 3D technology and rigorous scholarship, the exhibition set out to digitally reconstruct a set of Buddhist caves using scans of artifacts culled from museums and private collections from all over the world. Originally on display in the Chinese Rotunda, the Museum’s pieces, including 3 statues, 2 heads, and 1 stela, were some of the first Xiangtangshan sculpture to be displayed in a Western museum and are considered some of the finest examples of Northern Qi sculpture from the site. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog that includes detailed information about how and when the sculptures were acquired as well as multiple essays on the caves themselves. Penn Museum was given special recognition at the opening ceremony for contributing some of the highlights to the show. Head of a Bodhisattva (C354) loaned to the traveling exhibition “Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan.” Photo by John Tsantes; copyright University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and The Smithsonian Institution.

“Wine and Spirit: Rituals, Remedies, and Revelry” (1 Near Eastern object) Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA (September 2, 2010 to December 12, 2010) Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY (January 29, 2010 to April 10, 2011) “Viajeros por el Conocimiento (Travelers Through Knowledge)” (5 Near Eastern objects) Residencia de Estudiantes, Madrid, Spain (December 1, 2010 to April 24, 2011) “Naked: The University Collection Unveiled” (2 Mediterranean objects) Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (August 18, 2010 to November 1, 2010) Franklin-Lavoisier Prize Showcase Event (5 Egyptian objects) Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, PA (October 13, 2010 to October 15, 2010) “Treasures of the Earth” (25 Egyptian objects) The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN (June 11, 2011 to June 11, 2014) “Giza: At the Foot of the Great Pyramids” (6 Egyptian objects) Roemer-und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim GmbH, Hildesheim, Germany (April 16, 2011 to August 21, 2011)

“Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology” (69 objects from six different Curatorial Sections and 4 Archival materials) Montreal Science Center, Montreal, Canada (April 28, 2011 to September 18, 2011) “Before Pythagoras: The Culture of Babylonian Mathematics” (5 Babylonian objects) Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, New York, NY (November 2, 2010 to January 24, 2011) “At the Mouth of the Amazon: Ancient Ceramics from Marajo Island” (8 American objects) The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (June 12, 2011 to September 18, 2011) Workshop on “Northwest Coast Carving: Halibut Hooks” (4 American objects) Totem Heritage Center, Ketchikan, AK (February 12, 2011 to February 21, 2011) “The Right to Water and Indigenous Peoples” (1 American object) UN Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNSPFII), Department of Economic and Social Affairs, New York, NY (May 16, 2011 to June 30, 2011)

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Photos by Bob Thurlow.


Traveling Exhibits (2010–2011) Between July 1, 2010, and June 30, 2011, the Penn Museum’s Traveling Exhibits Department toured three major exhibitions to three museums across the US, entertaining and educating more than 140,000 visitors. Painted Metaphors: Pottery and Politics of the Ancient Maya (includes 150 objects from the American Section) Penn Museum’s Chamá polychrome vessels, the only such museum collection with a secure history, show how objects reflect cultural shifts and how people cope with change. This exhibition portrays a time of political change in a troubled outpost of the Maya world, and a human story of power and intrigue among people who lived more than 1,300 years ago. Venue: Frank H. McClung Museum at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee (September 16, 2010 to January 3, 2011; attendance: 19,780) River of Gold: Precolumbian Treasures from Sitio Conte (includes 145 objects from the American Section)

During the early months of 1940, the Penn Museum excavated a stunning collection of gold plaques and figurines at the site of Sitio Conte in Panama. This exhibition delineates the Museum’s expedition and explores the burial rituals of a long-lost Central American people. Venue: Muzeo, Anaheim, California (February 3, 2011 to May 29, 2011; attendance: 22,025) Surviving: The Body of Evidence (includes fossil casts produced by the Physical Anthropology Section) This NSF-funded exhibition and has traveled the US, featuring high-tech interactive technology and touchable fossil casts to educate museum visitors with its unapologetic look at human evolution. Venue: Pink Palace Museum, Memphis, Tennessee (June 19, 2010 to September 18, 2010; attendance: 103,090)

Penn Museum Loans to Traveling “Indiana Jones” Exhibition Penn Museum partnered with National Geographic, LucasFilm, and X3 Productions to debut an exhibition featuring the world’s most recognizable fictional archaeologist in April 2011. “Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology” features 69 objects from among six of the Museum’s Curatorial Sections, as well as four archival pieces. Authentic props and footage from the four Indiana Jones movies complement great archaeological discoveries housed in the Penn Museum’s collections, such as treasures from the royal tombs of Ur, beautifully preserved Nazca pottery, and two Egyptian funerary stelas. The exhibition separates the objects into four subsections—Treasures, Discoveries, Knowledge, and Mystery—to help educate the visitors about the hidden secrets and science behind archaeology. Ninety-five percent of the exhibited artifacts are from the Penn Museum due to our varied and extensive excavations. The multi-venue exhibition began its tour at the Montreal Science Center and will travel internationally for the next five years.

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Some of the objects from the Museum’s Ur excavations on display in the traveling exhibition “Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology.” Photo by Catherine Eckels.

Expanding Our Collections New Acquisitions

During 2010–2011, the Museum accepted 15 donations of cultural objects and four donations of paper and photographic research materials, and made one purchase, based on recommendations from the Curatorial Sections, the Archives, and the Museum’s Acquisitions Committee. The 15 donations and one purchase resulted in a total of 165 objects being accessioned into the Museum’s African, American, Asian, Near East, and Oceanian Section collections and 17 objects being given to the Museum’s Community Engagement Department to support its educational programs. Among the accessions were a rare payback doll from Papua New Guinea and a beautifully beaded baby carrier from Borneo. Both were collected in the 1980s and donated by Marilyn and Robert Forney. A Dayak shield and spear, collected by Eugene Wright in Dutch East Borneo in the 1920s and accompanied by his book describing

Right, 2010-21-1 Burial urn cover, Columbia. Gift from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Parke A. Dickey in their honor by their children. Left, 2010-24-2 Baby Carrier, Borneo. Gift of Marilyn and Robert Forney. Below, 2010-20-2A&B (top); -4A&B (bottom). Knife and dagger, Laos. Gift of Jerome N. Bluestein. Photos by Penn Museum.

the adventure, were gifted to the Museum by his nephew, Jonathan Wright. Fifty objects featuring 23 Roman glass vessels procured by Margaret Kocher in Petra, Jordan, between 1959 and 1961 came from the Kocher family. Twelve Laotian objects acquired from local villagers, sometime around 1958, were given by Jerome Bluestein. Eight Precolumbian artifacts, on loan to the Museum since 1939, were converted to a gift thanks to the children of Mr. and Mrs. Parke Dickey. Fourteen

2010-19-9A&B, -21, -11,-12 & -2. Roman glassware, Petra, Jordan; post-1st century AD. Gift of the Kocher family in memory of Eric and Margaret Kocher. Photo by Penn Museum.

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Buddhist objects, acquired in Southeast Asia by Aileen and Robert Sechler during the 1950s and 1960s were donated by Kathryn S. Pyle. A set of Buddhist objects, including robes, a begging bowl, a razor, thread, and a needle, was donated in the name of the de Lanerolle Trust of Sri Lanka. A mixed gift from the estate of Jane Carter Goodale, featuring aboriginal bark paintings and pearl-shell exchange valuables from New Britain as well as photographs and other reference materials, was donated by her relatives. The new acquisitions also included contemporary objects, such as the Black Eagle “Thunder Stick War Rattle” donated by Barrie O’Gorman and the purchase of a Black-on-White revival jar made by Joshua Madalena of Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico. The four donations of photographic and paper materials constitute a substantial volume of scholarly material of high archival and research value. In addition to those already mentioned, the Museum acquired 60 anthropologically and archaeologically oriented photographs donated by Jamie and Haim Handwerker, the personal papers of M. Louise Baker, a Museum artist from 1908 to 1936, donated by Al Noble, and a small collection of papers and photographs pertaining to British painter Alexander Scott, who assisted the Museum in assembling its Tibetan objects around 1914, donated by Anne Bowbeer.

Top, 2011-14-3A&B A Monk (R) and a Devotee (L), Burma. Gift from the collection of Robert P. Sechler and Sileen Pyle Sechler. Above, 201023-2 Painting on bark by Paddy Freddy Puruntatameri. Gift of Susan B. Hay, Robert L. Goodale, Jr., and Mary B. Crowther. Right, 2010-22-1 “Thunder Stick War Rattle” made by Black Eagle of Shoshone-Yokut, California. Gift of Barrie O’Gorman. Left, 2010-271 Black-on-White Pot made by Joshua Madalena of Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico. Museum Purchase. Photos by Penn Museum.

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Community Outreach

Educational Programs and Collaborations Penn Museum has a long history of community outreach and collaboration. This is particularly evident in the Museum’s educational programs that connect throughout the city, the Delaware Valley, across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and, increasingly, around the globe via new initiatives involving the greater understanding and appreciation of the world’s cultural heritage. The following are highlights from the Museum’s extensive educational programming and collaboration in 2010–2011, which reached an audience of 50,000 through tours, programs, workshops, and off-site visits. Guided Gallery Tours Penn Museum provides guided gallery tours and an enhanced museum experience to a wide range of groups, from pre-school classes to retirement communities. In 2010–2011, our 68 highly trained volunteer docents worked 26,534 hours and led over 21,000 people on 920 tours through our galleries. During the abbreviated run of the Secrets of the Silk Road exhibition, the number of volunteers topped 200, working more than 1,100 hours.

Docent Larry McClenney provides a tour of the Africa Gallery to participants of the Community Education Centers “Messengers” program. Photo by Darien Sutton.

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o ut re a ch an d co l l a b or a t i on Penn student and Clio Society member Maria Carriero explains the mummification process to young Museum visitors. Photo by Erin Jensen. Below, docent Gene McGee allows students to gain some hands on experience of Egyptian funerary goods. Photo by Darien Sutton.

Special thanks to the following donors for support of the Penn Museum’s Community Engagement programs in 2010–2011: American Express, Liesel Baker, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dr. F. Hilary Conroy, Ishita Deshmukh, Mrs. Louis B. Klein, the Christopher Ludwick Foundation, Annette Merle-Smith, the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage through the Philadelphia Cultural Management Initiative, The Rockefeller Foundation, and Laird and Trudy Slade. Additional thanks to the following supporters of the Museum’s new Sponsor a School Group Program: the Connelly Foundation, the ING Foundation, the PNC Foundation, the Subaru of America Foundation,

as mummification, sericulture, and Roman glass. More than 30 Penn students in the Clio Society were trained to present “Cartifacts” on weekends following education philosophies and techniques, such as age-appropriate presentations and inquiry-based learning practices.

the Wells Fargo Regional Foundation, and the Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation.

Artifact Carts During the run of Secrets of the Silk Road, Penn Museum volunteers presented interactive carts of touchable artifacts throughout the Museum’s galleries. The so-called “Cartifacts” focused around Silk Road-related themes, such

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Community Partnerships Imagine Africa with the Penn Museum—a community engagement project currently underway—began preliminary work in 2010–2011 by hiring Community Liaison Paulette Adams to forge new partnerships and collaborations with West Philadelphia. Working with the Museum’s Director of Community Engagement Jean Byrne, the team met with a variety of local schools, arts organizations, and businesses

to plan extensive programming and outreach initiatives during the coming year. Preliminary projects have included outreach programs for the Martha Washington Elementary School afterschool program, the Africa journaling club, and the Community Education Center’s “Messengers” program. In May 2011, the Museum received a $75,000 grant from the Heritage Philadelphia Program of the Pew Charitable Trusts to support the year-long Imagine Africa with the Penn Museum initiative. New Online Educational Resources Since January 2011, the Community Engagement Department has begun revamping the educational resources located on the Penn Museum’s website in order to produce new curricular resources for educators to use in conjunction with a Museum visit or simply to support classroom instruction. Thanks to a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Museum has hired Project Coordinator Julia McMeans to create docent tour manuals and public brochures, along with a variety of excellent online educational materials for teachers. The “Greatest Hits” brochure, which jauntily identifies the 10 must-see artifacts for an hour-long Museum visit, has been particularly popular. The docent tour manuals include not only artifact and gallery information, but also discuss learning styles and curricular connections so that docents can connect their tours with what students are learning in the classroom even beyond the study of archaeology and anthropology, such as math, language, creative problem-solving, physics, and study help techniques to name a few. Moving forward the Museum hopes to further expand educational resources to all museum galleries. Teacher Workshops Penn Museum is connected to an email base of 1,900 educators. Thought-provoking workshops, lectures, and other events are designed to enhance local teachers’ knowledge about the world’s past and present cultures and to help them meet their professional development needs and requirements. Recent topics covered have included “Linguistics” and “Battlegrounds: Iraq and Afghanistan.” These workshops have been co-sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania’s Middle East Center, African Studies Center, and Center for East Asian Studies.

Top, teacher Shari Tobias takes notes during the “Battlegrounds: Iraq and Afghanistan” Teachers’ Workshop. Bottom, docents Don Todd and Wayne Roberts give a tour during the “Battlegrounds: Iraq and Afghanistan” Teachers’ Workshop. Photos by Jennifer Reifsteck.

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Teachers Mary Beth Hegeman and Debbye Wolfe discuss how they have integrated the Silk Road into their curriculum unit on China during the November 4, 2010, Educators’ Evening. Photo by Erin Jensen.

Educator Evenings Penn Museum offers sneak-previews of its premier temporary exhibitions for area educators. During the fall of 2010, more than 100 teachers were introduced to the Secrets of the Silk Road exhibition and received a teacher’s guide to the exhibition. Training Museum Educators and Students— Community Engagement Department Interns During 2010–2011, the Community Engagement Department of the Penn Museum hosted interns from the University of Pennsylvania, Masterman High School, and the University of the Arts to assist in its gallery-based and outreach programs as part of their Museum Education curriculum or high school internship requirements. “Museum on the Go” Program Penn Museum’s award-winning “Museum on the Go” program has been bringing ancient and traditional cultures into Philadelphia schools for more than 30 years. Using artifacts and reproductions from the Museum’s collections, trained “mobile guides” create a “mini-museum” in classrooms to provide enriching, hands-on experiences in small group settings. Students are able to learn through doing—grinding wheat in an Egyptian stone mortar, wearing authentic period clothes, or handling cultural items such as an elk skin pelt. Teachers can select presentations on the following subjects: Native Americans, Africa, and Ancient Egypt. In 2010–2011, over 700 students, mostly from underserved areas, experienced a “Museum on the Go” program.

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Loan Box Program Penn Museum’s Community Engagement Department has a loan box program for groups who cannot visit the Museum or who would like to have a pre-visit experience. Loan boxes are filled with artifacts and reproductions from one of the many cultural groups represented in the Museum’s galleries. A box can be borrowed for up to one month by school districts, libraries, and community groups within driving distance of the Penn Museum. Each loan box contains ten to twelve items, each with its own information card, and the contents can be tailored to fit the user’s curriculum needs. During 2010–2011, over 40 loan boxes were used by area schools, libraries, and community groups.

This ancient Egyptian-themed loan box contains reproductions (from left to right) of a canopic jar, scarab mold, riqq, ankh, and an oil lamp. Photo by Erin Jensen.

Docent Lynn Smith (back to camera) interacts with students at the Academy of Allied Health and Science in New Jersey via videoconference while IT Specialist Rajeev Thomas operates the equipment. Photo by Pam Kosty.

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Outreach Lecture Program The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Outreach Lecture Program is designed to foster understanding of different human cultures and ways of life, both past and present. Funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania since 1973, this program brings Penn Museum anthropologists, archaeologists, and Penn students into local communities, no matter how remote, throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to offer talks on a variety of subjects for children and adults. The outreach events have always been open to the public and free of charge. Librarians, schools, and

Over the years, hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians have been enriched by our Commonwealth of Pennsylvaniafunded programs. This leadership support from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania enabled the Penn Museum to create the Commonwealth Speakers Program, increase our International Classroom Program, and provide high schools and libraries across Pennsylvania with free copies of the Penn Museum’s tri-annual magazine, Expedition.

retirement communities can choose from hundreds of topics, including “CSI: Ancient Egypt,” “Forensic Anthropology 101,” “Aesop’s Fables,” “India Past in Present,” “Let’s Pretend We Are Nomads,” “Daily Life in Ancient Egypt,” and “Native American Folk Tales.”

In 2010–2011, more than 8,000 children, adults, and seniors in all 67 counties of Pennsylvania benefited from speakers who visited their local libraries. Many new topics were introduced to coincide with the annual summer reading theme for the individual libraries, for new exhibits at different small museums, and for new film releases to make educational programming both fun and interesting. The presentations offer a multicultural awareness and appreciation within a creative educational framework and keep Pennsylvanians updated on the world in which they live. Distance Learning Program Penn Museum’s Distance Learning Program provides a means for faraway audiences to experience its collections up-close and personal. Through the use of videoconferencing equipment, schools, senior communities, and others can participate in a live, interactive tour of the Museum’s galleries. Programs are facilitated by highly trained docents who lead participants in discovering the culture of past and present peoples through the use of questions, storytelling, and demonstrations with artifact reproductions. Programs are tailored to fit to the group’s interests and needs. During 2010–2011, schools in Vermont, Tennessee, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and a senior community in Ohio experienced our popular “Daily Life in Ancient Rome” program. Participants discovered how mosaics were made, what childhood and education were like in Ancient Rome, and what clues Roman portraiture can tell us about life at the time. The Distance Learning Program allows for the engagement of audiences who otherwise would not be able to visit the Museum in person.

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Top, Sun Mao, an International Classroom speaker from China demonstrates calligraphy. Inset, Ayman Warasneh, an International Classroom speaker from the West Bank, Jerusalem, shares his excavation field work. Photos by Darien Sutton.

International Classroom Created in 1961, the International Classroom is an innovative program that provides resources for international and multicultural education for a variety of ages using a broad range of presentations, lectures, and workshops. The program arranges for international residents, students, and scholars living in the Delaware Valley to give presentations both within and outside of the Museum about their countries of origin and their cultures. Programs are offered for school classes and

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assemblies, community organizations, college courses, teacher workshops, study groups, and businesses. During 2010–2011, the International Classroom was able to serve 15,131 students, adults, and families by engaging more than 120 speakers from 60 countries to share information about their native countries through photographs, maps, traditional music, clothing, games, dances, or crafts. The goal of the programming is to educate students in multicultural relationships to help them better appreciate and respect our multicultural society. Teaching is done in an informal and participatory setting, as speakers share knowledge about another culture through their own personal experiences. The presentations make learning about another country’s culture and history interesting, informative, engaging, and fun. These programs increase understanding of why people of different cultural backgrounds behave differently or how other cultures are similar to ours. Most importantly, our international speakers act as role models and emphasize that students should stay in school and continue in higher education to foster intellectual and personal growth.

Our sincere thanks go to the Subaru of America Foundation, the Rosenlund Foundation, the Connelly Foundation, PNC, and the Wells Fargo Regional Foundation for funding the “World: Ancient and Modern” and cultural programs for underserved students in Camden and Philadelphia. Special thanks to the Middle East Center, the East Asian Center, and the South Asia Center of the University of Pennsylvania, the Turkish Cultural Foundation, and Camden County College for cosponsoring “Explore the Silk Road,” “Turkey: Ancient and Modern,” and “Cleopatra’s World” programs. International Student Reception The 41st Annual Welcoming Reception for International Students and Scholars hosted by the Penn Museum’s International Classroom was an astounding success attended by more than 1,200 international guests from 104 countries. Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, Honorary Consul General of Spain Mr. Herminio Top, the International Student Reception was hosted at the Penn Museum on October 22, 2010. Bottom, Mayor Michael Nutter (center) greets international guests alongside Penn Museum Director Richard Hodges Muniz, Penn’s Director of the Office (to his right). Photos by Darien Sutton. of International Programs Dr. Anne Waters, the Education Consul for The mission of the reception is to welcome international the Consulate General of India Mr. P. Mohanti, the Education students and scholars to the Philadelphia area and help them Consul for Turkish Consulate General Ms. Fatma Nurhan network. This simple mission is strongly supported by 65 Baykal, and the Honorary Consul of Switzerland Mr. Franz colleges, universities, and programs, hundreds of volunteers, Portmann joined Penn Museum Director Richard Hodges and performers, city and state officials, and Penn Museum staff. The Director of Community Engagement Jean Byrne to extend reception is considered a national model among international their hospitality and warmth to the international guests. The educators and is the only city-wide event of its kind. Students reception had a warm and personal atmosphere thanks to the from the University of Pennsylvania, Drexel University, Temple volunteer efforts of 30 students from the Philadelphia High University, Widener University, Philadelphia University, the School for Girls, the donation of refreshments from program University of Sciences, the Art Institute of Philadelphia, and volunteers Nada Miller and Josephine Klein, and dance Bucknell University came to the Penn Museum to experience performances by Penn and LaSalle students. the festivities and make friends from around the world.

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“Anthropologists in the Making” Summer Camp Children ages 7 through 13 participate in the “Anthropologists in the Making” summer day camp, taking them through time and across continents. Organized by the Museum’s Community Engagement Department, the annual camp runs from late June through mid-August. Each week highlights a different theme, offering campers the opportunity to enjoy one week or all eight. With the Museum’s world-renowned collection of artifacts as the backdrop, campers delight in the mythology, regalia, dance, music, cooking, art, and customs from both long ago civilizations and modern cultures. Through gallery tours, arts and crafts, games and theatrics, scavenger hunts, and special guest performances, children uncover the secrets of the past. Themes during the summer of 2010 included “Sail the High Seas,” “Mesopotamian Mysteries,” “It’s a Celebration,” “In the Field,” “A Day in the Life of an Egyptologist,” “Bring Out Your Dead,” “It’s Written in the Sky,” and “Signs and Superstitions.” Some key highlights from the 2010 summer camp were a mock excavation based on the Penn Museum’s research at Ban Chiang in Thailand, recreations of Lady Puabi’s death pit in the Royal Cemetery of Ur, and behind-the-scenes visits to Museum departments like the Archives. Summer Wonder Performing Arts Series Summer Wonder introduces diverse cultures and cultural perspectives through the performing arts. Well attended by both the Penn Museum and outside summer camps, the performances are also open to Museum visitors. The 2010 series comprised eight weekly performances by the following groups: Aloha Style; Animus; Minas; Rainbow Child International; Spice Route; Tom Lee Storyteller; Roman Legionnaire XXIV re-enactors; and the Mock Turtle Marionette Theater.

Top, a group of campers show off the ceramic pot they found during a mock excavation as part of the “In the Field” session. Photo by Erin Jensen. Above, campers string together the Tibetan prayer flags they made as part of the “It’s a Celebration” session. Photo by Erin Jensen. Left, the musical group Spice Route performs during the Summer Wonders series. Photo by Jennifer Reifsteck.

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Protecting the World’s Cultural Heritage

The Penn Cultural Heritage Center The Penn Cultural Heritage Center (PennCHC) works with government agencies, scholars, and community groups to develop and support cultural heritage initiatives. The results of this work are manifest in the outreach done during the 2010–2011 academic year. Outreach after the 2011 Egyptian Revolution Some of the most riveting images of Egyptians rallying in Tahrir Square for their basic democratic freedoms were the photographs of people linking arms to protect their cultural heritage at the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities. When it became clear that there had been looting at archaeological storehouses and museums around the country, PennCHC research assistant Sasha Renninger, through contacts in Egypt, developed a list of the antiquities that could be verified as missing. This list was circulated to the law enforcement officers in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and officials at the U.S. Department of State trained by the PennCHC to intercept smuggled antiquities. In addition, the training materials developed for the Penn U.S. Department of Homeland Security training program (2006–2010) were distributed to key law enforcement entities in Egypt. The PennCHC also joined with the Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation, the Archaeological Institute of America, and the U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield in authoring a resolution expressing concern over the well-being of protesters exercising their basic civil rights and sharing their concern about the losses to Egypt’s cultural heritage. This resolution was later joined by sixteen other archaeological and museum organizations, including the American Anthropological Association, the Association of Art Museum Directors, and the American Schools of Oriental Research. Outreach to the Penn and Greater Philadelphia Community During this academic year, the PennCHC sponsored three campus presentations for Penn and the greater Philadelphia community. In October 2010, Dr. Nick Spitzer (Tulane University), host of the nationwide radio program “American Routes,” discussed the importance of New Orleans’ musical

Professor Patty Gerstenblith (left) of the DePaul University College of Law and Christina Luke, a consulting scholar of the PennCHC, were two of the presenters at the DHS training program (2006–2010). Photo by Richard M. Leventhal.

heritage in the revitalization of the city following Katrina. He emphasized the continuity and creativity of expressive culture and how people draw upon it when rebuilding the fabric of their urban landscape. In November 2010, Dr. Clayton Brown (Utah State University) spoke on the history of joint Sino-American collaborative projects that led to China’s first national museum and antiquities protection law. In March 2011, Dr. Noel Salazar (University of Leuven) discussed the ways in which local and national tourism authorities and tour operators package and sell so-called “authentic” cultural landscapes or “traditional” cultures, drawing upon examples from his ongoing ethnographic research in central Java, Indonesia. Outreach to Government Agencies The PennCHC is involved in policy advocacy related to the 1970 UNESCO Convention on Cultural Property, which is an important legal tool for preventing the import and sale of illicitly excavated antiquities. Under the terms of the Convention, the U.S. Department of State holds regular hearings in order to determine if import restrictions may be put in place on certain kinds of commonly looted archaeological material. Richard M. Leventhal testified at the U.S. State Department hearings for Greece and Italy. Brian I. Daniels delivered a statement at the hearing for Colombia.

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Preservation Studies at Rutgers University. The first conference celebrated the life and legacy of Dr. Donny George Youkhanna, who unexpectedly passed away in March 2011. Speakers commented on the personal efforts of Dr. Youkhanna to protect Iraqi antiquities, particularly in the wake of the 2003 U.S. invasion, and his initiatives to rebuild museums and undertake new research programs in recent years. The second conference, “Cultural Heritage Now: The Process of Preservation,” discussed the decision-making process for protecting historic buildings and cultural landscapes.

The Maya Caste War team. Photo by Richard M. Leventhal.

The 1970 UNESCO Convention and the Cultural Property Implementation Act of 1983, which executes the Convention in the United States, have been targeted by trade and collecting organizations hoping to increase the number of antiquities imported for sale. One such advocacy group, the Cultural Policy Research Institute, hosted an event at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, in order to criticize the law in front of a group of congressional staffers and policymakers. Richard M. Leventhal was invited to give a rebuttal and to defend the law and its importance to the study of the past. Outreach to Other Cultural Heritage Organizations The PennCHC remains committed to building strong partnerships and collaborative initiatives with other cultural heritage organizations. As in past years, the PennCHC cosponsored the Beacon Award with the community group SAFE (Saving Antiquities for Everyone). In an October event at John Jay College in New York City, the PennCHC and SAFE delivered the Beacon Award to four law enforcement officials who have been on the frontlines of the illicit antiquities trade: retired Senior Special Agent for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security James McAndrew, U.S. Attorney David Hall, former federal prosecutor and private practicing attorney Robert Goldman, and retired FBI Agent Robert Wittman. Additionally, the PennCHC co-sponsored two conferences with the Program in Cultural Heritage and

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Outreach Projects The PennCHC is developing a number of domestic and international demonstration projects, which will demonstrate best-practices in cultural policy. We currently have active projects with Native American groups in California, with a rural village near a Bronze Age site in Turkey, with indigenous groups in Mexico, and with the National Institute of Culture and History in Belize. In Turkey, Dr. Christina Luke (PennCHC Consulting Scholar; Boston University) undertook several projects related to the holistic preservation of living landscapes. These involved commissioning a research center in the small village ˘ and drafting a management plan for the area with of Tekelioglu the aim of supporting sustainable, organic farming initiatives as well as the conservation of an Important Rare Bird Area, the Gygaean (modern Marmara) Lake Basin, and the Hermus (modern Gediz) River Valley. Community programs included intensive ethnographic studies, collaboration with the Manisa Department of Agriculture at the Organic Fair in Izmir, and children’s workshops on natural and cultural heritage. These projects were co-sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) in conjunction with the PennCHC. In Mexico, the PennCHC is developing a communitybased heritage preservation and economic development project in association with the town of Tihosuco, Quintana Roo. This project is focused upon the Maya Caste War rebellion of the 19th century. The Belize project has involved the creation of a two-phase project plan for the development of a new national museum and tourism plan for the country.

Student Involvement

Academic Enrichment, Advisory Boards, Internships, Docents, and Summer Research Penn Museum enriches the academic life of our student community, and over the past year the Museum has expanded its participation in academic programs across the University. Select examples illustrate our global perspective and impact. Teaching Penn Students in the new Archaeological Ceramics Laboratory In coordination with the Classical Studies and Anthropology Departments of Penn’s School of Arts and Sciences, the Penn Museum sponsored a new two-course series on archaeological ceramics. Led by Museum post-doctoral researcher MarieClaude Boileau, along with Associate Curator Joyce White, and Classical Studies Assistant Professor Thomas Tartaron, the fall semester class provided students with an in-depth orientation to archaeological ceramics. Utilizing the Ban Chiang ceramic collection housed at the Museum, students continued their work from the fall into the spring semester with hands-on training in ceramics analysis. For the spring semester activities, the Penn Museum completed renovations and installation of the new Archaeological Ceramics Laboratory, which provides a state-ofthe-art laboratory and instrumentation for analytical research.

Top, post-doctoral Researcher Marie-Claude Boileau explains the distinct qualities of minerals incorporated into pottery to students in the new Archaeological Ceramics Laboratory. Photo by Beth Van Horn. Middle, students prepare samples of ceramic paste from clays collected near the site of Ban Chiang and characterize the color of each sample after controlled firing in the Archaeological Ceramics Laboratory kiln. Photo by Marie-Claude Boileau. Bottom, students learn basic recording skills, including technical scale drawing of pottery fragments, in the “Introduction to Archaeological Ceramics” course taught for the first time during the Fall 2010 semester. Photo by Beth Van Horn.

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Top, students discuss different types of pottery artifacts in Assistant Professor Tom Tartaron’s Spring 2011 Classical Studies class. Above, students closely examine samples of Classical artwork in Ann Blair Brownlee’s Spring 2011 seminar. Photos by Ann Blair Brownlee.

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Integrating the Penn Museum’s Resources with Curriculum The Museum provides extensive support for academic courses whose subject matter touches on Museum collections, research, and expertise. Associate Curator Ann Blair Brownlee led undergraduate and graduate students in an intense study of Classical art drawing heavily on the collections of the Mediterranean Section and the Museum Archives. Students explored the early history of the Museum’s donors and collectors and traced their relations with other Philadelphia cultural institutions. American Section Associate Curator Simon Martin and Exhibition Department staff worked closely with Penn Design Professor David Comberg and students participating in his undergraduate design studio course. Professor Comberg challenged his design students to create interpretive and promotional elements for the Museum’s upcoming exhibition MAYA 2012: Lords of Time.

Graduating Senior and PMSAB leader Sarah MacIntosh received support from a 2010 Penn Museum Summer Research grant, which helped her complete research for her Honors Senior Thesis on lithic technology. Photo by University Communications.

The Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Penn’s Wharton School initiated its “Culture Quest” program in 2011, which motivates students to explore the cultures of the world while building leadership and team skills. Organized by Dr. Mauro F. Guillén, the Director of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute, and Near East Section Curator Brian Spooner, the opening session and introduction to the cultures of Central America took place in April 2011 at the Penn Museum with Mellon Associate Deputy Director Loa Traxler. The adventure for over 50 Lauder students began in May 2011 at the famous site of Tikal, Guatemala, from where the group split into 12 teams of four students each and raced across the cultural landscapes of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. Penn Museum Global Archaeology Field School Penn Museum’s impact on curriculum extends far beyond campus. For the second consecutive summer, the Museum sponsored the Global Archaeology Field School as a forcredit opportunity through Penn’s College for Liberal and Professional Studies allowing undergraduates to learn the skills of field archaeology. Co-directed in 2011 by Classical

Studies Professors Kimberly Bowes and Campbell Grey, nine Penn undergraduates carried out field investigations in southern Tuscany as part of the Roman Peasant Project. The project has uncovered the remains of everyday life in the Italian countryside and is changing our view of the rural peasantry over the course of the Roman Empire. Student Advisory Boards Two student organizations—the Penn Museum Student Advisory Board (PMSAB) and the Penn Museum Graduate Student Multidisciplinary Advisory Board (MGAB)— strengthen the relationship between the Penn Museum and the University community. These groups organize and promote student events as well as support public programs for all visitors to the Penn Museum. Leaders of the Penn Museum Student Advisory Board (PMSAB) assisted with the annual Toga Party at the Museum, which wraps up New Student Orientation on campus. These active students also supported numerous Museum public programs and brought undergraduate groups to visit the Museum galleries. Graduating senior Sarah MacIntosh not only completed her B.A. in Anthropology and Senior Thesis on

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brought countless students to the Penn Museum, many for the very first time. The GAPSA-SAS Government Happy Hour held in September 2010 filled the Warden Garden to kick off the academic year. In the spring, MGAB held a Museum tour and movie screening of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in March 2011 with support from the Museum and Penn’s Student Government of the School of Arts and Sciences.

Top, Anthropology undergraduate Jennifer McAuley managed the Ban Chiang ceramic collections as her work-study job during the academic year, participated in the Clio Society, and received a Summer Field Research grant to travel to Italy and excavate with the Museum’s Global Archaeology Field Project. Photo by Ardeth Abrams. Above, hundreds of Penn graduate students stream into the Warden Garden to enjoy a fall evening GAPSASAS Government happy hour. Photo by Darien Sutton.

archaeological lithics technology, she also was a finalist in the first year of the House Deans’ Integrated Knowledge Awards. This year the Penn Museum Graduate Student Multidisciplinary Advisory Board (MGAB), representing the interests of the graduate and professional student body at Penn, increased the visibility of the Museum and visitation by its diverse constituency. MGAB co-sponsored events with other University graduate student organizations, which

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Penn Museum Internships Penn Museum continues to expand the range of opportunities for students to gain experience in research and Museum operations. Through the 2011 Summer Internship program, more than 40 interns worked in 15 different Museum Departments and Curatorial Sections. Summer interns participated in a wide range of projects focused on collections management, conservation, exhibitions, and arts administration. Seven summer internship positions at the Museum in 2011 were funded by the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Arts and Sciences Summer Humanities program, and additional positions were funded directly by the Penn Museum. The majority of internship positions were volunteer opportunities for students following varied schedules and duration. From late May through August, interns attended instructional sessions, participated in departmental tours, and worked directly with collections and archival materials. Interns also supported Museum operations, gathering information for marketing and program development as well as assisting with the public events.

The Clio Society The Clio Society provides undergraduates with the opportunity to train with Museum professionals and learn to become docents (gallery guides) at the Penn Museum. In its second year, the Clio Society welcomed 20 new undergraduate volunteers who worked closely with staff members in the Museum’s Community Engagement Department and the Mellon Associate Deputy Director. With the Museum’s Educators Erin Jensen and Jennifer Reifsteck, these young docents explored the fundamentals of inquiry-based learning and gained experience in demonstrating objects from the Artifact Carts for visitors to the galleries. Through the course of their training, Clio Society students researched objects on display in the Asian, Egyptian, Mediterranean, and Mesoamerican galleries in order to development their own personal tour presentations. Penn Museum Summer Research Grants Penn Museum provides financial support for archaeological and anthropological field research conducted by Penn undergraduate and graduate students during the summer months. In the spring of 2011, students submitted competitive applications for funding provided by the Museum’s Finkelstein, Sorenson, Markoe, and Marrow endowments, as well as a donation from the Chingos Foundation. The following 17 students received grants for their field research in 2011: Olivia Bonitatibus Field research with the Roman Peasant Project as part of the Global Archeology Field Project Margaret K. Corley Field research with the Owl Monkey Project in Formosa, Argentina Ekaterina Doronicheva Field research on the Paleolithic occupation in the upper Kuban River basin of the northwestern Caucasus of the Republic of Russian Federation Michael Drake Field research with black howler monkeys as part of The Owl Monkey Project in Formosa, Argentina Andrew W. Farquer Field training with the Historical St. Mary's City Field School in Maryland Susannah Fishman Field research with the Naxçıvan Archaeological Project in Oglanqala, Azerbaijan Nurith Goshen Field research with the Tel Kabri Project in Israel and the Papadiokambos excavations in Crete

Students enrolled in the “Introduction to Archaeological Ceramics” course studied burial pottery excavated by the Penn Museum at the site of Ban Chiang, Thailand. Photo by Beth Van Horn.

Stephanie Hagan Field research at the site of Troy in northwestern Turkey Jennifer McAuley Field research with the Roman Peasant Project as part of the Global Archeology Field Project Kathryn Morgan Field research with the Zincirli Project in Turkey and the Naxçıvan Archaeological Project in Oglanqala, Azerbaijan Daira Nocera Field research with the Villa of Maxentius Project in Rome, Italy Jordan Pickrell Field research with historic 19th century settlements and archives in Colorado Steve Renette Field research with the Naxçıvan Archaeological Project in Oglanqala, Azerbaijan Devin Scanlon Field research with the Roman Peasant Project as part of the Global Archeology Field Project Kelsi Schoenrock Field research with The Owl Monkey Project in Formosa, Argentina Andrea Spence-Aizenberg Field research with The Owl Monkey Project in Formosa, Argentina Aram Yardumian Molecular anthropological research among the Turkic- and Greek-speaking populations in the Caucasus of Georgia

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Research Projects around the World The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology was established in 1887 with a groundbreaking act of archaeological field research—the first American expedition to ancient Babylonia to excavate the site of Nippur (then within the Ottoman Empire, but now in modern-day Iraq). Since then, the Museum has undertaken over 400 research projects throughout the world. This active program of research continues today and the following are highlights from the Museum’s research projects in 2010–2011.

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Due to the Egyptian Revolution, David Silverman and Jennifer Wegner were unable to undertake fieldwork in Egypt during 2011 as planned. They continue to analyze data from previous seasons at Saqqara for publication. David Silverman has written a chapter on the Museum’s Protodynastic and Early Dynastic material from Abydos for a book and two articles on Penn amulets which will appear during 2011–2012. Jennifer Wegner has also researched several other artifacts in a catalog that accompanies a new exhibition organized by the Smithsonian Institution.

Beginning in 2007, the Penn Museum began work at Smugglers’ Cave, a Paleolithic site located just south of Rabat, Morocco. This project, co-directed by Harold Dibble, has previously yielded several fossils of very early Homo sapiens, and the new excavations are finding even more such remains. In addition, the excavations have uncovered several hearths, perforated marine shells (which were possibly used for personal ornamentation), and stone tools that include some of the earliest hafted tools known. These levels appear to date around 100,000 to 110,000 years ago. Photo by Smugglers’ Cave Archaeological Project.

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on the continent of africa Under the direction of Josef and Jennifer Wegner, work continued during 2010–2011 at the complex of pharaoh Senwosret III at Abydos. Excavations focused on a group of four mysterious mastabas (bench-shaped mortuary buildings) near the subterranean tomb of Senwosret III. The function and exact date of these now deeply buried mastabas has long been unclear, although it appears probable they are tombs of kings or high officials of Egypt’s Late Middle Kingdom (slightly post-dating Senwosret III). Two of these, the so-called dummy mastabas (S8 and S9), which appear to lack interior chambers, are particularly significant because their superstructures contain debris from the construction of the nearby tomb of Senwosret III. Mastaba S8 was entirely excavated in 2010–2011 and produced approximately 2,000 clay seal impressions (among other artifacts) relating to the construction period of Senwosret III’s tomb, including evidence of previously unknown governmental departments such as the “Treasury-

In May 2011, Kathleen Ryan and Mulu Muia led a team of Kenyan archaeologists from the National Museums of Kenya to the Mpala Research Center in Laikipia to continue archaeological survey and test excavation of Later Stone Age and Pastoral Neolithic sites. The focus was again on burial cairns, of which 38 have been located. They were joined by Penn Museum archaeozoologist Teagan Schweitzer and former research student Nina Johnson. The goal, pending permission from the Kenyan President’s Office, is to probe a selection of cairns to ascertain that they have preserved human skeletal remains, and if they do, to date the remains, and, through DNA analysis, to check for adaptation for lactose persistence (the ability to digest milk and other dairy products into adulthood). One burial cairn that produced well-preserved human skeleton remains was probed without touching or removing the remains so as to avoid contamination of the material that may be needed for DNA analyses. Next season, the plan is to invite a skeletal expert to do the exhumation in a clean environment to minimize contamination. Samples of animal dairy fats, grasses, and forage were collected in Kitengela and Rombo in Maasailand by Paul Kunoni in January. Further samples were collected from Mpala in May. These samples were sent to Professor Evershed at Bristol University to add to his modern reference collection. Photo by Kathleen Ryan.

of-Abydos” that had been involved in that royal building project. The architectural remains of these mastabas are impressive. They are massive brick structures that originally had vaulted roofs resembling giant versions of the ancient Egyptian canopic chest, and they are surrounded by serpentine enclosure walls. Decisive evidence relating to their ownership and function, however, awaits further investigation. The Wegners’ field season ended just a week before the Egyptian revolution of January 25. Later in the spring, however, former Museum Kolb Fellow Dawn McCormack continued work with a collaborative team from Middle Tennessee State University. They examined Mastaba S9 and discovered a previously unknown ceremonial building. Photo by Josef Wegner.

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In 2010–2011, Janet Monge and recent Penn graduate Samantha Cox joined a team in Kenya excavating at the Swahili site at Mtwapa on the Indian Ocean. The excavation and analysis of the skeletal materials from the site involved a joint team from the Port Jesus Museum in Mombasa, the Field Museum in Chicago, the University of Illinois, the Chicago Circle, and the Penn Museum. In the first year of this project, 31 skeletons were unearthed and studied in the field. Based on Islamic tradition, after a short study session and sampling for aDNA, isotopic signatures, and radiocarbon analysis, the skeletons were immediately reburied within the same structures from which they were excavated. The joint project is attempting to understand the identity of the peoples who constituted the early Swahili mercantile culture of East Africa. All of the bodies were buried in a traditional Islamic fashion but their biology tells us that these peoples were a combination of African and Middle Eastern elements. The Swahili, one of the great cultures of Africa, is oftentimes cast as an intrusive one in Africa. It is actually a unique indigenous amalgamation of African biological and cultural elements transplanted onto an Islamic framework. Photo by Janet Monge.

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Holly Pittman continues to work on the publication of various field projects, while the political situation in Iran makes it difficult to mount regular field work. She has published four articles evaluating the chronology and spheres of interaction of the site of Konar Sandal

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South and has presented a number of papers at scholarly conferences. Additionally, she has received funding to support the analysis and final publication of the excavations lead by Donald P. Hansen, recently deceased, of the important site of Tell al Hiba, the city of ancient Lagash in southern Iraq.

The Museum contains the world’s largest collection of Sumerian literary texts. The durability of clay tablets as a writing medium has ensured that well over 100,000 are now to be found in museum collections worldwide. With few scholars trained to read these texts, rendering them accessible to both other scholars and the general public has always been a challenge. The Museum’s Babylonian Section has been a pioneer in ways to overcome this challenge. Since 1976, it has been home to the Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary (PSD) project, the first large-scale dictionary of the Sumerian language. Since 1996, as detailed in Expedition (vol. 50, no. 3), the PSD has gone digital and can be accessed online (http://psd.museum.upenn.edu) thanks to Steve Tinney’s collaboration with projects in Berkeley, Los Angeles, and Oxford and the development of cutting-edge searching and parsing software to enable computers to analyze literary data in meaningful ways. Tinney and his collaborators have now expanded this work into the Open Richly Annotated Corpus of Cuneiform (http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/index.html) that provides web-space and a software toolkit for a host of international projects that now cover all aspects of Mesopotamian Civilization. Under this umbrella, Tinney and fellow Associate Curator Grant Frame are currently engaged in three major undertakings that address some fundamental issues in the study of ancient Mesopotamia. First, to increase the accessibility of the collection, a Mellon Foundation grant has enabled the entire collection of the Babylonian Section to be viewable online in high-quality scans through KE EMu and the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (http://cdli.ucla.edu/collections/penn/penn.html). Second, to better understand the dynamics of intellectual life in an essentially bilingual civilization, Tinney and fellow Associate Curator Philip Jones have begun the “Bilinguals in Late Mesopotamian Scholarship” project with a team at the Free University of Berlin and have just been awarded a joint grant by the NEH and the German Research Foundation. And lastly, to provide up-to-date editions of the royal inscriptions underpinning our knowledge of one of the most dramatic eras in Mesopotamian history, Grant Frame is directing the NEH-funded “Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period” project. As well as its online presence (http://oracc. museum.upenn.edu/rinap), the project has just published the volume The Royal Inscriptions of Esarhaddon, King of Assyria (680–669 BC) by Curator Emeritus Erle Leichty. Photo by Penn Museum.

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During summer 2011, the Western Highlands Early Epipaleolithic Project (WHEEP)—directed in part by the Penn Museum’s Deborah Olszewski—continued field research on a key prehistoric economic transition, the development of agriculture in the Middle East. Investigation has focused on how changes in the subsistence choices of ancient hunter-gatherers who lived during the Last Glacial Maximum (ca. 25,000 to 18,000 calibrated years ago) led to a transformation from nomadic hunting of wild animals and gathering of wild plant foods to settled village life with domesticated crops and animals. The processes underlying this


transition are not well understood, but our excavations are using newly recovered information to model changes in decisions made by prehistoric groups. WHEEP is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation ($226,489) and is a partnership of Jordanians and nonJordanians ranging from students to project directors, which provides field training for Penn undergraduate and graduate students, as well as the next generation of Jordanian prehistorians. Photo by WHEEP.

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The UNESCO World Heritage Monument of Bat is located in the Sultanate of Oman. Curator Emeritus Gregory L. Possehl heads a team from the Penn Museum that has been excavating the site since 2007, at the invitation of the government of Oman. The focus of most of his work has been on three


large stone monuments, each about 20 meters in diameter. These “towers” date to the so-called Umm an-Nar period (ca. 2700–2000 BC) and are contemporary with the Indus civilization of India and Pakistan. A substantial amount of pottery has been recovered, some of which appears to have been imported from the Indus based on a comparison of two sherds from Bat with one from the Indus site of Chanhu-daro. These findings further document the nature and scope of maritime activity that linked ancient India to Mesopotamia via the Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf. Mesopotamian written records of the 3rd millennium BC indicate that the Indus civilization was known as “Meluhha,” and Oman, and the neighboring United Arab Emirates, were known as “Magan.” Two of the “towers” (Matariya and Kasr al-Khafaji) rest on habitation levels that date to the so-called Hafit period (ca. 3200–2700 BC), which precedes the Umm am-Nar period. The Hafit village at Matariya is particularly well preserved and the fieldwork in 2011 focused on this ancient village. It has long been thought that there was cultural continuity between the Hafit and Umm an-Nar periods, but real evidence for this has proven to be elusive. Using architectural style and stratigraphic data, however, Possehl and his colleagues have made a case that the upper levels of the Hafit village at Matariya relate to this transitional period. Further work in 2012 will investigate this proposition in greater detail. Photos by Gregory L. Possehl.

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In 2011, excavations began at the site of La Ferrassie, located in southwestern France, under the co-direction of Harold Dibble. La Ferrassie is one of the classic Neandertal sites, and it was there that several individual Neandertals were discovered in the early 1900s. The goals of this new project are 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. Photo by Harold L. Dibble.

around europe and the mediterranean Excavations at the harbor settlement of Priniatikos Pyrgos in eastern Crete continued during the summers of 2010 and 2011, directed by the Penn Museum’s Barbara J. Hayden and Barry Molloy of the University of Sheffield (England). This site spans major phases of the Bronze Age (4000–1600 BC) and the historical period (7th century BC) through to the Venetian period (AD 1204–1669). Excavation continued in a 20 by 20 meter trench on the hilltop at the center of the settlement, where a large 6th–8th century AD Byzantine church had been discovered. The church was remodeled and enlarged several times, and is dated by glazed ceramics with incised decoration (sgraffito) and a silver coin found in wall collapse. A pewter communion chalice (a) was also recently discovered, deliberately buried during the Byzantine period near the apse of the church. Directly north of and below the apse, a Late Minoan IA (ca. 1700–1600 BC) shrine may be indicated by a large deposit of fine-wares (decorated cups, bowls, and small pouring vessels), accompanied by a small, mold-made bull’s head rhyton (b, a ritual pouring vessel), and a large chert knife (c). Below the Late Minoan IA deposit, bowls incised with hieroglyphic signs were in an earlier, Middle Bronze Age stratum. Directly west, a room packed with Middle Minoan (ca. 1800 BC) storage jars was uncovered, and to the north an Early Minoan I room (ca. 3000 BC) contained a deposit of worked obsidian. Near this room, a gourd-shaped Early Minoan I pitcher (d) was uncovered, with three holes carefully drilled through the body of the vessel. It was placed under fragments of a broken jar and accompanied by cups and one of the earliest examples of a bronze artifact (an axe) found on the island. Overall, evidence for cult-related or ritual activity at this special location within the settlement appears to continue throughout the millennia, and future seasons of laboratory work will be devoted to the study of artifacts from this complex and intriguing area. Photo by Barbara J. Hayden.

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In July 2010, Naomi F. Miller was sponsored by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) of New York University to participate in the Vani Regional Survey, an ISAW project directed by Christopher Ratté of the University of Michigan. She helped set up a flotation system to extract plant remains from the Iron Age site of Vani (8th–1st centuries BC) in the region of ancient Colchis (modern Georgia). In comparison with much of west Asia, the landscape of western Georgia is remarkably lush. Nearly every tree and bush in this agricultural region produces food—four kinds of plum, peach, cherry, apple, pear, grape, pomegranate, hazel, walnut, and persimmon. While grain is grown in the drier east, plots of maize (a New World crop) are planted in front of many houses around Vani. Agriculture came to forested regions of the Old World relatively late, but it was well-established by the Iron Age. Although excavated remains at Vani are mostly monumental or mortuary (i.e. non-residential), archaeobotanical evidence from the site could help us understand field and orchard production that fed the regional population. Photo by Naomi F. Miller.

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The 2011 season at Gordion (Turkey) witnessed a continuation of the intensified remote sensing program that we began last year. We used primarily magnetometry, which measures variations in the magnetic fields of buried structures and enables us to prepare a map of buildings and streets that are still covered. We focused on the region between the Citadel Mound and the northern fort, which showed traces of streets flanked by large structures, many of which were at least 20 meters long. The most significant change to Gordion’s appearance occurred in front of the monumental gate complex on the eastern side of the mound. We removed a large dump of earth that had been deposited during the 1950s on the southeast side of the mound, in front of the 8th century BC glacis (stepped retaining wall). The visitor’s first view of the site now includes the glacis as well as the Early and Middle Phrygian Gates above it. The other major change to the appearance of the mound involves the new visitors’ circuit. Nine pavilions designed by Penn Architecture Professor Lindsey Falck have been installed in predefined lookout points around the Citadel Mound. Architectural conservation was again one of our highest priorities. Within the walls of the 9th century BC Terrace Building we incorporated a new network of steel cables that maintain the walls’ stability. Additional durability is provided by “micro-grouting,” wherein a mixture of lime, brick dust, and sand is applied by injection to seal cracks and re-adhere detached portions of the masonry. Photo by C. Brian Rose.

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During the summer of 2010, the Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project continued its research at the famous Sanctuary of Zeus on Mt. Lykaion in Arcadia, Greece. With a total group of 55, including 33 students, 16 of whom were from Penn, the project is a collaboration between the Greek Archaeological Service, ΛΘ’ Ephoreia in Tripolis, the Penn Museum, and the University of Arizona, under the auspices of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. David Gilman Romano is the Co-Director and Field Director of the project. Excavation continued at the altar of Zeus at the southern summit of the mountain where prehistoric material as old as Final Neolithic was discovered. A Mycenaean cult shrine continues to be uncovered. Excavation also continued in the stoa (a colonnaded building), along the seats, in a long stone corridor as well as in the hippodrome. On August 1, 2010, the Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project hosted a workshop in the Cultural Center of Megalopolis at which the proposal for the Parrhasian Heritage Park of the Peloponnesos was presented and discussed. The park would serve to protect and unify the ancient cities and sanctuaries in the area of Western Arcadia, Northern Messenia, and Southern Elis. This conference was well attended (200-300 individuals) and was represented by the Tripolis Ephoreia and local and regional government leaders of Greece. The audience participated in a lively discussion with the presenters at the end of the event and broad and enthusiastic support was expressed for the establishment of such a park in the region. Photo by Eric Fergason.

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The South Jersey Project completed its sixth season (Fall 2010) on Site 2, a multi-component historic backyard in Vineland, New Jersey. Under the direction of Robert L. Schuyler of the Historical Archaeology Section, Penn students moved the excavations right up to the rear of the large 1880 Victorian house that once stood on the site. Foundations of a small structure on the east side of the main house were encountered, the first out-building found on Site 2. Crew members Jordan Pickrell, Kelsey Johnson, Clarissa Salazar, and Taylor Nash recorded the cinder block

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foundations which date the building to the mid-20th century. Many domestic artifacts were recovered during the threemonth field season. Ceramics included a Wedgewood back mark and several sherds of Pennsylvania Red Ware. This earlier utilitarian pottery (1750s–1900) is rare on Vineland sites. A “first” was a small, iron dreidel with traditional Judaic markings. In the 20th century a Jewish American family (as well as Italian American and Hispanic American families) occupied half of the main house. Another “first” for the 2010 season was the breakdown of the large Penn van after it arrived on Site 2. Even the field director got to push. Relays with the small van and a student parent’s car kept the expedition from being marooned in the “wilds” of New Jersey. Photo by Dawn Di Stefano.

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On June 26, 2011, the largest fire in New Mexico’s history broke out in the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico. Fueled by drought conditions, the Las Conchas fire grew rapidly to burn 156,593 acres, destroying 63 private homes in Cochiti Canyon, and causing the evacuation of Los Alamos. Robert W. Preucel spent the summer assisting Cochiti Pueblo in evaluating the initial impacts of the fire on the current village, ancestral villages, sacred sites, and traditional use areas. He and Joseph Suina of Cochiti Pueblo conducted a helicopter survey of the Pajarito Plateau from Frijoles Canyon to Peralta Canyon. Among the ancestral villages affected by the fire was Hanat Kotyiti, the subject of the long-term archaeological research collaboration between the Penn Museum and Cochiti Pueblo. Unfortunately, three-quarters of the village was burned! The long-term economic and religious effects of the fire for Cochiti and other pueblos, such as Santa Clara, Santo Domingo, and San Felipe, are yet to be fully assessed. Preucel and Suina are also collaborating with Shirley Powell and Marjorie Connolly of the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center to develop educational materials for Cochiti high school teachers funded by a grant from the Colorado Historical Society. These materials will highlight the migrations of pueblo peoples from Colorado to New Mexico, the settling of the Pajarito Plateau, and the ongoing significance of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. Photo by Robert W. Preucel.

Simon Martin specializes in Maya epigraphy—the deciphering of ancient Maya hieroglyphs (mostly produced between AD 200 and 900)—to investigate the political history, social structure, and religious thought of this complex New World culture. During 2010–2011, his major ongoing research involved work with his Mexican colleagues from the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Calakmul. Study and documentation of stone monuments and the recently uncovered “painted pyramid” were the main objectives of fieldwork at Calakmul this year. He has also been involved in a number of outside projects, especially with excavations at the site of Nakum, Guatemala, with a project based at the Jagiellonian University, Poland, and a National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) project on the murals of Cacaxtla in Mexico. Photos by Simon Martin and Dorie Reents-Budet.

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throughout the americas In 2010–2011, Loa Traxler and Robert Sharer continued their preparations of final research reports for the Early Copan Acropolis Program (ECAP), which excavated portions of the royal Acropolis at the Maya site of Copan, Honduras, from 1989 to 2003. In January 2011, they joined former co-directors of the Proyecto Arqueológico Acrópolis Copán for a weeklong workshop and progress meeting in Washington, DC, hosted at Dumbarton Oaks (seen above). The ECAP publications forthcoming from the Penn Museum will synthesize excavation results from all investigations within the Copan Acropolis in coordination with publication series to be produced by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (Harvard University) and the Middle American Research Institute (Tulane University). Central to these efforts, project architect, Carlos Rudy Larios, has completed the master section drawings (example below) documenting the architectural history of the Acropolis and is completing the integrated plan drawings of key stages within that architectural evolution. Digital versions of these plans and sections are being prepared in AutoCAD format for presentation in printed final reports and electronic access. Photo by Joseph Mills, courtesy of Dumbarton Oaks. Illustration by Carlos Rudy Larios. Over the past year Robert Sharer and Christopher Jones have also continued efforts to complete the final reports of the American Section’s excavations at the Classic Maya site of Quirigua, Guatemala (1975–1979). Work on Quirigua Report V, the Excavations at Quirigua, co-authored by Robert Sharer and Christopher Jones, is nearing completion with the digitizing in 2010–2011 of all black and white photographic negatives from the excavations. Work on Quirigua Report VI, the Quirigua Artifacts, is also nearing completion. During the summer of 2011, under Loa Traxler’s supervision, volunteer intern David McCormick continued analysis of the Quirigua pottery type collection for this report. McCormick also worked with the Museum’s Conservation staff to conduct additional trace elemental compositional analysis of the Quirigua pottery samples using a portable XRF instrument.

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study of the 500 mortuary pots that have been on loan to the University of Pennsylvania from the Thai government since the 1970s. The ‘Year of Ceramics’ included new coursework, staff appointment, an international workshop, new laboratory space, and two Asian internships, all supported by the Henry Luce Foundation and the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Marie-Claude Boileau, the new postdoctoral specialist on ceramics, co-taught a two-semester, multi-departmental course in the study of archaeological ceramics focusing on Ban Chiang pottery. She also set up a research and teaching Archaeological Ceramics Laboratory in the Penn Museum fully equipped for petrographic analysis. The year-long analyses of the Ban Chiang pottery are being combined with other data recorded over the years to write up a major Penn Museum publication highlighting the technological as well as stylistic variability of the assemblage and offering a much needed regional ceramic sequence for northeastern Thailand. Photo by Beth Van Horn.

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The Samuel G. Morton Collection of human crania in the Penn Museum’s Physical Anthropology Section represents a unique amalgam of cranial materials from all over the world. Numbering over 1,200 crania (with further additions to the collection after Morton’s death in 1851 increasing its total number beyond 2,000), the collection was called “The American Golgotha” by his contemporaries. Morton is considered to be the originator of the discipline of Physical Anthropology. A man of his time, he has long been painted as a racist since the rational for the collection was the documentation of the biological differences between human biological entities (races). Most famously, beginning in the 1980s, the evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould used Morton and the Collection as a basis for discussing bias in the scientific endeavor. In 2010–2011, however, Janet Monge and her students and colleagues published a re-evaluation of Gould’s charges against Morton. It now seems that Morton was not biased in his scientific methods themselves. While his interpretation of his data was completely wrong, and his use of it to support racism at the beginning of the Civil War was as well, his actual collection and the data he generated was itself without bias. Since 2004, the entire Morton Collection has been CT-scanned and digital versions distributed to researchers around the globe. The importance of the Morton Collection for modern research is on the rise with dozens of visitors to the collection each year and thousands of CT scans given to hundreds of researchers. After decades of obscurity and misinterpretations, the scientific value of the Morton Collection has once again risen to the level of importance it once held when originally amassed in the middle of the 19th century. Photos by Janet Monge.

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It may look like a rather unassuming gray-and-white box, but the Fourier-transform infrared spectrometer (FT-IR) is a vital piece of high technology scientific equipment. It has been key to a host of exciting discoveries made by the Penn Museum’s Biomolecular Archaeology Laboratory—from the earliest fermented beverages in the Near East and China, to ancient chocolate drinks from Central America, to a Royal Purple dye factory in Lebanon (once homeland of the Phoenicians), to medicinal wine for one of the earliest pharaohs of Egypt. That is why Patrick McGovern and his colleagues Gretchen Hall and Ted Davidson were so delighted to receive the donation of a “new” used FT-IR from The Hershey Corporation of Hershey, Pennsylvania (valued at $35,000) in June 2011. This FT-IR replaced one donated by the Dupont company in the mid-1990s. The new instrument is upand-running and its first task is a compelling one—when, where, and how was winemaking and viticulture introduced to France? With funding from the National Science Foundation, we have already used the FT-IR to develop a new protocol for extracting ancient organics from what could well be the earliest winepress in Europe. Dating to the 5th century BC at the site of Lattes in southern France, this local production was preceded earlier in the century by the import of resinated wine from Etruria, as shown by the FT-IR and liquid/gas chromatography-mass spectrometric analyses. In turn, the Etruscans likely adopted the “wine culture” from the Phoenicians of the eastern Mediterranean. Photo by Darien Sutton.

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kolb junior fellows 2010-2011 The Kolb Foundation is a non-profit corporation charged to provide scholarships and financial aid for studies in academic disciplines related to the mission of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The following Penn graduate students were Kolb Junior Fellows in 2010–2011: Emerson Avery, Seth Bernard, Miriam Clinton, Kristen Fellows, Joshua Jeffers, Sarah Laursen, Justin Leidwanger, Jose Maria Lopez Bejarano, Melinda Nelson-Hurst, Federico ParedesUmaña, Julia Perratore, and Amanda Reiterman.

Above, Miriam G. Clinton conducts a topographical survey at the newly discovered Traxylas Peninsula Minoan peak sanctuary (Papadiokampos, Crete). Photo by Miriam G. Clinton. Left top, Federico Paredes with Ataco Monument 1, depicting an early Maya rulership tradition from Western El Salvador. Dated to the Late Preclassic Period (300 BC–AD 200), it was found accidentally by municipal workers in a ritual deposit in the heart of a large civic center, currently under coffee plantations. Photo by Federico Paredes. Left

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Preserving Knowledge

Digitizing Collections, Archives, and New Endeavors More than a home for a world-class collection of artifacts, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is a repository of detailed archaeological and ethnographic information preserved not only in the artifacts themselves but in their relationships to each other and their well-documented contexts. These contexts include excavations recorded in painstaking detail as well as ethnographic expeditions that brought entire assemblages of cultural material back to the Museum. In an attempt to preserve and share the wider cultural knowledge embedded in these excavation archives and ethnographic sub-collections, the Museum is undertaking a number of digital archive projects that will capture much of this information and make it accessible to a wider audience online and transform the way scholars sort and analyze these records and materials in their attempts to understand the world’s past and present cultures. The following are some examples of digital projects currently underway in the Museum, including some new endeavors that will digitally enhance upcoming Museum exhibitions.

research by Ximena Valle, historic landscapes by Mark Davison, and topographical survey by Andrew Insua. As a virtual lab with staff working around the country, as well as from Penn, research has expanded to include in addition to the Corinth Computer Project, the Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project, Digital Augustan Rome, and work towards the creation of the Parrhasian Heritage Park of the Peloponnesos. During the academic year, 14 Penn undergraduate and graduate students from the School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Design worked on aspects of these digital projects. The lab has also offered assistance to other archaeological research projects in the Museum and around the world. Each of these projects have strong digital components that include applications of digital cartography, GIS, remote sensing, and databases. The idea of the lab is to integrate teaching with the digital fundamentals of each of the research projects and this has been accomplished with various undergraduate courses and graduate seminars. Interest in new technological methods and techniques has been one of the hallmarks of the lab.

The Ban Chiang Project The Ban Chiang Project—ongoing since the Penn Museum’s 1970s excavations at the site in Thailand (now a UNESCO World Heritage Site)—spent 2010–2011 focusing on the Archaeological Mapping Lab of the digital archiving and analysis of the 540 prehistoric pots Mediterranean Section excavated from Ban Chiang and the nearby sites of Ban Phak During 2010–2011, the Mediterranean Section’s Top, Ban Tong, and Don Klang. A successful grant application Archaeological Mapping Lab continued to expand its work. by Ban Chiang Project Director Joyce White to the Henry Luce Under the general direction of David Gilman Romano, Foundation’s invitation-only “Initiative for East and Southeast geo-spatial research is directed by Nick Stapp, architectural Asian Archaeology” in 2007 resulted in a $300,000 award for four years of collaborative research in Thailand and Laos. This grant is supporting both new field research in Laos and the analysis of the Museum’s excavated collections from Ban Chiang in Thailand. The plan for this third year of the grant was to stay in Philadelphia and intensively study the large collection of world-famous Ban Chiang ceramics on loan to the Penn Museum from the Thai government. The Luce Grant and the University together provided funds to bring two Asian scholars The Archaeological Mapping Lab of the Mediterranean Section maintains a website at to the Museum for 8-month internships and archaeologicalmappinglab.org. Photo by David Gilman Romano.

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to hire Dr. Marie-Claude Boileau, a post-doctoral researcher expert in the technical study of archaeological ceramics. Drs. Boileau and White, along with our two visiting scholars from Thailand and Laos, coded scores of observations of the pots into a complex and expanded database that could record over one hundred details of pot shape, measurements, fabric and temper inclusions, simple and complex decorations, signs of use, and changes since discard or deposition. Friends of Ban Chiang provided the funds to support digital archives implementation, including database developer and manager, Dr. Elizabeth Hamilton, and image manager Ardeth Abrams. Additional photographs of the pots, particularly closeup details, were taken by volunteers and entered into the Ban Chiang Image Archive database. The inclusion of the important ceramic data brings us closer to our goal of integrating the Museum’s long-term research in the Mekong Basin into a single regional database and digital archive. Monograph preparation of the data from the analysis of the Ban Chiang metals and the ceramic data obtained from this year’s study will be the Project’s primary focus in 2011–2012.

Above, a Penn student processing Gordion negatives in the Digitization Lab of the Penn Museum’s Digital Media Center. Photo by Gabriel Pizzorno. Below, this possible 3D reconstruction of the Early Phrygian Gate Complex at Gordion is based on an accurate model of the extant stone remains and archaeological and historical data from other sites in Anatolia. Photo by Gabriel Pizzorno and Gareth Darbyshire.

The Digital Research Archives Project The Digital Research Archives Project, the Penn Museum’s effort to facilitate research and accelerate publication of longstanding excavations, continued to make progress during the past year under the direction of Gabriel Pizzorno and Gareth Darbyshire. The scanning of the vast majority of the materials in the Hasanlu Archive has been completed and significant progress has been made with the much larger Gordion archival corpus. In particular, of the 40,000 photographs that comprise the Gordion 35mm negative corpus, 12,200 (30%) have been scanned and 36,000 (90%) have been re-housed in archival folders as they await scanning. During 2010–2011, the focus of the Digital Research Archives Project shifted to Quality Assurance and Data Processing. Data Processing is the most time-consuming aspect of the digitization program, not only because of its inherent complexity, but also because of the need to devise separate strategies and workflows to address the specificities of each type of resource being processed. For example, when dealing with textual resources (e.g. catalogs, field notebooks, and object cards), the process of extracting information can be automated through the use of Optical Character Recognition (OCR). This works well with neatly typewritten, well-

structured documents, but in the case of handwritten, nonsystematically structured, or poorly preserved documents, manual transcription is often necessary. Over the past year we have experimented with a hybrid method with promising results. In contrast, processing photographs requires reference to separate resources (e.g. photo catalogs, field lists, and negative cards) in which the information regarding their content resides. This is often problematic as these resources do not always agree with each other, thus creating the need to reconcile them and resolve any inconsistencies in the data they contain. Finally, the Gordion Mapping Project produced great results this past year thanks to the digital availability of the extensive Gordion mapping corpus within a Geographic Information System (GIS). This allowed the creation of a comprehensive map of the site, including every trench ever excavated. The accessibility and accuracy of this new dataset enabled a detailed study of the Early Phrygian Gate Complex and the first accurate model of the complex, including several possible 3D reconstructions of the gate, which are helping us understand the architecture of the complex, model alternative interpretations, and enhance the presentation of the site and its rich history to the general public.

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The Louis Shotridge Digital Archive is now accessible at www.penn. museum/collections/shotridge/index.html. Photo by Lucy Fowler Williams.

The Louis Shotridge Digital Archive Project In 2007, the Museum’s American Section received a grant of $130,000 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to create an online digital archive of the entire Louis Shotridge collection—widely regarded as the finest collection of Tlingit (Native Alaskan) material in the world because of its exceptional documentation. It consists of more than 570 objects, 500 black-and-white photographs, and 3,000 archival documents. During the course of the grant, IMLS extended the project timeline to allow the programming of the searchable online database to incorporate an additional 560 field records compiled by Louis Shotridge that reside in the collections of the Alaska State Library. This project, now complete, was a collaborative effort between the Penn Museum, Penn Library’s Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image (SCETI), the Alaska State Library, and the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska. The digital archive went live on the Museum’s website in the spring of 2011. Visitors can view all of the documents and photographs that form the collection, query and search the database of objects, view each one as high-quality digital images, and find links to current resources related to living Tlingit communities. The KE EMu Collections Database Migration Project In November 2008, supported by grants from the Philadelphia Cultural Management Initiative and the William Penn Foundation, as well as support from Barbara and Michael Kowalski and Bruce Mainwaring, the Penn Museum launched a three-year KE EMu Collections Database Migration Project. In December 2010, the Museum’s new EMu (Electronic Museum) database went live on schedule and under

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budget, ushering in a new era for the Museum’s collections management in the digital age. During the remainder of 2010–2011, via weekly email tips, regular training sessions, online documentation, and on-site support, the Museum continued the process of standardizing its existing collections information and began entering new kinds of data in the new database (e.g. inscriptions, translations, and the use of our collections by researchers and courses taught at Penn). In May 2011, the Registrar’s Office, in conjunction with the Museum’s Curatorial Sections, began to review over 400,000 catalog cards in order to create or improve digital records in the new database. Similarly, the Museum’s Collections Staff (i.e. Archives, Conservation, Curatorial Sections, and the Registrar’s Office) began adding digital images of objects to the new database. All of this data entry work has been proceeding in preparation for the completion of the third and final year of this project and its culmination with the launch of the EMu database online by the start of 2012—the Museum’s 125th anniversary. This online database will provide the general public, students, and researchers access to approximately 300,000 of the Museum’s catalog records. Visualizing Pachacamac Imagery, including technical sketches, profiles, drawings, paintings, photographs, film, and Computer-Aided Drawing (CAD), has long been central to the discipline of archaeology. Interpretation, exhibitions, and teaching about the past would be difficult, if not impossible, without imagery. Under the direction of American Section Curator Clark Erickson and Dr. Norman Badler of Penn’s Department of Computer and Information Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, four Penn student summer interns began the development of prototypes for a future high-tech digital exhibition about the Peruvian sacred site of Pachacamac. In 1895–1896, archaeologist Max Uhle obtained one of the Penn Museum’s largest collections from the site of Pachacamac. This diverse collection contains over 12,000 objects, including many artifacts of fragile organic materials, such as gourds, wood, feathers, fibers, skin, remains of food offerings and ritual feasting, and the textile-wrapped mummified bodies of humans and animals preserved in the dry environment of coastal Peru. For more than 1,000 years, he temples, pyramids, palaces, plazas, and oracle of Pachacamac were the destinations for hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from throughout the Andes who came here to

Lucy Fowler Williams (second from right) with film crew and Tlingit woodcarver Tommy Joseph (center) at Sitka Alaska’s National Historical Totem Pole Park. The Park was established in 1904 to remember the 1804 Battle of Sitka, a major armed resistance by the Tlingit people to Russian colonialism. Joseph carved the pole in the background, which was raised in 2004 to honor the Kiks.ádi people and celebrate the battle’s 200th anniversary. Photo by Mary Wheeler.

Top, from left to right, Dr. Anne Tiballi, Tom Hardy, and Beth Protokowicz examine a textile weaver’s toolkit. Above, the Pachacamac digital modeling team includes (from left to right) Corey Boatwright, Dr. Norman Badler, Seungyeon Lee, Shutong Yu, Vijay Shingala, and Adam Mally. Photos by Clark Erickson.

worship a central deity here whose presence is still vibrant in myth, oral history, and Peruvian identity. The future Pachacamac digital exhibition will stress the importance of archaeological context by using large-scale projection of digital imagery to imagine the environmental, archaeological, and social context of life at the site. To this end, summer intern Adam Mally created a 3D digital model of the entire site of Pachacamac and details of two of the major temples at the site based on archival photographs from the Museum Archives and recent maps. Vijay Shingala modeled archaeological pottery from the collection to populate the 3D model. “Dio” Shutong Yu developed virtual models of an

adult male and female Andean person that can be animated using motion capture techniques of modern cinema to show specific movements of pilgrimage, rituals, dance, and daily activity. Carly Lewis and Jeanette Nicewinter provided anthropological research about the collection and Andean culture to help the modelers and explored the cutting edge of installation art exhibitions. In the fall of 2011, Erickson and Badler are offering an undergraduate studio-seminar course to explore digital media applications for the future Pachacamac exhibition. Collaboration in Indian Country In 2010–2011, American Section Keeper Lucy Fowler Williams worked with a host of Native American specialists from across the country to identify important issues in Indian Country today and to relate these to the Museum’s outstanding Native American collections. Collaborating with Hopi Journalist Patty Talahongva and her Phoenix-based film crew, Williams began recording video interviews with native artists, scholars, and activists in New Mexico, Alaska, New Jersey, and Washington, DC, with support from a grant from the Annenberg Foundation. The goal is to produce five short videos for a future exhibition at the Penn Museum entitled Native American Voices.

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Disseminating Knowledge Penn Museum Publications

The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology publishes three issues of Expedition magazine each year, as well as numerous books.

Botanical Aspects of Environment and Economy at Gordion, Turkey Gordion Special Studies Volume 5 By Naomi F. Miller

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volume 52, number 2 (Summer 2010)

volume 52, number 3 (Winter 2010)

volume 53, number 1 (Spring 2011)

Mapping Mongolia: Situating Mongolia in the World from Geologic Time to the Present

Sustainable Lifeways: Cultural Persistence in an Ever-changing Environment

Penn Museum International Research Conference Volume 2 Edited by Paula L.W. Sabloff

Penn Museum International Research Conference Volume 3 Edited by Naomi F. Miller, Katherine M. Moore, and Kathleen Ryan

Engaging the World

The Museum Website and Social Media

made available on the Silk Road website, raised the profile of the Museum’s web presence, which has steadily maintained an average of around 2,000 unique visitors per day.

Penn Museum’s Website The Museum’s website (www.penn.museum) is dynamic, interactive, and has multimedia functionality to engage visitors at multiple levels. Visitors can browse the web calendar to help plan their visit, read about our more than 50 active research projects, access free downloads of podcasts and videos of lectures and programs, shop the Museum’s online store, and connect to more dynamic information than ever before. During the run of Secrets of the Silk Road, traffic to the Penn Museum website increased an average of 400%. This increase steadily improved our ranking on Google search results as well as our standing as a relevant cultural institution on the digital landscape in Philadelphia and on a global scale. The media buzz around the exhibition, as well as the rich content

Social Media This past year has proven that social media has matured into a mainstream information source and global communication tool. The Museum has taken a big step in actively engaging its online community by hiring a Social Media Community Manager as the singular voice on all social media channels. The Museum’s Facebook fan base has grown to over 6,000, the @pennmuseum on Twitter has over 2,500 followers and new digital content is being posted daily to YouTube, Flickr, and the Museum blog (www.penn.museum/blog). The Museum’s podcasts and videos on Penn’s iTunes University page have steadily been ranked in the top 25 track downloads and continue to gain popularity. In August

The Museum’s homepage directly links to the far social media on the right. Photo by Amy Ellsworth.

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a Shingon Buddhist Altar. The English and Spanish versions of the tour are also available as a free download on iTunes or on the Museum website. The iTunes version contains closeup images of objects as well as archival photography enabling audiences to play the tour on their iPhones in the gallery or anywhere in the world.

The Museum’s social media includes a YouTube page with well over 200 videos to download. Photo by Amy Ellsworth.

2011, the Museum’s pioneering use of the mobile application Foursquare in promoting the Summer Nights concert series was highlighted on Mashable.com—the leading source of social media news. The Museum will continue to utilize the latest tools and technologies to connect with audiences in open communication. Penn Museum Videos With the goal of recording every public lecture at the Penn Museum, the Digital Media Center hired a Digital Media Assistant to manage and formalize the video production process. The number of videos posted to our YouTube channel doubled over a four-month period. Analytics reveal that this video content attracted a significant amount of traffic to the website as well as the Museum’s social media channels. Documenting lectures, events, and exhibition content in a digital format, has enabled the Museum to extend its reach beyond our local community to new audiences around the world. Penn Museum Audio Tours The Museum’s “Highlights of the Galleries” audio tour is now available on iPod Touches that can be rented at the Museum’s Admission Desks. This hour-long tour in English, Spanish, and American Sign Language gives visitors an opportunity to explore the world through our galleries with expert commentary from nine Museum curators. Highlights include the Museum’s iconic 12-ton Sphinx (the third largest in the world), an ancient sarcophagus from Canaan, a famous Maya monument, and

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Stops along the Museum’s audio tour are clearly marked by large circular red symbols in the galleries. Photo by Amy Ellsworth.

fina ncia l a nd op er a t iona l hi g hli g hts Statement of Museum Fiscal Year Activity (in thousands)

For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30,

revenues Subvention Gift Income Sales Investment Income Grants Transfers/Other Use of carryover funds Total Revenues

7,844 3,795 1,779 3,500 875 112 — 17,904

2010 43.8% 21.2% 9.9% 19.5% 4.9% 0.6% — 100.0%

8,289 5,846 2,438 3,477 874 1,198 1,067 23,189

2011 35.7% 25.2% 10.5% 15.0% 3.8% 5.2% 4.6% 100.0%

7,637 4,114 (160) 252 5,258 17,101

44.7% 24.1% -0.9% 1.5% 30.7% 100.0%

8,280 5,800 (174) 2,733 5,483 22,122

37.4% 26.2% -0.8% 12.4% 24.8% 100.0%

expenditures Salaries and Benefits Current Expense Expense Credits, Other Capital Transactions Allocated Costs Total Expenditures

Operational Highlights Becoming a Destination

From an operational standpoint, the Penn Museum underwent tremendous change during 2010–2011 to prepare for increased visitor numbers during its first timed-ticketed exhibition, Secrets of the Silk Road. The year began with two significant construction projects. The first was the much-needed renovation of the Museum café, a collaborative effort with Restaurant Associates (now Wolfgang Puck Catering). The second was the renovation of the West Wing of the original 1899 Museum building. This involved the relocation of all occupants, de-installation of numerous exhibitions, and the undertaking of a $5.6 million project to fully renovate the Wing’s infrastructure and installation air conditioning for the first time. In addition, there were renovations to lighting, windows, woodwork, and stonework throughout the galleries, and the groundwork was laid for future renovations to conservation labs, office spaces, and a lecture hall. This work was successfully completed under the direction of Samuel Anderson Architects and Hunter Roberts Construction Group at a breakneck pace in time for Secrets of the Silk Road. The Museum’s Visitor Services, Security, Facilities, and Housekeeping Staff rose to new challenges, particularly during Secrets of the Silk Road. Over the past several years, the average annual attendance at the Museum was approximately 143,000. During 2010–2011, attendance increased to 198,000, thanks in large part to the more than 40,000 visitors who came to see Secrets of the Silk Road during five-and-one-half weeks in February and March 2011. This surge in attendance was marked by a number of things not previously done at the Museum—longer opening hours, manned coat checks,

audio tour sales, a new online and telephone ticketing system with scan-able barcoded tickets, queuing procedures, and significantly increased staffing. The activity in the building was tremendous. For the first time, the Museum conducted active outreach to organizations that bring adult tour groups to the Philadelphia region. Designed to encourage groups to purchase tickets to Secrets of the Silk Road, as well as to increase general awareness of the Museum, the result was an 81% increase in adult tour group attendance. The Museum had its first television partnership with NBC10, which produced and aired a 30-minute special about the exhibition, as well as commercial spots that aired numerous times. Public relations efforts went into overdrive for Secrets of the Silk Road, with the Museum garnering fabulous coverage in publications such as The New York Times and The Washington Post. Advertisements appeared in newspapers, magazines, on the radio, billboards, buses, trains, and in train stations, including Penn Station in New York and Union Station in Washington, DC. New social media efforts enhanced this outreach. Finally, thanks to a grant from the William Penn Foundation, the Museum installed new way-finding (signage) throughout the building, including new maps and markers by doors and elevators, and new banners on the exterior of the building. As a result of its efforts surrounding Secrets of the Silk Road, the Penn Museum garnered new audiences and showed that it was capable of not only attracting these audiences, but of providing a good visitor experience. Even after the exhibition closed, attendance numbers for the balance of the fiscal year were strong, up over 31% compared to 2010.

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in grateful acknowled gment

2010-2011

The exhibitions, public and educational programs, and research activities documented in the previous pages could not have taken place without two groups of people: a profoundly loyal and hardworking body of volunteers and a deeply generous cadre of members and individual and institutional donors. In the following section, the Penn Museum acknowledges the multi-faceted contributions of these two groups with our deepest thanks.

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Destination2012

Making History at the Penn Museum In 2010–2011, gifts and pledges for capital, collections stewardship, programmatic, academic, or research projects, and unrestricted annual support, totaled just under $7 million, advancing the Museum’s DESTINATION2012 Campaign to $37 million, as well as Penn’s landmark $3.5 billion MAKING HISTORY Campaign, of which it is a part. These committed funds, along with support from the University and new revenue sources outlined by Williams Director Richard Hodges on page 4, have made possible all of the continuing and many new initiatives outlined in this report. DESTINATION2012 invites stakeholders and friends to support the vision outlined by Williams Director Richard Hodges and enable the Museum to take its rightful place as a great public teaching museum for the students and faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, the residents and tourists of the Greater Philadelphia region, and individuals all over the world who seek a greater understanding of their shared cultural heritage. Through DESTINATION2012, the Museum seeks to fully fund the following major initiatives, which will make possible the programming, staffing, building, and technological improvements needed to support the goal of making the Penn Museum a major destination by December 2012:


■ B uilding Improvements The cornerstone of the Museum’s current capital improvements, the West Wing Renovation Project has already brought online five renovated and climatecontrolled public galleries and a laboratory for the teaching of ceramic petrography. Funds have also been secured toward the creation and equipping of a new suite of conservation laboratories to restore the Penn Museum to its place as a world leader in object conservation, to enable better stewardship of its collections, and to create opportunities for conservation internships. Additional support is sought toward the conservation labs as well as a new suite of teaching and research laboratories, which will put the Penn Museum at the forefront of laboratorybased archaeology training in the United States, and the renovation of the Widener Lecture Hall. ■ C ollection Stewardship and Showcase Gifts and grants to DESTINATION2012 have provided term funding for an additional staff conservator, several

conservation interns and fellows, and the conservation of some of the signature objects in the Museum’s collection, including the Tang horse reliefs in the Chinese Rotunda, the standing bull from the Temple of Tell al-Ubaid near Ur, the ceramics and textiles from Pachacamac, and the Egyptian mummies. Endowment funding is sought to establish two staff positions and up to eight internships in perpetuity. ■ A cademic A generous term grant has created an office for academic and student programs with two staff positions that oversee a wide variety of initiatives, including class offerings, summer field programs, docent and internship opportunities, and increased access to special exhibitions and facilities. Endowment funding is sought to ensure the continuation of these opportunities in perpetuity. ■ E xhibition and Education Programs More than $800,000 in funding for exhibitions and related educational programs committed in 2010–2011 made possible the Museum’s presentation of the traveling exhibitions Secrets of the Silk Road and Battleground: War Rugs from Afghanistan, and will make possible the presentation of Imagine Africa with the Penn Museum during 2011–2012. Additional gifts funded critical staff positions on the dynamic Exhibits Team responsible for all of these offerings. Ongoing funding sought for exhibitions and related educational programs will support a multiyear exhibition reinstallation program, including Native American Voices, and a vibrant program of changing and traveling exhibitions, beginning with MAYA 2012: Lords of Time, scheduled to open in May 2012. ■ D igitized Collections and Research Archives Digital initiatives will make the Penn Museum’s worldrenowned collections universally accessible through powerful databases and virtual online exhibitions. Gifts to DESTINATION2012 have made possible the conversion and expansion of the Museum’s collections database in a new KE EMu database, which will provide powerful backing to public digital initiatives, including online access to the Museum’s collections and resource sites for renowned Museum excavations at Gordion, Hasanlu, and Ur, among others. The total goal for these initiatives and all of the priorities outlined in DESTINATION2012 is $52.5 million.

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Destination2012 Leadership and Special Gifts

Penn Museum acknowledges with deepest thanks all of the donors to the DESTINATION2012 Campaign to date, and particularly the following donors for their leadership support.

$5 million and above Barbara D. Kowalski and Michael J. Kowalski, W74 A. Bruce Mainwaring, C47, and Margaret R. Mainwaring, ED47, HON85 Charles K. Williams II, Ph.D., GR78, HON97 $2,500,000 – $4,999,999 Kolb Foundation National Science Foundation $500,000 – $2,499,999 Anonymous 1956 Otto Haas Charitable Trust The Annenberg Foundation/ Gregory Annenberg Weingarten Janet Haas, M.D., and John O. Haas Institute for Aegean Prehistory Euseba* and Warren F.* Kamensky Diane von Schlegell Levy and Robert M. Levy, WG74 Frederick J. Manning, W69, Family Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Annette Merle-Smith Frances Rockwell and John R. Rockwell, W64, WG66 Women’s Committee of the Penn Museum $250,000 – $499,999 Anonymous (2) Andrea M. Baldeck, M.D., M79, RES84, and William M. Hollis, Jr. David T. Clancy, W70 Leon Levy Foundation Karabots Foundation/Athena and Nicholas Karabots in honor of Constance Chrisomalis Karabots and Georgios Karambotsios Estate of Ellen Kohler Henry Luce Foundation National Endowment for the Humanities William Penn Foundation The Pew Charitable Trusts $100,000 – $249,999 Lois and Robert M. Baylis Judith L. and William G. Bollinger E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation Cummins Catherwood, Jr., and Susan W. Catherwood William B. Dietrich Foundation

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Dow Chemical Company Donald and Ingrid A. Graham Haim and Jamie Handwerker Christie and John Hastings Walter E. Hering Trust James P.* and Rachel R.* Hopkinson Institute of Museum and Library Services Hagop Kevorkian Fund Samuel H. Kress Foundation Curtis Lane, W79, WG80, and Stacey Rosner Lane, Esq., C80, GR10 National Endowment for the Arts Philadelphia Cultural Management Initiative The PoGo Family Foundation, Inc. Alexandra Schoenberg and Eric J. Schoenberg, Ph.D., GEN93, WG93 Selz Foundation George B. Storer Foundation/ James P. Storer, G61 Douglas C. Walker Mary and William G. Warden III Jeffrey Weiss and Jill Topkis Weiss, C89, WG93 Shelby White-Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications Wolfgang Puck Catering $25,000 – $99,999 Anonymous (2) The 1957 Charitable Trust American Council of Learned Societies Areté Foundation Estate of William H. Ashton Kurt W. Bost Ruth E. Brown Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development Connelly Foundation Carrie and Kenneth Cox Greg Danilow and Susan F. Danilow, Esq., CW74, G74 J. G. DeMarco Diamond Ice Foundation William B. Dietrich* Winnie Chin, NU79, and Michael Feng, C79 The J. Paul Getty Trust Criswell Gonzalez Alvin P.* and Mary Bert Gutman Gretchen R. Hall, Ph.D., CGS97 Barbara and Paul* Henkels Heritage Philadelphia Program

Hon. Harris N. Hollin, CCC57 and Sandra Hollin Susan H. Horsey* Jacqueline W. Hover and John C. Hover II, C65, WG67 Edward K., C43, and Josephine Arader Hueber, CW47 Harvey and Virginia Kimmel Jay I. Kislak, The Kislak Family Fund, Inc. Mrs. Louis B. Klein The Leakey Foundation Loeb Classical Library Foundation Christopher Ludwick Foundation Bonnie Verbit Lundy and Joseph E. Lundy, Esq. Seymour and Adele Marrow Fund, Deborah Marrow, Ph.D., and Michael J. McGuire, Ph.D. John J. Medveckis Mrs. J. Maxwell Moran Jeff Morgan, The Morgan Family Foundation Carlos L. and Renee Nottebohm James Ottaway, Jr. Adolf A. Paier and Geraldine Paier, Ph.D. The Philadelphia Cultural Fund James H. Possehl Prudential Foundation Kathryn Smith Pyle, D.S.W. Luther I. Replogle Foundation The Rockefeller Foundation Doris Samitz* The Seth Sprague Educational and Charitable Foundation Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation The Stockman Family Foundation T and S Family Charitable Fund Curtis Eugene Thomsen, Ph.D. Brian P. and Maud Tierney Tiffany & Co. Estate of Marjorie Underhill Richard William Wolf, Jr. Schuy Wood and Theodore V. Wood, Jr.

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Destination2012 Highlights in 2010–2011

Penn Museum extends warm thanks to all of its 2010–2011 donors to DESTINATION2012—many of whom are recognized throughout the remaining sections in this report—but would like to highlight, in particular, with deepest appreciation, the following gifts and grants, which represent leadership commitments or fully funded special projects this past year.

Building Improvements West Wing Renovation Project The leadership generosity of the donors acknowledged in last year’s annual report, and additional support from A. Bruce and Margaret Mainwaring, made possible the ceremonial groundbreaking for the first phase of renovations to the Museum’s West Wing on September 1, 2010, in the Warden Garden, and the completion of construction in the remarkable four-month time frame that followed.

Breaking ground for the first phase of the West Wing Renovation Project are (left to right) A. Bruce Mainwaring, Margaret Mainwaring, Williams Director Richard Hodges, Janet Haas of the 1956 Otto Haas Charitable Trust, Architect Samuel Anderson, and Michael J. Kowalski. Photo by Pam Kosty.

Judith L. Bollinger and William G. Bollinger. Photo by Penn Museum.

A special gift from Penn Trustee Judith L. Bollinger and William G. Bollinger, both members of the Museum’s Williams Director’s Circle, funded new gallery lighting and audio-visual equipment that significantly enhanced the presentation of Secrets of the Silk Road, Iraq’s Ancient Past: Rediscovering Ur’s Royal Cemetery, and Battleground: War Rugs from Afghanistan as each opened in the renovated West Wing galleries, and will continue to enhance future exhibitions. Grants from the William B. Dietrich Foundation and the 1956 Otto Haas Charitable Trust will fund further renovations to the William B. Dietrich, Kintner, and Upper Baugh Galleries, including window replacements with historically accurate versions, scraping and repainting the original building ironwork, removing later addition window grates, repairing the original stonework, and installing new millwork radiator covers. The grant from the Haas Trust also underwrites equipment for the Conservation labs. A gift from the Frederick J. Manning Family and two anonymous gifts have brought funds raised for the Conservation and Teaching Laboratories phase of the West Wing Renovation Project to over $1.6 million. The gift from the family of Museum Overseer Frederick J. Manning will name the Conservation Suite Offices; the first anonymous gift will equip the Conservation labs, the second—in honor of Janet Monge—will equip a lab for teaching human osteology.

Frederick J. Manning. Photo by Penn Museum.

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Kress Entrance and Main Entrance Doors Gifts from the Women’s Committee underwrote painting, new carpet, new information screens, and renovations of the desk area in the Museum’s Kress Entrance and, together with an additional gift in honor of the Women’s Committee, will underwrite a full restoration of the oversized oak doors at the Upper Main Entrance, leading in to the Museum from the Warden Garden.

Community Engagement Classroom Annette Merle-Smith (left) with LES Co-Chair Joe Lundy at the annual Loren Eiseley Society Recognition Dinner. Photo by Lauren Hansen-Flaschen.

Gifts received from Annette Merle-Smith and Jo Klein will underwrite the creation in 2011–2012 of a dedicated classroom for Community Engagement presentations. Jo Klein at the International Student Reception. Photo by Prema Deshmukh.

Collection Stewardship and Showcase A generous grant from the 1956 Otto Haas Charitable Trust enabled the Museum Conservation Department to add a third staff conservator in 2010–2011, and also to recruit a conservation intern and fellow to work on special projects during 2011–2012. A grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services enabled the hiring of two conservation fellows to conduct a comprehensive survey and implement a partial treatment and re-housing project of the ceramics and textiles from Pachacamac, Peru, in the Museum’s collection. A generous gift received from Frances and John R. Rockwell will enable the Museum to begin conservation of its human Egyptian mummies, a special conservation project slated for public display beginning in the fall of 2012. Mr. and Mrs. Rockwell also funded the conservation of the famed Tang Horse reliefs, completed by Penn Museum conservators with assistance in the finishing stages from a conservation team from Xi’an, China, in the spring of 2010.

Andrew W. Mellon Collections Sharing Initiative

Rick and Frances Rockwell (left and center) receive gifts in honor of their support of the conservation of the Tang Horse reliefs. Photo by Xiuqin Zhou.

A special grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded a planning initiative, including a two-day meeting held in May 2011, between the Penn Museum and six partner museums, all based within or affiliated with a university. The goal of the initiative is to foster the creation of a series of exhibitions and related academic and public programming by the partner institutions using Penn Museum collections, making materials from the Penn Museum available as an educational resource and on public view. Penn Museum would also like to recognize the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for ongoing support of its academic liaison program.

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Penn Museum extends warm thanks to all of the underwriters who made its presentation of Secrets of the Silk Road possible, but to note, in particular, lead gifts from the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, Barbara D. and Michael J. Kowalski, and A. Bruce and Margaret Mainwaring. The Carpenter Foundation has also recently supported the installation of a painting rack in the Asian Section storage facilities, making its fine collection of Chinese paintings more readily accessible to scholars and for conservation and display purposes. A gift received from Frances and John R. Rockwell will support the exhibition Native American Voices, scheduled to open in the Ruth and Earl Scott North American Gallery in September 2013, as well as a public display of the conservation of the Egyptian mummies. Mr. and Mrs. Rockwell are also generously supporting a field season at the site of Abydos in Egypt, to be led by Dr. Josef Wegner in the fall of 2012.

Peter Gould and Robin Potter, of the PoGo Family Foundation, Inc., at the opening of Imagine Africa with the Penn Museum. Photo by Lauren Hansen-Flaschen.

FY2011 grant commitments from the PoGo Family Foundation, Inc., and the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage through the Heritage Philadelphia Program will support Imagine Africa with the Penn Museum, a community engagement project beginning in September 2011 which— through a gallery installation, diverse public programming, and a rich website—seeks to initiate discussions with the regional community, as it begins long-range plans to re-envision its African gallery for a 21st century audience.

Digitized Collections and Research Archives Generous grants from the Leon Levy Foundation funded a planning initiative—still ongoing— among the British Museum, Iraq National Museum, and the Penn Museum to digitize the objects and field records of Sir Leonard Woolley’s renowned excavations of Ur in southern Iraq in the 1920s and 1930s, during which the remarkable treasures of the Royal Cemetery were unearthed. Representatives of the Foundation and all three museums gathered at the Penn Museum in January 2011 for two very promising days of discussions. Since the planning meeting, the Foundation has generously committed funding to make possible the hiring of project staff based at the British and Penn Museums and engaged in site research at modern-day Ur.

Representatives of the Leon Levy Foundation and the British, Iraq National, and the Penn Museums at the January 2011 planning meeting in front of Osman Hamdi-Bey’s painting of the Museum’s first excavation to Nippur (Iraq). Photo by Pam Kosty.

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Gifts to Penn Museum Endowments Sincere thanks to the following institutional and individual donors for continuing their support of the Penn Museum in perpetuity through a gift to one or more of its endowment funds. To the Eckley B. Coxe Fund Diane N. and Robert D. Cooke Mr. and Mrs. Francis J. Mirabello

To endow the Euseba and Warren Kamensky NAGPRA Coordinator of the American Section Fund Warren F. Kamensky*

To the Ellen Kohler Endowment Fund for Mediterranean Research Estate of Ellen Kohler

To support the Kowalski Family Digital Initiatives Endowment Fund and the Penn Cultural Heritage Center Endowment Fund Barbara D. Kowalski and Michael J. Kowalski

To support the Women’s Committee Professional Development Fund The Women’s Committee

Gift Annuities Charlotte Garretson Cronin Kathryn and Sanford Sorkin Curtis Eugene Thomsen, Ph.D.

Gifts to Penn Museum Capital Projects Penn Museum extends grateful thanks for the following donors for support of building improvements, gallery renovations, purchases of major equipment, or IT projects during 2010–2011. For support of the West Wing Renovation Project Anonymous (2) 1956 Otto Haas Charitable Trust Mrs. George deB. Bell William B. Dietrich Foundation Evelyn S. Kritchevsky, Ph.D. Diane von Schlegell Levy and Robert M. Levy A. Bruce and Margaret R. Mainwaring The Frederick J. Manning Family Estate of Elmer E. Pratt Charles K. Williams II, Ph.D. For the Ceramic Petrography Laboratory Charles K. Williams II, Ph.D. For the restoration of the Upper Main Entrance Doors Anonymous, in honor of the Women’s Committee Estate of Carol K. Gerstley The Women’s Committee

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For creation of a dedicated Community Engagement Classroom Mrs. Louis B. Klein Annette Merle-Smith For refurbishment of the Museum’s Main and Kress Entrances Mary and William G. Warden III For Museum gallery lighting Judith L. and William G. Bollinger For equipment for the Conservation Department 1956 Otto Haas Charitable Trust For support of the Museum’s Digital Spine Initiatives Barbara D. and Michael J. Kowalski Leon Levy Foundation A. Bruce and Margaret Mainwaring Elizabeth Ray McLean Jan P. and Linda K. Wepster

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Sara Yorke Stevenson Legacy Circle Sara Yorke Stevenson was a truly remarkable woman—Egyptologist, archaeologist, folklorist, fundraiser, newspaperwoman, and practical dreamer. She played a central role in founding and developing the Penn Museum, serving as Curator of the Egyptian and Mediterranean Sections from 1890 to 1905 and remaining an active fundraiser throughout her life. The Sara Yorke Stevenson Legacy Circle was created to honor those who share her allegiance to the Museum and have committed financial resources to its support through a planned gift of a will, living trust, retirement plan or life insurance policy, or a life income gift that will benefit the Museum in the future. Profound thanks to the following individuals whose provision for the Museum through joining the Sara Yorke Stevenson Legacy Circle ensures their support for it in perpetuity.

Anonymous Janet M. Andereck Deborah L. Augusta Frank W. and Joan A. Badger Mrs. George deB. Bell Josephine R. Bull Charlotte Garretson Cronin L. Daniel Dannenbaum Charles H. Davis John P. Doelman III Mary Elberty James Fallon Laura Fisher Marilyn Forney Betty S. Gerstley, M.D. Carol K. Gerstley* Helen H. Gindele Alvin P. Gutman* Mary Bert Gutman Peter D. Harrison, Ph.D. Karen Jeanne Harvey and Paul B. Harvey, Jr., Ph.D. Luba Holowaty, Ph.D. Jacqueline Whitley Hover and John C. Hover II Josephine Arader Hueber James H. Kinsman Frank and Jean Klein Michael B. Luskin Mrs. Louis C. Madeira IV A. Bruce Mainwaring Margaret R. Mainwaring

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Rudolph Masciantonio, Ph.D. Patricia A. Mattern Elaine N. Mayer, Ph.D., and John R. Mayer James McClelland Harry M. Meyers, Jr.,* and Lois Meyers Naomi F. Miller, Ph.D. Mary Jo Mumford, Ph.D. Sara Nerken Harold Chase Putnam, Jr. Barbara H. Roberts John R. Rockwell Mitchell S. Rothman, Ph.D., and Leslie Simon Bette Jane Saul Donald A. Scott Jeanne A. Scott John R. Senior, M.D. Sara Speddon Senior David P. Silverman, Ph.D. Wilma S. Slyoff Sanford M. Sorkin Patricia Squire Emily and Harold P. Starr Curtis Eugene Thomsen, Ph.D. Mrs. Robert L. Trescher Diana T. Vagelos Karen R. Venturini Elizabeth Jean Walker H.A. and Jackie Wiegand James and Carole Wilkinson

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With Thanks for Generous Sustaining Support Sustaining gifts—those that support ongoing operations—are the lifeblood of any non-profit institution. At the Penn Museum, unrestricted gifts to membership, annual giving, or the Director’s Discretionary Fund provide critical support each year to our ongoing research, our educational mission, and the preservation of our remarkable collection. Sincere thanks to the individual and institutional donors recognized on the following pages for their annual sustaining support of the Penn Museum in 2010–2011.

The Loren Eiseley Society The Loren Eiseley Society (LES) was created to honor the memory of the longtime Penn Museum anthropologist, essayist, and poet by helping to further his ideals and sustain the Museum he cherished. The Society recognizes individuals who contribute at least $1,500 annually to the Museum in unrestricted support through our membership and annual giving programs or to the Director’s Discretionary Fund—the most vital type of funding since it is available where most needed at any time.

Williams Director’s Circle ($50,000 and above) Donald C. and Ingrid Graham Barbara D. and Michael J. Kowalski A. Bruce and Margaret R. Mainwaring Charles K. Williams II, Ph.D. Director’s Circle ($25,000 – $49,999) Judith L. and William G. Bollinger Peter G. Gould and Robin M. Potter Curtis S. Lane and Stacey Rosner Lane, Esq. Bernard and Lisa Selz Gregory A. Weingarten Jeffrey and Jill Topkis Weiss Platinum Circle ($10,000 – $24,999) Andrea M. Baldeck, M.D., and William M. Hollis, Jr. Lois and Robert M. Baylis Cummins Catherwood, Jr., and Susan W. Catherwood Winnie Chin and Michael Feng David T. Clancy and McCarroll Sibley Greg Danilow and Susan F. Danilow, Esq. Betty S. Gerstley, M.D. (Mrs. Louis Gerstley III) Janet F. Haas, M.D., and John O. Haas Jacqueline W. Hover and John C. Hover II Diane von Schlegell Levy and Robert M. Levy Gail Kamer Lieberfarb Bonnie Verbit Lundy and Joseph E. Lundy, Esq. Gail P. Manning and Frederick J. Manning, Esq.

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Annette Merle-Smith Carlos L. and Renee Nottebohm Adolf A. Paier and Geraldine Paier, Ph.D. Frances and John R. Rockwell Carolyn Talbot Seely and Malcolm H. Wiener Douglas C. Walker Schuy Wood and Theodore V. Wood, Jr. Nanou and Mo Zayan Gold Circle ($5,000 – $9,999) Carrie and Kenneth Cox Gretchen R. Hall, Ph.D. John J. Medveckis Mrs. J. Maxwell Moran Gretchen and J. Barton Riley Curtis Eugene Thomsen, Ph.D. Silver Circle ($2,500 – $4,999) Helene V. and Joel H. Blum David Body and Nevin Gunduz R.S. Boucher and Linda Descano Jean G. and Peter E. Bronstein Lawrence Coben Carol deFries Peter Dillon and Jennifer Reiling Martha M. Duran and Luis Fernandez Harrison Eiteljorg II, Ph.D., and Linda I. Weiss Lily and Peter C. Ferry Marilyn Forney and Robert C. Forney, Ph.D. Dale D. and Gregory T. Graham Frederick R. and Jacqueline C. Grayer

Alvin P.* and Mary Bert Gutman Stacey L. Hightower and Naomi Strauss Phyllis Shearer Jones Robert W. Kalish, M.D. Tae Ock Kauh and Young C. Kauh Harvey and Virginia Kimmel Gerald D. Knorr Andrea R. Kramer, Esq., and Lee Rosengard Tifanie Krebs and Earl Pierce Jessica Lemma and Vic Rovani Judy and Peter Leone Terrilyn McCormick Lisa M. and John E. McNichol Dr. Glenn Miller, Jr. George R. Pitts, Ph.D. Alexandra Schoenberg and Eric J. Schoenberg, Ph.D. John R. Senior, M.D., and Sara Spedden Senior Brian P. and Maud Tierney Katherine and Daniel Vieyra Bronze Circle ($1,500 – $2,499) Elie M. Abemayor, M.D., and Judith Abemayor David and Winifred Alcorn Benjamin Ashcom, Ph.D., and Jane Ashcom, Ph.D. Mrs. Joel Bachman Eileen Baird Rosemarie C. Barry and William Barry, M.D. Julian A. Brodsky and Lois G. Brodsky Albert T. Chadwick Joseph and Mary Leach Colen

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Joanne H. and William L. Conrad Elin Danien, Ph.D., and Wilton Danien Christian Dietrich A. Webster Dougherty, Jr., and Janet Dougherty Edward C. and Joan Driscoll Jane A. and Michael P. Duffy Robert H. Dyson, Ph.D. Laura Fisher and Ken Lockwood Beth and Gordon Fluke Pamela Freyd, Ph.D., and Peter Freyd, Ph.D. Mrs. Herman H. Goldstine Criswell Gonzalez Janice T. Gordon, Ph.D. Alexandra Harrison and Peter D. Harrison, Ph.D. Michael P. and Suchinda Heavener Edward K. and Josephine Arader Hueber

Esther D. Johnson Janet Klaus Mrs. Louis B. Klein Howard H. and Maxine Lewis Rachel C. Lilley Alida Lovell Ole W. Lyngklip III, Esq. Missy and Robert E. McQuiston Bernard and Rosa Meyers Ellen Cole Miller Paul F. Miller, Jr., and Ella Warren Miller David Moore and Lori Tarnopol Moore A. M. Mulroney Bonnie J. O'Boyle Donna Conforti Rissman and Paul Rissman, Ph.D. C. Brian Rose, Ph.D.

Joseph B. and Rita P. Scheller Robert Sharer, Ph.D., and Loa Traxler, Ph.D. Mary Ellen Simmons, O.D., and Steve Simmons Herbert O. Sperry, Jr., and Patricia Q. Sperry Bayard T. Storey, Ph.D., and Frances E. Storey George H. Talbot, M.D., and Sheryl F. Talbot, M.D. Mrs. Benjamin Tregoe Mrs. Robert L. Trescher Barry Vitow and Nina Robinson Vitow Elizabeth Jean Walker Helen S. Weary James A. and Nancy Bendiner Weiss Helen and Richard E. Winston

“Forward and backward I have gone, and for me it has been an immense journey.”


– Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey

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The Expedition Circle Membership is the largest source of revenue for the Penn Museum’s unrestricted funds. Museum members are critical supporters of daily operating functions and essential to the Museum’s ability to achieve its mission. Penn Museum offers profound thanks to the Expedition Circle, members who donate $250 to $1,499 annually. Benefactor ($750 – $1,499) James Averill Joanne and Raymond Welsh Fellow ($500 – $749) Spencer Allen and Laura Smith Brett and Nancy Altman Endla K. Anday, M.D. Wendy Ashmore, Ph.D. Mona N. and Robert R. Batt Andrew F. Blittman Josephine R. Bull Nancie and T. G. Burkett Elizabeth Clark and Warren Clark, Jr. L. Daniel Dannenbaum Mary Evans Elizabeth Gemmill Naomi Grabel and Neil Kutner Alan and Nancy Hirsig Michael and Therese Marmion John M. Meyers * and Mary Ann Meyers, Ph.D. Donald Morel Martha and Peter Morse Karl F. Rugart, Jr., M.D., and Patricia Rea Rugart James Sim Laird and M. Trudy Slade Emily and Harold P. Starr Roberta Tanenbaum Mary Warden and William G. Warden III Patricia A. and Stephen M. Wilus Patron ($250 – $499) Bruce and Ellen Asam Sylva Baker Arthur and Kathie Baldadian Erica S. Batt and Gerald S. Batt, Esq. Joan S. Blaine Jane Claire Branton Samuel S. Brewer Ira Brind Ann B. Brownlee, Ph.D., and David Brownlee, Ph.D. Richard Busis Dr. David J. Califf Carl J. Capista and Donna E. Ostroff, Esq. J. Michael Casey Jeff Cepull and Lynne Hunter, Ph.D.

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Kay L. Clausen Lynda K. Claytor and Tony Hitschler Edgar B. and Joan I. Coale Patricia Conard Marie A. Conn, Ph.D. Byron P. and Christine V. Connell Jeffrey and Sandra Cross Emilie de Brigard Roseanne DiSanto and Stephen W. Starnes, Sr. Helen K. Dixon and William J. Dixon, Jr. Misti Donahower and Christopher Layser Barbara J. Duda and Andrew M. Duda, M.D. Howard Eisen, M.D., and Judith Wolf, M.D. Beverly Elliott Robert W. Ellis Elizabeth H. Erkes Silvia Figueroa and Philip Kislak Keri Fisher and Sean Rhoads Pamela Freyd, Ph.D., and Peter Freyd, Ph.D. Alice L. George Deena Gerson Dina S. Ghen Brian and Katarzyna Gilpatrick Dr. James A. Glasscock and Lois R. Glasscock Marguerite and Stephen Goff Andrew and Vickie Golden Fredric Golec, Jr., Ph.D., and Susan Robinson Golec Jane Green Ann N. Greene and G. Davis Greene, Jr. Nancy Celmins and Richard Grogan Marion J. Hanks-Bell Cynthia M. Harrison, Ph.D. Vincent F. Hatton Meredith and Stephen Hecht Hannah L. Henderson Margaret Trexler Hessen, M.D., and Scott Hessen, M.D. Elizabeth B. and Joseph J. Hill Hon. Harris N. Hollin and Sandra Hollin W. Lynn Holmes, Ph.D., and Mary Osbakken, M.D., Ph.D. Richard W. and Susan M. Huffman Anne A. Kamrin and Robert Kamrin, M.D. Charles T. Kelly H. Lewis and Janet S. Klein Bernice J. Koplin Elena and Frederick W. Kyle Doranne M. and Richard D. Lackman Andrew Larson

Ambler P. Leach Selway William Levant and Carol R. Yaster Diana C. Liu Dustin Long and Caitlin L. Ulmer Donna Mackay, M.D. Betty and James Matarese E. Ann Matter, Ph.D. Maria D. McCall and Daniel W. Simcox Linda and Thomas A. McCarthy Elizabeth Ray McLean Jonni S. Moore, Ph.D., and Roger A. Moore, M.D. June S. Morse William R. Muir, M.D. Kathleen D. Niles Albert T. Olenzak, Ph.D. W. Gresham O'Malley III Satoko I. Parker, Ph.D. Helen Pratt and Eli Pritzker Jane E. Reavey and Jerome M. Reavey, Sr. Edward A. Richards Anthony B. Riley Barbara and Thomas Rittenhouse Joanne Robson John Rosenau Julia Rosenwald Lawrence and Marjorie Rueger Roslyn Schneiderman Cindy C. Schwartz and Stanley S. Schwartz, M.D. Charles M. and Marcia C. Shearer Thomas Shirk and Sarah A. Webb Ann and Karl H. Spaeth Louisa H. Spottswood Tamara Stech, Ph.D. Andrew M. Stone, M.D. Ada A. Strasenburgh Francis R. Strawbridge III and Mary Jo Strawbridge Leon C. Sunstein, Jr. Andrew and Rissa Trufa Allison Turner S. Phineas Upham, Ph.D. Ada Warner and Frank W. Warner, Ph.D. Linton A. Whitaker, M.D., and Renata G Whitaker Mrs. Thomas R. White, Jr. Rachel H. Wilson Karin Yanoff, Ph.D., and Myron Yanoff, M.D.

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Annual Giving Program Penn Museum offers profound thanks to the following individuals for their contributions—in many cases over and above their membership support—to the Annual Giving Program. Given with no expectation of receiving benefits, these contributions were directed 100 percent to supporting the Museum’s programs in the year in which they were given. $1,000 and above Robert W. Bogle Lisa Gemmill William Rust III, Ph.D. Harlan Scott Lee E. and Nancy Tabas $500–$999 Susan J. Bridges, Ph.D. Ann N. Greene and G. Davis Greene, Jr. Elise and J. Parry Jones Jay I. Kislak John R. Senior, M.D., and Sara Spedden Senior

$250–$499 Elie M. Abemayor, M.D., and Judith Abemayor Joan S. Blaine Edgar B. and Joan I. Coale Helen K. Dixon and William J. Dixon, Jr. Janet Goren and Robert Goren, M.D. Joseph G. Grasso Carole and Emilio Gravagno The Haney Foundation Trust Helen Hirschfeld and Hugh Neuburger Diane L. and Peter Horan Regina Suk Yee Ip-Lau John Rosenau

James M. and Melissa P. Smith Ada A. Strasenburgh Leon C. Sunstein, Jr. Jeffrey and Jill Topkis Weiss Wiggin and Dana LLP Elizabeth Stone Zimansky

Adopt an Artifact One of the Penn Museum’s highest priorities is properly housing and caring for our extraordinary collection of nearly one million artifacts. The Adopt an Artifact program was created in the 2009–2010 season to raise funds to support the preservation, storage, and management of our artifacts. The Museum is extremely grateful to the following individuals who participated in our Adopt an Artifact program in the past year. Anne Frank Elementary Home & School Association Chris J. Bagocius Sara DeNault Nancy W. Donohue Abigail Dufoe Joshua Evans Zoe Folchman-Wagner Andrew and Vickie Golden Kristen and Mary Heider Kevin Hougasian

Joseph R. and Rita B. Klinger Sarah Leverty Jennifer McDaid Elizabeth Ray McLean Elizabeth Miller Michelle M. Patrick Joanne S. Patti Lawrence Pavlik PwC Philadelphia Learning & Development Tracy Sadowski Nastassia Sieger

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The 1887 Society In 1887, Penn Provost William Pepper persuaded the University Trustees to construct a building to house artifacts from the Nippur excavations (now located in modern day Iraq), thus beginning the long tradition of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Loyal members of the Penn Museum who have made gifts for ten or more consecutive years are an integral part of that long tradition and are honored by induction into The 1887 Society. We recognize with sincere thanks the following individual Museum members for the constancy of their support throughout the last decade and, in many cases, far longer.

Anonymous Elie M. Abemayor, M.D., and Judith Abemayor Anne M. and Carl Adamczyk H. M. Addkison, Jr. David and Winifred Alcorn Ann H. Allison Lorraine H. Altrichter Brian D. Ampolsk Janet M. Andereck Lloyd B. Anderson Nathalie Anderson Audrey Krauss Angelides, M.D. Edith Arenas William N. Ashbey Wendy Ashmore, Ph.D. Deborah L. Augusta Jacqueline M. Axilbund Jo and Walter P. Babich Mrs. Joel Bachman Anders Back and Pam Kosty Wendy J. Bacon Frank W. and Joan Allison Badger Liesel Baker Arthur and Kathie Baldadian Andrea M. Baldeck, M.D., and William M. Hollis, Jr. Aaron D. Bannett, M.D., and Joy Bannett Kate Barnash Mary S. Barnette, Ph.D., and William E. Barnette, Ph.D. Barbara A. Bassett Elizabeth T. Bates Gregory W. Batker and Dr. Suet T Lim Mona N. and Robert R. Batt Ellen W. Baxter and Robert W. Kavash Lois and Robert M. Baylis Ann M. Beal Fay Beauchamp, Ph.D., and Gary Beauchamp, Ph.D. Geneva Belford Arlyn R. Bell Ronald J. Benes

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Anna S. Benjamin, Ph.D. Nancy Bernard Dr. Linda H. Bertland Mary A. Betancourt and Philip P. Betancourt, Ph.D. Deborah and Gary Bingham Louis S. Bluver Susan Bolesta and Jane Gottfried Marcia L. Bosswick Edward and Sharon Bowen Harold B. Boyd, Jr. Arnold W. and Julia A Bradburd Luther W. Brady, M.D. Mrs. Philip A. Bregy Linda Brenner and William G. Christensen Susan J. Bridges, Ph.D. Ira Brind Dr. Robert A. Brooks and Shirley Brooks Eloise Browder Nancy Brown, V.M.D., and William Kay, D.V.M. Ruth E. Brown Sara M. Brown, Ph.D. Ann B. Brownlee, Ph.D., and David Brownlee, Ph.D. Pamela J. Bruton David L. Buch, M.D., and Annemarie Clarke Carol W. Buettger Eleanor W. Bulova and Dr. Stephen Bulova Nancie W. and T. G. Burkett Richard Busis Elizabeth and John Bussard Ken Butera and Karol Wasylyshyn Beth Howland Butler and John P. Butler III Russell J. Cardamone, Jr., Ph.D. Robert F. Carr John S. Carson, M.D. Mae and Robert Carter Lee A. Casper Raymond C. Cassidy and Susan B. Ragonesi, M.D.

Cummins Catherwood, Jr., and Susan W. Catherwood N. S. Cawley, M.D. Elizabeth P. Chapin Julia L. Chapman Charlotte T. Child Nelly and Scott J. Childress Gloria T. Chisum, Ph.D., and Melvin J. Chisum, M.D. David T. Clancy and McCarroll Sibley Edgar B. and Joan I. Coale Joyce B. and Ralph E. Cohen Robert M. Cohen Barbara Coleman and Dr. Elliott Coleman Joseph and Mary Leach Colen David L. Colman Patricia Conard Marie A. Conn, Ph.D. Nancy Conner Joanne H. and William L. Conrad Alfred D. Cook Roger Cooper SFC Donna Cooper-Winter Connie Copp and Jeffrey Copp, Ph.D Sharon K. Corbin and Ed Spector Jeanne Coryell Zoe Coulson Jean E. Craig James D. Crawford, Esq., and Judith N. Dean Mary Ann Cresswell Niki Crits D. M. Crow Michael R. Csensich Ann T. Csink and John E. Linck Mary E. Cunningham Helen Cunningham and Theodore T. Newbold Mark Curchack, Ph.D., and Peggy L. Curchack Elizabeth and Herbert S. Cutler Mary Dabney and James Wright Stevan B. Dana

Consilia E. D'Andrea Barbara A. Daneluzzi Elin Danien, Ph.D., and Wilton Danien Dena Dannenberg and James L. Dannenberg, D.D.S. Charles H. and Suzanne M. Davis Colin and Victoria L. Dawson Michael DeLozier and Susan Preiksat Robert W. and Susan B. Denious Mr. and Mrs. James J. Diamond Lee Dibble and Harold Dibble, Ph.D. Helen K. Dixon and William J. Dixon, Jr. Edythe M. and Robert J. Dixson Francis J. Dollarton, Jr., and Barbara Anne Dollarton Marie Donaghay William M. Donato Michelle Dooley and Christopher P. Kocher A. Webster Dougherty, Jr. and Janet Dougherty Mary Douglas and Steven D. Douglas, M.D. Cathy Drelick and Richard Kozlowski Louisa C. Dubin Peggy Duly Lester D. Duman Sally Dunham William Dunlop Robert H. Dyson, Ph.D. Patricia Eames and Connie Hart Silvia L. Egnal Marion and Robert Ehrlich Cynthia J. Eiseman and James Eiseman, Jr. Howard Eisen, M.D., and Judith Wolf, M.D. Harrison Eiteljorg II, Ph.D., and Linda I. Weiss Beverly Elliott Mary E. Emore

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Joan M. Englert Helen and Leonard Evelev George and Nancy Fago Mary Fallon and Daniel Kurdilla Cynthia A. Farrell and Marvin Schatz Charlotte and Milton A. Feldman Robert Fine, M.D. Bernard A. Fischer Katherine M. Fisher Laura Fisher and Ken Lockwood Marilyn Fishman and James P. MacElderry Richard B. Flippen Dorothy Flynn and Philip Flynn, Jr., Ph.D. Marilyn Forney and Robert C. Forney, Ph.D. Janet R. Fox and William W. Fox, Jr. Kenneth Frank, M.D., and Sue Frank Lisa C. Franks Charles Frantz, Ph.D. Frank A. Franz, Ph.D. Charles A. Fritz III and Margaretha Fritz Mary Jane Fullam Harry Gaber Gerald J. Gallagher Judith J. and Tom Gallagher

Geraldine C. Gesell Joseph Gessner Sonia Gilbert Linda Gilbert-Schneider Helen H. Gindele Mary C. Glick, Ph.D. Dolores Gmitter and Sara Quay Marguerite and Stephen Goff Barbara Gold, M.D. Arlene Goldberg Andrew and Vickie Golden Louis M. Golden, Jr., and Ann W. Golden Madge Goldman Mary L. Goldman Mrs. Herman H. Goldstine Mary E. Golin Criswell Gonzalez Mary Lou Gonzalez Ward H. Goodenough, Ph.D. Janice T. Gordon, Ph.D. Philip A. Gordon Dr. Claire Gottlieb and Milton Gottlieb Frederick J. Graboske Donald C. and Ingrid Graham Jerome and Myra Greenberg Cecile I. and Stanley B. Greenberg Ann N. Greene and G. Davis Greene, Jr. Judith Kramer Greene and

Robert W. Greene, Ph.D. Crawford H. Greenewalt, Jr., Ph.D. Joanne T. Greenspun Gaye L. Greenwald Kit Grundstein Kaaren Guenther Linda and Roderick G. Gunn Esther J. Gushner Alvin P.* and Mary Bert Gutman Joseph A. Haas, Jr., and Susan Haas Barbara Ann Hagerty John B. and Mary Ellen Y. Hagner Demetra J. Haines Gretchen R. Hall, Ph.D. Frances and Joseph Hall D. Bruce Hanes and Rosemary McCarthy Hanes Marian A. and Robert G. Hardt W. Benson Harer, Jr., M.D. Hugh J. and Sharon A. Hargrave Judith H. Harper A. Brooks Harris, Ph.D., and Margaret R. Harris Barry Harris, M.D., and Dr. Carole Sklar Carol Anne Harris Jacqueline Scott Harris and John F. Harris, Jr., Ph.D. Cynthia M. Harrison, Ph.D. Alexandra Harrison and Peter D. Harrison, Ph.D.

Robert H. Hartmann Donna F. and Vincent W. Hartnett Victoria Hartung Karen Jeanne Harvey and Paul B. Harvey, Jr., Ph.D. Christie and John Hastings Arthur B. Hattler, DDS Barbara A. and Robert P. Hauptfuhrer John W. and Mary-Jean B. Hayden Michael P. and Suchinda Heavener Mary Meachum Hegarty Barbara F. Henderson and William F. Henderson* William H. Henderson, Jr., and Nancy M. Henderson E.H. Hermance Cynthia Hesel Elinor A. Hewitt Delbert Highlands, Ph.D. Celene Hilkin Elizabeth B. and Joseph J. Hill Robert W. and Eleanor O. Hill Alan and Nancy Hirsig Lucy L. Hoch and Willis Hoch, M.D. Hon. Harris N. Hollin and Sandra Hollin Lee C. Horne, Ph.D., and Bruce Pearson Jacqueline W. Hover and John C. Hover II Theresa Howard-Carter, Ph.D. Barbara and Michel T. Huber Edward K. and Josephine Arader Hueber Karsten Jacobsen William M. Jagiello, D.O. Josephine Jensen Esther D. Johnson Ray Johnston and Patricia A. Simon R. William Johnstone Christopher Jones, Ph.D., and Leslie Jones Elise and J. Parry Jones Phyllis Shearer Jones Helen and Henry Justi Anne A. Kamrin and Robert Kamrin, M.D. Dorothy G. Kapenstein John W. Karlawish Bettie Kehrt Dr. Stephen T. Kelly Geraldine Kijowski Harvey and Virginia Kimmel

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Richard King Dale Kinney, Ph.D. James H. Kinsman Jay I. Kislak Janet Klaus Gregory J. Kleiber Dr. Frank G. Klein and Jean Klein H. Lewis and Janet S. Klein Mrs. Louis B. Klein Barbara and John Koelle Annie A. Kohl Gary Kolleogy and Donna Mansfield Linda and William F. Koons Roy Korson, M.D. Robert Kraft, Ph.D. Ezra and Janet Krendel Evelyn S. Kritchevsky, Ph.D. Nancy Hill Lamason David R. Lampe Beverly Lawson Ambler P. Leach Selway Erle Leichty, Ph.D. Donald Leonard and Sandra Schenk Leonard Rosalie M. Levin Steven D. Levin Janet E. Levitt Jerry D. Levitt, M.D., and Julie M. Levitt, Ph.D. Howard H. and Maxine Lewis Margaret Lichtenstein Larry Liggett and Jayne Yantz Rachel C. Lilley Philip B. Lindy

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Mott R. Linn, Ph.D., and Ruth H. Linn Barbara and Robert F. Lisi William W. Long Karl F. Loomis, M.D. Frank J. Loprest, Ph.D., and Jane A. Loprest Alida Lovell Sandra Lovell Bonnie Verbit Lundy and Joseph E. Lundy, Esq. John R. and Mary B. Mack Paul Maertens David W. Maher A. Bruce and Margaret R. Mainwaring Hope Makler and Paul T. Makler, M.D. Claire Malouf Rebecca Marcus Lawrence N. and Ronnie B. Margel Mary Ellen Markovcy Lynn C. Matson Patricia A. Mattern Margaret Maurin, Ph.D., and Albert J. Stunkard, M.D. Eleanore Maxman John O. Mayes, D.M.D. Mary L.C. and Robert C. McAdoo Marian Holland McAllister Linda and Thomas A. McCarthy Dr. Ann M. McCloskey Paul W. McCloskey Joseph R. McCormick Daniel McCue

J. C. McCullough Patricia McCurdy Catherine McDonald Anne McGhie and Andrew McGhie, Ph.D. Dorothy McHale Carol B. and William L. McIntyre Charles and Rania McKinley Audrei E. and N. Richard McKinney Elizabeth Ray McLean Ann and Donald McPhail Missy and Robert E. McQuiston John J. Medveckis Donna Merchant and Bill Renner Annette Merle-Smith Walda C. Metcalf Allen M. and Margaret A. Metzger Bernard and Rosa Meyers Ellen Cole Miller Paul F. Miller, Jr. and Ella Warren Miller Philippus and Sally W. Miller Joseph N. Misuraco and Stiles N. Seay Hattula Moholy-Nagy and Roger G. Schneggenburger Mrs. J. Maxwell Moran Stephen Morley Anselene M. Morris June S. Morse Martha and Peter Morse Francisco Moya, M.D. William R. Muir, M.D. A. M. Mulroney

Grace Freed Muscarella, Ph.D. Mary Alice Musser Harriet S. Nash and Samuel K. Nash, Sc.D. Victoria P. Neely, Ph.D., and William T. Neely, Ph.D. John B. and Shirley Neff Benjamin R. and Meta B. Neilson Linda Nelson, Ph.D. John J. Nesbitt III and Sandra L. Nesbitt Scott A. Neumann Arthur E. Newbold IV Carlos L. and Renee Nottebohm Bonnie J. O'Boyle Katheryn J. O'Connell, Ph.D. Joseph A. O'Connor, Jr. Albert T. Olenzak, Ph.D. Claire B. and John L. Olsen W. Gresham O'Malley III Adolf A. Paier and Geraldine Paier, Ph.D. Henry Papit Michael Parrington and Helen Schenck Elaine Paulson and Robert H. Paulson, Ph.D. Lawrence Pavlik Esther Payne Alan W. Pense Frank A. Pepe, Ph.D. Barbara Perna and Lionel F. Rubin, V.M.D. Charles B. Peterson III, Ph.D. Eleanor R. Peterson Margaret Phillips Ronald J. Pierce George R. Pitts, Ph.D. Robert B. Platt Dr. Barbara A. Porter Gerald Porter, Ph.D., and Judith Porter Sandra B. Portnoy and Dr. Sidney Portnoy Janet E. Powell Barbara Z. Presseisen and Ernst L. Presseisen, Ph.D. Ruth G. Preucel Hilda H. Pring Harold C. Putnam, Jr., and Mary Putnam Shirley Quement Judy and Joseph Radano Frances M. Rafferty Francis B. Randall

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Peter Randall, M.D., and Rose Randall Diana R. Rankin Paul Rapp David Rasner and Caroline Wischmann-Rasner Christopher Ray Kyle M. Raymond Paul W. Remeczki Margaretta Richardi Thomas O. Richey Sonya S. Richman, Esq., and John A. Ryan William H. Richman Gretchen and J. Barton Riley Barbara and Thomas Rittenhouse Anna Roberts John M. Roberts, M.D. Celia W. Roberts and Shepherd K. Roberts, Ph.D. T. Wayne Roberts Joan Todd Robinette Amy Rogovin Irene Romano, Ph.D., and David Romano, Ph.D. Mrs. George Rosenthal Harold and Sue Rosenthal Martin and Phyllis Rosenthal Bernard N. Rothman, D.D.S., and Harriet Rothman Mitchell S. Rothman, Ph.D., and Leslie Simon Karen S. Rubinson, Ph.D. Cynthia D. Rugart Ernest F. and Vida Ruppe Rocco E. Russo Kathleen Ryan, Ph.D.

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Ruth Sachs and Marvin L. Sachs, M.D. Hugh A. Sargent Bette Jane and Ralph S. Saul Joseph B. and Rita P. Scheller George W. Schiele Kenneth J. Schilling Carolyn W. Schmidt, Ph.D. John T. Schmitt Charles P. Schock Alexandra Schoenberg and Eric J. Schoenberg, Ph.D. Florence Schreibstein Grace E. Schuler Camille and Henry Schwartz Donald A. and Jeanne A. Scott Carolyn Talbot Seely and Malcolm H. Wiener Joan M. Segal Donald P. Seibert Arthur H. and Raquel Seidel Cornelia H. Seidel Sheldon Seligsohn Bernard and Lisa Selz John R. Senior, M.D., and Sara Spedden Senior Samuel J. Serata, Esq. Carole M. Shaffer-Koros, Ph.D. Shigeki Shakuya Carl Shankweiler Joseph A. Shannon Robert Sharer, Ph.D., and Loa Traxler, Ph.D. Frank C. Shaw Phoebe and Roger Sheftel Glenn E. Sickenberger Brian J. and Lisa Siegel

Donald Silberberg, M.D. Mary Ellen Simmons, O.D., and Steve Simmons Anne Sims Dr. John R. Skinner John K. Skrypak Marcia Slade Hon. Dolores K. Sloviter Wilma S. Slyoff A. Gilmore Smith, Jr., and Lynn J. Smith Cecil and Shirley Smith Deborah S. Smith and Donald E. Smith, Ph.D. Maria B. Smith, M.D. Joan and Michael Snader Charles Snell Hannah P. and Ivan Snyder Ann and Karl H. Spaeth Anni Adelheid Speier Herbert O. Sperry, Jr., and Patricia Q. Sperry Louisa H. Spottswood Helen M. Stailey Emily and Harold P. Starr Nancy Steel Mrs. John L. Steigerwalt Marion C. Stewart Brian D. Stilwell Andrew M. Stone, M.D. Bayard T. Storey, Ph.D., and Frances E. Storey Francis R. Strawbridge III and Mary Jo Strawbridge Ute Striker Diana Stroud Roger S. M. Stryeski Andrew J. Sullivan, Ph.D., and Betty Sullivan Kathleen J. Sumner and William M. Sumner, Ph.D. Leon C. Sunstein, Jr. Barbara Billings Supplee Gloria S. Swift Lee E. and Nancy Tabas Brian L. and Nancy Taras Bill Tatu Edward W. Thomas Judith A. and William Jay Thomas Barry E. Thompson Robert W. Thompson Eve M. Thyrum and Per Thyrum, M.D., Ph.D. Mary E. Tilley and Dr. Jon P. Tilley Donald S. and Nancy C. Todd Claire G. and Paul M. Toy

Daniel L. Trasatti Mrs. Benjamin Tregoe Marta Ullman John R. Urofsky Duncan W. and Elizabeth E. Van Dusen Eva Verplanck, Ph.D. Gillian L. Wakely Thomas G. Waldman Douglas C. Walker Elizabeth Jean Walker Donald W. Wallace Mary Warden and William G. Warden III Elsie F. Warner Ada Warner and Frank W. Warner, Ph.D. Alan Warren Helen S. Weary Harvey and Karen Weidenfeld Barbara W. Weil Michele L. Weinstein James A. and Nancy Bendiner Weiss J. Marshall Wellborn Joanne and Raymond Welsh Reverend John B. Wendrychowicz Rosamund W. Wendt, Ph.D. Linton A. Whitaker, M.D., and Renata G Whitaker Griffin and Jeremiah White Katharine S. White Mrs. Thomas R. White, Jr. Erlis Wickersham and John M. Wickersham, Ph.D. Joan and Saul Wider Mindy Widman, D.S.W. Franklin L. Widmann Harold Wilkinson, M.D. Beverly and Norman P. Willett Charles K. Williams II, Ph.D. Rachel H. Wilson Helen and Richard E. Winston Jean K. Wolf Jane A. Wolff William F. Wolohan, Jr. Schuy Wood and Theodore V. Wood, Jr. David Woolman Diane Dalto Woosnam and Richard E. Woosnam Annemarie Yoder, D.V.M., and Samuel Yoder, V.M.D. Laura L. Zaika, Ph.D. Sarah L. Zimmerman, Ph.D.

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Gifts in Honor or Memory of Penn Museum Family Members In memory of Ramon Garfinkel Richelle Kramer In honor of Arlene Goldberg for Chanukah Richard Goldberg In memory of William Henderson Barbara P. Henderson and William Henderson, Jr. In memory of Lawrence R. Levan Allan J. and Barbara F. Berger Selma W. Bernstein Jeanette Cummings Anne M. Curran Donna and Sidney Forman Joseph G. Grasso H. Vivianne Horwitz Jean B. Kotloff and Leon Kotloff, M.D.

Aaron Krauss, Esq. Richard A. Levan Charles H. and Pamela R. MacPhaul Edward A. Phillips Eva M. Starr Margery Steiner VanderWaal Group, Inc. Wiggin and Dana LLP In honor of Kathleen M. Lynch, Ph.D. Jan P. and Linda K. Wepster In memory of Pollie P. Mackie The Women’s Committee In memory of Bruce Nichols The Women’s Committee

In honor of Stephen R. Phillips Mary B. Herr In memory of Cedrick “Sky” Scarlett Diane N. and Robert D. Cooke Mr. and Mrs. Francis J. Mirabello In memory of Lynn Snyder Ronell and William Douglass, M.D. Leon S. Malmud, M.D. In honor of James Wilson Liesel Baker In Memory of T. Cuyler Young, Jr. Louis D. Levine, Ph.D.

Term-Funding Gifts for Special Museum Programs and Projects Penn Museum acknowledges with gratitude the following donors who provided term funding for special projects or museum programs during 2010–2011. Archives Robert H. Dyson, Ph.D. National Film Preservation Foundation Conservation 1956 Otto Haas Charitable Trust Janet F. Haas, M.D., and John O. Haas Frances and John R. Rockwell Community Engagement Programs American Express Liesel Baker Commonwealth of Pennsylvania F. Hilary Conroy, Ph.D. Ishita Deshmukh Mrs. Louis B. Klein Christopher Ludwick Foundation Annette Merle-Smith Pew Center for Arts and Heritage through the Philadelphia Cultural Management Initiative The Rockefeller Foundation Laird and M. Trudy Slade For the Sponsor a School Group Program: Connelly Foundation ING Foundation PNC Foundation Subaru of America Foundation Wells Fargo Regional Foundation Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation

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Exhibition or Exhibit Department Support For Battleground: War Rugs from Afghanistan Anonymous Kadrovach-Duckworth Family Foundation For Imagine Africa with the Penn Museum Pew Center for Arts and Heritage through the Heritage Philadelphia Program The PoGo Family Foundation, Inc. For Native American Voices Richard Goldberg Diane von Schlegell Levy and Robert M. Levy Frances and John R. Rockwell For Secrets of the Silk Road Lois and Robert M. Baylis E. Rhodes & Leona B. Carpenter Foundation Cummins Catherwood, Jr., and Susan W. Catherwood Gretchen R. Hall, Ph.D. Barbara D. and Michael J. Kowalski A. Bruce and Margaret R. Mainwaring Alexandra Schoenberg and Eric J. Schoenberg, Ph.D. The Selz Foundation, Inc. Tiffany & Co. For Vaults of Heaven: Visions of Byzantium Diane von Schlegell Levy and Robert M. Levy Turkish Cultural Foundation Sarah L. Zimmerman For Exhibits Department Staff Support David T. Clancy and McCarroll Sibley Frederick J. Manning Family

Graduate Student Fellowships Kolb Foundation Professional Development Fund The Women’s Committee Public Programs and Symposia For PECO World Culture Days PECO, an Exelon Company For the Reconfiguring the Silk Road Symposium Henry Luce Foundation For Turkish Cultural Day Turkish American Friendship Society of the United States Turkish Consulate General Undergraduate Summer Fieldwork The Chingos Foundation The J. Paul Getty Trust Seymour and Adele Marrow Fund, Deborah Marrow, Ph.D., and Michael J. McGuire, Ph.D. Special Initiatives For a Collaborative Collection Sharing Program, and for Support of a Student Liaison Office at the Museum Andrew W. Mellon Foundation For a Collaborative Program to Support the Digitizing and Publishing of Sir Leonard Woolley’s Excavations at Ur Leon Levy Foundation

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Support of Museum Research Projects Penn Museum acknowledges with gratitude the following donors to special research projects sponsored by the Museum during 2010–2011. “Corpus of Aegean Frescoes” Fellowships The Institute for Aegean Prehistory Archaeological Chemistry Programs Exxon Mobil Corporation Gretchen R. Hall, Ph.D. Friends of Ban Chiang (Thailand) and the Middle Mekong Archaeology Project Lois G. Adam Jean S. Adelman Joanne Aitken Kalayanee Battista Lois and Robert M. Baylis Nicole Levesque Boileau Marcia Brewster Ruth E. Brown Cummins Catherwood, Jr., and Susan W. Catherwood Louise Allison Cort Elin Danien, Ph.D., and Wilton Danien Janet G. Douglas Robert H. Dyson, Ph.D. Exxon Mobil Corporation Garth D. Gill and Susan E. Gill, Ph.D. Cris Gonzalez Dr. Jenny P. Glusker Alvin P.* and Mary Bert Gutman Gretchen R. Hall, Ph.D. June L. Hament Hilary Y. Hammerman Christie and John Hastings Michael P. and Suchinda Heavener Barbara F. Henderson and William F. Henderson, Sr.* Barbara P. and William Henderson, Jr. Frances G. Hoenigswald Dr. Lee C. Horne and Bruce Pearson Jacqueline W. Hover and John C. Hover II Edward K. and Josephine Arader Hueber Richard Y. Kirk, Ph.D. Mrs. Louis B. Klein James R. Kurtz

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Melani Lamond and Brian Ratigan Stephen A. Lang A. Bruce and Margaret R. Mainwaring Allene R. and Edward E. Masters Ann and Donald McPhail Naomi F. Miller, Ph.D. Frank Moore III and Ellyn C. Sapper Harriet S. Nash and Samuel K. Nash, Sc.D. Kusa Panyarachun Michael Parrington and Helen Schenck Robert Rossman Kathleen Ryan, Ph.D. John R. Senior, M.D., and Sara Spedden Senior David W. and Patricia Usner Harold K. Vickery, Jr., Esq. Gillian L. Wakely Michael R. Weldon Elizabeth S. White Joyce C. White, Ph.D. World Travel Service, LTD. Bat (Oman) Archaeological Project Donna Conforti Rissman and Paul Rissman, Ph.D. Biomolecular Archaeology Harrick Scientific The Hershey Corporation Gordion (Turkey) Archaeological Project Anonymous Geoffrey K. Cranenburgh Luther I. Replogle Foundation Oscar White Muscarella, Ph.D. The Jordan-Evans Family Foundation Kenneth Jordan The Morgan Family Foundation Jeff Morgan The Selz Foundation, Inc. George B. Storer Foundation James P. Storer Charles K. Williams II, Ph.D. John Ellis Knowles Wisner

Jiroft (Iran) Archaeological Project Charles A. Chesbro Far Horizons Archaeological & Cultural Trips, Inc. Mt. Lykaion (Greece) Archaeological Project Anonymous Cummins Catherwood, Jr., and Susan W. Catherwood Dorothy Dinsmoor Edward K. and Josephine Arader Hueber Brian Kelly John J. Medveckis Annette Merle-Smith Carolyn F. and Terry T. O'Connor James H. Ottaway, Jr. George Papanicolaou, Ph.D. Gretchen and J. Barton Riley Near East Section Research The Hagop Kevorkian Fund Penn Cultural Heritage Center Barbara D. and Michael J. Kowalski Eleanor Leventhal Robert Leventhal Family Foundation The PoGo Family Foundation Inc. Charles K. Williams II, Ph.D. Saqqara (Egypt) Archaeological Project Cummins Catherwood, Jr., and Susan W. Catherwood M. Kate Pitcairn Donna L. and Richard S. Strong

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In-Kind Gifts Penn Museum gratefully acknowledges the following donors for in-kind donations during 2010–2011. In-Kind Gifts to the Archives or Curatorial Sections Jerome N. Bluestein Ethnographic object from Laos Fred Boschan Doll, Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska Anne Bowbeer Collection of papers and photographs pertaining to British painter Alexander Scott, through whom the Museum collected a number of Tibetan pieces, ca. 1914 Shirley J. Cohen Chinese coins from various periods collected by Martin S. Cohen while stationed in Xi’an as a meteorologist during World War II Mary B. Crowther, Susan B. Hay, and the Goodale family Archival records and ethnographic objects from the estate of Jane Carter Goodale relating to her field work in Australia, most from the Tiwi of Melville Island Mahinda de Lanerolle, on behalf of the de Lanerolle Trust, Sri Lanka Set of Buddhist artifacts known as “Atapirikara” that a Buddhist priest could possess according to the Theravada Buddhist practices in Sri Lanka Thomas M. Dickey, Louise D. Pinknow, and Margaret D. Wilde Objects from a range of cultures and time periods from the Northern Andes area of Colombia, on loan from Mr. and Mrs. Parke A. Dickey since 1939 John A. Flick, M.D. Currency bar (one penny), Kono (Conna) tribe, Sierra Leone, 19th century Marilyn Forney and Robert C. Forney, Ph.D. Payback doll, Mendi Valley, Southern Highlands Province, Papual New Guinea, and baby carrier, Borneo Haim and Jamie Handwerker Photographic collection representing the work of Marilyn Bridges, Danny Lyon, Ken Heyman, Pierre Verger, and Patrick Nagatani Harrick Scientific Praying Mantis diffuse reflection illumination and collection system The Hershey Corporation Infrared Spectrometer The Kocher Family Roman glass vessels, Roman/Nabatean pottery, and copper/bronze coins from Jordan

Grace Freed Muscarella, Ph.D. Artist grid drawing tool made and used by Piet de Jong at Gordion Al Noble Personal papers, including 54 diaries, of Mary Louise Baker, Museum Artist from 1908–1936 Barrie O’Gorman Thunder Stick War Rattle made by Black Eagle of ShoshoneYokut in Copperopolis, California, in 2002 Kathryn Smith Pyle, D.S.W. Ethnographic objects from Burma and Thailand collected by Aileen Pyle Sechler and Robert Porter Sechler Betty Burton Reina and Ruben E. Reina, Ph.D. Archival records and objects from the Americas relating to the anthropological work of Dr. Ruben E. Reina, professor of anthropology and Museum curator from 1952–1991 Tobia Worth Approximately 300 35mm color slides from the Through Navajo Eyes project, directed by Dr. Sol Worth, University of Pennsylvania, 1965 Jonathan K. Wright Dayak shield and spear from Dutch East Borneo (now East Kalimantan) In-Kind Gifts to Public Programs and Community Engagement Events Mrs. Joel Bachman Biba Wine Bar Canada Dry Delaware Valley Sara Castillo Eastern State Penitentiary First Person Arts The Franklin Institute Free Spirit Paranormal Investigators Happy Tails of Philly The Honickman Family The Inn at Penn Lisa A. Johns Mrs. Louis B. Klein PopChips SangKee Noodle House Herbert O. Sperry, Jr., and Patricia Q. Sperry Tasty Baking Company Trader Joe’s

Margy Meyerson Egyptian Archaeological prints

The Development Office of the Penn Museum makes every effort to ensure accuracy in these listings. If you are a sustaining donor for the Museum and your name is omitted or misspelled, please accept our apologies and advise us of the correction by calling 215.898.3099.

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Corporate, Foundation, and Government Agency Supporters Penn Museum gratefully acknowledges support from the following foundations, corporations, government agencies, and organizations for its exhibition, conservation, education, and special research programs. 1956 Otto Haas Charitable Trust The Barra Foundation Baylis Charitable Foundation Canada Dry Delaware Valley E. Rhodes & Leona B. Carpenter Foundation Louis N. Cassett Foundation The Chingos Foundation Connelly Foundation Department of Community and Economic Development Diamond Ice Foundation William B. Dietrich Foundation Exxon Mobil Corporation The J. Paul Getty Trust The Graham Foundation Mary B. and Alvin P. Gutman Fund Harrick Scientific The Hershey Corporation ING Foundation The Jordan-Evans Family Foundation Kadrovach-Duckworth Family Foundation The Hagop Kevorkian Fund Kolb Foundation Robert Leventhal Family Foundation Leon Levy Foundation

The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc. Christopher Ludwick Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fowler Merle-Smith Family Charitable Lead Trust The Morgan Family Foundation National Film Preservation Foundation The James H. Ottaway, Jr. Revocable Trust PECO, an Exelon Company Pew Center for Arts and Heritage The Philadelphia Cultural Fund PNC Foundation The PoGo Family Foundation, Inc. Luther I. Replogle Foundation The Riverbend Fund The Rockefeller Foundation SangKee Noodle House The Selz Foundation, Inc. Subaru of America Foundation Tiffany & Co. Wells Fargo Foundation Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation World Travel Service, LTD. The CB and SL Zimmerman Fund

Matching Gift Companies Aetna Life & Casualty Co. American Express Boeing Company Dow Chemical Company Elsevier Foundation Exxon Mobil Corporation The J. Paul Getty Trust Johnson & Johnson Lockheed Martin Corporation Merck Company Foundation PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP Time Warner, Inc. Wells Fargo Company

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In Memoriam Penn Museum acknowledges with great sadness the loss of the following volunteers and supporters during 2010–2011. We recognize their service and support with gratitude, and extend deepest condolences to their families.

Valla Amsterdam, ED’32 Mrs. Amsterdam was a longtime member of the Penn Museum’s Loren Eiseley Society. She and her late husband were great philanthropists, supporting many arts organizations in the Philadelphia area. She died on February 17, 2011, at the age of 100.

Ramon Garfinkel, C’46 Mr. Garfinkel and his late wife, Elaine, were supporters of the Penn Museum for many years. Elaine was a member of the Women’s Committee and founded our annual Peace around the World celebration. Mr. Garfinkel died on November 23, 2010, at the age of 85.

Warren F. Kamensky, Volunteer and Founder of the Euseba and Warren Kamensky NAGPRA Coordinator, American Section Mr. Kamensky began volunteering at the Museum in the 1980s after retiring from his career as a chemical engineer. He spent over 10 years of his time as a volunteer working on a reorganization project of American Section’s accession card system. He would often take work home, and his system is still used today. In June 2010, he endowed the position of NAGPRA Coordinator in the American Section in his and his late wife’s names. He died on April 8, 2011.

Lawrence R. Levan, G’51, PAR’79, Volunteer Mr. Levan received his master’s degree in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania. He was a longtime volunteer in the American Section where, drawing on his background in anthropology, with extensive research, he updated and created many bibliographies on specific cultures. Larry and his wife were also longtime members of the Museum’s Loren Eiseley Society. He died on February 22, 2011.

Bruce Nichols, President, Museum Catering Company Mr. Nichols was the President of Museum Catering Company, which ran the Café and catering services at the Penn Museum for over 25 years. Mr. Nichols died on November 30, 2010, at the age of 62.

Lynn Snyder, Volunteer Ms. Snyder was the main artist for the Women’s Committee’s Casting Program and served in this volunteer role for almost 20 years, creating an extraordinary variety of casts. She died on August 13, 2010, at the age of 81.

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Board of Overseers Penn Museum wishes to extend grateful thanks to the members of its Board of Overseers, who have collectively offered leadership and guidance for strategic initiatives through a period of immense transition, and individually provided enormous support through committee work, leadership of special projects, hosting events, friend- and fund-raising, and personal philanthropy. Board of Overseers 2010–2011

Photo by Brian Tierney

Michael J. Kowalski, Chairman Andrea M. Baldeck, M.D. Robert W. Bogle Samuel Brewer (ex-officio) David Brownlee, Ph.D. (ex-officio) Rebecca Bushnell, Ph.D. (ex-officio) Susan W. Catherwood (Chairman Emerita) David T. Clancy Carrie S. Cox Susan Frier Danilow, Esq. Michael Feng Luis Fernandez Criswell C. Gonzalez Peter Gould Ingrid A. Graham Mary Bert Gutman (Emerita) Amy Gutmann, Ph.D. (ex-officio) Zahi Hawass, Ph.D. Richard Hodges, Ph.D. (ex-officio) John C. Hover II (Chairman Emeritus) Stacey Rosner Lane, Esq. Diane von Schlegell Levy Gail Kamer Lieberfarb

Joseph E. Lundy, Esq. Bruce Mainwaring (Chairman Emeritus) Frederick J. Manning, Esq. Annette Merle-Smith (Emerita) Carlos L. Nottebohm Geraldine Paier, Ph.D. Vincent Price, Ph.D. (ex-officio) Barbara Rittenhouse (ex-officio) John R. Rockwell Eric J. Schoenberg, Ph.D. Bernard Selz Sara S. Senior (Chairman Emerita) Brian P. Tierney Gregory Annenberg Weingarten Jill Topkis Weiss Charles K. Williams II, Ph.D. (Emeritus) Nanou Zayan Honorary Members: Josephine Hueber

Brian P. Tierney A well known advertising and public relations executive, Brian Tierney is the founder and CEO of Brian Communications Group, and the former Publisher and CEO of Philadelphia Newspapers, publishers of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News. Throughout Mr. Tierney’s tenure on the Museum’s Board of Overseers, dating back to 2002, he has generously shared his public relations expertise and advanced a very productive relationship between the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Penn Museum, helping to bring about the Newspapers in Education supplements tied to several of the Museum’s exhibitions. Mr. Tierney and his wife Maud have been Loren Eiseley Society members, as well as supporters of the Jeremy A. Sabloff Endowment for the Keeper of the American Section. A University of Pennsylvania graduate, Mr. Tierney is a member of the Board of the Episcopal Academy and the Greater Philadelphia Tourism and Marketing Corporation, as well as an active supporter of Republican causes. As his term on its Board of Overseers concludes, the Penn Museum extends deepest thanks to Mr. Tierney for his advocacy, support and service.

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The Women’s Committee Founded in 1937, the Penn Museum Women’s Committee has made an extraordinary contribution to the Museum, initiating and running countless programs, many of which are now formally operated by Museum staff, and extending a warm welcome to visitors for almost 75 years. Its members remain among the Museum’s most active volunteers, and several programs remain directly under its sponsorship, including the Sunday afternoon “Meeters and Greeters” in which members welcome visitors to the galleries, archaeological tours, and special events. In 2010–2011, the Women’s Committee ran several highly successful special events, the pinnacle of which was a Gala Opening, on Wednesday, February 9, 2011, of the Penn Museum’s blockbuster exhibition Secrets of the Silk Road. Guests enjoyed a live auction, a raffle auction, entertainment from the Philadelphia Chinese Association Choral Group of Radnor, dinner by Wolfgang Puck Catering, and even a Chinese dragon performance by the Kung Fu Academy of Philadelphia. On Wednesday, November 17, 2010, the Women’s Committee hosted “Power Packing with Jane Carton, Fashion Cognoscente” at the Merion Cricket Club. Over 170 people attended the event, enjoying Jane Carton’s presentation, and a show of the season’s latest fashions in travel accessories. A variety of boutiques from the Main Line offered guests varied opportunities for gift shopping, and a raffle auction helped raise even more support for the Penn Museum. In October 2010, the Women’s Committee Travel Program hosted a tour of Berlin and Paris with Dr. David P. Silverman, Curatorin-Charge of the Egyptian Section. With Dr. Silverman as their expert guide, the group explored ancient treasures of the museums in both cities, including the painted bust of Queen Nefertiti, the Ishtar Gate, and contemporary installations in Berlin, and the Louvre and Musée Guimet in Paris. Penn Museum extends its deepest thanks to Barbara Rittenhouse, the Women’s Committee’s Chair; Secrets of the Silk Road Gala Opening Co-Chairs Susan Catherwood, Emmy Starr, and Schuy Wood; Luncheon Co-Chairs Beth Butler and Trudy Slade, and to all the members of the Women’s Committee for their untiring efforts to raise friends and funds. Their successful programs and events introduced many new friends, and their contributions supported, among other projects, professional development for Penn Museum staff, and the refurbishment and reinstallation of the Warden Garden doors, a project that has been decades in the making.

Williams Director Richard Hodges, Curatorial Consultant Victor Mair, and Gala Co-Chairs Schuy Wood (left) and Emmy Starr (right) admire the “dummy mummy” version of the Beauty of Xiaohe created by Ben Neiditz, and look forward to the installation of the real Beauty. Photo by Philadelphia Inquirer/Ron Tarver.

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Women’s Committee 2010–2011 Mrs. Joel Z. Bachman Mrs. Francis J. Bagnell Mrs. Michael Ballinger *Mrs. Robert R. Batt Mrs. Ann M. Beal **Mrs. George deB. Bell **Mrs. Josephine R. Bull **Mrs. McBee Butcher Mrs. John P. Butler III Mrs. Albert H. Caesar Mrs. Cummins Catherwood, Jr. Mrs. Edgar B. Coale Mrs. William L. Conrad Mrs. J. Robert Derr, Jr. **Ms. Maude de Schauensee *Mrs. A. Webster Dougherty, Jr. **Mrs. Louis Gerstley III Mrs. Stephen Goff *Mrs. Herman H. Goldstine **Ms. Criswell Gonzalez Mrs. Donald C. Graham *Mrs. G. Davis Greene, Jr. *Mrs. Alvin P. Gutman *Mrs. David B. Hastings *Mrs. Michael P. Heavener Mrs. Gregory A. Hillyard *Mrs. A. Scott Holmes Mrs. Edward K. Hueber Mrs. Patricia P. Hueber Mrs. Lawrence Johnson, Jr. *Mrs. John T. Kelly Ms. Pamela C. Keon Mrs. Bruce Kneeland

Mrs. Richard Lackman **Mrs. Francis A. Lewis Mrs. Douglas G. Lovell, Jr. **Mrs. Paul Todd Makler *Mrs. Raymond Marks Mrs. Joseph T. McDevitt Mrs. Robert E. McQuiston Mrs. Bernard Meyers **Mrs. Martin Meyerson Mrs. Stanley Muravchick **Mr. John T. Murray *Mrs. William L. Nassau Mrs. J. Barton Riley Mrs. Thomas S. Rittenhouse *Mrs. Ralph S. Saul Mrs. Donald A. Scott Mrs. Brian J. Siegel Mrs. Laird Slade Mrs. Karl Spaeth *Mrs. Herbert O. Sperry Mrs. Harold Starr Mrs. Lee E. Tabas **Mrs. Robert L. Trescher Mrs. Thomas S. Weary Mrs. James A. Weiss *Ms. Ellen Winn *Mrs. Richard E. Winston Mrs. Theodore V. Wood, Jr

Gala Co-Chair Susan Catherwood (right) with longtime docent, Women’s Committee member, and former Overseer Missy McQuiston, and Overseer and Chairman Emeritus John Hover. Photo by Philadelphia Inquirer/Ron Tarver.

*Associate Member **Honorary Member

Women’s Committee members (left to right) Rosa Meyers, Joanne Conrad, and Suchinda Heavener, with Bernard Meyers. Photo by Philadelphia Inquirer/Ron Tarver.

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Penn Museum Volunteers Program Since its beginnings in 1880s, the Museum has depended on volunteer help for many of its projects and much of its development. Today, more than 250 volunteers participate regularly, making important contributions to the public and research areas of the Museum. Some volunteers come in daily, and many have served for 20, 25, and 30 years! This year especially, we relied heavily on our volunteers to help us welcome over 42,000 visitors during the short six weeks that Secrets of the Silk Road was on display with the mummies and artifacts from China. They truly went above and beyond, logging extra hours during our expanded opening hours serving as greeters, docents, storytellers, and more. We are grateful to all of our volunteers for their generous contribution of time, talent, and energy to the Museum. At the annual Volunteer Luncheon, held in the Museum’s Upper Egyptian Gallery on April 11, 2011, Volunteer Coordinator Jane Nelson was pleased to recognize the following volunteers for special service.

Penn Museum Volunteers of the Year Award

Ethel J. David Ethel J. David has been a Penn Museum docent for over 25 years, giving tours in the Africa and Canaan and Ancient Israel permanent galleries, as well as a number of traveling or temporary exhibitions. In addition to her loyal work here, Ethel is also a volunteer with the Philadelphia International Visitors’ Center, president of the Camden County Medical Auxiliary, and founding president of the Jewish Geriatric Centers (now Lion’s Gate) in South Jersey. Ethel has always embraced this Museum and its mission with infectious enthusiasm.

Samuel Nash A longtime volunteer primarily in the Museum’s Applied Science Center for Archaeology (MASCA), one of the biggest of Sam’s many volunteer projects has been the analysis of metals from Ban Chiang. In the summer of 2010, he worked tirelessly to dismantle the Museum’s metallurgical lab and move his operations to another location in the Museum’s Academic Wing. Sam has worked very effectively with numerous students and is always gracious in extending help to colleagues. His work at the Museum has spawned numerous co-authored publications, with more reports waiting to be written and published. Penn Museum is deeply grateful to his work, which represents a major contribution to its research initiatives and to archaeological scholarship in general.

Forty Years of Service Award Nancy Hastings, Women’s Committee Thirty-Five Years of Service Award Mona Batt, Women’s Committee Caroline Nassau, Women’s Committee Twenty-Five Years of Service Award Josephine Hueber, Women’s Committee

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Twenty Years of Service Award Ethel J. David, Docent Ingrid Graham, Women’s Committee John Harris, American Section Margaret Lichtenstein, Mobile Guides Fifteen Years of Service Award Samuel Nash, MASCA Jeanne Scott, Women’s Committee Jean Walker, Egyptian Section

Penn Museum 2011 Volunteers of the Year Ethel J. David (right) and Sam Nash (center) with Williams Director Richard Hodges at the Volunteer Luncheon in the Upper Egypt Gallery. Photo by Pam Kosty.

Ten Years of Service Award Charlotte Byrd, Docent Paula Cramer, Mobile Guides Arlene Goldberg, Docent Marcia Goldberg, Mobile Guides Edward Hoy, Mobile Guides Pamela Keon, Women’s Committee Linda Lempert, Docent Dian Margolies, Mobile Guides Donald Todd, Docent


A group of the Penn Museum’s more than 250 volunteers gather outside the Warden Garden before the annual Volunteer Luncheon with Volunteer and Staffing Manager Jane Nelson (second row, left) and Williams Director Richard Hodges (front row, second from right). Photo by Pam Kosty.

Museum Volunteers 2010–2011 Victoria Abdel-Salam Beth Adelson Miriam Adler David Agyekum Sunny Ahn-Pardini Rosemarie Ake Lisa Albrecht Kathleen Anderson Barbara Anglisz Gwendolyn Anthony Rachel Applebaum Elena Aramini Sheree Aramini Benjamin Ashcom Drew Babin Joan Bachman Cheryl Baker Liesel Baker John Barry

Natalie Baur Narges Bayani Deanna Bell Michele Belluomini Daniel Benner Christine Biddle Linda Blowney Coralie Boeykens Anne Bomalaski Reyna Boyer Carole Brewer Elise Bromberg Barbara A. Bronstein Jennifer Brown John Brown Emma Buckingham Margaret Bullock Charlotte Byrd Connie Byrd Mary Campbell

Hannah Candido Melissa Carpenter Claire Casstevens Dan Cavanaugh David Chamberlin-Smith Milagros Chiri Victoria Chisholm Lisa Cid Victoria Collins Marion Constante Adrian Copeland Ellen Copeland Kristi Corrado Samantha Cox Paula Cramer Niki Crits Nick Crits-Christoph Sandra Cross Jimson Cuenta Karina Czoka

Elin Danien Danny Dannenbaum Ethel David Theodore Davidson James Dehullu Susan Denious Maude de Schauensee Stella Diakou Edythe Dixon Catherine Domanska Margaret Mary Downey Michael Doyle Anisa Droboniku Katie Eckert Zac Ernst Leonard Evelev Sharmin Farhana Eileen Farrell Michael Ferguson Andrew Fiddner

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Museum Volunteers 2010-2011 cont. Susannah Fishman James Flynn Bernadette Foley Elizabeth Fox Kate Fugett Bryn Fulmer Elsie Galloway William Gardner Kathryn Gash Lisa Gemmill Allyson Glazier Arlene Goldberg Marcia Goldberg Virginia Greene Kit Grundstein Holly Gunlefinger Imogen Gunn Kristi Gutknecht Michael Guyer Gretchen Hall Cornelia Handago Miranda Hansen-Hunt John Harris Joan Harrison Barbara Hayden Stephen Hecht Libby Hill Tiffany Holder Gwenilyn Hollins-Watson Joan Holmes Olivia Holten Tara Hornung Edward Hoy Leah Humphrey Mio Ito Betty Jefferson Cynthia John Esther Johnson Travis Johnson Theresa Joniec Jasmine Joseph-Morris Koraldo Kajanaku Asha Kapadia Patrice Karcher Jule Kauffman Jeane Kelly Ahmadzia Khurshid Bongsung Kim Mollie Kirk Marcia Klafter Zachary Kleinbart Vida Klemas Elpida Kohler Dao La Kelly Lauer Mary Casey Lawlor

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Richard Layton Alexandra Lee Robert Legnani Linda Lempert Dottie Leonard Marguerite Leone Marshall Lesack David Leslie Andrew Leventhal Janet Levitt Carly Lewis Margaret Lichtenstein Robert Lorndale Yuki Maeno Eugene Magee Lilia Margolies Dian Margolies Jordy Martino David Massey Marta Massoni Kenneth Mayall Larry McClenney Ann McCloskey David McCormick Mary McKee Audrei McKinney Richard McKinney Sara McManus Missy McQuiston Monique Melmed Cheryl-Grady Mercier Harold Meyer Rosa Meyers Rudy Michel Sue Miller Kate Morgan June Morse Barbara Moses Sandra Mosgo James Mueller Kathie Murphy Kevin Murphy John Murray Grace Muscarella Kara Naccarelli Nancy Naftulin Erin Nagyfy Mark Nakahara Samuel K. Nash Suzanne Naughton David Nelson Jeanette Nicewinter Adriane Nicolaisen Mary Nooney Jamie O’Connell Peter O’Donnell

Najah Palm Richard B. Palmer Robert Pascucci Esther Payne Sophia Perlman Lia Petrozziello Ladorna Pfaff Matthew Pihokker Irene Plantholt Philip Plourde Susan Pond Alisha Porter Elizabeth Potens Kate Pourshariati Shapoor Pourshariati Richard D. Pratt Irving Ratner Geri Ratner Lifshey Sarah Reidell Thomas O. Richey T. Wayne Roberts Francisco Rodriguez Christine Romano Lawrence Rosen Phyllis Rosenthal Michael Rubenstein Zachary Rubin Heather Saeger Wafeek Saleh Neil Scheinin William Schenck Rosemary Schier M. Camille Schwartz Maxine Schwartz Dallas Scott Donald Scott Nancy Scott Sheldon Seligsohn Angelea Selleck Joan Settle Ming Shao Rachel Sherman-Presser Erica Shockley Joan Sickler Rebecca Silver Renee Simmons Janet Simon Terese Skelly Maureen Skorupa Autherine Smith David Smith Lynn Smith Ruth E. Smith Jacqueline Sokoloff Lawrence Sokoloff Matthew Sommer

Jamie Soo Thomas Stanley Alyson Stawicki Melissa Steb Nathan Stern Joseph Stevenson Shane Steward Megan Stillman Oris Stuart Rosemarie Stuart Bei Tang Jamie Teich Leota Terry Kathy Teszner Joan Thomas Christopher Tighe Donald Todd Denise Tolliver Christine Tourville Caitlin Ulmer Beth Vanhorn Kathryn Venzor Nathalie Verma Eileen Vote Elizabeth (Jean) Walker Kathleen Wall William Wallis Jessica Walthew Ayman Warasneh Margaret Wehmeyer Barbara Weiner Quinn Werner Jennifer Whinney Joan Wider Helen Winston Ken Wissler Elena Yandola Gerry Zipf Linda Zuino Edwina M. Zujewskyj


Director’s Council

Young Friends of the Penn Museum

Established in the fall of 2009, the Director’s Council is a volunteer group of professionals and culturally active individuals with a passion for furthering the mission of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Chaired by Peter Gould, the Director’s Council serves as an advisory group to the Williams Director and management team, formed to debate and offer suggestions on an issue of strategic importance to the Museum at each semiannual meeting. The group includes members from New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC.

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, planned and executed in conjunction with the Museum’s events and membership offices by a Young Friends Board.

In 2010–2011, two new members joined the Director’s Council: Diane Dalto and Linda Descano. The October 2010 meeting focused on building a sustainable museum over the next 10 years within a forecasted climate of enormous challenges for arts and culture institutions. At its April 2011 meeting, the Council joined with student leaders of several Penn groups to discuss how to better engage the Penn student community with the Museum. Penn Museum is deeply grateful to Chairman Peter Gould and the following members of the Director’s Council for their service in 2010–2011:

During 2010–2011, the Young Friends planned, solicited sponsorships and gifts, and hosted two enormously popular events. At Vampires, Demons, and Mystical Creatures of the Ancient World, in October 2010, Dr. Jennifer Wegner, Associate Curator, Egyptian Section, and Dr. Peter Struck, Associate Professor of Classical Studies, explored the origins of the vampire hype long before Twilight, True Blood, and even Dracula, after which guests enjoyed cocktails at the opening of the Museum’s FANG! The Killing Tooth exhibition, curated by Dr. Janet Monge. In February 2011, guest lecturer Dr. Nicholas Rauh, Professor of Classics, Purdue University, discussed the archaeological evidence for prostitution in ancient trading ports in Prostitution Ancient and Modern: A Tell-All Confession. Special thanks to event chairs Bethany Schell and Sara Castillo (October) and Judith Barr (February). Young Friends Board 2010–2011

Jean G. Bronstein Lawrence S. Coben Diane Dalto Linda Descano Lisa Gemmill Naomi Grabel Phyllis Shearer Jones Harvey Kimmel Andrea R. Kramer, Esq. John J. Medveckis Adolf Paier George R. Pitts, Ph.D. J. Barton Riley Douglas C. Walker

Frances Emmeline Babb, Esq. Judith Barr Samuel S. Brewer Sara Castillo Benjamin M.C. Goldstein, Esq. Abigail Green Lisa A. Johns Kelly M. Johnson La Vida A. Johnson

Allison J. Levy, Esq. Nathan K. Raab Karen Pearlman Raab Bethany R. Schell Jennifer Toll Schulman, Esq. Nicole Stach, Esq. Brendan Tuttle, Ph.D. S. Phineas Upham, Ph.D. Olga Y. Wayne, Esq.

Young Friends enjoy cocktail receptions in the Lower Egypt Gallery following Dr. Nicholas Rauh’s talk on Prostitution Ancient and Modern. Photo by Lauren Hansen-Flaschen.

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Penn Museum Advisory Board In 2010–2011, the Penn Museum Advisory Board welcomed five new members—George Gephart, Jr., Derek Gillman, Jane Golden, Paul Levy, and Sueyen Locks—who joined returning members at the Board’s March 2011 meeting in a lively discussion around future collaborative possibilities, looking toward the Museum’s 125th Anniversary in 2012, in particular. Penn Museum thanks Dr. David Brownlee, Chairman, and the members of the Board for their suggestions and their advocacy throughout the year.

Penn Museum Advisory Board 2010–2011 David B. Brownlee Chairman, Shapiro-Weitzenhoffer Professor of the History of Art, 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 Terry Gillen Executive Director, Redevelopment Authority, City of Philadelphia Derek Gillman Executive Director and President, The Barnes Foundation Eduardo D. Glandt Robert D. Bent Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania Susan Glassman Director, Wagner Free Institute Jane Golden Executive Director, City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program Paul R. Levy President & CEO, Center City District Walter Licht Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History and Civic House Faculty Adviser, University of Pennsylvania Sueyen Locks Director, Locks Gallery 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 Gary Steuer Chief Cultural Officer, Office of the Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy, City of Philadelphia

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Penn Museum Staff Office of the Director Richard Hodges, Ph.D. The Williams Director Robert H. Dyson, Jr., Ph.D. Director Emeritus Jeremy A. Sabloff, Ph.D. Director Emeritus Melissa P. Smith, CFA Chief Operating Officer 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 Jane Hickman, Ph.D. Special Assistant for Museum Programs

Bea Jarocha-Ernst Membership & Annual Giving Coordinator

Archives Alessandro Pezzati Senior Archivist Eric Schnittke Assistant Archivist Maureen Goldsmith Rights and Reproductions Coordinator

Exhibits Kate Quinn Director of Exhibits, Lead Exhibit Designer Tara Poag Exhibit Project Manager Mary Anne Casey Exhibit Graphic Designer Allison Francies Exhibit Developer Kevin Schott Exhibit Developer Aaron Billheimer Exhibit Technician Benjamin Neiditz Exhibit Fabricator Courtney O’Brien Exhibit Assistant

Building Operations Brian McDevitt Director of Building Operations William Stebbins Chief Custodial Supervisor Edgardo Esteves Mechanical Supervisor Michael Burin Night Events Supervisor David Young Mechanical Supervisor Business Office Alan Waldt Associate Director for Administration Mary Dobson Financial Coordinator Linda Halkins Administrative Assistant Matthew MacGregor Administrative Assistant Veronica Sewell Administrative Assistant Community Engagement Jean Byrne Merle-Smith Director of Community Engagement Tena Thomason Assistant Director, Special Events Prema Deshmukh Outreach Programs Manager Erin Jensen School Programs Manager Jane Nelson Volunteer and Staffing Manager Jennifer Reifsteck Family Programs Manager Kristin Hoeberlein Administrative Assistant, Community Engagement Rachelle Kaspin Administrative Assistant, Special Events 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 Assistant Conservator Development Amanda Mitchell-Boyask Director of Development Therese Marmion Major Gifts Officer Christine Fox Corporate and Foundation Officer Emily Goldsleger Assistant Director, Membership & Annual Giving Lisa Batt Administrative Coordinator

Digital Media Center James R. Mathieu, Ph.D. Director of Digital Media Jennifer Bornstein Grants and Resource Coordinator Michael Condiff Web Developer Amy Ellsworth Digital Media Developer Francine Sarin Head Photographer Jennifer Chiappardi Assistant Photographer

Facility Rentals Atiya German Facility Rentals Manager Rachel Sanders Facility Rentals Coordinator Public Relations Pam E. Kosty Public Relations Director Darien Sutton Public Relations Assistant Publications James R. Mathieu, Ph.D. Director of Publications Jennifer Quick Senior Editor Jane Hickman, Ph.D. Editor Expedition Maureen Goldsmith Administrative Coordinator Registrar Office Xiuqin Zhou, Ph.D. Senior Registrar Chrisso Boulis Registrar, Records Tara Kowalski Registrar, Loans Robert Thurlow Traveling Exhibits Coordinator Scott Williams Database Administrator Student Programs Loa P. Traxler, Ph.D. Mellon Associate Deputy Director Elizabeth Heaney Assistant for Student Programs Visitor Services Conor Hepp Director of Visitor Services Bonnie Crosfield Receptionist, Kress Entrance Darius Jones Receptionist, Main Entrance Cynthia Whybark Visitor Services Supervisor Deanna Bell Visitor Services Receptionist Deja Wolf Visitor Services Receptionist Katherine Wong-Thorburn Group Tours Assistant Women’s Committee Barbara Rittenhouse Chair Anna Gniotek Administrative Assistant

Curatorial Sections African Section Dwaune Latimer Friendly Keeper of Collections American Section Robert W. Preucel, Ph.D. Weingarten Curator Richard M. Leventhal, Ph.D. Curator Clark L. Erickson, Ph.D. Associate Curator Simon Martin Associate Curator Lucy Fowler Williams, Ph.D. Sabloff Keeper of Collections William Wierzbowski Associate Keeper Stacey Espenlaub Kamensky NAGPRA Project Coordinator Asian Section Nancy Steinhardt, Ph.D. Curator Joyce C. White, Ph.D. Associate Curator Marie-Claude Boileau, Ph.D. Research Associate, Ban Chiang Elizabeth Hamilton, Ph.D. Research Coordinator, Ban Chiang Stephen Lang Lyons Keeper of Collections Babylonian Section Stephen J. Tinney, Ph.D. Associate Curator Grant Frame, Ph.D. Associate Curator Egyptian Section David P. Silverman, Ph.D. Curator Jennifer Houser Wegner, Ph.D. Associate Curator Josef W. Wegner, Ph.D. Associate Curator European Archaeology Section Harold L. Dibble, Ph.D. Curator Historical Archaeology Section Robert L. Schuyler, Ph.D. Associate Curator Mediterranean Section C. Brian Rose, Ph.D. Curator Ann Blair Brownlee, Ph.D. Associate Curator David G. Romano, Ph.D. Research Project Manager Lynn Makowsky DeVries Keeper of Collections Gareth Darbyshire, Ph.D. Gordion Archivist Near East Section Richard L. Zettler, Ph.D. Associate Curator Renata Holod, Ph.D. Curator Holly Pittman, Ph.D. Curator Brian J. Spooner, D.Phil. Curator Philip Jones, Ph.D. Associate Curator Lauren Ristvet, Ph.D. Dyson Assistant Curator Oceanian Section Adria Katz Fassitt/Fuller Keeper of Collections Physical Anthropology Section Janet M. Monge, Ph.D. Associate Curator and Keeper of Collections

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