Penn Museum 2013/2014 Annual Report

2013–2014 Annual Report

3 EXECUTIVE MESSAGE

5 A STRATEGIC VISION

7 THE YEAR IN REVIEW

8 PENN MUSEUM 2013–2014: BY THE NUMBERS

12 PENN MUSEUM 2013–2014: BY THE MONTH 28 PENN MUSEUM 2013–2014: BY THE GEOGRAPHY 29 Teaching and Research: Student, Curator, and Consulting Scholar Field Projects 31 Gordion Archaeological Project (Turkey) — Historical Landscape Preservation at Gordion

— Gordion Heritage Educational Project

33 Rowanduz Archaeological Program (Iraqi Kurdistan) 35 Naxçivan Archaeological Project (Azerbaijan) 37 Defining the Early Kings of the Abydos Dynasty (Egypt) 38 Decoding the Swahili (Coastal Kenya) 39 Silver Reef Project (Utah, U.S.) 40 On the Wampum Trail: Restorative Research in North American Museums (North America) 41 The Caste War of the Yucatan: The Tihosuco Community Preservation and Development Project (Mexico) 42 Collections: New Acquisitions 46 Collections: Traveling Exhibitions and Outgoing Loans 49 SUPPORTING THE MISSION 50 Statement of Fiscal Year Activity 52 Leadership Gifts 58 Building Transformation Gifts Objects on the cover, inside cover, and at right are currently

60 Gifts in Support of Scholarly Programs 62 Gifts in Support of Visitor Programs

on or slated for future display in

64 Loren Eiseley Society

the exhibition Native American

66 The Expedition Circle

Voices: The People—Here and Now, opened March 1, 2014. On the Cover: Basket, Object Number NA8264,

68 The Annual Fund and Adopt-an-Artifact 70 Corporate, Foundation, and Government Agency Supporters 72 Sara Yorke Stevenson Legacy Circle

Pomo, California. At right: Bowl Fragment, Object Number 22982, Mesa Verde, CO, ca.

1200–1300 CE. Information on the objects at left, and all objects in the exhibition, can be found at www.penn.museum/ sites/nativeamericanvoices/ Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6324 ©2015 University of Pennsylvania.

All rights reserved.

75 THE GIFT OF TIME 76 Exhibition Advisors and Contributors 78 Penn Museum Volunteers 80 The Women’s Committee 82 Board of Overseers 84 Director’s Council 85 Penn Museum Advisory Board 86 Young Friends Board of the Penn Museum 87 In Memoriam 88 Curatorial Sections and Museum Centers 90 Penn Museum Departmental Staff 2013-2014

2013–2014 Annual Report

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Mike Kowalski and Julian Siggers in the Rotunda, with one of a pair of colossal stone qilins, object number C657, from Henan Province, China, 4th or 5th century CE.

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Executive Message

LIKE THE UNIVERSITY of Pennsylvania as a whole, the Penn Museum is a place of continual discovery. The challenge confronting authors of an annual report such as this is not so much the labor required to seek out discoveries—everywhere they are evident—but rather to curate them in a way that conveys the extraordinary range of research, teaching, exhibitions, publications, and programs that take place. In the pages that follow, we hope you enjoy reading about the Penn Museum “by the numbers,” “by the geography,” and “by the month”—all useful rubrics with which to organize a tremendous quantity of detail about the past year’s activities. By nearly any quantitative or qualitative measure, it was a tremendous year for the Penn Museum.

The following examples are presented to illustrate the breadth of our progress across our strategic priorities and whet your appetite for what follows; as you will discover by reading this annual report, they are by no means an exhaustive list.

The exhibition Native American Voices: The People—Here and Now opened in March 2014, following years of content development in close collaboration with more than 80 Native American advisors and contributors. Through old and new objects, video and audio recordings, and digital interactive opportunities, this exhibition allows visitors to develop a new understanding of the original inhabitants of this land, as told through their own voices.

This past year’s fieldwork led to some exciting discoveries, including the tomb of the previously unknown pharaoh, king Woseribre-Senebkay (ca. 1650 BCE), unearthed in Abydos, Egypt. No doubt more surprises like the discovery of Senebkay are in store from our researchers’ work around the globe, but sometimes the best archaeological discoveries aren’t made in the field. The Penn Museum made international news this past summer when scientists “re-discovered” an important find in our collections storage—a complete human skeleton about 6,500 years old. The mystery skeleton had been stored for 85 years, all trace of its identifying documentation gone. A grant-funded project to digitize old records from Sir Leonard Woolley’s Ur excavations brought that documentation, and the history of the skeleton, back to light. Visitors were invited to see the skeleton undergo conservation in our In the Artifact Lab exhibition, and more discoveries await.

From the archives to conflict zones, the Penn Museum plays an important role in protecting cultural heritage in some of the world’s most dangerous places. When a Syrian scholar recently fled to the United States and asked for help protecting her country’s cultural heritage, the Penn Cultural Heritage Center worked with other partnering organizations to create an emergency program. The collaborators’ first effort was to develop a workshop in southern Turkey, bringing together individuals from Syria who were collecting

information on the ground or trying to safeguard collections.

We hope to continue to offer training and guidance about the treatment of museum collections in emergency situations in concert with those most immediately impacted.

Closer to home, the Penn Museum embarked on a unique and exciting partnership with the School District of Philadelphia, the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP), and Mastery Charter School called Unpacking the Past. With the support of a GRoW Annenberg Foundation challenge grant and the ambition of reaching every seventh-grade student in the School District of Philadelphia, this FREE three-year program connects classrooms studying ancient Egypt or Rome with the world-renowned collections and teaching resources of the Penn Museum. Unpacking the Past takes a comprehensive approach to ensure that the experiences of both the students and the teachers are academically enriching and connected to the School District’s Scope and Sequence, Common Core curriculum, and 21st-century skills.

Thanks to a magnificent gift from Bruce and Peggy Mainwaring, this year also marked the renovation and complete refitting of our conservation labs and a new suite of teaching labs, while a faculty steering committee guided the development of the new Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials (CAAM), a joint endeavor between the Penn Museum and the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Arts and Sciences (SAS) now based in the completed labs. CAAM offers the facilities, materials, equipment, and expert personnel to teach and mentor students in a range of scientific techniques crucial to archaeologists and other scholars as they seek to interpret the past in an interdisciplinary context that links the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities.

We are delighted to acknowledge the significant progress that we have made in all four areas of our mandate— research, teaching, collections stewardship, and public engagement. But lest we dally too long, we should not forget that the next discovery may be right around the corner, or just over the horizon, or taking place in our galleries or classrooms at this very moment. We hope you are as excited as we are to see what lies in store for the year to come. And we deeply appreciate your many contributions of time, talent, and financial resources that have brought us this far.

Michael J. Kowalski

Julian Siggers, Ph.D.

Chairman

Williams Director

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A Strategic Vision

GRoW Annenberg Program Educator Jenny Leibert uses the iconic sphinx of Ramses II in the lower of the Penn Museum’s Egyptian Galleries to bring ancient Egypt alive for students of the John Story Jenks

Photo by Penn Museum

School, May 2014.

signature galleries are fundamental to fulfilling our obligation FEW INSTITUTIONS in the world possess collections as to diffuse knowledge to the varied and diverse communities significant as those of the Penn Museum, collections that that we serve. These communities include, but are not span nearly all of human existence. These physical resources limited to the University’s academic community; indeed, they are matched by an equally illustrious history of outstanding reach far beyond our ivy-covered walls. We must strive, like research and scholarship that spans more than 127 years, the University as a whole, to be innovative, impactful, and and the benefits that come with being a part of one of the world’s great universities. As inheritors of this legacy, it is our inclusive.

As we undertake the renovation and reinstallation of our mandate to steward our extraordinary assets for the benefit signature Egyptian, Near Eastern, and Asian galleries our of the public that we serve and for future generations. physical transformation will be quite evident. Much loved It is perhaps difficult to envision the Penn Museum at its installations will give way to new interpretive strategies. founding in 1887, when as a nascent organization so much Well-trod paths through the galleries will be re-envisioned of its promise was the unrealized ambition of a community of dedicated scholars and supporters.

Nearly coincident with the Penn Museum’s genesis, the then-Assistant Secretary of the The museum of the future must stand side by side with Smithsonian Institution, G. Brown Goode, the library and the laboratory, as a part of the teaching challenged the international museum equipment of the college and university… as one of the community with his influential lecture “Museums of the Future” in 1891: principal agencies for the enlightenment of people.

“The museum of the past must be set aside, reconstructed, transformed from a with improved access by means of ramps and new elevators. cemetery of bric-a-brac into a nursery of living thoughts.

It is entirely reasonable to ask, what is the end goal of all this The museum of the future must stand side by side with destructive, expensive, and no doubt dusty, transformation? the library and the laboratory, as a part of the teaching Our final aim, surely, is not merely to transform the physical equipment of the college and university… as one of the “stuff” of the Penn Museum’s building and collections. principal agencies for the enlightenment of people.”

The benefits of our ambitious plan are manifold and The Penn Museum’s founders and those who have come are critical for accomplishing the less visible, yet more before us, perhaps inspired by Goode’s adjuration, cemented fundamental, transformation that our mission demands. We the Museum’s reputation as one of the great archaeological will mitigate the fluctuating environmental conditions in institutions in the world. For this we owe a great debt. many of our galleries that have potentially adverse effects on Recent evidence of the Museum’s uncompromising drive our collections and negatively impact the quality of visitor towards excellence includes the Mainwaring Wing, the “Big experiences. We will be able to see old material in a new Dig,” and most recently the opening of the new Center light, infused with innovative research in the field and in our for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials. CAAM, as labs. And we will continue our tradition of inclusive public it is known, is not merely a physical space but a series of engagement, exhibitions, and programs. The transformation laboratories and classrooms supported by faculty and new with which we are most concerned will take place not teaching specialists, and programming that will continue to within our walls, but within the minds of tomorrow’s shape the growth, evolution, and maturation of the Penn students, visitors, and scholars.

Museum and the university community that it serves.

Together, we can ensure that our galleries are welcoming, Assistant Secretary Goode’s most famous and oft-quoted our collections well cared for, and the full breadth of our utterance remains true: “A finished museum is a dead resources accessible for the widest possible audience. The museum, and a dead museum is a useless museum.” And so, Penn Museum cannot be a museum of the past. Rather, even as we acknowledge the tremendous accomplishments because we continue to pursue vigorously our mission of of our past, we cannot rest. Many of the Penn Museum’s transforming understanding of the human experience, we signature galleries have been left untouched for decades, so aspire to be, in Goode’s words, a “museum of the future” and we must now turn our attention to these to ensure the same “a nursery of living thoughts”. This is our vision. high standards that are elsewhere evident in our work— collections, teaching, exhibitions, programming, research and fieldwork, and publications.

The Penn Museum’s mission of transforming understanding of the human experience demands not just the discovery and creation of new knowledge, but also its diffusion. The design, execution, and content of our

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THE YEAR IN REVIEW WITH ROUGHLY ONE MILLION OBJECTS in our care, the Penn Museum encapsulates and illustrates the human story: who we are and where we came from. As a dynamic research institution with many ongoing research projects, the Museum is a vibrant and engaging place of continual discovery, through which myriad activities take place each year under the four “pillars” of what we do—research, teaching,

THE YEAR IN collections stewardship, and public engagement. The following pages offer a brief snapshot of those activities in 2013–2014.

The Headdress, Hair Comb, Jewelry, Beaded Cape, and Belt of Queen Puabi. Ur, Iraq, ca. 2600 BCE. From the Royal Tombs of Ur, excavated 1922–1934 by C. Leonard Woolley for the Penn Museum and the British Museum.

AT THE MUSEUM

PENN MUSEUM 2013–2014: BY THE NUMBERS

PUBLIC VISITORS AND PROGRAMS

147,607

Total visitors

37,258

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

15,272

People who attended one of over 125 public lectures, film screenings, family or other public events

2,267 Penn Museum members who used their free admission to visit

PENN STUDENTS AND VISITING SCHOLARS

2,496

Artifacts used for classes and student research

575+

Hours spent looking through microscopes by students in the Penn Museum Ceramics Lab

206

Outside research visits from scholars

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476 People who attended Heritage talks sponsored by the Penn Cultural Heritage Center

193 Penn class visits to the Collections Study Room, storage, and galleries

68 Penn students who took courses on cultural heritage and community preservation during the 2013–2014 academic year

ARTIFACTS

336,636

Artifact records available through the Penn Museum Online Collection

by June 30, 2014

K-12 AND OUTREACH AUDIENCES

27,779

Total Learning Programs attendance: in-house, outreach, and teacher professional development

7,794

School children taking self-guided tours

7,490

Student hands participating in Penn Museum HANDS-ON, onsite interactive workshops

5,418 Students served by the International Classroom Program

240 Blind and visually impaired individuals served through Penn Museum Touch Tours

18,131

Reflectance transformation images (RTI) taken of the Buddhist murals in the Rotunda as part of a conservation treatment survey

7,465

Photos taken of 1,344 ceramic vessels from Ur examined through the Ur Digitization Project

4,105 Open window visits at In the Artifact Lab: Conserving Egyptian Mummies (averaging 80 per week or 13 per day)

2,872 Artifacts surveyed for conservation condition, of which 518 received active conservation treatment

OUT IN THE WORLD

DIGITAL VISITORS

775,840 RESEARCH AND LEARNING PROGRAMS

4,290

K-12 students served through the Distance Learning program in three countries and 15 states

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Volunteers around the world who transcribed almost 1,500 pages of archival documents from the famous Ur excavations, now available online to scholars and the general public

Unique visitors to the Penn Museum website

520,190

Views to the Penn Museum YouTube channel

28,320

Page views to the In the Artifact Lab blog

11,355 Facebook followers by June 30, 2014

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Penn students performing summer fieldwork in 17 countries

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Lectures for schools and community groups given by just one of Penn Museum’s Outreach Speakers, Dr. Stephen Phillips, in libraries, community centers, and retirement communities in 13 Pennsylvania counties and two states

14 Archaeological and anthropological new and ongoing research projects seed-funded by the Penn Museum Director’s Field Fund

800 @pennmuseum Instagram followers

by June 30, 2014, with 72 likes of most popular post, a proposal in the Egypt (Sphinx) Gallery (she said yes!)

ACTIVITIES OF ONE PENN MUSEUM CURATOR (PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY ASSOCIATE CURATOR-IN-CHARGE JANET MONGE)

29,312

Miles flown one way for work

CULTURAL HERITAGE

1,554

Ancient sites in Jordan and Syria assessed by the Penn Cultural Heritage Center for damage by study of satellite imagery

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Tribal Nations represented in the new exhibition Native American Voices: The People—Here and Now

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5,400

CT scans of the skeletal collection completed

722

Fossil human casts made and distributed globally

25 Scholarly papers on mummies edited for global publication

Tribes corresponded with across the United States by the Penn Museum NAGPRA Office

19 Countries assisted by the Penn CHC in the preservation of heritage

7 Buckets of obsidian collected by the Butte Valley Indian community for Culture Days presented by the Penn Cultural Heritage Center

2 Murders in the City of Philadelphia solved in partnership with Philadelphia Police

PENN MUSEUM 2013–2014: BY THE MONTH

JULY 1

July 2013 1

The Penn Museum and the British Museum announce the collaborative digital project “Ur of the Chaldees: A Virtual Exploration of Woolley’s Excavations,” with lead funding from the Leon Levy Foundation.

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Anthropologists in the Making Summer Camp opens, offering eight themed weekly programs for children ages 7 through 13, beginning with the theme “Growing Up through the Ages.”

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Native Nations Dance Theater launches the 2013 Summer Wonders series of weekly morning offerings of culture through dance, music, and storytelling.

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Latin ensemble Magdaliz and Her Trio Crisol offers Puerto Rican boleros, Cuban sones, Mexican mariachi music, Colombian combias, and Dominican merengues in a lively PM@Penn Museum Summer Nights concert in the Stoner Courtyard.

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Summer Wonders visitors are transported to a world where gods and heroes walk side by side in Tom Lee’s presentation of the ancient Mesopotamian tale “Marduk and the Creation.”

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Zydeco-A-Go-Go’s Cajun 2-step has visitors dancing in the courtyard at Summer Nights.

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Mock Turtle Marionette Theater’s shadow puppets lead the Summer Wonders audience on a journey through China, Africa, Ireland, and Bali, with Gamelan Mekar Sari.

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The energy is dialed up to high with The Urban Shamans’ Afro-beat, hip-hop, and reggae at Summer Nights.

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Summer Wonders young visitors travel through time and space with Family Stages, to join Howard Carter in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings, and share the thrill of discovery of the tomb of King Tut.

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Excitement and energy are high in the Stoner Courtyard with Cold Blue Electric’s jazz/fusion at Summer Nights.

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Penn Museum members are armchair travelers in a Virtual Excavation Visit to Gordion, Turkey: Dr. C. Brian Rose, Ferry Curator-in-Charge of the Mediterranean Section, shares current work on the site live by Skype and takes questions from members gathered in the Widener Lecture Room.

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Charlotte Blake Alston mesmerizes Summer Wonders visitors with Stories and Songs in the Oral Tradition, a program of contemporary and ancient tales.

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Visitors celebrate the spirit of the Beatles with an energetic live show from Newspaper Taxis at Summer Nights.

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Summer Wonders audiences swing Heracles’ huge olive wood club at the Nemean Lion and search for Atalanta’s golden apples in an interactive presentation by A Day with Ancient Greece.

7 The Summer Nights focus is closer to home with Pennsylvania-bred Kalob Griffin Band’s Americana rock and rollers.

14 In Summer Wonders, Mary Knysh presents Medieval Feast, an exploration of everyday life in the Middle Ages through music.

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Harrisburg Mandolin Ensemble fills the Stoner Courtyard with sweet string sounds at Summer Nights.

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Hollywood in the Amazon, a special exhibition developed as part of the University of Pennsylvania’s 2013–14 Year of Sound, opens centered around the world’s first soundsynced expeditionary film, shot during a 1931 Penn Museum expedition to a remote Amazonian jungle. The film, Matto Grosso, is released the same day by the Museum Archives.

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s powerful message of peace and justice for all is celebrated at the final 2013 Summer Wonders program with Linda Humes.

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A lively crowd dances in the Stoner Courtyard to the popular West Philadelphia Orchestra’s propulsive rhythms of Eastern Europe at Summer Nights.

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A Penn Museum members’ Virtual Excavation Visit allows members to explore the “Land of Idu Project” in Satu Qala in Iraqi Kurdistan with Dr. Lauren Ristvet, Dyson Assistant Curator, Near East Section, and her graduate students.

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More than 2,000 Penn freshman don ancient Roman attire and explore the Museum’s galleries and gardens in the annual Toga Party, a staple of the freshman orientation experience.

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The Middle East comes to Stoner Courtyard as percussionist Joe Tayoun and his Mid-East Ensemble perform Arabic, Turkish, and Armenian music at Summer Nights.

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Philadelphia-based Afro-Cuban and West African drumming ensemble Leana Song presents a unique blend of traditional call-and-response patterned Yoruba songs with modern folk and jazz instruments at Summer Nights.

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Young visitors write their names in hieroglyphs and become instant royalty in Golden Cartouches, the first 2013–2014 Family Second Sunday Workshop.

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Summer Nights in the Stoner Courtyard draw to a close as The Irish pub band The Boyler Boys get visitors dancing one more time.

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The newly formed Faculty Steering Committee of the Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials (CAAM) holds its first meeting chaired by CAAM Director and Museum Deputy Director Stephen J. Tinney.

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In the first of two 2013–2014 Douglas G. Lovell, Jr. “Reports from the Field,” Penn Museum Curators Dr. C. Brian Rose and Dr. Josef Wegner share news of their respective summer fieldwork seasons at Gordion, Turkey, and Abydos, Egypt.

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Dr. Jeffrey Fentress, San Francisco State University, discusses “An Historic Repatriation: The Return of Native American Baskets in California” in a Brown Bag Lecture presented by the Penn Cultural Heritage Center.

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An afternoon of Turkish Delight! A Celebration and Exploration of the Republic of Turkey marks the first 2013–2014 World Culture Day.

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Blind and visually impaired visitors enjoy hands-on exploration of stone artifacts in the Egyptian Galleries in the first program of the Fall 2013 season of Touch Tours for the Blind.

13/14 The Penn Museum hosts three performances of the 2013 FringeArts program Jennifer the Unspecial: Time Travel, Love Potions, and 8th Grade, an award-winning new musical.

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Architectural photographer Joseph Elliott begins creating high resolution images of the two magnificent Chinese Buddhist murals in the Rotunda, the first step in a Photography and Survey Phase to inform a Conservation Treatment Plan for the iconic works.

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The Penn Museum’s youngest visitors and their favorite grownups explore the Egyptian Galleries through stories, crafts, and play in a Young Family Workshop Gallery Romp, repeating on October 26.

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Dr. Eugene Cruz-Aribe, Indiana University East, lectures on the ancient Egyptian god Seth, in an Afternoon Lecture “Seth, Evil God of Power and Might” sponsored by the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE-PA) and the Philadelphia Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA).

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Dr. John Dobbins, University of Virginia, speaks about the remarkable Alexander Mosaic from the House of Faun at Pompeii in an Evening Lecture sponsored by the AIA Philadelphia Chapter.

10 The Penn Museum Archives take advantage of projection equipment from the early 1900s in the old auditorium at the Wagner Free Institute of Science, presenting Katharine Gordon Breed’s hand-colored glass slides from Furness, Harrison, and Hiller’s 1896–1901 travels to Borneo, Japan, and Southeast Asia, in a Lantern Slide Salon.

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Rich Medina and The Marksmen headline an evening of energetic music and dance at Jump’n Funk, a late-night Young Professionals Event.

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Second Sunday Film Series presents Maestra (2011), a documentary on the Cuban Literacy Campaign of 1961, while young visitors craft owl puppets and learn about the goddess Athena in a Family Second Sunday Workshop.

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The epic, evolving story of Africa today is presented in conjunction with the Penn Museum exhibition Black Bodies in Propaganda: The Art of the War Poster in a Penn Premiere Film Screening of the feature-length documentary African Independence by Dr. Tukufu Zuberi, Penn Professor and PBS’ History Detectives host, co-sponsored by the Penn Center for Africana Studies.

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Young professionals brave tales of death and mystery surrounding the exploration of the tomb of King Tut from Dr. David Silverman, Curator-in-Charge, Egyptian Section, in the Young Friends Halloween Event.

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Penn Graduate Student Junior Fellows share updates on their work with Senior Fellows and alumni at the Annual Meeting of the Louis J. Kolb Society of Fellows.

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Dr. Adam Smith, Assistant Curator, Asian Section, leads visitors on the first in a monthly series of Great Voyages, lecturing on “The Voyages of the Chinese Explorer Zheng He,” while Quizzo returned to the Penn Museum Pepper Mill Café for First Wednesdays.

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Dr. Sara Byala, of Penn’s Critical Writing Program, shares a little-known story of MuseumAfrica in Johannesburg in an Afternoon Lecture “A Place that Matters Yet: South Africa’s MuseumAfrica in the Postcolonial World,” presented by the Penn Cultural Heritage Center.

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More than 1,000 international students from colleges and universities throughout the region enjoy the 44th Annual International Students & Scholars Reception.

7 An extraordinary gift from A. Bruce and Margaret Mainwaring completed funding for the West Wing Conservation and Teaching Lab Renovation Project, allowing the Penn Museum to work with the University to renovate the labs in Summer 2014.

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The Penn Museum’s popular 40 Winks with the Sphinx sleepover program offers intrepid explorers aged 6-12 and their chaperones scavenger hunts and flashlight tours in the first of 10 events in 2013–2014.

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The Penn Museum’s Hijinx with the Sphinx celebrates the 100th anniversary of the arrival of its beloved giant granite sphinx from Memphis, Egypt, in a series of events on National Archaeology Day including afternoon lectures from Associate Curators Dr. Josef Wegner and Dr. Jennifer Houser Wegner, and John M. Adams of the American Research Center in Egypt; a members’ Insider Event in the Archives with Senior Archivist Alessandro Pezzati; storytelling; ancient hairstyles demonstrations, and trivia contests; and the opening of a special exhibition of Egyptomania objects from the personal collections of Penn Museum curators.

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Complementing the Franklin Institute’s traveling exhibition A Day in the Life of Pompeii, the first of a four-part Pompeii Lecture Series presents Dr. Robert Giegengack, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, on “Mount Vesuvius in Human History.”

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A free Community Open House allows visitors to attend mini-classes, hear from curators, keepers, and researchers, and enjoy docent tours, live music, and dance performances.

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A Panel Discussion on Women in the Civil War discusses the effects of war on women in both the North and South, presented by the Moonstone Art Center.

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Traditional Mexican Day of the Dead altars created by renowned artist Cesar Viveros and the Mexican Cultural Center, event co-sponsor, are the centerpiece of the Penn Museum’s Day of the Dead Celebration, an afternoon of music, storytelling, and arts and crafts.

Dr. Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, Associate Professor of History, Bryn Mawr College, leads the second Great Voyage, recounting “Ferdinand Magellan and the First Circumnavigation of the Globe.”

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Young visitors take a close look at textiles and objects from Africa before creating their own collage of Adinkra handprinted cloth made by the Ashanti people of Africa in a Second Sunday Family Workshop.

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Second Sunday Culture Films presents A Letter to Dad (2011) by Serbian filmmaker Srdjan Keca, co-sponsored by the Philadelphia Film Society, Penn Cinema Studies, Penn Slavic Languages and Literature, and the Penn Museum Library.

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A day of Brown Bag and Evening Lectures includes a discussion of recent recoveries of Spanish Colonial paintings in Cuzco, Peru, made possible by the International Foundation for Art Research’s inventory of paintings in its churches, by inventory consultant Fred Truslow, and a lecture

by Dr. Andrew McCarthy, Director, Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute, on the Prastio Mesorotsos excavation in Cyprus. Mr. Truslow’s lecture presented by the Penn Cultural Heritage Center.

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In an Afternoon Lecture sponsored by ARCE-PA, Dr. Matthew Adams, Senior Research Scholar at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, recounts the 2013 field season of the IFA’s Abydos Project.

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Dr. Janet Monge, Associate Curator-in-Charge, Physical Anthropology Section, continues the Pompeii Lecture Series with a look at “Herculaneum: The Archaeology of Catastrophe—Life and Death in a Roman Resort Town.”

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In a Penn 2013–2014 Year of Sound event, new music ensemble Relâche performs music in sync with silent films with introductory comments about the filmmakers. The 2013–2014 Relâche in Residence series is supported by Eileen Baird; Pauline A. Candaux and Solomon H. Katz, Ph.D., GR67; Lily and Peter C. Ferry, C79; Pamela Freyd, Ph.D., GED68, GR81, and Peter Freyd, Ph.D., PAR; and Betty and James M. Matarese.

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GRoW Annenberg Foundation, a program of the Annenberg Foundation, confirms a generous lead challenge grant directed by Gregory Annenberg Weingarten to fund the Penn Museum’s new partnership with the School District of Philadelphia, Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) Philadelphia, and Mastery Charter Schools offering ancient cultures programs to seventh grade students.

Suzan Shown Harjo, President, Morning Star Institute, presents an Afternoon Talk, “Mascots, Tokens, and Targets: Ending ‘Native’ Stereotypes and False Personalities in Sports,” presented by the Penn Cultural Heritage Center.

8 In On and beyond Campus: Penn in the Museum World, leading museum curators and alumni Peter Reed, G83, GR89, Judith Dolkart, G97, GR04, and Bill Valerio, G87, WG04, share with Williams Director Julian Siggers their perspectives on Penn’s influence in training museum professionals in Penn’s fifth annual Arts@Homecoming Launch Event and an Expedition and Loren Eiseley Society Membership Event.

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Families and friends receive a “Passport to Cultures” to visit International Classroom speakers sharing holiday traditions from their home countries, attend workshops, poetry readings, and dance presentations, in the Penn Museum’s 18th Annual Peace around the World, sponsored by Wilmington Trust and the Women’s Committee.

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Dr. Paul Cobb, Professor of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, offers “Traveler’s Tips from the 14th Century” in a Great Voyages Lecture Series recounting of “The Detours of Ibn Battuta,” while Dr. C. Brian Rose, Ferry Curator-in-Charge, Mediterranean Section, describes the looting of art and antiquities in “Past Imperfect: Archaeology and War in Iraq and Afghanistan” presented by the Penn Humanities Forum.

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Dr. Monica Smith, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, presents “The Parable of Gandhi’s Glasses: To Whom Does Indian Cultural Heritage Belong?” in a Brown Bag Lecture presented by the Penn Cultural Heritage Center.

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The Penn Cultural Heritage Center presents a Public Conference, “Syria’s Heritage in Crisis” at Princeton University.

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Families select their favorite Chinese characters to mount on a Chinese calligraphy scroll after exploring calligraphy tools and other hands-on artifacts from China in a Second Sunday Family Workshop.

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Experiences of the many Peruvians who have migrated from the high Andes to coastal cities are evoked in a Second Sunday Culture Films presentation of Vivir la Chicha (2003), co-sponsored by the Philadelphia Film Society, Penn Cinema Studies, Penn Latin American and Latino Studies, and the Penn Museum Library.

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Following the fall meeting of the Acquisitions Committee and its recommendations, Williams Director Julian Siggers gratefully accepts on behalf of the Museum seven gifts of objects to the Curatorial Sections, and two gifts of silver gelatin photographic collections, one gift of film reels, one gift of film promotional material, and four gifts of excavation records to the Penn Museum Archives.

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Dr. Stuart Tyson Smith, Chair of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, explores modern myths about mummies in an Afternoon Lecture “Unwrapping the Mummy: Hollywood Fantasies and Egyptian Realities” in light of his work as a consultant on the Universal Pictures film The Mummy (1999).

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In a special Members Event, Loren Eiseley Society Silver Circle Members enjoy a close look with Head Conservator Lynn Grant and exhibition curator Lucy Fowler Williams at the extraordinary craftsmanship in artifacts under conservation in preparation for the exhibition Native American Voices.

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In a special second 2013–2014 Douglas G. Lovell, Jr. “Reports from the Field,” Near East Section Curators Dr. Richard Zettler and Dr. Lauren Ristvet share updates from their respective summer excavation and research seasons in Rowanduz, Iraqi Kurdistan, and Naxçivan, Azerbaijan.

22/23 The discovery of evidence for Nordic “grog” as early as 1500–1300 BCE by a team led by Dr. Patrick McGovern, Director of the Museum’s Biomolecular Archaeology Project, is published in the Danish Journal of Archaeology. Residue analysis shows the hybrid alcoholic beverage to include honey, bog cranberry, lingonberry, bog myrtle, yarrow, juniper, birch tree resin, and cereals including wheat, barley, and/or rye— and sometimes, grape wine imported from southern or central Europe. The previous day, Atlantic magazine publishes “The Archaeology of Beer,” an article highlighting the collaboration between Dr. McGovern and Dogfish Head Brewery on Dogfish Head’s Ancient Ales.

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In a Great Voyages Lecture to launch the New Year, Dr. Steve Tinney, Associate Curator-in-Charge, Babylonian Section, recounts the tales of the travels of Gilgamesh, a figure of legend in ancient Mesopotamia.

Following a scavenger hunt in the Islamic Near East Gallery on Family Second Sunday, families traced their hands to make a “hamsas”—a palm-shaped design popular in the Middle East and North Africa used in jewelry and wall hangings.

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Second Sunday Culture Film Series presents Ghosts and Numbers (2009), tracing the journey of displaced farmers in Bangkok following the devastating financial crash of the Thai baht and the Asian monetary crisis.

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New members learn more about the Museum’s American Collection with a visit to the storerooms as Keeper of Collections William Wierzbowski shows and discusses some of his favorite pieces in a Welcome Event.

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The Penn Museum’s youngest visitors hunt for animals in a Gallery Romp in the China Gallery, with a second program offered on February 22.

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Visitors galloped into the Year of the Horse, enjoying music and dance performances, martial and healing arts demonstrations, Feng Shui and folk tale presentations, and more, at the annual World Culture Day Chinese New Year Celebration.

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Dr. Lawrence S. Coben, Executive Director, Sustainable Preservation Initiative, shares insights from SPI’s work in a Brown Bag Lecture “Preserving Heritage is Good Local Business: Saving Sites with Economic Development,” presented by the Penn Cultural Heritage Center.

14 The renovation of Rainey Auditorium is completed thanks to generous lead challenge gifts from Annette Merle-Smith and Josephine Arader Hueber, CW47, PAR, and additional gifts from Joanne H. Conrad, C79, and William L. Conrad, PAR; , Mary Bert Gutman, PAR; , Jacqueline W. Hover and John C. Hover II, C65, WG67; Carlos L. Nottebohm, W64, and Renee Nottebohm; Frances Rockwell and John R. Rockwell, W64, WG66, PAR; and Alexandra Schoenberg and Eric J. Schoenberg, Ph.D., GEN93, WG93, PAR. 15

The Penn Museum announces the discovery of the tomb of a previously unknown Pharaoh, Woseribre Senebkay, by a team led by Associate Curator Dr. Josef Wegner excavating in the mortuary complex on Mount Anubis at Abydos in southern Egypt.

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In the second 2013–2014 Relâche in Residence presentation, the ensemble performs music composed by Raymond Scott in sync with Buster Keaton’s 1926 comedy The General (based upon William Pittenger’s The Great Locomotive Chase).

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Dr. Robert Ballard, Director of the Center for Ocean Exploration at the Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, best known for his discovery of the sunken Titanic in 1985, leads an oceanic Great Voyage: “Lost History beneath the Sea from Titanic to the Iron Age.”

After exploring the Egyptian Galleries, Family Second Sunday participants showed their love by creating Hieroglyphic Valentines, while Second Sunday Culture Film Series fans follow filmmaker Richard Fung to India in a search for the origins of “authentic” dal puri, in his longing for the version of this quintessential comfort food in his native Trinidad.

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The annual Celebration of African Cultures, a Penn Museum World Culture Day for 25 years, features electrifying African dance and music performances, with traditional storytelling, gallery tours, and more.

Dr. Marge Bruchac, coordinator of Penn’s Native American Studies Initiative, gives a Brown Bag Lecture on “Wampum in Museum Collections: Tracking Broken Chains of Custody,” presented by the Penn Cultural Heritage Center.

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Continuing the Pompeii Lecture Series, Dr. C. Brian Rose, Curator-in-Charge, Mediterranean Section, elucidates “Dining and Lovemaking in Pompeii” from the wall paintings, mosaics, dining rooms, and preserved food remains of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

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The annual Young Friends Valentine Event, “#Blurred Lines: The Secret Side of the Collection” offers an exploration of the racier and more explicit artifacts in the Museum’s collection with curators Dr. C. Brian Rose and Dr. Jennifer Houser Wegner.

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As a complement to the Franklin Institute’s One Day in the Life of Pompeii traveling exhibition, and the Penn Museum’s Pompeii Lecture Series, the Museum Archives opens a display of historical photographs of the site from its own holdings in Pompeii in Old Photographs in the Archives corridor.

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In an Afternoon Lecture “Secrets of the Mountain of Anubis: Recent Discoveries at the Tomb and Mortuary Complex of Pharaoh Senwosret III,” Dr. Josef Wegner, Associate Curator, Egyptian Section, shares recent discoveries including the tomb of the previously unknown Pharaoh Woseribre Senebkay.

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An international team of photographers from the British publishing house Dorling Kindersley photographs 487 objects in the collection for possible inclusion in their forthcoming DK Smithsonian publication The History of the World in 1,000 Objects.

27/28 Members enjoy an early look at the new exhibition Native American Voices: The People—Here and Now at a special reception for Expedition Circle and Loren Eiseley Society members, and an advance preview for all members.

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The Penn Museum collaborates with Hunter Haye’s Landscape Design of Ardmore on a landscape garden inspired by Native American Voices at the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s annual Philadelphia Flower Show.

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Dr. Clark Erickson, Curator-in-Charge, American Section, leads visitors 5,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean from Peru to French Polynesia on a self-built raft, in a Great Voyages lecture recounting Thor Heyerdahl’s mid-20th century experiment to show that South Americans could have traversed the Pacific using indigenous boats and navigation.

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In the Opening Day Celebration for Native American Voices, visitors meet and hear presentations by many of the Native American advisors who shaped and provided content for the exhibition, enjoy a Lenni-Lenape language workshop, a demonstration and talk by the manager of the Iroquois Nationals Lacrosse team, a Native Nations Dance Theater performance, and storytelling by Namorah Gayle Byrd.

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In conjunction with One Book, One Philadelphia, the Penn Museum presents Iraqi Cultural Day, an exploration of Iraq through music, literature, and art from ancient to modern times.

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In the Annual Korsyn Lecture sponsored by ARCE-PA, Dr. John Baines, Emeritus Professor of Egyptology, University of Oxford, discusses banqueting in Ancient Egypt.

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Southwest ceramics are the focus of the Second Sunday Family Workshop, in which families learn about pottery designs of the Hopi, Zuni, and Pueblo peoples of the Southwest before illustrating their own 2-D pottery shape.

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The Penn Museum’s Annual Maya Symposium showcases Maya research today in a full day of programming including talks from Curator Dr. Richard Leventhal and Associate Curator and Keeper Dr. Simon Martin.

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In “Visiting with the Ancients: Herculaneum, Pompeii, and the Grand Tour”, Victoria Coates, Consulting Curator on the traveling exhibition The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, and Resurrection, views the excavations of the famous sites through the eyes of the elite young men on the Grand Tour in the 18th century in the Pompeii Lecture Series.

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In a Penn Cultural Heritage Center Evening Lecture, “Art Museums and Antiquities: Balancing Practical and Ethical Concerns,” Dr. Maxwell Anderson, Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art, discusses the challenges in presenting evidence of the past while recognizing the ethical dilemmas bound up in that mission, as objects in museum collections are increasingly subject to claims invoking statutes or patrimony laws not enforced at the time of acquisition.

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Native America continues as a programmatic theme in a Gallery Romp in which the Penn Museum’s youngest visitors go on a fishing trip to the Arctic with Kumak and his family, in stories and crafts.

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Penn alumni in the New York area gain an insider perspective on “The World of Museums: What’s Next?” from fellow alumni Arthur Cohen, C82, CEO of LaPlaca Cohen, Strategic and Creative Solutions for the Cultural World; Louise Mirrer, CW73, PAR03, PAR11, President and CEO of the New-York Historical Society; and Peter Reed, G83, GR89, Senior Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs at the Museum of Modern Art, in a sold-out panel moderated by Williams Director Julian Siggers at the Penn Club.

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Film enthusiasts explore the Amazonian region of Brazil through short films by the Video in the Villages (Video Nas Aldeias) indigenous media collective selected by Elizabeth Weatherford, Head of the Film and Video Center at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.

The Museum Archives event was sponsored by Camra at Penn, Natives at Penn, and the Annenberg School of Communications.

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Dr. Peter Gould, Consulting Scholar, Penn Cultural Heritage Center, asks whether archaeologists have the right models and tools to promote projects that have sustainable economic benefits and meet the needs of local communities in a Brown Bag Lecture “Putting the Past to Work: Archaeology, Community, and Economic Development” presented by the Penn Cultural Heritage Center.

An All-Day Symposium on Women in Archaeology focuses on the challenges that women have encountered in the field, including a keynote lecture by Dr. Jennifer Houser Wegner, Associate Curator, Egyptian Section.

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The Odyssey, Homer’s epic tale of the trials of the hero Odysseus in one of the most famed voyages of all time, is examined by Dr. Peter Struck, Associate Professor, Classical Studies, in a Great Voyages Lecture.

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Dr. Samia Rab, of the Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, discusses cultural projects, museums and heritage conservation strategies in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Sharjah in the Persian Gulf, in a Brown Bag Lecture presented by the Penn Cultural Heritage Center.

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Family visitors dance to the beat and take a musical journey from Africa to Brazil and from the Middle East to Japan in Drums around the World World Culture Afternoon.

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In an expansion of the popular exhibition Vaults of Heaven: Visions of Byzantium featuring large-scale photography of medieval churches in Cappadocia by noted photographer Ahmet Ertug, the Penn Museum opens Heaven on Earth: Churches of Constantinople, featuring selections from Ertug’s photographs of Istanbul churches, with a strong focus on the World Heritage Site Hagia Sophia.

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Dr. Garrett Fagan, Professor of Ancient History, Penn State University, provides helpful instruction on “How to Stage a Bloodbath,” exploring the theatrical elements of Roman arena games in the Kenneth Matthews Memorial Lecture.

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An Afternoon Symposium, From Constantinople to Cappadocia, focuses on these two areas of Byzantine cultural activity in conjunction with the opening of Heaven on Earth, with a keynote address from Dr. Anthony Cutler, Professor of Art History, Penn State University.

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Just in time for the Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival of Greater Philadelphia, families celebrate Japanese culture crafting koi kites in a Second Sunday Family Workshop.

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Oren Lyons, Jr., world-renowned Native American peace activist, and Honorary Chairman of the Iroquois Nationals Lacrosse Team, gives the annual Elizabeth Watts and Howard C. Petersen Lecture.

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The Penn Museum is honored to receive the Commitment to Cultural Access Award for its Touch Tours for the Visually Impaired program from Art-Reach, an organization fostering access to cultural institutions, at Art-Reach’s annual reception held in the Museum’s Egypt (Sphinx) Gallery.

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Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture presents “Making Music in Egypt: A Conversation with Fathy Salama.”

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The popular annual Museum event for Penn freshman is offered to area high school students in a Teen Toga Party, hosted by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance’s STAMP access program and co-sponsored by the Philadelphia Classical Society and the Classical Association of the Atlantic States.

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The Penn Museum awards its Lucy Wharton Drexel Medal to Dr. Jeremy A. Sabloff, recognizing his long and distinguished career in Maya research, and its Marian Angell APR 25 Godfrey Boyer Medal to John R. Rockwell, recognizing his extraordinary service and support as a member of the Museum’s Board of Overseers, at the annual dinner for members of the Loren Eiseley Society.

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The Penn Museum collaborates with The Franklin Institute and 100 cultural and educational organizations to offer six science programs at the third annual Philadelphia Science Festival, including Clark Park Science Discovery Day, where visitors learn about flint knapping and stone tools; the Philadelphia Science Festival Carnival, at which about 200 visitors play an on-the-road version of the Museum’s artifact identification game: “What in the World?,” and at three branches of the Free Library of Philadelphia, where over 200 visitors try their hand with an Archimedes water screw at a demonstration table facilitated by Museum docent Joe Balmos.

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Dr. Violaine Chauvet, Assistant Professor of Egyptology, University of Liverpool, asks “It’s Not All About Sex, Or Is It?” in an Afternoon Lecture on the visual presence of mothers in private tombs from the Old to the New Kingdom in Egypt.

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Jessica Dietzler, Ph.D. candidate in the “Trafficking Culture” Project at the University of Glasgow, presents a Brown Bag Lecture “Rethinking the Criminal Market in Transnationally Trafficked Archaeological Antiquities” sponsored by the Penn Cultural Heritage Center.

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In a discovery made possible by the collaborative digital project “Ur of the Chaldees,” Dr. Janet Monge, Associate Curator-in-Charge and Keeper, Physical Anthropology Section, and Dr. Brad Hafford, Leon Levy Foundation Ur Digitization Project Manager, lift the lid on a skeleton housed in the Physical Anthropology storerooms but long separated from its identification, and confirm it as a 6,500-year-old skeleton unearthed by Sir Leonard Woolley in the famed 1922–1934 excavations which included the Royal Tombs.

In further affirmation that the thrill of discovery can take place in an exploration of the Museum’s rich storerooms and archives, Senior Archivist Alessandro Pezzati and his team present Unearthed in the Archives, the first event in a weekly series offering a glimpse into some of the fascinating and unusual materials in their care.

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World-renowned Egyptologist and alumnus Dr. Zahi Hawass, G83, GR87, returns to the Museum for a sold-out Afternoon Lecture on his work “Pyramids, Mummies, Cleopatra, and Tutankhamun: Recent Discoveries and Insights.”

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The Penn Museum Women’s Committee celebrates the launch of its beautiful book Culinary Expeditions, in a luncheon featuring lectures by Williams Director Dr. Julian Siggers and book editor Dr. Jane Hickman, and showcasing a selection of the food-related objects highlighted in the book presented by Museum Keepers.

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Another famed voyage from the Classical World—Jason’s journey with the Argonauts to the Black Sea to find the golden fleece—is examined in the context of Greek seafaring in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages in a Great Voyages lecture by Dr. Brian Rose, Ferry Curator-in-Charge, Mediterranean Section.

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Views of the more than 1,000 videos uploaded to the Penn Museum’s YouTube channel surpass 1.5 million.

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In a milestone for the Penn Museum’s Distance Learning Program, which saw dramatic increase in demand in 2013–2014 serving over 4,000 students, a record five Daily Life in Ancient Rome Distance Learning programs are given in ONE DAY to the same school.

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After an entertaining account of the history and makings of traditional Andean beer from Dr. Clark Erickson, Curatorin-Charge, American Section, using objects and his work with Dogfish Head Brewery creating a beverage reminiscent of chichi, Young Friends bring an educated perspective to sampling South American beers in “Cerveza! Celebrating the South American Tradition.”

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Family Second Sunday visitors craft wadgets—the eye of Horus, an ancient Egyptian symbol of protection—and patterns of beads to create necklaces to take home.

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In the final Relâche in Residence Afternoon Concert, presented in collaboration with Penn’s 2013–2014 Year of Sound, the ensemble performs a riveting score by English composer Joby Talbot, arranged by Darin Kelly, in sync with Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 silent mystery The Lodger, A Story of the London Fog. As an offbeat overture, Relâche performs The Penguin by American jazz composer Raymond Scott.

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Dr. Michael Weisberg, Associate Professor of Philosophy, leads the final Great Voyage of the year with a lecture on Charles Darwin’s voyage on the H.M.S. Beagle from England to South America, New Zealand, Australia, and Africa.

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From the air-conditioned comfort of the Widener Lecture Room, Penn Museum Members travel by Skype to the desert of southern Egypt, where Dr. Josef Wegner, Associate Curator, Egyptian Section, shares from the dig house updates on his excavations of the tomb of Sobekhotep I in Live from the Field: Abydos, Egypt.

The Penn Museum is honored to host the Class of 1964 50th Reunion Cocktail Party, Gift Chair Rick Rockwell, Museum Overseer, in the Egypt (Mummies) Gallery.

17 The Class of 1989 25th Reunion, Jill Topkis Weiss, Gift Chair and Museum Overseer, fills the Stoner Courtyard in a lively party.

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Dr. Josh Roberson, Camden Community College, examines “The Awakening of Osiris” in the tomb of Mutirdis in an Afternoon Lecture sponsored by ARCE-PA.

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A lead gift commitment from the Kowalski Family Foundation increases dramatically the Penn Museum’s ability to advance all of the major initiatives of the 2013–2020 Strategic Plan.

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May 2014 proves to be the peak programmatic month for Museum Learning Programs with 7,524 K-12 students served.

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PM@Penn Museum Summer Nights kick off in high gear with Colombian El Caribefunk filling the Stoner Courtyard with the sounds of funk, salsa, and elements of Caribbean music.

23–25 Dr. Brian Daniels, Director, Penn Cultural Heritage Center, and Dr. Salam Al-Kuntar, Visiting Scholar and former Deputy Director of the Department of Excavations and Archaeological Research for Syria’s Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums, lead a training workshop in southern Turkey for 15 individuals working in Syria to document cultural heritage destruction.

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In the first of eight weeks of “Anthropologists in the Making” Summer Camp, campers aged 6–13 try their hands at henna designs, craft their own jewelry, create their own tattoos, and more, in “Worn to Adorn.”

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Turkish folk rock comes to University City as the multiethnic group Barakka takes the Stoner Courtyard stage at Summer Nights.

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A remarkable gift from the family of new Penn Museum Overseer Peter C. Ferry endows the position of Curator-inCharge in the Mediterranean Section.

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The Penn Museum closes the fiscal year with $14.5 million in new gifts and commitments—the second highest in institutional history.

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Student Project Researcher Project

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Teaching and Research: Student, Curator, and Consulting Scholar Field Projects 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 300 research projects throughout the world.

Curator and Consulting Scholar Research Projects

Student Fieldwork

Of numerous recent and current research projects directed or co-directed by its curatorial staff and consulting scholars, the Penn Museum received applications and was able to provide partial funding through the Director’s Field Fund 2013– 2014 for ten projects which took place in the winter, spring or summer of 2014, listed below and detailed in the pages that follow. Generous support for many of these projects also provided by generous individual and institutional donors is gratefully acknowledged on pages 60.

– Historical Landscape Preservation at Gordion

Through these and other projects, the Penn Museum provides opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to gain invaluable experience working as part of a team (often with both international experts and local workers) in the field. Through gift and endowment funds, provided by the generosity of individual donors past and present, the Museum is also able to provide funding to students who request assistance with travel expenses. In 2014, the Museum assisted in funding field research for 23 graduate students and 12 undergraduate students who gained experience in the following countries:

– Gordion Heritage Educational Project

• Gordion Archaeological Project (Turkey)

• Azerbaijan (3)

• Mexico/Guatemala (2)

• Rowanduz Archaeological Program (Iraqi Kurdistan)

• Canada (2)

• Peru (1)

• Naxçivan Archaeological Project (Azerbaijan)

• China (1)

• Turkey (2)

• Defining the Early Kings of the Abydos Dynasty (Egypt)

• Egypt (2)

• United States (New Mexico, Puerto Rico,

• Decoding the Swahili (Coastal Kenya)

• France (2)

• Silver Reef Project (Utah, US)

• Georgia (1)

• On the Wampum Trail: Restorative Research in North

• Greece (3)

American Museums (North America) • The Caste War of the Yucatan: The Tihosuco Community

Preservation and Development Project (Mexico)

• India (1) • Iraqi Kurdistan (4) • Italy (7) • Kenya (1)

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Gordion Archaeological Project (Turkey) Project Director: C. Brian Rose, Ph.D., Peter C. Ferry Curator-in-Charge, Mediterranean Section Director, Site Conservation Program: Frank Matero, Director, Historic Preservation Program, Penn Design Assistant Director: Ayşe Gürsan-Salzmann, Ph.D., Consulting Scholar, Mediterranean Section Penn Graduate Student Team Members: Peter Cobb, Olivia Hayden, Sam Holzman, Kate Morgan, Lucas Stephens, Kurtis Tanaka (Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World); Jocelyn Chan, Nityaa Iyer, Angelina Jones, and Kevin Wohlgemuth (Historic Preservation).

Additional Penn Team Members: Gareth Darbyshire, Ph.D., Gordion Archivist; Lynn Makowsky Keith DeVries Keeper, Mediterranean Section; Naomi Miller, Ph.D., Consulting Scholar (Penn Museum); Meredith Keller (Historic Preservation).

THE 2014 SEASON AT GORDION marked the second year of excavation focused primarily on the settlement’s fortification systems of Early and Middle Phrygian date (9th-6th century BCE) as well as extensive architectural conservation and restoration. The team of almost 40 scholars and scientists worked in more than 10 sectors of the site in June, July, and early August 2014.

An international team of almost 40 included archaeologists from Turkey, Bulgaria, England, Germany, Holland, Iraq, Italy, Russia, and the United States.

A focal point of conservation was the stabilization of the Early Phrygian Gate, the best-preserved citadel gate in Iron Age Asia Minor (9th century BCE). The team acquired and erected a new scaffolding system which will enable the removal of displaced stones in a significant bulge that developed following a 1999 earthquake, as well as the repair and reinsertion of the stones anchored by horizontal stainless steel straps.

Left: Kate Morgan, Olivia Hayden, and Jane Gordon uncovering the Early Iron Age house below the rubble fill of the Terrace Building, looking east.

Right: Project Director C. Brian Rose inspecting a beam on the roof of Tumulus MM. Photos by Gebhard Bieg.

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Team members also continued conservation of the Early Phrygian Terrace Building, an eight-room industrial complex, where walls were rebuilt with epoxy-repaired blocks and the installation of stainless steel cables for stability. A new conservation project dealt with the large pebble mosaic from one of the elite houses or megarons (also of 9th century BCE date).

Excavation focused on the south side of the citadel mound, where the team discovered new evidence for the monumental stone fortifications that protected the citadel between the 9th and 4th centuries BCE, including traces of a large gateway leading into a monumental street.

Geophysical investigations continued with a focus on the Outer Town, a large residential district to the west of the Lower Town and the Citadel Mound, where magnetic prospection revealed the walls of an enormous fort probably dating to the 8th century BCE. Improvements to the visitor experience also continued, yielding—together with outreach to the Turkish Union of Tourist Guides—an increase in attendance at the site and the museum.

For a more extensive report on the 2014 season and recent Gordion publications, please email tmarmion@upenn.edu for a copy of the Friends of Gordion newsletter, or visit sites.museum. upenn.edu/gordion/resources/field-reports/.

Left: Locally abundant bulbous bluegrass (Poa bulbosa) has been very successful in protecting the walls of the Gordion site. Above: Project Directors Ayşe Gürsann-Salzmann and Halil Demirdelen with local students at the Gordion Museum. Photos by Naomi Miller.

Gordion Heritage Educational Project Project Directors: Ayşe Gürsan-Salzmann, Ph.D., Assistant Director, Gordion Archaeological Project, and Consulting Scholar, Mediterranean Section; Halil Demirdelen, Deputy Director, Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara

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The project was assisted by the Penn Museum’s Naomi Miller,

Project Director: Naomi F. Miller, Ph.D., Consulting Scholar,

Ph.D., and Gareth Darbyshire, Ph.D., and by Olivia Hayden, graduate

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student (Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World).

AT GORDION, we are using our knowledge of vegetation, past and present, to preserve regional biodiversity, the historical landscape, and the archaeological site itself through the management of the native plants. The approach sees an open-air archaeological site as a specialized kind of garden.

Project Director Naomi F. Miller has been advising the Conservation team about the soft vegetative roof capping they have established on the conserved walls of the Citadel Gate building and the Terrace Buildings. Locally abundant bulbous bluegrass (Poa bulbosa) has been very successful in protecting the walls, but as a living barrier, it needs some maintenance. Among other activities, in 2014, she weeded the treated walls: Over the course of 5 days, it took 412 minutes to weed 3,268 seedlings over an area of about 55 square meters. This information will help the team develop a maintenance schedule. Dr. Miller also designed three new walking tours of Gordion, intended to promote the visitor’s understanding of the natural and cultural resources within walking distance of the site and museum.

A NEW PROGRAM TO ENGAGE local primary and secondary school students in the cultural heritage protection of the Gordion site was launched this summer with several students from the villages around Gordion participating in workshops at the Gordion site and museum, and at the nearby archaeological sites of Midas City and Dümrek, as well as within the Ankara Museum. Expanding knowledge about cultural properties to develop the perspective of local communities on the landscape around them has become a part of the activities of every archaeological site. At the conclusion of the pilot project, student participants gave oral presentations to the project team and local village representatives, who provided feedback. The students also gave written reports, which conveyed their positive experience, as the following quotes attest: “The program taught me that historical events become real knowledge when seen and explained on-site, and we can link them to our cultural heritage.”

“I realize how crucial it is to recover and learn about the historical past, and how much the project’s participants, both Turkish and American, devote their time and effort to it. Whose history and monuments are they recovering? It is not only our heritage, we are told it belongs to world cultures. If we don’t feel we own it, and preserve the monuments, who will?”

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Rowanduz Archaeological Program (Iraqi Kurdistan) Project Directors: Michael D. Danti, Ph.D., Consulting Scholar, Near East Section; Richard L. Zettler, Ph.D., Associate Curator-inCharge, Near East Section Specialist Team Members: Darren Ashby (University of Pennsylvania), Field Director; Allison Cuneo (Boston University), Cultural Heritage Specialist; Jorg Fassbinder (Ludwig-Maximillian’s Universität, Munich), Geophysical Survey Specialist; Grant Frame (University of Pennsylvania), Epigrapher; Tina Greenfield (University of Manitoba), Zooarchaeologist; Jessica Johnson (University of Delaware), Conservator; Kyra Kaercher (Penn Museum), Pottery Specialist; Hardy Maass (Ludwig-Maximillian’s Universität, Munich), Artist; John McGinnis (University of Cambridge), Archaeological Architecture Specialist; Christian Konrad Piller (Ludwig-Maximillian’s Universität, Munich), Archaeological Architecture Specialist; Alexia Smith (University of Connecticut), Archaeobotanist, with Lucas Proctor (University of Connecticut Ph.D. student) serving as Archaeobotanist in the field.

Penn Graduate Student Team Members: Katherine Burge (Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World); Darren Ashby, Daniel Patterson, and Marshall Schurtz (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations).

Excavations on the top of Gird-i Dasht. Photo courtesy Rowanduz Archaeological Program.

IN 2013, the Rowanduz Archaeological Program (RAP), with a permit from the Iraqi Kurdish General-Directorate of Antiquities, began excavations at the site of Gird-i Dasht, in the Rowanduz-Soran district in the northeastern corner of Erbil Province. RAP also conducted surveys in the mountainous Sidekan-Mudjeser region nearby, thought to be the core of the kingdom of Musasir, a buffer state between Assyria and its rival to the northeast, Urartu. The Assyrian king Sargon II famously attacked Musasir at the end of his 8th campaign in 714 BCE, and sacked and burned the royal palace. The team also assisted Soran’s Directorate-General of Antiquities with salvage excavations on sites work crews cut through in widening the road between Sidekan and the Keli-shin pass, linking northeastern Iraq and northwestern Iran.

In summer 2014 the team continued excavations at Gird-i Dasht, a high oval mound with a lower “apron” of

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settlement on three sides. Expanded excavations on the top of the mound reveal a sequence of fortifications consistent with interpretation of the site as a fortress controlling the plain. The stone architecture uncovered to date spans the Seljuk (10th–14th centuries CE) through the Late Ottoman era. On the northeastern edge of the high mound, the team uncovered a sequence of complex foundations, the latest consisting of a trench filled with river pebbles capped by a substantial brick-like layer, dating to the Middle Bronze Age (2000–1600 BCE), as shown by painted and plain Khabur Ware pottery. Miscellaneous sherds from secondary contexts below the foundation suggest an even earlier occupation.

Geomagnetic surveys by a crew from Ludwig-Maximilians Universität led by Dr. Jorg Fassbinder mapped large sections of the low mound, delimiting the full extent of the occupation and revealing rectilinear anomalies that probably represent the outlines of buildings and streets.

RAP collaborated with the Soran Directorate-General, in a small salvage excavation at Banahilk on the outskirts of Soran, a site dating to the 6th millennium BCE, currently threatened by development, as well as in assessing remains uncovered in digging the foundations for a new bank in Sidekan. However, the team focused the bulk of their energies on Gund-i Topzawa, a settlement site just east of Sidekan. Excavations there revealed multiple stages of well-preserved masonry buildings terraced into a hillside overlooking the Topzawa Chai below, where recovered pottery suggests the site was destroyed in the Iron Age III period, a date consistent with Sargon’s conquest of Musasir. Geomagnetic surveys at early Iron Age sites in the surrounding area produced intriguing results, suggesting— together with findings from Kurdish archaeologists—that the team may be close to pinpointing the elusive kingdom of Musasir.

Above: the beginning of excavations on the road cut at Gund-i Topzawa.

Right: The stone building uncovered at Gund-i Topzawa, showing two large ovens to the left.

Photos courtesy Rowanduz Archaeological Program.

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Naxçivan Archaeological Project (Azerbaijan) Project Directors: Lauren Ristvet, Ph.D., Dyson Assistant Curator, Near East Section; Hilary Gopnik, Ph.D. (Emory University); Emily Hammer, Ph.D. (University of Chicago); Vəli Baxşaliev, Ph.D. (Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences) Penn Graduate Student and Alumni Team Members: Rachel Cohen, Susannah Fishman, Kyle Olson (Anthropology); Bret Langendorfer (History of Art); Hannah Lau, C09; Jennifer Swerida, G10.

IN SUMMER 2014, the Naxçıvan Archaeological Project completed its eighth season of excavation and survey.

The team is currently investigating the ancient societies that flourished in southwestern Azerbaijan during the 1st millennium BCE, focusing its attention on the relationships between the ruling fortresses and the local communities that dotted the surrounding valleys. This summer, we excavated areas in the lower town and steppe that surrounded the fortress of Oğlanqala, and undertook geophysical and field-walking surveys, in order to delimit the extent and characterize the nature of this settlement. While six seasons of excavations on the citadel mount have yielded much valuable information about the fortress of Oğlanqala, we are just beginning to study the settlement that surrounded it. Surprisingly, excavation revealed intriguing new evidence for the origins of urbanism in this part of the Ancient Near East. We excavated several large burial mounds with large quantities of local and imported goods dating from the very end of the Middle Bronze Age, and an enigmatic ritual installation associated with one of them. These results suggest that this area was already important for religious reasons before it become a center of settlement here.

Above: Rachel Cohen oversees the excavation of grave offerings.

Below: A stone circle marks a burial place in a Middle Bronze Age mound. Photos by Lauren Ristvet.

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Defining the Early Kings of the Abydos Dynasty (Egypt)

Left: Kevin Cahail and Rais Ibrahim Mohamed Ali (standing) with a fallen wall block during excavation of the burial chamber of Senebkay.

Below left: Jennifer Wegner inside the burial chamber of king Senebkay. Below right: A flotilla of watercraft decorates the walls of the enigmatic underground “boat building” near the tomb of Senwosret III. Photos

by Josef Wegner.

2013–14 Winter (December–January)

2014 Summer (May–June)

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

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

Curator, Egyptian Section; Co-Director: Jennifer Houser

Egyptian Section; Co-Directors: Jennifer Houser Wegner, Ph.D.,

Wegner, Ph.D., Associate Curator, Egyptian Section;

Associate Curator, Egyptian Section; Kevin Cahail, Ph.D.;

Penn Graduate Student and Alumni Team Members:

Penn Graduate Student and Alumni Team

Kevin Cahail, Paul Verhelst, Matthew Olson (graduate

Members: Shelby Justl, Paul Verhelst, Matthew Olson, Lisa

students, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations);

Haney (graduate students, Near Eastern Languages and

James Kelly, C13.

Civilizations); James Kelly, C13.

THE WINTER 2013–14 season at South Abydos was a momentous one. Excavation near the tomb of Senwosret III included work on the huge tomb “S10” belonging to one of the pharaohs of Egypt’s 13th Dynasty (ca. 1800–1650 BCE). Fragments of a limestone funerary stela were found with the seated image of a king Sobekhotep. Nearby, cedar planks from king Sobekhotep’s painted inner coffin were found, suggesting the tomb belongs to king Sobekhotep IV (who reigned ca. 1750 BCE). In front of Sobekhotep’s tomb the surprising discovery was made of the previously unknown pharaoh Woseribre-Senebkay. The tomb included remains of Senebkay’s burial equipment and the king’s body.

The beautifully painted burial chamber is a rare example of a decorated royal tomb of Egypt’s Second Intermediate Period (ca. 1650–1550 BCE). Senebkay’s tomb is one of a group that can be attributed to a previously unrecognized dynasty, the “Abydos Dynasty,” who built their tombs in South Abydos adjacent to those of earlier pharaohs.

DURING THE SUMMER OF 2014 excavations at South Abydos were expanded around the tomb of Senebkay. A group of additional tombs was identified using magnetometry.

There are now eight tombs that can be attributed to kings of the Abydos Dynasty. Some of the nearby tombs are larger in scale than that of Senebkay. One of these, “CS 10,” belongs to a king who reigned subsequent to Senebkay.

Remains of this king’s burial were discovered near his limestone burial chamber. While work was going on in the Second Intermediate Period royal tombs, examination of other structures in the vicinity led to the discovery of a huge subterranean vaulted building with hundreds of boat images incised onto its whitewashed walls and the now-collapsed vaulted roof. The boat building may have been used in religious processions involving boats, or perhaps as a structure that once housed a boat burial associated with the nearby tomb of king Senwosret III.

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Decoding The Swahili (Coastal Kenya) Project Directors: Janet Monge, Ph.D., Associate Curator-in-Charge, Physical Anthropology; Chap Kusimba , Ph.D. (American University); Alan Morris, Ph.D. (University of Cape Town), Sloan Williams, Ph.D. (University of Illinois at Chicago) Penn Student and Alumni Team Members: Jordi Rivera-Prince, Maya Kassutto, undergraduates; Paul Mitchell (C13, G14, Ph.D. candidate, Anthropology); Samantha Cox, C10, G11, Ph.D. candidate (University of Cambridge) The team also comprises several scholars and students from the National Museum of Kenya.

Swahili coast research colleagues at a meeting in Cape Town: left, Dr. Alan Morris, University of Cape Town, paleopathology; right, Dr. Sloan Williams, University of Illinois, Ancient DNA.

One of the skeletons exposed and later excavated at the site of Mtwapa. Like all of the Swahili coast burials, individuals were buried in an Islamic tradition—laid on their right side with the head facing Mecca.

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SINCE 2010, Janet Monge has worked on a joint project to discover the identity and life history of the peoples of the Swahili Coast in Kenya. Working at two sites, Mtwapa (800–1450 CE on the southern coast) and later Manda Island (1000–1750 CE in the north within the Lamu Archipelago), the largest collection of skeletal materials from the Kenyan Coast has been unearthed. These 130 skeletons are forming the first comprehensive analysis of the early Swahili culture. Paleodemographic analysis indicates that a large portion of the individuals died in their teen or early adult years—a profile oftentimes associated with catastrophic events including floods and wars.

One of the most important finds this last field season was the possibility that the Swahili people were on a continuous trade route with China, a morphological observation now being confirmed by DNA analysis performed in China.

An amazing amount of information is present in teeth. Cultural behaviors in dental filing, paleopathology (worn, chipped, diseased), and samples were taken for isotope and ancient DNA analysis.

This shovel-shaped incisor has revealed possible contact along the ancient coast of Kenya with people from China in a pattern of circum Indian Ocean travel extending back at least 2,000 years.

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Samples of bone materials from these early Swahili people will be analyzed in the human skeletal laboratory of the Penn Museum’s new Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials during 2015. Using the facilities for the precise sampling of bone and tooth—polarizing light and SEM (Scanning Electron Microscopy) and micro-CT tools within the lab—new details will emerge on the life, diet, and death of these African peoples.

Silver Reef Project (Utah, United States) Project Director: Robert L. Schuyler, Ph.D., Associate Curator-in-Charge, Historical Archaeology Section The 2014 project was a collaboration with the Silver Reef Museum, the Dixie State University Library, and the Washington County Historical Society, with the assistance of Dawn Di Stefano, Liberal & Professional Studies Student, and Penn Museum volunteers.

THE SILVER REEF PROJECT, run by the Penn Museum’s Historical Archaeology Section since 1981, is the first attempt to create an “historic ethnography”—as complete as possible a cultural reconstruction—of an American mining boomtown in the 1870s and 1880s.

Equal attention has been given to the physical remains of Silver Reef, in Southwest Utah, its few standing ruins, numerous foundations, archaeological deposits, and overall settlement pattern, and to the surprisingly extensive written records produced by the town’s inhabitants.

Surface collecting and the excavation of three sites during the 1980s were followed by 20 years of archival

research and artifact analysis between 1990 and 2010.

During the summers of 2013 and 2014, Dr. Robert Schuyler traveled to Southwest Utah to return 107 boxes of analyzed surface materials and to work on a public program with the Silver Reef Foundation. Public lectures and wellattended guided tours were conducted in May during the last two summers through the Silver Reef Museum, located in the 1878 Wells Fargo Express Station (the oldest still in existence) where visitors can find displays about mining, geology, and Western Frontier history. Back at Penn, from June to August 2014, archival sources on saloons were investigated.

Robert Schuyler (in the foreground at right) gives tours around Silver Reef in May 2014.

Photo courtesy the Silver Reef Foundation.

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On the Wampum Trail: Restorative Research in North American Museums (North America) Project Director: Margaret Bruchac, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Anthropology; Consulting Scholar, American Section Penn Student Team members: Stephanie Mach, Graduate Student (Anthropology); Lise Puyo, Exchange Student in Anthropology from Université Lumière Lyon 2, France, hosted by the Penn Cultural Heritage Center

DURING MAY 2014, Dr. Marge Bruchac, with research assistants Stephanie Mach and Lise Puyo, retraced the trail left by Frank G. Speck—noted anthropologist and Penn professor—a century earlier, to chart the distribution of wampum (shell beads) into northeastern US and Canadian museums during the salvage anthropology era.

The team visited thirteen museums and five tribal nations to analyze more than 50 examples of woven wampum belts and collars. They conducted interviews and provenance research using a restorative methodology that entails not just examination of the objects, but close examination of collecting processes and curatorial practices that have influenced the distribution and interpretation of Indigenous objects in museum settings. They also consulted with Native American wampum-keepers, scholars, and artists. This research recovered a number of previously unrecorded physical details

that reflect historical methods of wampum construction, including: distinctions among quahog, whelk, and conch beads; anomalous stone, bone, clay, and glass beads; various techniques of weaving and dying; and patterns of repair and re-use that signal Indigenous curation and re-circulation.

Dr. Bruchac’s wampum research is part of a larger project that tracks 19th and 20th century records of anthropological collectors, and investigates the social negotiations that shape museological understandings of Indigenous objects.

By tracing and documenting object cartographies and object histories, she endeavors to revitalize connections between Indigenous objects in museums and contemporary Indigenous communities linked to those objects.

More information about “On the Wampum Trail” can be found at wampumtrail.wordpress.com.

Margaret Bruchac, Lise Puyo, and archivist Marie Pelletier examine two wampum belts at the Nicolet Seminaire in Canada. Dr. Bruchac indicates where the diamond belt was carefully sliced to remove two-fifths of the beads; this alteration likely signaled the fracturing of an alliance. Photo by Stephanie Mach.

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Richard Leventhal and the team from Tihosuco use Google Earth to discuss the location and discovery of a 19th-cen-

The Caste War of the Yucatan: The Tihosuco Community Preservation and Development Project (Mexico) Project Director: Richard M. Leventhal, Ph.D., Executive Director, Penn Cultural Heritage Center; Curator, American Section

tury rancho during the

Co-Directors: Carlos Chan Espinosa, (Museo de la Guerra de Castas); Eladio Moo Pat, (La Comunidad de Tihosuco); Demetrio Poot

previous day’s survey.

Cahun, (La Comunidad de Tihosuco); Elias Chi Poot, (Ejido de Tihosuo)

They have gathered

Penn Graduate Student Team Members: Tiffany C. Cain, Kathryn C. Diserens, Whit Schroder (Anthropology); Frances Kvietok

in the Tihosuco town

(Graduate School of Education); Christa Cesario (Anthropology, Ph.D. 2014)

square in front of the

Other Team Members: Suzanne Abel (Stanford University); Julio Hoil Gutierrez (CIESAS, Mexico); Marcelina Chan Canche, La Comunidad

Casa Ejidal (main office

de Tihosuco; Secundino Cahun Balam, La Comunidad de Tihosuco; Nuria Matarredona, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Socoro

of the Tihosuco communal land organization).

Photo by Tihosuco Community Project.

THE 2014 SEASON of the Tihosuco Heritage Preservation and Community Development Project resulted in large-scale expansion of information about the 19th century Caste War in south-central Yucatan. This influential rebellion erupted in 1847 in the towns of Tihosuco (our base), Téla (now abandoned), and Tepich. We completed a detailed archaeological map of Téla and continue to look for and map associated haciendas, ranchos, and other aspects of this complex 19th century rebellion landscape.

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Additionally, the project itself expanded dramatically, focusing on heritage preservation and long-term economic development. In Tihosuco, all of the Casas Coloniales (19th century buildings) were identified and presented to the town in a full report. We began collecting oral histories, historic photographs, and archival information to learn more about this region’s history during the past 175 years. We are also working on a detailed map and history of the Tihosuco Church and Convent, a Maya language preservation initiative, radio outreach programs, and, initial ideas for community and economic development associated with controlled, small-scale tourism.

Collections: New Acquisitions

DURING 2013–2014, the Penn Museum Acquisitions Committee reviewed offers of gifts to its Curatorial Sections, Archives, and Learning Programs collections on two occasions in the fall and spring. Based on recommendations from the Acquisitions Committee as well as from the Curatorial Sections and the Archives, the Museum accepted nine donations of cultural objects, eleven donations of photographic collections, research records, and other materials, and one collection of material for teaching purposes.

Cultural objects from eight individual donors came from Canada, Greece, Iran, Japan, Kenya, Micronesia, Morocco, New Guinea, and the United States; the Franklin Institute gifted a collection of 128 musical instruments from all over the world, which had been on loan since 1948.

Gifts to the Curatorial Sections Gift of the Bullitt Family in memory of John M. Bullitt Hellenistic Amphora, 3rd–2nd century BCE, procured by John M. Bullitt, scuba diving volunteer on Penn Museum summer underwater archaeological expeditions in the Mediterranean and Aegean Gift of Michael E. and Dana E. Cohen Japanese scrolls, ink and light color on paper, by the artist Mori Sosen, “Two deer beneath a withered tree” and “Three monkeys on a rock by a waterfall”; two-fold Japanese screen by Mori Shuho (Sosen’s brother) “Deer and Azalea Blossoms” Gift of Zoe Elizabeth Coulson Five pots by the Native American artists Monica Naranjo, Santa Clara; Elizabeth Medina, Zia Pueblo; Belen Tapia, Santa Clara; Yvonne Analla Lucas, Laguna; Dorothy Ami, Tewa/Hopi, Polacca, AZ Gift of Mark P. and Peggy L. Curchack Raven Mask, Kwakwaka’wakw, by Trevor Hunt, Vancouver; tent pole, Tuareg, Morocco; long knife with sheath, and wrist knife, Samburu National Park, Kenya Gift of Laura Fisher Two sets of Crow dolls by Winona Plenty Hoops, with accompanying books and articles

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Gift of The Franklin Institute The Mary Drexel Collection of 128 musical instruments from around the world, on loan to the Penn Museum since 1948 Gift of Tenley M. and Rouyan V. Jones Brick with dedicatory inscription in Elamite cuneiform, probably Chogha Zanbil, Iran Gift of Stephen B. Richmond Eighty-nine Chuukese artifacts from the Chuuk Islands group and the Mortlocks Islands group, Micronesia Gift of David C. and Karina Rilling Forty-four Sawos bowls, Aibom pots and lids collected in Papua New Guinea

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1. Swim goggle, Object Number 2013-18-24 One half of a pair of wooden swim goggles from the Truk Islands, Micronesia. There is a hole at the inner side for attachment to the other goggle, and a hole at the outer side for securing around the head. A small ring of twisted fiber is threaded through this second hole. Such goggles have no lenses.

They trap air, forming a bubble over the eye, which enables the swimmer to see underwater. Gift of Stephen B. Richmond.

2. Knuckle-duster, Object Number 2013-18-19 Knuckle-duster from the Mortlock Islands, Micronesia with two double rows of shark’s teeth, secured with multiple lashings of twisted cotton cord. Padded grip wrapped with dingy white waffle-weave cotton cloth with a pale blue print design, secured by pale blue stitching and a criss-cross binding of what appears to be dark green rubber. Gift of Stephen B. Richmond.

3. Crow male doll, Object Number 2013-24-2B One of a pair of Crow dolls made by Winona Plenty Hoops, in the late 1980s, representing traditional Crow female and male dress. Gift of Laura Fisher.

4. Raven Mask, Object Number 2013-22-1 Large Raven Mask by Trevor Hunt (Kwakiutl) of British Columbia. Made of wood and cedar bark, with red, black, and green paint. Fringed cedarbark attached as feathers/hair at top back and sides of mask. Gift of Mark P. and Peggy L. Curchack.

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5. Folding screen, Object Number 2013-25-3 Two-fold Japanese screen by Mori Shuho (1738-1823), with deer and azalea blossoms. Gift of Michael E. and Dana E. Cohen.

6. Sago Eating Bowl, Object Number 2013-20-16 Conical bowl made with coiled construction, carved and painted. Used by the people of the Sawos culture in New Guinea. Patterns are red, yellow, and white, outlined in burnished black. Inside is light terracotta with small smudged areas from firing and what look like many black fingerprints. An eating bowl, for individual portions of sago pudding.

Supported by a woven fiber ring when in use. Gift of David C. and Karina Rilling.

7. Inscribed clay brick, Object Number 2013-23-1 Clay brick ca. 1250 BCE with dedicatory inscription by Untash-Naparisha, King of Elam (now modern-day Iran), in Elamite language using Mesopotamian cuneiform script. Gift of Tenley M. and Rouyan V. Jones.

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Gifts to the Penn Museum Archives Gift of Richard Chalfen Three film reels, with behind-the-scenes footage from the Navajo Film Themselves project (1966), and the edited film, Context Film Gift of the Estate of Katharine T. S. Coley Illustrations and correspondence from the Penn Museum excavations at Tikal, Guatemala Gift of the Estate of T. Patrick Culbert Eleven boxes of records from the donor’s work on excavations in Tikal, Guatemala Gift of Dennis Doros Eight lobby cards and one promotional photograph for the 1932 motion picture film Matto Grosso

Gift of Jamie and Haim Handwerker Thirty vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver prints of Mexico and Guatemala, ca.1938, by Pierre Verger Gift of Barbara Hayden Ten boxes of records of archaeological survey and excavations in Crete Gift of Patrick McGovern Twenty boxes of records including those from the sites of Beth Shean, Israel, and Baq’ah Valley, Jordan Gift of Grace Freed Muscarella and Oscar White Muscarella Drawing of a Silver Beaker from Hasanlu, Iran, excavated by Robert Dyson and the Penn Museum team Gift of William Potter and Joanne Ruckel Fourteen vintage silver gelatin prints by photographers Marilyn Bridges, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Leonard Freed, and Ken Heyman Gift of Peggy Sanday Ten boxes of photographs and records from research in Menangkebau, Indonesia Gift of Mary M. Voigt 66,064 images including color slides, black and white negatives, photographic prints, and digital photographic images from the donor’s excavation work at Gordion, Turkey Gift to the Teaching Collections Gift of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission A human skeletal collection transferred as a Physical Anthropology teaching collection

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Collections: Traveling Exhibitions and Outgoing Loans Between July 1, 2013 and June 30, 2014, the Penn Museum lent 261 different items from its Curatorial Sections and Archives to 13 museums in three countries and eight U.S. states, with many of the objects making multiple stops along their itinerary.

These loans generally formed part of larger exhibitions curated and designed by other museums. In addition, four traveling exhibitions curated and designed by the Penn Museum were seen by a total of almost 35,000 visitors in borrowing museums in Florida, Massachusetts, South Carolina, and Texas.

International Loans Focus-Abengoa Foundation, Seville, Spain One Near East object for the exhibition Nur: Light in Islamic Art and Science

Loans across the United States The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD One Egyptian object for the exhibition Egypt’s Mysterious Book of the Faiyum

Museé du quai Branly, Paris, France Three American objects for the exhibition The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX One Near East object for the exhibition Nur: Light in Islamic Art and Science Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL Three Mediterranean objects for the exhibition Poseidon and the Sea: Myth, Cult, and Daily Life Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, CO 31 American objects for the exhibition Maya: Hidden Worlds Revealed

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Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA Four Asian objects for the exhibition Korean Treasures: Art and Culture of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392-1910 Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, Fort Worth, TX 69 objects from across Curatorial Sections and four Archival documents for the exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology Autry National Center of the American West, Los Angeles, CA Three American objects for the exhibition Floral Journey: Native North American Beadwork Oriental Institute Museum, Chicago, IL Two Near East objects for the exhibition Katumuwa and the Soul in the Storm: Afterlives and Ancestors in the Ancient Middle East

Penn Museum Traveling Exhibitions South Florida Museum, Bradenton, FL Adventures in Photography (64 photographs), closed September 2013 Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA River of Gold (140 American objects), September 2013 through January 2014 Latino Cultural Center, Dallas, TX Mythic Visions (31 American objects), January 2014 through March 2014 Art Museum of Myrtle Beach, Myrtle Beach, SC Rainbow Serpent (19 loaned-in objects), May 2014 through September 2014

The Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 32 American objects for the exhibition On the Wings of Eagle and Raven: Tlingit and Haida Traditions

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On loan 1. Tablet, Object Number B13885 Nippur, Iraq, ca. 1500 BCE Loaned to Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, Fort Worth, TX 2. Watercolor, Object Number 21574E Korea, 1886 Loaned to Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA 3. “Undersea Grizzly Bear” War Helmet, Object Number NA5739 Tlingit, Alaska Loaned to Arthur Ross Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 4. Attic Geometric Horse Pyxis, Object Number 30-41-2A Greece, ca.750 BCE Loaned to Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE & Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL

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5. Stained Glass Window, Object Number NEP123 Cairo, Egypt Loaned to Focus-Abengoa Foundation, Seville, Spain & Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX

Traveling Exhibitions 6. Gold Plaque, Object Number 40-13-4 Sitio Conte, Panama From the Penn Museum traveling exhibition River of Gold 7. Yarn Painting, Object Number 97-15-2 Huichol, Western Mexico, ca.1995 From the Penn Museum traveling exhibition Mythic Visions

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SUPPORTING THE MISSION THE VAST RANGE OF TEACHING, research, conservation, learning, exhibition, and event programs documented in the previous pages could not have taken place without a deeply generous cadre of members and individual and institutional supporters. The Penn Museum expresses profound thanks to all donors for support of programmatic initiatives and Museum operations during 2013–2014, as well as special thanks to donors who made possible capital building

SUPPORTING THE MISSION projects and endowed positions or programs.

Detail from a section of the Tejaprabha mural, object number C492. Mural painting from the wall of the lower building of the Guangsheng Monastery, Shanxi Province, China, ca. 1476, tempera on mud mixed with seeds, straw, and leaves. The central figure in this mural is Bhaisajyaguru, the Healing or Medicine Buddha, associated with longevity, who guards against untimely death, nightmares, evil apparitions, vicious animals, robbers, thieves, and invading states. The detail shows the Bodhisattva of the Sun, who, with the Bodhisattva of the Moon, forms a triad with the Buddha.

Statement of Fiscal Year Activity The Penn Museum is funded through a variety of sources, including investment income; gifts from individuals, foundations, and corporations; grants; subvention from the University of Pennsylvania; and earned revenue from admissions, catering and rental fees, artifact loan fees, traveling exhibition fees, publications, and K-12 and public programs.

The Penn Museum’s endowment funds are managed with the University of Pennsylvania endowments. For fiscal year ended June 30, 2014, the endowment returned 17.5 percent.

Investment performance was strong across asset classes, with public and private equities driving Penn’s results. Over the past three years, Penn’s endowment returned an annualized 10.9 percent, while it has produced an annualized return of 8.0 percent over the past 10 years. These returns have allowed the endowment to increase the support it provides to the operations of the University and its schools and centers including the Museum. Penn’s annual spending from the endowment has grown by more than 130 percent over the past decade.

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Statement of Museum Fiscal Year Activity June 30, 2014 (with comparative totals for the year ended June 30, 2013)

REVENUE Investment Income

FY13

FY14 $

$3,636,296

$

3,591,083

Gift Income

9,552,838

Sponsored Program Revenue (Grants)

1,015,513

660,335

University Subvention (Programmatic & Allocated Costs)

8,937,000

8,753,600

Transfers / Other Total revenue

7,267,194

1,773,259

2,518,894

24,914,906

22,791,106

8,618,871

8,585,986

948,505

720,128

EXPENDITURES Total Compensation

Current Expense: Traveling Exhibitions and Loan costs, Other Travel & Entertainment Supplies & Minor Expense

712,972

571,417

Non-Capitalized Equipment

323,681

563,823

Rental Income (internal)

(253,491)

(269,425)

Communications & Computing

377,830

609,526

Professional & Other Services

1,380,039

1,494,070

Operations & Maintenance

1,188,770

1,028,218

101,880

85,704

4,780,186

4,803,461

1,383,795

1,901,235

(217,258)

(261,227)

696,000

671,800

Other Total Current Expense:

Capital Transactions

Internal Penn Income (Expense Credits)

University Allocated Cost Charges: Library Charges Facilities Maintenance Charges

2,742,000

2,675,100

University Services Charges

1,349,004

1,317,500

Development Charges

1,220,004

1,176,200

6,000

Research Charges Total University Allocated Cost Charges

6,013,008

5,840,600

20,578,602

TOTAL EXPENDITURES TOTAL OPERATING SURPLUS/(DEFICIT)

SUPPORTING THE MISSION

$

$4,336,303

20,870,055 $

1,921,051

Leadership Gifts

The Penn Museum extends warm thanks to all of its 2013–2014 donors—many of whom are recognized throughout the remaining sections in this report—but would like to highlight in particular, with deepest appreciation, the following donors for their leadership support this past year.

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The Kowalski Family Foundation

Lily Ferry and Peter C. Ferry, C79

Building Transformation Lead Gift

Peter C. Ferry Curator-in-Charge Endowment, Mediterranean Section

At the June 2014 meeting of its Board of Overseers, Williams Director Julian Siggers acknowledged with heartfelt thanks the new gifts that will dramatically advance the Museum’s strategic priorities, in particular a magnificent lead gift through the Kowalski Family Foundation from Board Chairman Michael J. Kowalski, W74, Chairman and CEO of Tiffany & Co., his wife Barbara D. Kowalski, and their children Amanda M. Kowalski, C04, and Adam A. Kowalski, C10.

The generous gift from the Kowalski Family will endow a teaching specialist position in the new Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials, fund a renovation of the façade of the Museum’s historic buildings, provide lead support for the first infrastructure phase of the renovation of the Coxe and Harrison Wings which house the famed Egypt and China galleries, and complete funding for “Ur of the Chaldees,” lead sponsor the Leon Levy Foundation, a collaborative project with the British Museum to digitize the objects and excavation records housed in both museums to create a comprehensive, web-based resource for scholars of the Ancient Near East and the general public.

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A Classical Studies major, alumnus, and new Museum Overseer, Peter Ferry has always maintained a passionate interest in Classical Studies at Penn, including recent multiyear support for undergraduate fieldwork by current majors.

In May 2014, as he celebrated his 35th Reunion, Peter and his wife Lily made an extraordinary gift commitment to endow the Peter C. Ferry Curator-in-Charge, Mediterranean Section, held by faculty-curator C. Brian Rose, Ph.D., who also holds the James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology Chair in the Department of Classical Studies.

GRoW Annenberg Foundation/Gregory Annenberg Weingarten

A. Bruce Mainwaring, C47, and Margaret R. Mainwaring, ED47, HON85, PAR

Unpacking the Past School District of Philadelphia Partnership Program: Three-Year Lead Challenge Grant

West Wing Renovation Project; CAAM Teaching Specialist

Museum Overseer Gregory Annenberg Weingarten’s commitment to cultural enrichment programs for underserved K-12 students was evident through the many outstanding programs funded through his GRoW Annenberg program at the Annenberg Foundation. The Penn Museum was honored and delighted to receive a lead challenge grant of one million dollars from the GRoW Annenberg Foundation to launch its innovative three-year program, Unpacking the Past, offering a multi-stage museum experience to every seventh grade student in the School District of Philadelphia and the KIPP and Mastery Charter School systems.

In a single commitment in October 2013 typical of their extraordinary leadership support, Peggy and Bruce Mainwaring completed funding for the renovation of the conservation and teaching labs on the first floor of the West Wing, home to the new Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials (CAAM), and established funding for the first CAAM teaching specialist position, held by archaeozoologist Katherine Moore. The labs renovation commitment was the Mainwarings’ sixth to the West Wing Renovation Project begun in 2011, which also included renovation of five public galleries and the beautiful Widener Lecture Room, and air conditioning throughout the Wing.

When the labs opened in September 2014, the Penn Museum was pleased to dedicate the West Wing Conservation and Teaching Labs to the Mainwarings and fellow lead donor Charles K. Williams II, recognizing them as longtime champions of archaeological teaching and research.

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Photo by Annenberg Foundation

SUPPORTING THE MISSION

Leadership Gifts TEACHING AND RESEARCH SUPPORT

Louis J. Kolb Foundation

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

Graduate Fellowship Support

Gordion Excavation Fund

Founded through a bequest by Katherine Kolb Paanakker in honor of her father, Colonel Louis J. Kolb, the Louis J. Kolb Society of Fellows provides fellowships and financial aid for graduate students at Penn in academic disciplines related to the mission of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Each year, several deserving Ph.D. candidates are elected to the rank of junior fellow in the Kolb Society by senior fellows, based on scholastic achievement, and receive fellowships to support their graduate study and complete their dissertations. In 2013–2014 there were 20 junior fellows, actively engaged in completing their dissertations.

Very few donors can bring the insight to their funded projects that archaeologist and Overseer Charles Williams brings to the Museum’s longtime excavations at Gordion in Central Anatolia, Turkey, where he excavated as a graduate student under then-Mediterranean Section Curator-in-Charge Rodney Young. The energetic program of research excavation, site conservation, community and tourist outreach, and dig house and storage improvement is made possible—in very significant part—by Dr. Williams’ lead support. Current graduate students, including Kathryn Morgan referenced below left, are delighted to share their work with Dr. Williams during his continued summer visits.

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Kolb Junior Fellow Kathryn Morgan, Ph.D. candidate in 54 55

the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World Graduate Group, shows Williams Director Julian Siggers the excavation she supervised on the Citadel Mound at Gordion in summer 2014, as part of her dissertation work.

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Charles Williams in the Ceramics Lab, opened in the Museum’s West Wing lab suite through his generosity in 2011.

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Tim Clancy (right) with his wife McCarroll Sibley Clancy and

Gerri and Dolf Paier (right) with American Section Keeper of

Deputy Director Steve Tinney at the Museum’s celebration event

Collections Bill Wierzbowski at the preview reception for Native

for the Making History Campaign, April 2013.

American Voices, February 2014.

David T. Clancy, W70

Adolf A. Paier, W60, and Geraldine Paier, Ph.D., HUP66, NU68, GNU85, GR94

David T. Clancy Fund for Exhibitions

The Penn Museum is deeply grateful to David T. (Tim) Clancy for a renewed lead commitment to its Exhibitions program, including staffing, fabrication, and installation of exhibitions. Mr. Clancy’s support of this program since 2009 has had a profound impact, enhancing the in-house Museum teams responsible for the development of major changing exhibitions Secrets of the Silk Road (2011) and MAYA 2012: Lords of Time (2012) as well as popular long-term exhibitions including In the Artifact Lab and Native American Voices.

Mr. Clancy’s renewed support comes at a critical time, as the Exhibitions team works with curatorial teams on the renovation and reinstallation of the Museum’s signature galleries for ancient Near East, Asian, and ancient Egyptian collections.

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Native American Voices Exhibition

A longtime volunteer in the Museum’s American Section, and an accomplished needlewoman, Overseer Gerri Paier has a special appreciation for the objects in Native American Voices and the craftsmanship and stories of the people who made and use them. Part-time residents of Tucson, Arizona, Gerri and her husband Dolf, a former Overseer and now member of the Director’s Council, became lead underwriters for the exhibition, with Frances and Rick Rockwell, with a deeply generous commitment in Summer 2013.

Leadership Gifts EXHIBITIONS SUPPORT

Frances Rockwell and John R. Rockwell, W64, WG66 In the Artifact Lab

Supporter of In the Artifact Lab since its opening in September 2012 as well as lead supporter of Native American Voices, Class of 1964 Gift Chair John R. (Rick) Rockwell made a wonderful new commitment as the class celebrated its 50th Reunion in a cocktail party in the Museum’s Egyptian Galleries in May 2014 to fully fund the popular open conservation lab through September 2015. Thanks to the continued generosity of Mr. Rockwell, who received the Museum’s Marian Angell Godfrey Boyer Award for outstanding service by a Museum volunteer in April 2014, the public will be able to continue to view conservators restoring ancient Egyptian mummies and their related funerary artifacts.

Mr. Rockwell, whose additional conservation project support includes the cleaning and stabilization of the famed Tang Horse reliefs in the Rotunda, is also lead underwriter for Penn Museum excavations at Abydos, in southern Egypt, under the direction of Dr. Josef Wegner.

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Rick Rockwell (center) with Scott (left) and Frances (right) Rockwell after receiving the Marian Angell Godfrey Boyer Award, April 2014.

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Frederick J. Manning, W69, and the Manning Family Manning Family Exhibitions Fund

Susan Drossman Sokoloff, C84, and Adam D. Sokoloff, W84 The Susan Drossman Sokoloff and Adam D. Sokoloff Exhibitions Fund

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Fred Manning at the opening of the Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials, Fall 2014.

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Adam Sokoloff at the opening of the Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials, Fall 2014.

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While embarking on the major renovation of its permanent galleries housing collections from ancient Egypt, the ancient Near East, and Asia, the Penn Museum is equally committed to a continued program of vibrant changing exhibitions.

At the June meeting of the Board of Overseers, Director Julian Siggers was therefore delighted to announce two lead, multi-year commitments to the Director’s Exhibitions and Galleries Fund to support changing exhibitions, beginning with Beneath the Surface: Life, Death, and Gold in Ancient Panama opening February 2015, from new Overseer Adam D. Sokoloff and his wife Susan, and from longtime Overseer Frederick J. Manning, whose previous commitment to the West Wing Renovation Project named the Conservation Offices.

Building Transformation Gifts

Thanks to gifts for building renovation projects in the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014, the Penn Museum was able to renovate the Rainey Auditorium and the conservation and teaching laboratories in the West Wing. Gifts received from members of the family of Charles Custis Harrison will make possible the installation of upgraded sound and projection systems in the Harrison Auditorium in Summer 2015. A lead gift from the Kowalski Family Foundation to the Museum’s new Building Transformation campaign will make possible a renovation of the Museum’s South Street façade, also in Summer 2015, and launches fundraising for a dramatic renovation of the Museum’s Coxe (Egyptian) and Harrison Wings. The Penn Museum extends grateful thanks to the following donors for support of capital projects during 2013–2014.

Building Transformation

The Kowalski Family Foundation

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In recent years, Rainey Auditorium has hosted over 70 Penn

For the Renovation of Rainey Auditorium

Museum public events annually—including lectures, World

Joanne H. Conrad, C79, and William L. Conrad, PAR

Culture Day presentations, film screenings, exhibition opening

Mary Bert Gutman, PAR

events, children’s programs, and member events. Additionally, the

Jacqueline W. Hover and John C. Hover II, C65, WG67

auditorium hosts more than 30 Penn public events including the

Edward K. Hueber, C43, and Josephine Arader Hueber, CW47, PAR

Penn Humanities Forum and Student Performing Arts, and is used

Annette Merle-Smith

for over 350 hours of Penn classes. In January 2014, the Penn

Carlos L. Nottebohm, W64, and Renee Nottebohm

Museum was delighted to be able to refurbish this well-used space

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

with new carpet, chairs, handrail, and paint, thanks to a generous

Alexandra Schoenberg and Eric J. Schoenberg, Ph.D., GEN93, WG93, PAR

lead challenge gift from Annette Merle-Smith, and additional funding from members of the Board of Overseers.

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The renovated conservation and teaching laboratories—the

Charles Custis Harrison (1844-1929); University of Pennsylvania

final phase of the West Wing Renovation Project—will house up

Provost (1894-1910). Drawing by Haeseler, 1905. Penn Museum

to 12 conservators and interns, and the teaching spaces for the new

image 162547. The Penn Museum is honored to be able to upgrade

Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials.

sound and projection systems in the auditorium that bears his name thanks to the generosity of his family and their friends.

For the Renovation of the West Wing Conservation and Teaching Labs

For a new Audio Visual System in Harrison Auditorium

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

Hunter M. Addis, M.D.

Peter Freyd, Ph.D., HOM64, PAR

Judith Harrison Addis

Estate of Rachel R. Hopkinson

Robert M. Bell, M.D., and Stirling M. Puck, M.D.

Carole L. Kamin and Daniel G. Kamin, C64, PAR

Geoffrey R. Berwind

Evelyn S. Kritchevsky, Ph.D., GR78

Judith A. Clifford

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

Nicholas R. Clifford

Esquire, W65 A. Bruce Mainwaring, C47, and Margaret R. Mainwaring, ED47, HON85, PAR

Charles H. Davis, W56, WG63, and Suzanne M. Davis Charles C. Harrison V Jean Harrison Hyland and William Hyland

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

Francis B. Jacobs II and Patricia Harrison Jacobs

Bayard T. Storey, Ph.D., and Frances E. Storey*

Lucy McMichael

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

Sally H. Sharples Susan F. Talbot

*Deceased since July 1, 2013

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

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Gifts in Support of Scholarly Programs

As a dynamic research institution with many ongoing research projects, the Museum is a vibrant and engaging place of continual discovery. A new center for the teaching of archaeological science, the Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials, together with use of our vast collections for object-based learning, and opportunities to work with Penn’s faculty in numerous field projects, makes Penn the preeminent institution for the study of archaeology.

The Penn Museum is profoundly grateful to the following donors, whose support during 2013–2014 made possible the launch of the new teaching center; ongoing fieldwork support for student participation, site conservation, and excavation work which led to several tremendously important discoveries; digital and print publications work; and special conservation projects.

T EAC H I N G Academic Engagement Program The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials Anonymous The Kowalski Family Foundation, to endow a Digital Archaeology Teaching Specialist

A. Bruce Mainwaring, C47, and Margaret R. Mainwaring, ED47, HON85, PAR Charles K. Williams II, Ph.D., GR78, HON97

Undergraduate Student Aid and Summer Fieldwork Hara Ann Bouganim, CW63 The Chingos Foundation Cynthia J. Eiseman, Ph.D., GR79, and James Eiseman, Jr., L66 Lily Ferry and Peter C. Ferry, C79 Mrs. Louis Gerstley III, GM57 Gretchen R. Hall, Ph.D., CGS97 George R. Pitts, Ph.D., GR77 60 61

Graduate Student Fellowships Global Heritage Fund Louis J. Kolb Foundation

R ES EAR C H Curatorial Endowments Lily Ferry and Peter C. Ferry, C79 Curatorial Research Projects Abydos Archaeological Project, Egypt Frances Rockwell and John R. Rockwell, W64, WG66, PAR Patricia L. Squire Elizabeth Jean Walker, SW74 Charles K. Williams II, Ph.D., GR78, HON97 Bat Archaeological Project, Oman Donna Conforti Rissman and Paul Rissman, Ph.D., C78, GR85 Ban Chiang Project, Thailand Richard L. Farr, Esquire, W63 Jacqueline W. Hover and John C. Hover II, C65, WG67 Stephen A. Lang Michael R. Weldon Betancourt Fund for Archaeological Teaching and Research in Aegean Prehistory Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation Gordion Excavation Project, Turkey Geoffrey K. Cranenburgh Elizabeth B. Hess, WG81 Jessica S. Johnson Kenneth Jordan Eleanor M. Kuniholm and Peter Ian Kuniholm, Ph.D., GR77 Julius Bali Levin, W64 Loeb Classical Library Foundation Luther I. Replogle Foundation Kathleen M. Lynch, Ph.D. Ann Santen The Selz Foundation, Inc. Charles K. Williams II, Ph.D., GR78, HON97 John Ellis Knowles Wisner Gordion Digital Archive Project Kenneth Jordan Elizabeth Ray McLean, C78 Gordion Mark Goodman Internship James & Rebecca Morgan Family Foundation Jeff Morgan Penn Cultural Heritage Center Peter G. Gould, Ph.D., LPS10, and Robin M. Potter, WG80 Gail Kamer Lieberfarb Charles K. Williams II, Ph.D., GR78, HON97 Roman Peasant Project, Italy Charles K. Williams II, Ph.D., GR78, HON97 Saqqara Post-Excavation Work, Egypt Criswell Cohagan Gonzalez

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M. Kate Pitcairn, CGS77, G78

Publications Hasanlu Publications Fund The Hagop Kevorkian Fund Robert J. Sharer Maya Publications Fund Betty Burton Reina, GED79, and Ruben E. Reina, Ph.D., PAR

Conservation Projects Conservation of the Buddhist Murals Michael Feng, C79, and Winnie Chin Feng, NU79, PAR Lapithos Survey Samuel G. Kress Foundation/AIC

Gifts to the Curatorial Sections The Dalton School, in honor of the Near East Section Jean Henry, Ph.D., M.S.S., B.C.D., in honor of the Physical Anthropology Section Frances L. Litvin, to the Egyptian Section in honor of Stephen Phillips Kathryn Sorkin and Sanford Sorkin, W67, to the Asian and Near East Section Penn Museum Casting Program Lisa Gemmill

Ur Digitization Project The Hagop Kevorkian Fund The Kowalski Family Foundation Leon Levy Foundation Top: Students in the fall 2013 freshman seminar “The World of Manuscripts,” taught by Will Noel, Director, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts (left) and Peter Stallybrass, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English and of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory (back row, center) examine the Museum’s manuscript holdings in the Collections Study Room.

Middle: Janet Monge and William (Brad) Hafford identify a 6,500-year-old skeleton through the Ur Digitization Project.

Bottom: Katharine Moore teaches the freshman seminar “Food & Fire: Archaeology and the Laboratory,” the first course taught in the Museum’s new Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials.

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Gifts in Support of Visitor Programs

A firm belief that the Museum should strive to transform the way our visitors see the past, and the way in which they understand the world and their place in it, is at the heart of everything we set out to achieve, driven by our public educational mission and the Penn Compact 2020’s commitment to local engagement.

In the following section, the Penn Museum acknowledges special support for public engagement programs—changing exhibitions, K-12 and community outreach programs, and special events—during 2013–2014 with our deepest thanks.

Unpacking the Past Mrs. Joel Bachman, in honor of Nancy Tabas Marie A. Conn, Ph.D. Kristin Davidson, CGS84, GED88, GED01, and Robert Davidson Mrs. Louis Gerstley III, GM57 GRoW Annenberg Foundation/Gregory A. Weingarten Jerry D. Levitt, M.D., C62, M66, FEL72, and Julie M. Levitt, Ph.D., C65 Diane von Schlegell Levy and Robert M. Levy, WG74 Christopher Ludwick Foundation Donna Mackay, M.D., and Robert Mackay Mary Ann D. Meyers, Ph.D., GR76, PAR

LEA R N I N G P R O G R AM S Assistant Director of Education

Ellen Cole Miller*

Annette Merle-Smith

John Templeton Foundation

Barbara Rittenhouse The Women’s Committee

International Classroom Program F. Hilary Conroy, Ph.D. Josephine Klein

C HAN G I N G E X H I B ITI O N P R O G R AM S Director’s Exhibitions Fund Anita and T. Wayne Roberts

International Student Reception

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

Arcadia University

Adolf A. Paier, W60, and Geraldine S. Paier, Ph.D., HUP66, NU68,

Art Institute International

GNU85, GR94

Bryn Mawr College

Frederick J. Manning, W69, and Gail P. Manning, PAR

Burlington County College

Susan Drossman Sokoloff, C84, and Adam D. Sokoloff, W84

Chestnut Hill College ELS Educational Services, Inc.

Imagine Africa

Fulbright Association

Peter G. Gould, Ph.D., LPS10, and Robin M. Potter, WG80

Matthew I. Hirsch International Visitors Council of Philadelphia

Native American Voices

Jefferson University

The Coby Foundation, Ltd.

La Salle University

Joanne H. Conrad, C79, and William L. Conrad, PAR

Philadelphia University

Delaware Investments/Macquarie Group Foundation

Swarthmore College

Eleanor O. Hill and Robert W. Hill, AR55

The Wistar Institute

Ellen Cole Miller*

University of the Sciences

Adolf A. Paier, W60, and Geraldine S. Paier, Ph.D., HUP66, NU68,

Ursinus College Widener University 62 63

GNU85, GR94 PECO Kathryn Sorkin and Sanford Sorkin, W67

Sponsor a School

The Selz Foundation, Inc.

Aker Philadelphia Shipyard Robert L. and Agnes Cook Bard Foundation

Secrets of the Silk Road

Christian R. & Mary F. Lindback Foundation

Gretchen R. Hall, Ph.D., CGS97

Connelly Foundation Barbara Rittenhouse

Touch Tours for the Blind Connelly Foundation Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation Anita and T. Wayne Roberts

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*Deceased since July 1, 2013

P U B LI C P R O G R A M S Day of the Dead

Pompeii Lecture Series

William M. King Charitable Foundation

John S. Price, PAR

America-Italy Society of Philadelphia

University City District

Relâche in Residence Maya Weekend

Pauline A. Candaux and Solomon H. Katz, Ph.D., GR67, HOM72

Deborah Hurst and Dr. W. Jeffrey Hurst

Lily Ferry and Peter C. Ferry, C79 Betty and James M. Matarese

Peace around the World William M. King Charitable Foundation

Summer Nights Concert Series

The M&T Charitable Foundation

Dogfish Head Craft Brewery

Restaurant Associates Wilmington Trust Company

Teen Toga Party

The Women’s Committee

Classical Association of the Atlantic States, Inc.

Elizabeth Watts and Howard Petersen Lecture Fund

In-kind Donations for Public Events or Summer Camp

Emily Squires Levine, C76, and Ronald H. Levine, Esquire, W74

Coca-Cola Refreshments

Alexander C.S. and Vanessa G. Spiro

Event Network

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Students and teachers from West Philadelphia’s Samuel Powel

At the Penn Museum’s annual passport to the holiday season,

Elementary School enjoy the exhibition Native American Voices

Peace around the World, in December 2013, young visitors

in a visit made possible through the Sponsor a School program by

enjoyed hands on craft activities, musical performances, storytelling,

PECO, lead education sponsor for Native American Voices.

and complimentary holiday treats, as they traveled the Museum galleries to get their special passports stamped. Peace around the World was made possible with lead support from the William M. King Charitable Foundation, Wilmington Trust, and the Women’s Committee.

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The Loren Eiseley Leadership Giving Society

The Loren Eiseley Leadership Giving Society (LES) was created to honor the memory of the long-time Penn Museum anthropologist, essayist, and poet by helping to further his ideals and sustain the Museum he loved, where he accomplished so much of his life’s work. The Society recognizes individuals who contribute at least $1,500 annually to the Museum in unrestricted support through Membership, the Annual Fund, or the Director’s Discretionary Fund— the most vital type of funding since it is available where needed at any time.

The Penn Museum gratefully acknowledges the LES members below, with special thanks to our LES Co-Chairs, Joanne and Bill Conrad and Stacey Lane, and to those individuals marked +, who have been loyal contributors for 10 consecutive years or more.

Silver Circle ($2,500 - $4,999) Benjamin Ashcom, Ed.D., GRD74, and Jane Ashcom, Ph.D., G64 Nicholas Bass, ENG09, and Emily Zenger, C09 Cummins Catherwood, Jr., and Susan W. Catherwood+ Debra and Morris Chandler Lawrence S. Coben, Ph.D., G03, GR12 Jason Fehntrich and Amie Spatz Lily Ferry and Peter C. Ferry, C79+ Shannon Garrison and Nikil Saval

Williams Director’s Circle ($50,000 and above)

Diane von Schlegell Levy and Robert M. Levy,

Barbara D. Kowalski and Michael J. Kowalski,

Bonnie Verbit Lundy, CW67, and Joseph E.

W74, PAR A. Bruce Mainwaring, C47, and Margaret R. Mainwaring, ED47, HON85, PAR+ Charles K. Williams, II, Ph.D., GR78, HON97+

WG74+ Lundy, Esquire, W65+ Frederick J. Manning, W69, and Gail P. Manning, PAR+

Marco L. Lukesch, C01, W01

Peter G. Gould, Ph.D., LPS10, and Robin M.

William L. Potter, WG88, and Joanne S.

Lane, C80, GR13, PAR Gregory A. Weingarten Jeffrey Weiss and Jill Topkis Weiss, C89, WG93 64 65

Ph.D., HUP66, NU68, GNU85, GR94+ Ruckel, WG88 Gretchen P. Riley, CGS70, and J. Barton Riley, W70, PAR+ Frances Rockwell and John R. Rockwell, W64, WG66, PAR+ Schuy Wood and Theodore V. Wood, Jr.+ Mo Zayan and Nanou Zayan, CW73, PAR

Platinum Circle ($10,000 - $24,999) Lois and Robert M. Baylis+ David T. Clancy, W70, and McCarroll

R. Scott Boucher and Linda Descano

Joanne H. Conrad, C79, and William L. Conrad, PAR+

Mary Bert Gutman, PAR+ Gretchen R. Hall, Ph.D., CGS97+ Edward K. Hueber, C43, and Josephine Arader

Greg Danilow and Susan F. Danilow,

Hueber, CW47, PAR+

Esquire, CW74, G74, PAR

Robert W. Kalish, M.D., C55

Michael Feng, C79, and Winnie Chin Feng, NU79, PAR+ Mrs. Louis Gerstley III, GM57 Jacqueline W. Hover and John C. Hover II,

Nancy Marvin, Esquire, C76, L82, and Peter Marvin, Esquire, C68, L72, PAR Laurie Maslow, CW69, and Gregory S. Maslow, M.D., C68, M72, GM77, PAR Judith L. Oppenheimer, CW73 George R. Pitts, Ph.D., GR77+ John R. Senior, M.D., M54, FEL59, and Sara Spedden Senior, CW52, PAR+ Lee Evan Tabas, C72, ME72, and Nancy Freeman Tabas, PAR Elizabeth Jean Walker, SW74 Andrea Weiss and Carl Weiss, Esquire, PAR

Gold Circle ($5,000 - $9,999)

Sibley Clancy+

Rosengard, Esquire, L76, PAR Judy and Peter Leone Frank and Sharon N. Lorenzo

Adolf A. Paier, W60, and Geraldine Paier,

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

C73, PAR Andrea R. Kramer, Esquire, L76, and Lee A.

Carlos L. Nottebohm, W64, and Renee

Williams Director’s Circle ($25,000 - $49,999)

Donald C. and Ingrid A. Graham+

Dale D. Graham and Gregory T. Graham,

Annette Merle-Smith+ Nottebohm+

Potter, WG80

Lisa Gemmill

John J. Medveckis, PAR+ Mrs. J. Maxwell Moran+ Alexandra Schoenberg and Eric J. Schoenberg, Ph.D., GEN93, WG93, PAR+

C65, WG67+

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Nina Robinson Vitow, CW70, WG76

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LES Co-Chair Bill Conrad (left) chats with

Left to right: Josie Hueber, Mary Bert Gutman, Lee Tabas, Carlos Nottebohm,

Ben and Jane Ashcom at the LES annual dinner

and Jane Gutman take a close look at artifacts being conserved for display in

and Drexel and Boyer Awards Ceremony in

Native American Voices at a special event for Gold Circle members with Head

April 2014.

Conservator Lynn Grant in December 2013.

Bronze Circle ($1,500 - $2,499) Elie M. Abemayor, M.D., C78, and Judith Abemayor+ Eileen Baird+ Arthur J. Burke, Esquire, C89, W89 Joseph E. Colen, Jr., and Mary Leach Colen, GED68+ Carrie and Kenneth Cox, PAR Elin C. Danien, Ph.D., CGS82, G89, GR98+ A. Webster Dougherty, Jr., C57, and Janet S. Dougherty+ Jane A. Duffy and Michael P. Duffy, L86 Gary A. Emmett, M.D., and Marianne Emmett, M.D. Beth Fluke, CGS98, and Gordon Fluke, Jr., GAR66 Marilyn Forney and Robert C. Forney, Ph.D., PAR+ Pamela Freyd, Ph.D., GED68, GR81, and Peter Freyd, Ph.D., PAR+ Janice T. Gordon, Ph.D. + Anthony Grillo, WG78, and Elaine Grillo Michael P. and Suchinda Heavener+ Fredrik T. Hiebert, Ph.D., and Katherine Moore Hiebert, Ph.D.

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Harvey and Virginia Kimmel+

Kathryn Sorkin and Sanford Sorkin, W67

H. Lewis Klein, C49, and Janet S. Klein,

Bayard T. Storey, Ph.D., and Frances E. Storey+

ED51, PAR+ Josephine Klein+ J. Bruce Kneeland, M.D., WMP02, and Nancy Kneeland

Stephen Tinney, Ph.D., and Beatriz Urraca, Ph.D Jeannette G. Tregoe, PAR+ Mrs. Robert L. Trescher

Howard H. and Maxine S. Lewis+

Caroline Waxler, C93

Rachel C. Lilley, CW66+

Helen S. Weary+

Alida N. Lovell+

Joanne T. Welsh, CW52, and Raymond H.

Ole W. Lyngklip III, Esquire, C85 Donna Mackay, M.D., and Robert Mackay+ Missy and Robert E. McQuiston+ Bernard and Rosa Meyers+ Ella Warren Miller, CW51, and Paul F. Miller,

Welsh, W53+ Helen P. Winston and Richard E. Winston, G48, PAR+ Diane Dalto Woosnam and Richard E. Woosnam+

Jr., W50, HON81, PAR+ Amanda Mitchell-Boyask and Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Ph.D.

+ Loyal contributor for 10 consecutive years or more, recognized in the Penn Museum’s 1887

Matthew Mol

Society. For a full listing of individuals recognized

A. M. Mulroney, CW57, PAR+

for loyal giving at all membership levels through

Bonnie J. O’Boyle, CW68+

the 1887 Society, please visit www.penn.museum/

Donna Conforti Rissman and Paul Rissman,

donor-recognition.

Ph.D., C78, GR85+ Joseph B. and Rita P. Scheller+ Julian Siggers, Ph.D., and Marianne Lovink Mary Ellen Simmons, O.D., C81, and Steve Simmons+ Laird and M. Trudy Slade

*Deceased since July 1, 2013

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. The Penn Museum offers profound thanks to the Expedition Circle, members who donate $250 to $1,499 annually, and particularly to those who also made a separate contribution to the Annual Fund this year (noted with **), as well as those individuals marked +, who have been loyal contributors for 10 consecutive years or more.

Robert Coughlin, Ph.D., GR64, and Louisa H.

Benefactor ($750 - $1,499)

Patron ($250 - $499)

Betsy and Kevin Donohoe

Wendy Ashmore, Ph.D., GR81+

Janet Kestenberg Amighi and Lawrence

Spottswood+ Brittney Day and Troy Majnerick Raphael J. Dehoratius, M.D., M44, GM48 Roger Delany and Kimberlee Kraus Caroline and Joseph W. Dellapenna Prema Deshmukh, WEV10, and Sanjay Deshmukh, PAR

Ann B. Brownlee, Ph.D., and David B. Brownlee, Ph.D.+

Helen Evelev, CGS07, and Leonard Evelev,

Arthur K. Asbury, M.D.

Hannah L. Henderson**+

Vesna Bacic and Zlatko Bacic, Ph.D.

Silvia Figueroa and Philip T. Kislak, C70

Roberta Tanenbaum, PAR+

Sylva C. Baker, CW52, G53, PAR+

Katherine M. Fisher+

Deborah R. Willig, Esquire, CW72

Alexander Baranowski and Stefani Kalemnous

Marilyn Fishman and James P. MacElderry**+

Erica S. Batt and Gerald J. Batt, Esquire**

Jean Flood and Paul Nemeth

Fellow ($500 - $749)

Mona N. Batt+

Dr. Denise Freeman and Dr. Michael Freeman,

Brett and Nancy Altman

Michael and Patricia Berrini

Susan M. Garfinkel**

James Averill

Daniel Bigelow and Suzanne Cole

Robert Gilmour and Cynthia Mabry

Andrew F. Blittman and Linda Zaleski

Gene Bishop and Andrew M. Stone, M.D. +

James A. Glasscock, D.Min., and Lois R.

G. Theodore and Nancie W. Burkett+

Matthew C. Blair and Michael J. Haas

Elizabeth Spiro Clark and Warren Clark, Jr. +

Ira Brind, Esquire, C63, L67+

Marie A. Conn, Ph.D. +

Ellen and Martin Brodigan

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

Dr. Robert A. Brooks and Shirley Brooks+

Coyle Joan Driscoll, PAR Keith Fleming and Albert Stumm Elizabeth Gemmill, Esquire, CGS04, CGS06+

Marshall J. Becker, Ph.D., C59, GR71

Sara M. Brown, Ph.D., GRD64**+ Richard J. Busis, Esquire, C75, G80, PAR+ Elizabeth and John Bussard+ Anne C. Butcher and McBee Butcher, C61, PAR

CGS07+

PAR

Glasscock Marguerite P. Goff and Stephen Goff, AR62, PAR+ Andrew R. Golden, W74, and Vickie G. Golden, W74, PAR**+ Frederick Golec, Jr., Ph.D., and Susan Robinson Golec Ann N. Greene, CW54**+ Brett B. Gutsche, M.D.

Naomi S. Grabel, C86, and Neil Kutner

David J. Califf, Ph.D.** +

Randie and Robert Harmelin**

Alan and Nancy J. Hirsig+

Carl J. Capista and Donna E. Ostroff, Esquire,

Cynthia M. Harrison, Ph.D., GR82**+

Ann M. Huebner

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Bruce A. and Ellen Asam

Judith E. Wolf, M.D., INT84**+ Beverly Elliott+

Alice L. George, Ph.D., GGS96

Edward C. Driscoll, C51, and

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Davidson+

Howard J. Eisen, M.D., M81, INT84, and

C81

Margaret Trexler Hessen, M.D., and Scott E.

Elise F. Jones, G69, GR79**+

Cynthia P. Cardonick

Betsy and Robert Legnini

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

Elizabeth B. Hill and Joseph J. Hill, C61, PAR+

Michael and Therese Marmion

J. Michael Casey

James H. and Pamela M. Hill

Linda McCarthy and Thomas A. McCarthy, Jr.,

Jeff Cepull and Lynne A. Hunter, Ph.D.

Lynda K. and W. Anthony Hitschler+

Joan I. Coale**+

Hon. Harris N. Hollin, CCC57, and Sandra F.

W78**+ Mary Ann D. Meyers, Ph.D., GR76, PAR+ Janet M. Monge, Ph.D., GR80**

Abbi L. Cohen, Esquire, L83, and Thomas O’Connell, Esquire, PAR

Donald Morel, Jr., Ph.D.

Beth W. Colombe, Ph.D.

June S. Morse, CGS84+

Patricia Conard+

Martha and Peter Morse+

Byron P. Connell, C63, and Christine V.

Mary Warden and William G. Warden III+

Connell+ Mari and Robert Corson** Patrick Coue, CGS07, and Sampath Kannan, Ph.D., PAR

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Hollin, PAR+ W. Lynn Holmes, Ph.D., and Mary P. Osbakken, M.D., Ph.D. Richard W. Huffman, AR63, GAR67, GCP67, GFA67, and Susan M. Huffman, GCP70 Danielle Hutjer Lee M. Hymerling, Esquire, C66, L69, and Rosedale Hymerling Shirley Jackiewicz

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Expedition Circle members enjoy a special reception and preview of Native American Voices in February 2014.

Linda Jacobsen

Herbert J. Nevyas, M.D., C55, M59, RES64,

Donald Kajioka

and Joann Nevyas, M.D., CW59, PAR

Anne A. Kamrin and Robert P. Kamrin, M.D., M59, INT66+ David Kaufman, M.D., and Geraldine Kaufman, D.V.M. Charles T. Kelly, CGS07, and Yeoun Lee, PAR DruEllen Kolker and James D. Kolker, M.D., C76**

Prakriti G. Tandon, C01, W01, LPS10

Rebecca Calder Nugent and Timothy Nugent

Jay H. Tolson**

Albert T. Olenzak, Ph.D. +

Anh H. Truong and Yen N. Voong

W. Gresham O’Malley III, W54**+

Robert J. Wallner, M.D.

Sandra B. Portnoy, CW67, and Dr. Sidney

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

Portnoy+ Edward A. Richards, GAR59 Anthony B. Riley

Warden, C83, PAR**+

Barbara Rittenhouse+ Matthew and Patricia Robertson Jonah S. Roll

Christopher and Misti Layser

John Rosenau

William Levant and Carol R. Yaster+

Julia K. Rosenwald, CW38**

Mary Ann and Raymond Marks, PAR**

Lawrence Rueger and Marjorie B. Rueger,

Betty and James M. Matarese Robert M. Maxwell, C84, G86, and Julia R. Toner

CW70 Morton T. Saunders** Andrea Scott and H. Rodney Scott, C70

Elizabeth Ray McLean, C78+

Marcia C. Shearer

Anselene M. Morris+

Ed Solomon, W76, and Cathy Weiss

William R. Muir, M.D., INT59+

Marcia Robb Staddon, CGS74, and Arthur

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

Staddon, M.D., M72, FEL78 Francis R. Strawbridge III and Mary Jo Strawbridge+

SUPPORTING THE MISSION

Myron Yanoff, M.D., C57, M61, PAR**+

Kate S. and Michael A. Riccardi

Doranne M. Lackman and Richard D. Margaret J. Laudise, GNU87, and Derek P.

Elizabeth and Richard Szucs

Arthur E. Newbold IV, Esquire, L67

Evelyn S. Kritchevsky, Ph.D., GR78**+ Lackman, M.D., M77, INT82, PAR

Jill Szporn and Monroe N. Szporn, M.D., C71+

**Donor to both Annual Fund and Membership + Loyal contributor for 10 consecutive years or more, recognized in the Penn Museum’s 1887 Society. For a full listing of individuals recognized for loyal giving at all membership levels through the 1887 Society, please visit www.penn.museum/donor-recognition.

The Annual Fund

The Penn Museum gratefully acknowledges all donors to the Annual Fund and in particular the following donors for their contributions of $125 or more—in many cases (noted with **) over and above their membership support. Given with no expectation of receiving benefits, these contributions were directed 100 percent to supporting the Museum’s general operations in the year in which they were given. Special thanks to donors who gave a special Annual Fund gift in the amount of $125 in honor of the Museum’s over 125-year history. We also thank those individuals marked +, who have been loyal contributors for 10 consecutive years or more. $1,000 and above Arnold W. Bradburd, W49, and Julia A. Bradburd, CGS07**+ Elizabeth S. Gephart, CGS79, and George W. Gephart, Jr., WG79, PAR Gary Hatfield, Ph.D., and Holly Pittman, Ph.D. Leon A. Nolting**

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$500 - $999 Peter A. Benoliel, G58, and Willo Carey, PAR Susan J. Bridges, Ph.D., CW74+ Sara M. Brown, Ph.D., GRD64**+ Francis J. Carey, Esquire, C45, L49, PAR** Julie Laughlin Holt and Leo A. Holt Diane L. Horan, CW74, and Peter Horan, C73, WG77+ Sara Levan, CW52, PAR John R. Neefe, Jr., M.D., M69, and Lynne Neefe, M.D., M69** $250 - $499 Joan I. Coale** Ann T. Csink and John E. Linck, Jr., PAR**+ Helen K. Dixon and William J. Dixon, Jr.** + Harrison Eiteljorg II, Ph.D., GR73, and Linda I. Weiss+ Andrew R. Golden, W74, and Vickie G. Golden, W74, PAR**+ Ann N. Greene, CW54**+ Hannah L. Henderson**+ H. Lewis Klein, C49, and Janet S. Klein,

ED51, PAR**+ Dale P. Levy, Esquire, L67, and Richard D. Levy** Linda McCarthy and Thomas A. McCarthy, Jr., W78**+ Medha Narvekar, WG86 Robert and Susan Peck** Scott Schley Ada Warner and Frank W. Warner, Ph.D., PAR** Daniel and Sandra Weiss

$126 - $249 Beth Howland Butler and John P. Butler III, C59** Albert A. Ciardi III, W88** Janet H. Goren and Robert Goren, M.D., C73, GM81 Randie and Robert Harmelin** Lee C. Horne, Ph.D., GR88, and Bruce Pearson**+ Elise F. Jones, G69, GR79**+ Madeleine M. Joullie, Ph.D., G50, GR53** Weislawa Kaczanowska, M.D. Robert A. and Thomas G. Lawler** Mott R. Linn, Ph.D., C53, GRD71, and Ruth H. Linn, ED55, GED59**+ John S. Price, PAR* Charles H. Pritchard, M.D., and Laura Pritchard Julia K. Rosenwald, CW38** Tamara Smith, Ph.D.** University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education $125 in honor of the Penn Museum’s over 125-year history Julia Ashbey and William N. Ashbey, W55, PAR+ Frances Emmeline Babb, Esquire, C03, and Paul L. Babb, Ph.D., C03, GR12** Carol Baker and Mark E. Stein** Christopher Barr and Patricia Jayne Erica S. Batt and Gerald J. Batt, Esquire** Eugene W. Beier and Virginia H. Beier, HUP62, NU70**+ Sandy L. Cadwalader** Mari and Robert Corson** Howard J. Eisen, M.D., M81, INT84, and Judith E. Wolf, M.D., INT84**+ Robert W. Ellis, W48 Marilyn Fishman and James P. MacElderry**+

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Amy A. Fox and Daniel H. Wheeler** Judith J. Gallagher and Dr. Thomas E. Gallagher**+ Susan M. Garfinkel** Mary E. Golin, GED63**+ Dr. Judith M. Hadley** Cynthia M. Harrison, Ph.D., GR82**+ Donna F. and Vincent W. Hartnett**+ A. Scott Holmes, WG64, and Joan Holmes** Carl J. and Geraldine Kijowski**+ Dr. Georg N. Knauer** DruEllen Kolker and James D. Kolker, M.D., C76** Bette E. Landman, Ph.D.** + Mary Ann and Raymond Marks, PAR** James McClelland and Dr. Lynn Miller** Paul W. McCloskey, C48, PAR** Douglas Moffitt, WG70, and Fredericka Moffitt** Scott A. Neumann**+ Gillian Norris-Szanto and Jeffrey Szanto, V.M.D., V79** W. Gresham O’Malley III, W54**+ Aruna Pappu, Esquire, and Ramesh Pappu, M.D.** Joseph L. Ramsay, Jr., and Marlene P. Ramsay** Claire Rodgers and John Rodgers, GAR78, GCP78, GFA78** Jonathan P. Rosen** Morton T. Saunders** George Warren Schiele, W53, and Joan B. Schiele**+ Patricia and Saturnino V. Silva** Ann G. Walker** **Donors to both Annual Fund and Membership + Loyal contributor for ten consecutive years or more, recognized in the Penn Museum’s 1887 Society. For a full listing of individuals recognized for loyal giving at all membership levels through the 1887 Society, please visit www.penn.museum/donor-recognition.

One of the Penn Museum’s highest priorities is the proper care for and housing of our extraordinary collection of roughly one million artifacts. Donations to the Adopt-an-Artifact fund support the preservation, storage, and management of our important artifacts. The Museum is extremely grateful to the following individuals who made a donation to “adopt” an artifact this past year.

Megan Clark Carolyn Gordon Regina Griffin Martina Johnson-Allen James W. Lambert, WG79, PAR Jennifer McDaid Elizabeth Ray McLean, C78 Erin Parr Abigail Malka Prutchi Meredith Russell The Ram in the Thicket from Ur, Mesopotamia (current day Iraq) is Photo by Penn Museum

one of several favorite objects available for “adoption”.

SUPPORTING THE MISSION

Corporate, Foundation, and Government Agency Supporters

The Penn Museum gratefully acknowledges support from the following foundations, corporations, government agencies, and organizations of its general operations, exhibition, conservation, education, and special research programs.

1984 Foundation Aker Philadelphia Shipyard America-Italy Society of Philadelphia American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works The Annenberg Foundation/GRoW Annenberg Program Art Institute International Robert L. and Agnes Cook Bard Foundation The Chilmark Foundation The Chingos Foundation Ciardi, Ciardi & Astin The Coby Foundation, Ltd. Coca-Cola Refreshments Connelly Foundation The Dalton School

Dogfish Head Craft Brewery Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation ELS Educational Services, Inc. Event Network Fulbright Association Galkin Private Foundation Global Heritage Fund The Graham Foundation Mary B. and Alvin P. Gutman Fund The Haney Foundation Trust Holt Oversight and Logistical Technologies The Institute for Aegean Prehistory International Visitors Council of Philadelphia Kenneth L. Jordan Trust The Jordan-Evans Family Foundation The Hagop Kevorkian Fund KeyBank National Association William M. King Charitable Foundation Josephine Klein Charitable Fund Kolb Foundation The Kowalski Family Foundation Curtis and Stacey Lane Fund Leon Levy Foundation Christian R. & Mary F. Lindback

Foundation Loeb Classical Library Foundation The Lookout Fund Christopher Ludwick Foundation The M&T Charitable Foundation J. J. Medveckis Foundation Medway Charitable Trust The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Merck Company Foundation Fowler Merle-Smith Family Charitable Lead Trust James & Rebecca Morgan Family Foundation The Morgan Family Fund Lynne & John Neefe Charitable Fund Carlos Nottebohm Living Trust PECO Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission The Philadelphia Cultural Fund The PoGo Family Foundation Inc. PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP Luther I. Replogle Foundation Restaurant Associates Joseph Rosen Foundation

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Zydeco-A-Go-Go had visitors dancing in the Stoner Courtyard during the PM@Penn Museum Summer Nights series underwritten in part by Dogfish Head Brewery. Photo: Penn Museum.

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Third grade students from Samuel Powel Elementary School enjoy a visit to Native American Voices and a special presentation underwritten

by PECO through the “Sponsor a School” program.

Harry and Ann Santen Fund of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation Eric and Alexandra Schoenberg Foundation Schwab Fund The Selz Foundation, Inc. Harold and Emily Starr Fund Samuel Tabas Family Foundation John Templeton Foundation The Union League of Philadelphia University City District Weiss Family Donor Advised Fund Wells Fargo Foundation Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation C.K. Williams Foundation Wilmington Trust Company The Wistar Institute The Women’s Committee

SUPPORTING THE MISSION

Matching Gift Companies American Endowment Foundation Frederic W. Cook & Company GlaxoSmithKline The Hershey Corporation IBM Corporation Matching Gift Program Johnson & Johnson Samuel H. Kress Foundation Macquarie Holdings, Inc. Merck & Company Inc./Merck Company Foundation New York Life Insurance Co. PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP Quaker Chemical Foundation SAP America Time Warner, Inc. United Technologies Corporation Wells Fargo Foundation

Sara Yorke Stevenson Legacy Circle

Sara Yorke Stevenson at her desk, ca. 1910-1920. Penn Museum image 237288.

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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 bequest, living trust, retirement plan, life insurance policy, or life income gift that will benefit the Museum in the future. The Penn Museum would like to acknowledge the members of the Sara Yorke Stevenson Legacy Circle whose provision for the Museum ensures their support for it in perpetuity.

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Special thanks to Sara Yorke Stevenson Legacy Circle Chair, Joseph E. Lundy, Esquire, W65, whose diligent work has helped to enhance this program in 2013–2014, and to the following individuals who established a deferred gift in 2013–2014 that will secure the Museum in the future: James DeHullu Therese Marmion Adolf A. Paier, W60, and Geraldine Paier, Ph.D., HUP66, NU68, GNU85, GR94 Ralph A. Rosenbaum, C65 Kathryn Sorkin and Sanford Sorkin, W67 Robert Vosburgh, Jr.

The Sarah Yorke Stevenson Legacy Circle Anonymous Janet M. Andereck Celeste Anderson, CW68, and Peter Anderson Deborah L. Augusta Frank W. Badger, G60*, and Joan Allison Badger Charlotte Garretson Cronin, CW45 Elin C. Danien, Ph.D., CGS82, G89, GR98, and Wilton R. Danien* L. Daniel Dannenbaum Charles H. Davis, W56, WG63 James DeHullu Marcia Doelman Mary Elberty, CW55* Laura Fisher Marilyn Forney and Robert Forney, PAR Beverly Caplan Freeman, OT54 Lisa Gemmill Mrs. Louis Gerstley III, GM57 Helen H. Gindele, CW51 Mary E. Golin, GED63 Mary Bert Gutman Peter D. Harrison, Ph.D., GR70* Karen Jeanne Harvey and Paul B. Harvey, Jr., Ph.D., GR72* Luba Holowaty, Ph.D., ED53, GR70 Jacqueline W. Hover and John C. Hover II, C65, WG67 Josephine Arader Hueber, CW47, PAR James H. Kinsman Dr. Frank G. Klein Rachel C. Lilley, CW66 Bonnie Verbit Lundy, CW67, and Joseph E. Lundy, Esquire, W65 Michael B. Luskin Mrs. Louis C. Madeira IV A. Bruce Mainwaring, C47, PAR Margaret R. Mainwaring, ED47, HON85, PAR Therese Marmion Rudolph Masciantonio, Ph.D., G66 Linda L. Mather, Ed.D., GRD77 Patricia A. Mattern, CW72, G72 Elaine N. Mayer, Ph.D., and John R. Mayer James McClelland Lois Meyers Naomi F. Miller, Ph.D. Neil C. Miller, Jr.* Mary Jo Mumford, M.D. Sara Nerken Scott A. Neumann Adolf A. Paier, W60, and Geraldine Paier, Ph.D., HUP66, NU68, GNU85, GR94 Harold C. Putnam, Jr., C58 Edward A. Richards, GAR59 Barbara H. Roberts, CGS70

SUPPORTING THE MISSION

John R. Rockwell, W64, WG66, PAR Ralph A. Rosenbaum, C65 Mitchell S. Rothman, Ph.D., GR88 and Leslie Simon, GR80 Donald A. Scott* John R. Senior, M.D., M54, FEL59, PAR Sara Spedden Senior, CW52, PAR David P. Silverman, Ph.D. Wilma S. Slyoff, CW64, GED68 Kathryn Sorkin and Sanford Sorkin, W67 Patricia Squire Emily W. Starr and Harold P. Starr, L57 Curtis Eugene Thomsen, Ph.D. Mrs. Robert L. Trescher Diana T. Vagelos, PAR Karen R. Venturini, CGS83 Robert Vosburgh, Jr. Elizabeth Jean Walker, SW74 Jackie Wiegand, CW48, PAR Carole and James Wilkinson * Deceased since July 1, 2013

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THE GIFT OF TIME IN THE FOLLOWING PAGES, the Penn Museum acknowledges with deepest thanks, the Native American advisors and contributors whose gracious consent to present their opinions and voices incomparably enriched our exhibition Native American Voices: The People — Here and Now, and the many volunteers and staff whose dedication, loyalty, and outstanding efforts further its research, teaching, stewardship, and public engagement day in, day out.

THE GIFT OF TIME Brick stamp, object number L-29-309. Terracotta, from Nippur, Iraq, ca. 2250 BCE. The king’s role as temple-builder was emphasized by stamping bricks with his name and title using clay stamps like this one, which bears the inscription: “Shar-kali-Sharri, king of Agade, builder of the temple of Enlil.”

Exhibition Advisors and Contributors

Native American Voices: The People — Here and Now was developed in collaboration with numerous Native American advisors and contributors who graciously allowed the Penn Museum to present their opinions and works.

Exhibition Content Advisors

Tina Pierce Fragoso, Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape: Assistant Director of Equity and Excellence, Coordinator of Native American Recruitment, University of Pennsylvania.

Suzan Shown Harjo, Cheyenne & Hodulgee Muscogee; poet, writer, lecturer, curator, and policy advocate who has helped Native Peoples recover more than one million acres of land.

Patty Talahongva, Hopi; journalist who works in all platforms of the media and has covered a range of topics from Native arts to education, health, and politics.

Teri Rofkar, Tlingit, T’akdeintaan [Raven] Clan; fiber artist and a National Endowment of the Arts National Heritage Fellow (2009).

Native American Exhibition Contributors Video and Audio:

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Mary Bordeaux, M.A. Lakota Billings Gazette Thosh Collins, Salt River Pima Stephen Conaway, Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Nora Dauenhauer, Tlingit Richard Dauenhauer, Ph.D. John Echohawk, J.D., Pawnee Tartuilnguq Sophie Evan, Yup’ik Harry W. Gould, Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Lewis Fragoso, Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Cliff Fragua, Jemez Pueblo Nicholas Galanin, M.F.A, Tlingit/Aleut Isabel Gonzales, San Ildefonso/Jemez Pueblos Larraine Gregg, Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Chief Mark Gould, Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape John F.C. Johnson, Chugach Tommy Joseph, Tlingit Oren Lyons, Onondaga-Seneca Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Ph.D., Lumbee-Cheraw

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Chuck Miller, Tlingit Duncan Munson, Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Lesley Munson, Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Natives at Penn Reverend John Norwood, Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tanis Parentengru, Metis and Cree Christy Pierce, Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Edith Little Swallow Pierce, Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Lewis Pierce Sr., Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Melanie Ridgway, Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Rachael Ridgway, Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Samantha Ridgway, Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Urie Ridgeway, Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Governor George Rivera, Pojoaque Pueblo Clarissa Rizal, MFA, Tlingit Josh Rogers, Chickasaw Nation Patricia Rosello, Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Sacred Land Film Project Sealaska Heritage Institute Alqaq Katherine Small, Yup’ik Shawn Tafoya, Santa Clara Pueblo Anton Treuer, Ph.D., Ojibwe Gerald Vizenor, Ph.D., Anishinaabe Joe Watkins, Ph.D., Choctaw Lance Magpie White, Oglala Lakota Emmie Whitehorse, M.A., Diné Taylor Williams, Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Jolene Yazzie, Diné Rico Worl, Tlingit Written Essays:

Joseph (Woody) Aguilar, San Ildefonso Pueblo Marcus Amerman, Choctaw Margaret M. Bruchac, Ph.D., Abenaki Cippy Crazy Horse, Cochiti Pueblo Ann Noe Dapice, Ph.D., Delaware/Cherokee Melissa Darden, Chitimacha Diane Glancy, M.A., Cherokee Rayna Green, Ph.D., Cherokee Buddy Gwin, J.D., Mandan Sven Haakanson, Jr., Ph.D., Alutiiq-Sugpiat Richard W. Hill, Sr., Tuscarora Jerry Ingram, Choctaw/Cherokee Harold Jacobs, Tlingit Doug Kiel, Ph.D., Oneida of Wisconsin Penn Museum Annual Report 2014/15

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Photo by Penn Museum

Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Exhibition Advisor Tina

Key Content Advisor and Video Co-Producer Patti Talahongva (Hopi) with lead

Pierce Fragoso with her parents, Edith Little Swallow

underwriters Dolf and Gerri Paier at the Native American Voices preview reception.

Pierce and Lewis Pierce Sr., who also served as consultants on the project, at the opening celebration for Native American Voices.

Keevin Lewis, Diné Rebecca Lyon, Alutiiq/Athabascan Beatrice Medicine, Standing Rock Sioux Dolly Naranjo Neikrug, Santa Clara Pueblo Arwen Nutall, M.A., Four Winds Cherokee/Louisiana Cherokee Confederacy Simon Ortiz, Acoma Pueblo Dextra Quotskuyva, Hopi-Tewa Diego Romero, Cochiti Pueblo Gary S. Roybal, San Ildefonso Pueblo Ramoncita C. Sandoval, Ohkay Owingeh Sherrie Smith-Ferri, Ph.D., Dry Creek Pomo/Bodega May Miwok C. Maxx Stevens, M.F.A., Seminole Rennard Strickland, J.D, Osage/Cherokee Roxanne Swentzell, Santa Clara Pueblo Michael Wilcox, Ph.D., Yuma/Choctaw Curtis Zunigha, Delaware Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma Caroline Kee, Choctaw (student intern) Supporting Specialists:

Denise Bright Dove Ashton-Dunkley, Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tyler Howe, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Vanessa Iyua, Diné Ansley Jemison, Seneca Janet and James Littlecrow, Otoe-Missouria Stephanie Mach, M.A. Diné Denise Waterman Tsadeyohdi, Onondaga Vince Williams, Ph.D., Lakota/Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape

THE GIFT OF TIME

Penn Museum Volunteers

Our volunteers are active in almost every section and department of the Museum, doing everything from greeting and

instructing our tens of thousands of visiting school children and members of the public, to photographing objects for the KE EMu data base, researching NAGPRA issues, organizing Women’s Committee events, working hands-on with objects in storage, creating inventories of collections, and everything in between. During 2013–2014, Penn Museum volunteers gave at least 15,444 hours of their time, which is the equivalent of a $348,250.92 donation to the Museum.

On May 12, 2014, the Williams Director and Museum staff celebrated the tireless work of our volunteers at the annual Volunteer Luncheon. Gretchen R. Hall, Ph.D., CGS97 was named 2014 Volunteer of the Year. In 14 years of service to the Museum, Dr. Hall has contributed at least two full days each week, and often more than that as needed. As a Ph.D. working in analytical chemistry at the Mobil Corporation, her “second career in Archaeological Chemistry” has contributed greatly to the Museum’s mission, especially in the Biomolecular Archaeology Laboratory and Program and, more recently, the Conservation Department. She has maintained the laboratory, given lectures, carried out auxiliary studies at the Winterthur Museum, and been a co-author on numerous articles in high-profile scientific journals. She epitomizes the dedication, knowledge, and cooperative, enthusiastic spirit of a true volunteer, who shows no signs of slowing down, and we hope she will stay with us for years to come.

The following individuals were also recognized for their extraordinary service.

Volunteer of the Year Gretchen R. Hall, Ph.D., CGS97 10 Years of Service Adrian D. Copeland, M.D. Ellen Copeland Stephen Hecht Richard N. McKinney, C61 Beth Van Horn 15 Years of Service Kit Grundstein Barbara Moses Nancy Bendiner Weiss, CW62

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20 Years of Service Beth Howland Butler L. Daniel Dannenbaum, CGS07 Suchinda Heavener Dr. Joan Wider, PAR Schuy Wood 25 Years of Service Lawrence McClenney Ann W. Spaeth

The Penn Museum thanks all of our volunteers for their loyal support of our mission through work in the following Curatorial Sections and Museum Departments: African Section Yin Liu American Section Joseph Anguilar George Fago Virginia Greene, G68 Barbara J. Hayden, Ph.D. Emily Jean Leischner David McCormick Anthropologists in the Making Summer Camp Joe Abegg Claudia Ashworth Philippe Atallah Drew Babin Kenna Barrett Staci Bell Olivia Brintlinger-Conn Tabbi Cavaliere Simone Chatham Sophia Clampet-Lundquist Regina Fairbanks Jonathan Falciani Danielle Faliciani Sara Gonzalez Sarah Halpern Grace Hong Ben Kelly

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Rachel Kline Maria Leone Peter Martin Sejal Menghani Roman Nikonov Arpit Prasad Aditya Risbud Elinor Roth Hesson Emma Sarr Zach Smith Katherine Wang Emily White Faith Williams Archives Jean E. Craig, G76 James R. DeWalt Elisa Landaverde Lawrence Rosen Janet A. Simon, LPS08 Ban Chiang Leila Bolce-Schick Dan Lo Mastro Samuel K. Nash, Sc.D. Beth Van Horn Vivian Wolovitz, PAR Biomolecular Archaeology Theodore Davidson Gretchen R. Hall, Ph.D., CGS97 Patrick McGovern, Ph.D., GR80 Samuel K. Nash, Sc.D. Cynthia G. Orr Day, C77, G87, WG91

Clio Society Elijah Cory, C17 Ben Damon, C15 Monica Fenton, C15 Brittney Joyce, C14 Sarah Lynch, C15 Charlotte Matthai, C17 Tess Paoletta, C16 Conservation Cassia Balogh Stephanie Carrato

Docents Barbara Anglisz Benjamin Ashcom, Ed.D., GRD74 Cheryl Louise Baker Joseph J. Balmos John P. Barry Michele Belluomini Elise Bromberg Mary Brown Richard H. Burger Charlotte N. Byrd Adrian D. Copeland, M.D. Ellen Copeland Mark P. Curchack, Ph.D. Elin C. Danien, Ph.D., CGS82, G89, GR98 L. Daniel Dannenbaum, CGS07 James DeHullu Ellen I. DeMarinis, G01 Michael F. Doyle Arlene L. Goldberg, CW64 Kit Grundstein

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Photo by Penn Museum

Volunteer of the Year Gretchen Hall, with

Penn Museum volunteers gather with Williams Director Julian

Pat McGovern, Director of the Biomolecular

Siggers outside the Kamin Entrance after the annual Volunteer

Archaeology Lab.

Appreciation Lunch.

Joan Harrison, NU60, PAR89 Stephen Hecht Theresa A. Joniec Marcia Klafter Vida M. Klemas, CW62, PAR Elpida Kohler Linda Lempert Marilyn Lieberman Eugene Magee Lawrence McClenney Richard N. McKinney, C61 Cheryl Grady Mercier Barbara Moses Nancy W. Naftulin, G69 Suzanne Y. Naughton Esther L. Payne, CGS82 Marjorie Robbins T. Wayne Roberts Toby Schwait Donald A. Scott* Terese Q. Skelly Krista Smart Robert P. Sprafkin Donald S. Todd, GED61 Dr. Joan Wider, PAR Mindy Widman, D.S.W., SW80, GRS85 Ken Wissler

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Learning Programs Carole Brewer Learning Programs, Cartifacts Victoria Alonso Claudia Ashworth Harrison Fishman Brooke Krancer Allie Leber Josephine Lippincott Julia Mackin-McLaughlin June S. Morse, CGS84 Megan O’Meara Philip Perrone Benjamin Rovito Malika Shukurova Ananya Sinha Nina Spitofsky Rebecca Vandewalle Egyptian Section Edythe M. Dixson* Elizabeth Jean Walker, SW74

Gordion Project Phoebe A. Sheftel, Ph.D., GR74, PAR Historical Archaeology Leota Terry International Classroom Stephen R. Phillips, Ph. D., CGS92, G95, GR07

Physical Anthropology Melissa Carpenter Lisa Gemmill Jean Henry, Ph.D., M.S.S., B.C.D. Kevin Murphy Registrar’s Office Rebecca Cruz * Deceased since July 1, 2013

Mediterranean Section Kevin Lee Katharine Nelson, GCP09 Near East Section Laura Iwanyk Kelly Lauer Elena Yandola Oceania Section Dr. Ann M. McCloskey Jim Millisky Penn Cultural Heritage Center Allyson McCreevy Abby Placik Reni Roberts Stella Sudekum

The Women’s Committee

The Women’s Committee has made extraordinary contributions to the Penn Museum for over 75 years. Its members remain among the Museum’s most active volunteers, running several programs including “Meeters and Greeters,” in which members welcome visitors to the galleries, archaeological tours, and special events.

In the spring of 2014, the Women’s Committee published a beautiful food book entitled Culinary Expeditions: A Celebration of Food and Culture Inspired by Penn Museum Treasures, the result of a two-year collaboration between Penn Museum staff and Women’s Committee members. This full-color publication includes photographs of food-related Museum artifacts, and sections describing foods, food-making techniques, and stories about the cultures and cultural regions represented in the Museum’s international collection, along with recipes. On May 5, 2014, the Women’s Committee hosted a sold-out book launch and luncheon event at the Museum, which featured lectures from the Museum’s Williams Director, Julian Siggers, Ph.D., and the book’s editor (and the Museum’s Expedition magazine Editor), Jane Hickman, Ph.D., as well as dishes from the book itself.

The Women’s Committee and the Penn Museum thank Nancy Freeman Tabas, PAR, who completed her two-year term as Chair of the Women’s Committee in 2014, for her leadership and dedicated service.

The Penn Museum also thanks 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, the Museum’s new partnership with the School District of Philadelphia, Unpacking the Past, and professional development for Penn Museum staff.

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Women’s Committee member Bonnie Derr welcomes guests to the luncheon launch event for Culinary Expeditions.

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At the luncheon launch event for Culinary Expeditions, Williams Director Julian Siggers with (left to right) Lisa Siegel, Nancy Freeman Tabas, Jane Hickman, Trudy Slade, and Cheryl Baker.

Women’s Committee 2013–2014 Mrs. Joel Bachman Mrs. Francis J. Bagnell Cheryl Louise Baker Mary Margaret Ballinger, OT81 Mona N. Batt* Ann M. Beal Anne C. Butcher, PAR** Beth Howland Butler Susan W. Catherwood Joan I. Coale Joanne H. Conrad, C79, PAR Maude de Schauensee** Bonnie C. Derr Janet S. Dougherty* Perry Durkin Beth Fluke, CGS98 Mrs. Louis Gerstley III, GM57** Anna Gniotek** Marguerite P. Goff, PAR Mrs. Herman H. Goldstine* Criswell Cohagan Gonzalez**

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Ingrid A. Graham Ann N. Greene, CW54* Mary Bert Gutman, PAR* Katherine Hall Nancy Hastings, PAR* Suchinda Heavener* Joan R. Holmes* Josephine Arader Hueber, CW47, PAR Patricia Hueber Anne V. Iskrant Esther D. Johnson* Pamela C. Keon Nancy Kneeland DruEllen Kolker Barbara Krancer Virginia M. Kricun, CGS04 Doranne M. Lackman, PAR Joyce Cochrane Lewis** Alida N. Lovell* MaryAnn Marks* Missy McQuiston Rosa Myers

Margy Meyerson, G93** John T. Murray** Arlene Olson, PAR Gretchen P. Riley, CGS70, PAR Barbara Rittenhouse Lisa Siegel M. Trudy Slade Ann W. Spaeth Patricia Q. Sperry* Nancy Freeman Tabas, PAR Mrs. Robert L. Trescher** Nina Robinson Vitow, CW70, WG76 Helen S. Weary Nancy Bendiner Weiss, CW62 Ellen Winn* Helen P. Winston, PAR* Schuy Wood Ardeth Anderson, Administrative Assistant *Associate Member **Honorary Member

Board of Overseers

The Penn Museum extends grateful thanks to the members of its Board of Overseers for their personal philanthropic leadership, and their collective leadership in strategic guidance through the work of the full Board and its Community Engagement, Development, and Finance and Marketing Committees.

In 2013–2014, we welcomed two new members to the Board of Overseers: William L. Conrad, PAR, and William L. Potter, WG88.

We thank Tim Clancy, Michael Feng, and Fred Manning for their invaluable guidance during nine years of service, concluding in line with University guidelines on term limits in June 2014. We also thank Nancy Freeman Tabas, ex-

officio member representing the Women’s Committee, for outstanding leadership and representation to the Board of that group.

The Penn Museum and the University of Pennsylvania recognize with special gratitude Susan Catherwood, Mary Bert Gutman, Josie Hueber, Annette Merle-Smith, and Sara Senior, for many decades of service as active and emerita or honorary members of the Board of Overseers. Their collective 150+ years of service, in-depth knowledge of the Museum’s history and programs, and passionate advocacy has been an extraordinary resource for the Penn Museum, and we honor and thank them from the depth of our hearts.

The Penn Museum is deeply grateful to all the following members of its Board of Overseers for their service in 2013–2014:

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Michael J. Kowalski, W74, PAR, Chairman Robert M. Baylis David Brownlee, Ph.D. (ex-officio) Susan W. Catherwood (Chair Emerita) David T. Clancy, W70 William L. Conrad, PAR Carrie S. Cox, PAR Susan Frier Danilow, Esquire, CW74, G74, PAR Michael Feng, C79 Steven J. Fluharty, Ph.D., C79, GR81, PAR (ex-officio) Criswell C. Gonzalez Peter G. Gould, LPS10 Ingrid A. Graham Mary Bert Gutman, PAR (Emerita) Amy Gutmann, Ph.D. (ex-officio) John C. Hover II, C65, WG67 Stacey Rosner Lane, Esquire, C80, GR13, PAR Diane von Schlegell Levy Joseph E. Lundy, Esquire, W65 Bruce Mainwaring, C47, PAR (Emeritus) Frederick J. Manning, W69, PAR Annette Merle-Smith (Emerita) Carlos L. Nottebohm, W64 Geraldine Paier, Ph.D., HUP66, NU68, GNU85, GR94 William L. Potter, WG88 Vincent Price, Ph.D. (ex-officio) John R. Rockwell, W64, WG66, PAR Eric J. Schoenberg, Ph.D., GEN93, WG93, PAR Sara S. Senior, CW52 (Emerita)

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Julian Siggers, Ph.D. (ex-officio) Nicole Stach (ex-officio) Nancy Freeman Tabas (ex-officio) Gregory Annenberg Weingarten Jill Topkis Weiss, C89, WG93 Charles K. Williams II, Ph.D., GR78, HON97 (Emeritus) Honorary Member Josephine Hueber, CW47

Top: Mary Bert and Alvin Gutman (left); Susan Catherwood (right).

Middle: Josie Hueber and John Hover II. Bottom: Sara Senior (left); Annette Merle-Smith and Carlos Nottebohm (right).

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Director’s Council

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 G. Gould, Ph.D., LPS10, 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, Connecticut, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, and London.

In 2013–2014, we welcomed four new members to the Director’s Council: Luis Fernandez-Moreno, WMP89, Marco L. Lukesch, C01, W01, Gregory S. Maslow, M.D., C68 M72 GM77, PAR, and Carl Weiss, PAR. The November 2013 meeting focused on the renovations of the Museum’s galleries. Director’s Council members walked through each long-term gallery with the Director suggesting changes—both great and small—that could improve the visitor experience. At its April 2014 meeting, the group discussed the Museum’s brand and marketing strategies with Director of Marketing and Communications Teri Scott, who joined the Museum in December 2013.

We thank Linda Descano for her contributions as a member of the Director’s Council and for her three years of service, which ended in February 2014. We also acknowledge Peter C. Ferry for his two years of service to the Director’s Council.

Peter joined the Museum’s Board of Overseers on June 30, 2014, and we look forward to working with him in his new role.

We also express our deepest condolences to the family of Douglas C. Walker, who passed away on November 22, 2013 and was a valued inaugural member of the Director’s Council as well as a former member of the Museum’s Board of Overseers. He will be missed.

The Penn Museum is deeply grateful to Chairman Peter G. Gould, Ph.D., LPS10, and the following members of the Director’s Council for their service in 2013–2014:

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Lawrence S. Coben, Ph.D., G03, GR12 Luis Fernandez-Moreno, WMP89 Lisa Gemmill Naomi Grabel, C86 Andrea R. Kramer, Esquire, L76, PAR Sharon N. Lorenzo Marco L. Lukesch, C01, W01 Gregory S. Maslow, M.D., C68 M72 GM77, PAR John J. Medveckis, PAR Adolf A. Paier, W60 George R. Pitts, Ph.D., GR77 J. Barton Riley, W70, PAR Brian P. Tierney, C79, PAR Carl Weiss, PAR Diane Dalto Woosnam Nanou Zayan, C73, PAR

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Penn Museum Advisory Board

Established in 2009, the Penn Museum Advisory Board advises and assists the Williams Director and his team in crafting outreach and programmatic initiatives to increase engagement by its University and public audiences. Members of the Advisory Board are leaders in the University and cultural community professionals who represent these audiences in their own professions.

In 2013–2014, we welcomed new members to the Advisory Board: Rebecca Bushnell, School of Arts and Sciences Board of Overseers Professor of English and former Dean; and Will Noel, Director, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, and the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

In its December 2013 meeting, the Advisory Board walked through each long-term gallery with the Director and afterwards discussed changes that could improve the visitor experience. At its May 2014 meeting, the group discussed “The Role of the Expert and the Decline of Authority in the University Museum.”

We thank Gary Steuer, former Chief Cultural Officer of the City of Philadelphia, for his contributions as a member of the Advisory Board and wish him every success in his new position.

The Penn Museum is deeply grateful to the following members of the Advisory Board for their time and ideas in 2013–2014: David B. Brownlee, Chairman Shapiro-Weitzenhoffer Professor of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania

Walter Licht Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History and Civic House Faculty Advisor, University of Pennsylvania

Karen Beckman Jaffe Professor of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania

Will Noel Director, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, and the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Rebecca Bushnell School of Arts and Sciences Board of Overseers Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania Timothy Corrigan Professor of English (Cinema Studies), University of Pennsylvania Dennis DeTurck Evan C. Thompson Professor for Excellence in Teaching, Mathematics, and Dean of the College, University of Pennsylvania Oliver St. Clair Franklin O.B.E. Investment analyst (former President of International House) George W. Gephart Jr. President & CEO, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Terry Gillen Executive Director, Redevelopment Authority, City of Philadelphia Derek Gillman Distinguished Visiting Professor, Visual Studies, Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, Drexel University Susan Glassman Director, Wagner Free Institute Jane Golden Executive Director, City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program

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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

Young Friends of the Penn Museum

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At the Young Friends Cerveza! event, Clark Erickson displays objects relating to traditional Andean beer-making (above) before sampling a selection of beers from South America (below).

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 Special Events and Membership Departments by a Young Friends Board.

The Young Friends planned and hosted a number of great events during 2013–2014. In October, the group was intrigued by tales of death and mystery surrounding the exploration of Tut’s tomb as detailed by Dr. David Silverman, Curator-in-Charge, Egyptian Section, at “The Curse of Tutankhamun.” Dr. Silverman’s talk was followed by a reception complete with a fortune teller and flashlight tours of the Egyptian collection. During the group’s annual Valentine’s Day-themed event, “Blurred Lines: The Secret Side of the Collections,” in February, Dr. C. Brian Rose, Ferry Curator-in-Charge, Mediterranean Section, and Dr. Jennifer Houser Wegner, Associate Curator, Egyptian Section, discussed artifacts depicting racy and sexually explicit material in the Museum’s permanent collection, followed by a reception. In May, the Young Friends learned about traditional Andean beer from Dr. Clark Erickson, Curator-in-Charge, American Section, and enjoyed a beer tasting during “Cerveza: Celebrating the South American Tradition.”

Special thanks go to the Young Friends Board event chairs Abigail Green and Nicole Stach (October and February) and Emmeline Babb and Sara Castillo (May).

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Young Friends Board 2013–2014 Frances Emmeline Babb, Esquire, C03 Judith Barr Lauren Brown, CGS05, WEV05, CGS07 Sara Castillo Abigail Green, Esquire Lisa A. Johns, C97, CGS03 La Vida A. Johnson, G09 John Kuehne, CGS06 Allison J. Levy, Esquire, C02 Bethany R. Schell Nicole Stach, Esquire George Voegele, Esquire

In Memoriam

The Penn Museum acknowledges with great sadness the loss of the following members of its family during 2013–2014. We recognize their service and support with gratitude and extend deepest condolences to their families.

Edythe M. “Dee” Dixson Volunteer Mrs. Dixson was a volunteer in the Museum’s Egyptian Section for 25 years. She was a part of the “Ushabtis” who helped with many different tasks in Egyptian storage. Mrs. Dixson was also a Penn Museum member for over 25 years.

She died on February 15, 2014 at the age of 77.

Donald A. Scott Volunteer Mr. Scott was a docent, and eventually lead docent, in the Canaan & Ancient Israel Gallery for 15 years. His late wife, Jeanne A. Scott, who died in 2012, also served as a Museum docent. Mr. Scott was a member of the Museum for almost 20 years. He died on April 14, 2014 at the age of 84.

Mark C. Han, G61, GCH64 Researcher, MASCA Mr. Han spent 20 years as an analytical and research chemist in the Penn Museum’s Applied Science Center for Archaeology (MASCA). He set up and ran a research effort in thermoluminescence dating of pottery. After Penn, Mr. Han worked with DuPont at their Experimental Station where he managed their GPC chromatography lab in the analytical division until his retirement. He died on October 4, 2013 at the age of 79.

Gillian L. Wakely Merle-Smith Director of Education Ms. Wakely was a member of the Museum’s Education Department for 39 years before her retirement in 2010. She joined the department as a docent in 1971, and became its director in 1973. She also managed the Exhibitions Department from 2001–2007. Under her direction, the Education Department brought in more than 25,000 students annually, organized teacher workshops and volunteer services throughout the Museum, and worked collaboratively with school districts, centers of the University of Pennsylvania, and local cultural institutions. Ms. Wakely died on August 14, 2013 at the age of 67.

Peter D. Harrison, Ph.D., GR70 Maya Scholar, Director of Tikal Project West Dr. Harrison was a key member of the Penn Museum’s excavation team at the Maya site of Tikal in Guatemala. He is the author of several books including The Lords of Tikal: Rulers of an Ancient Maya City (Thames and Hudson, 1999).

He was the Director of the Tikal Project West until his death. Dr. Harrison was also a longtime member of the Penn Museum’s Loren Eiseley Society. He died on December 15, 2013 at the age of 76.

Igor Kopytoff, Ph.D., G58, PAR Professor of Anthropology Dr. Kopytoff taught anthropology at Penn from 1962 until his retirement in 2007. His research focused on transformations in social structure, religion, and political organization among African countries. He died on August 9, 2013 at the age of 83.

Audrei “Pat” Ewart McKinney, CW55 Volunteer Mrs. McKinney, a Penn graduate of Near Eastern Archaeology, was a docent in the Egyptian Galleries for many years. She supported the Museum as a member for over 25 years. Mrs. McKinney died on June 6, 2014 at the age of 81.

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Douglas C. Walker Former Overseer and Director’s Council Member Mr. Walker was a member of the Museum’s Board of Overseers from 2000–2009. He also served as Chair of the Museum’s Loren Eiseley Society from 1995–1996, and as a member of the Director’s Council from 2010 until his death. Mr. Walker loved Africa, which was evident through his support of the Penn Museum’s research project in Kenya.

This, in addition to his sponsorship of girls’ education in the country, led to his induction as an Elder of the nomadic Samburu tribe. Mr. Walker died on November 22, 2013 at the age of 65.

Curatorial Sections and Museum Centers

Stephen J. Tinney, Ph.D. Deputy Director and Chief Curator African Section Dwaune Latimer, Friendly Keeper of Collections Consulting Scholars: Lee V. Cassanelli, Ph.D. Kathy Curnow, Ph.D. John M. Janzen, Ph.D. Kathleen Ryan, Ph.D. American Section Clark L. Erickson, Ph.D. Curator-in-Charge Richard M. Leventhal, Ph.D. Curator Simon Martin, Ph.D. Associate Curator and Keeper of Collections Lucy Fowler Williams, Ph.D. Associate Curator and Sabloff Keeper of Collections William Wierzbowski, Keeper of Collections Stacey Espenlaub, Kamensky NAGPRA Project Coordinator

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Consulting Scholars: Ricardo Antonio Agurcia Fasquelle, Ph.D. Ellen Bell, Ph.D. Judith E. Berman, Ph.D. Gregory J. Borgstede, Ph.D. Margaret M. Bruchac, Ph.D. Lawrence S. Coben, Ph.D. Elin Danien, Ph.D. Nancy M. Farriss, Ph.D. Peter T. Furst, Ph.D. Pamela Geller, Ph.D. Russell Dean Greaves, Ph.D. John F. Harris, Ph.D. Peter Harrison, Ph.D.* Pamela Jardine, Ph.D. Christopher Jones, Ph.D. Hattula Moholy-Nagy, Ph.D. Katherine M. Moore, Ph.D. Marilyn Norcini, Ph.D. Ann H. Peters, Ph.D. Timothy B. Powell, Ph.D. Dorie Reents-Budet, Ph.D. Teri Rofkar Frauke Sachse, Ph.D. Abigail Seldin

Miranda K. Suri, Ph.D. Anne Tiballi, Ph.D. Loa P. Traxler, Ph.D. Dorothy K. Washburn, Ph.D. John Weeks, Ph.D. Asian Section Nancy Steinhardt, Ph.D. Curator Adam Smith, Ph.D. Assistant Curator Stephen Lang, Lyons Keeper of Collections

Egyptian Section David P. Silverman, Ph.D. Curator-inCharge Jennifer Houser Wegner, Ph.D. Associate Curator Josef W. Wegner, Ph.D. Associate Curator Stephen Phillips, Ph.D. Curatorial Research Coordinator Elizabeth Jean Walker, Keeper of Collections

Consulting Scholars: Marcus Bingenheimer, Ph.D. Virginia Bower Roberto Ciarla, Ph.D. Julie N. Davis, Ph.D. David W. Fraser, Ph.D. John M. Fritz, Ph.D. Derek Gillman Paul R. Goldin, Ph.D. Praveena Gullapalli, Ph.D. Jaesok Kim, Ph.D. Victor H. Mair, Ph.D. Justin McDaniel, Ph.D. Bryan Miller, Ph.D. Vincent C. Pigott, Ph.D. Fiorella Rispoli, Ph.D. Christopher P. Thornton, Ph.D. Joyce White, Ph.D.

Consulting Scholars: Jane Hill, Ph.D. Joshua Roberson, Ph.D.

Babylonian Section Stephen J. Tinney, Ph.D. Associate Curator-in-Charge Grant Frame, Ph.D. Associate Curator Philip Jones, Ph.D. Associate Curator and Keeper of Collections Jeremiah Peterson, Leon Levy Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow, Ur Digitization Project

Consulting Scholars: Joel T. Fry Jed Levin Teagan Schweitzer, Ph.D. Richard Veit, Ph.D.

Consulting Scholars: Ann Kessler Guinan Nancy W. Leinwand, Ph.D. Ilona Zsolnay, Ph.D.

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European Archaeology Section Harold L. Dibble, Ph.D. Curator-inCharge Consulting Scholars: Carolyn Corinne Barshay-Szmidt, Ph.D. Philip G. Chase, Ph.D. James R. Mathieu, Ph.D. Deborah Olszewski, Ph.D. Dennis Michael Sandgathe, Ph.D. Historical Archaeology Section Robert L. Schuyler, Ph.D. Associate Curator-in-Charge

Mediterranean Section C. Brian Rose, Ph.D. Ferry Curator-inCharge Ann Blair Brownlee, Ph.D. Associate Curator Gareth Darbyshire, Ph.D. Research Associate, Gordion Archivist Lynn Makowsky, DeVries Keeper of Collections

Consulting Scholars: Ann H. Ashmead, Ph.D. Philip P. Betancourt, Ph.D. Elizabeth Barringer Fentress, Ph.D. Susan Ferrence, Ph.D. Ayşe Gürsan-Salzmann, Ph.D. Lothar Haselberger, Ph.D. Barbara Hayden, Ph.D. Sebastian Heath, Ph.D. Ellen Herscher, Ph.D. Ann L. Kuttner, Ph.D. Margaret L. Laird, Ph.D. Justin Leidwanger, Ph.D. Richard F. Liebhart, Ph.D. Camilla MacKay, Ph.D. Frank G. Matero Irene Bald Romano, Ph.D. G. Kenneth Sams, Ph.D. Utsav Schurmans, Ph.D. Alessandro Sebastiani, Ph.D. Elizabeth Simpson, Ph.D. Joanna S. Smith, Ph.D. Thomas Tartaron, Ph.D. Compton James Tucker, Ph.D. Jean Turfa, Ph.D. Mary Voigt, Ph.D. Gregory P. Warden, Ph.D. Charles K. Williams, II, Ph.D. Karen Vellucci Near East Section Richard L. Zettler, Ph.D. Associate Curator-in-Charge Renata Holod, Ph.D. Curator Holly Pittman, Ph.D. Curator Brian J. Spooner, D.Phil. Curator Lauren Ristvet, Ph.D. Dyson Assistant Curator Katherine Blanchard, Fowler/Van Santvoord Keeper of Collections William B. Hafford, Ph.D. Leon Levy Project Manager, Ur Digitization Project Ryan Placcheti, Leon Levy Research Associate, Ur Digitization Project Consulting Scholars: Janice Barrabee, Ph.D. Eliot Braun, Ph.D. Michael Danti, Ph.D. Theodore Davidson, Ph.D. Richard S. Ellis, Ph.D. Michael W. Gregg, Ph.D. THE GIFT OF TIME

Gretchen H. Hall, Ph.D. Andreas Michael Hauptmann, Ph.D. Jane Hickman, Ph.D. Fredrik T. Hiebert, Ph.D. Sabine Klein, Ph.D. Michelle I. Marcus, Ph.D. Patrick McGovern, Ph.D. Naomi Miller, Ph.D. James Muhly, Ph.D. Sam Nash, Ph.D. Robert G. Ousterhout, Ph.D. Brian L. Peasnall, Ph.D. Aubrey Baadsgaard Poffenberger, Ph.D. Yelena Z. Rakic, Ph.D. William C.S. Remsen, Ph.D. Mitchell S. Rothman, Ph.D. Bruce Routledge, Ph.D. Karen Rubinson, Ph.D. Linda Bregstein Scherr, Ph.D. Marinus Anthony van der Sluijs Jill Weber, Ph.D. Irene J. Winter, Ph.D. Khair Yassine, Ph.D. Paul Zimmerman, Ph.D. Oceanian Section Adria Katz, Fassitt/Fuller Keeper of Collections Penn Cultural Heritage Center Richard M. Leventhal, Ph.D., Executive Director Brian I. Daniels, Ph.D., Director Margaret M. Bruchac, Ph.D., Associate Faculty Sasha Renninger, Administrative Coordinator to September 2013 Deanna Bell, Administrative Coordinator, from September 2013 Consulting Scholars: Suzanne Abel Ricardo Antonio Agurcia Fasquelle, Ph.D. Mariano J. Aznar Gómez, Ph.D. Joanne Baron, Ph.D. Elizabeth Greene, Ph.D. Katharyn Hanson Ben Jeffs Morag Kersel, Ph.D. Louise Krasniewicz, Ph.D. Justin Leidwanger Christina Luke, Ph.D.

Sasha Renninger Physical Anthropology Section Janet M. Monge, Ph.D. Associate Curator-in-Charge and Keeper of Collections Consulting Scholars: Meredith Bastian, Ph.D. Jacqueline Bowman, Ph.D. Francesca Candilio, Ph.D. Samantha Cox Anna Dhody, MFS Morrie E. Kricun, M.D. Robert W. Mann, Ph.D. Nancy Minugh-Purvis, Ph.D. Herbert Poepoe Emily Renschler, Ph.D. L. Christie Rockwell, Ph.D. Lynne A. Schepartz, Ph.D. P. Thomas Schoenemann, Ph.D. Page Selinsky, Ph.D. Ann-Marie Tillier, Ph.D. Michael Weisberg, Ph.D. Michael A. Yudell, Ph.D., MPH Michael Zimmerman, M.D., Ph.D. * Deceased since July 1, 2013

Penn Museum Department Staff 2013–2014

Office of the Director Julian Siggers, Ph.D., Williams Director 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 Office of the Deputy Director Stephen J. Tinney, Ph.D., Deputy Director Sasha Renninger, Leon Levy Foundation Project Programmer, Ur Digitization Project Academic Engagement Stephen J. Tinney, Ph.D., Head of Academic Engagement Anne Tiballi, Ph.D., Mellon Curricular Facilitator Stephanie Mach, Student Engagement Coordinator (from June 2014) James Moss, Academic Engagement Coordinator (from June 2014) Laura Iwanyk, Student Internship Coordinator Archives Alessandro Pezzati, Senior Archivist Eric W. Schnittke, Assistant Archivist Kate R. Pourshariati, Film Archivist Jody Rodgers, Processing Archivist Daniel DelViscio, Digital Images Coordinator (from December 2013) Sara Borden, Digital Images Coordinator (to November 2013) Maureen Goldsmith, Rights and Reproductions Coordinator Building Operations Brian McDevitt, Director of Building Operations Edgardo Esteves, Chief Custodial Supervisor William Stebbins, Chief Custodial Supervisor (to February 2014) David Young, Supervisor Michael Burin, Night Events Supervisor Monica Mean, Financial and Administrative Coordinator

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Business Office Alan Waldt, Associate Director for Administration Mary Dobson, Business Administrator Linda Halkins, Administrative Assistant Matthew McGregor, Administrative Assistant Veronica Sewell, Administrative Assistant Computing & Information Systems Shawn Hyla, IT Project Leader Rajeev Thomas, IT Network Administrator Michael Condiff, IT Programmer/Analyst

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Conservation Lynn Grant, Head Conservator Julia Lawson, Conservator Nina Owczarek, Haas Trust Associate Conservator Marie-Claude Boileau, Ph.D., Research Associate, Conservation and Teaching Labs Tessa de Alarcon, Leon Levy Foundation Project Conservator, Ur Digitization Project Molly Gleeson, Rockwell Project Conservator Sara Levin, FAIC Kress Fellow Alexis North, Curriculum Intern Cassia Balogh, Conservation Intern and Technician Morgan Burgess, Conservation Intern and Technician Melissa Miller, Conservation Technician Laura Iwanyk, Conservation Technician Development Amanda Mitchell-Boyask, Director of Development Robert Vosburgh, Jr., Esquire, Director of Major Gifts Therese Marmion, Major Gifts Officer Christine Fox, Corporate & Foundation Officer Emily Goldsleger, Assistant Director, Membership & Annual Giving Jane Hickman, Ph.D., Editor, Expedition Magazine Lisa Batt, Administrative Coordinator Tessa Laney, Administrative Assistant, Membership & Annual Giving (to August 2013) Kelley Stone, Administrative Assistant, Membership & Annual Giving (from October 2013) Exhibitions Kate Quinn, Director of Exhibitions Michael Barker, Mulitimedia Technician Allison Francies, Clancy Exhibition Developer Matthew Gay, Exhibition Mountmaker Benjamin Neiditz, Exhibition Fabricator Courtney O’Brien, Exhibition Facilitator Tara Poag, Clancy Exhibition Project Manager Kevin Schott, Exhibition Developer (to February 2014) Anita Sheth, Exhibition Designer Yuan Yao, Clancy Exhibition Graphic Designer Facility Rentals Atiya German, Director of Facility Rentals Stefanie Sutton, Facility Rentals Coordinator

Housekeeping Yolanda Connelly, Custodian James Coppedge, Custodian Timothy Crawford, Custodian Reinaldo Del Valle, Custodian James Drumm, Custodian Ayele Habtemichael, Custodian Cherita Holden, Custodian Lateef July, Custodian Bruce Mason, Custodian David McBride, Custodian John Notte, Custodian Linda Wood, Custodian Robert Lawlor, Part-time Custodian Mario Morales, Part-time Custodian Quinzell Walker, Part-time Custodian

Publications James R. Mathieu, Ph.D. Director of Publications Jennifer Quick, Senior Editor Maureen Goldsmith, Administrative Coordinator Page Selinsky, Ph.D., Copyeditor and Book Designer Registrar’s Office Xiuqin Zhou, Ph.D., Senior Registrar Chrisso Boulis, Registrar, Records Anne Brancati, Registrar, Loans Robert Thurlow, Registrar, Traveling Exhibitions and Special Projects Danielle Peters, Database Administrator (from January 2014) Scott Williams, Database Administrator (to August 2013) James Moss, Collections Assistant (to May 2014) Stephanie Mach, Collections Assistant (to May 2014) Catherine Person, Ph.D., Data Entry Assistant Ashley Scott, Data Entry Assistant

Kowalski Digital Media Center James R. Mathieu, Ph.D., Director of Digital Media Jennifer Bornstein, Grants and Resource Coordinator Michael Condiff, Web Developer Gabriel Pizzorno, Ph.D., Research Associate, Digitization Lab Lee Roueche, Digital Media Developer Francine Sarin, Head Photographer Jennifer Chiappardi, Assistant Photographer Brian Moyer, Digital Media Assistant Henry Birnberg, Digitization Lab Project Manager

Thomas Pedrick, Data Entry Assistant Celina Candrella, Assistant to the Registrar’s Office Laura Hazeltine, Collections Inventory Assistant Daniel LoMastro, Collections Inventory Assistant Special Events Tena Thomason, Assistant Director, Special Events Rachelle Kaspin, Administrative Coordinator, Special Events Jennifer Reifsteck, Public Programs Manager Visitor Services

Learning Programs Jean Byrne, Merle-Smith Director of Education and Programs (to March 2014) Ellen Owens, Merle-Smith Director of Learning Programs (from May 2014) Julia McMeans, Assistant Director, Educational Programs (to May 2014) Emily Hirshorn, GRoW Annenberg Program Manager Prema Deshmukh, Outreach Programs Manager (to December 2013) Justin Gelzhiser, Outreach Programs Manager (from March 2014) Jane Nelson, Volunteer and Staffing Manager (to October 2013) Kevin Schott, Guide Program Manager (from February 2014) Jennifer Leibert, GRoW Annenberg Museum and School Educator Kristin Hoeberlein, Museum Programs Associate (to April 2014) Kelley Hirsch, Museum Programs Associate (from April 2014) Marketing and Communications Teri Scott, Director of Marketing and Communications Pam Kosty, Public Relations Director Christina Jones, Art Director Yuan Yao, Graphic Designer (from January 2014) Christine Mikus, Graphic Designer (to January 2014) Tom Stanley, Public Relations/Social Media Coordinator Jemmell’z Washington, Public Relations Associate THE GIFT OF TIME

Conor Hepp, Director of Visitor and Gallery Services Cynthia Whybark, Visitor Services Manager Katherine Thorburn, Group Tours Coordinator Bonnie Crosfield, Visitor Services Receptionist Laurel Burmeister, Visitor Services Representative Elena Colon, Visitor Services Representative Joseph Dilullo, Visitor Services Representative Matt Fuester, Visitor Services Representative Janelle Kauffman, Visitor Services Representative Clare Moyer, Visitor Services Representative Christine Ormsby, Visitor Services Representative Sabrina Persaud, Visitor Services Representative Shannon Renninger, Visitor Services Representative Brian Schmidt, Visitor Services Representative

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