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2014–2015 ANNUAL REPORT

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3 EXECUTIVE MESSAGE

5 A STRATEGIC VISION

7 THE YEAR IN REVIEW

8 PENN MUSEUM 2014–2015: BY THE MONTH

20 PENN MUSEUM 2014–2015: BY THE NUMBERS

25 PENN MUSEUM 2014–2015: BY THE GEOGRAPHY

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

27 Smith Creek Archaeological Project (Mississippi, United States)

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

29 Understanding Pueblo Cloth in Context (North America)

30 Silver Reef Project (Utah, United States)

31 The Caste War of the Yucatan: The Tihosuco Heritage

Preservation and Community Development Project (Mexico)

32 Early Hunters at Cuncaicha (Peru)

33 The La Florida Archaeology Project: Exploring an Ancient

Maya River Port (Guatemala)

34 Gordion Archaeological Project (Turkey)

— Historical Landscape Preservation at Gordion

— Gordion Jewelry Project

— Gordion Cultural Heritage Program

38 Kani Shaie Archaeological Project (Iraqi Kurdistan)

39 La Ferrassie (France)

40 The Georgia Genetic History Project (Georgia)

42 Excavations at the Mortuary Complex of Pharaoh Senwosret III

at Abydos (Egypt)

44 The Borders of Chinese Architecture (China and Mongolia)

45 Middle Mekong Archaeological Project (Laos)

46 Collections: New Acquisitions

50 Collections: Outgoing Loans and Traveling Exhibitions

53 SUPPORTING THE MISSION

54 Leadership Supporters Objects on the cover, inside cover, and at right 58 The Loren Eiseley Society and Expedition Circles were featured in the special 62 Corporate, Foundation, and Government

exhibition Beneath the Agency Supporters Surface: Life, Death, and 63 Sara Yorke Stevenson Legacy Circle Gold in Ancient Panama, from February 7, 2015 through 65 THE GIFT OF TIME November 1, 2015. Cover: 66 Penn Museum Volunteers Cast gold figurine. UPM object #40-13-28. Right: 68 Women’s Committee Painted ceramic vessel. UPM 68 Young Friends of the Penn Museum object #40-16-75. More 69 Board of Overseers information on all of these 69 Director’s Council objects can be found at www.penn.museum/ 70 Penn Museum Advisory Board exhibitions/past-exhibitions. 71 In Memoriam

All photos by Penn Museum 72 Curatorial Sections and Museum Centers unless otherwise stated. 74 Penn Museum Department Staff 2

3 EXECUTIVE MESSAGE

FOR MORE THAN 127 YEARS, the Penn Museum has been one sands of seventh grade students visiting through Unpacking the of the leading museums of archaeology and anthropology in the Past, a partnership program with the School District of Phila- world, with a collection of more than one million objects that we delphia and KIPP and Mastery Charter Schools lead funded by have largely excavated ourselves. As this report on our activities the GRoW Annenberg Foundation, which brings our collections for 2014–2015 documents, our influence is felt far beyond our in ancient Egypt and ancient Rome to life. During the first full walls by means of loans to leading museums everywhere, through year of Unpacking the Past, over 100 teachers attended four our excavations around the world, and through scholarly and professional development events, and our GRoW Annenberg popular publications that are read widely. educators reached every corner of Philadelphia through out- So it was no surprise when, in February 2014, the British reach lessons, teaching in 183 classrooms in 65 different schools publisher Dorling Kindersley, in collaboration with the Smithsonian spread evenly throughout the City. The team reached a total of Institution, approached us about photographing our objects for 4,318 7th grade students in its first year, including 152 in Autistic a new book—History of the World in 1,000 Objects. But even we Support and Life Skills Support classrooms who rarely, if ever, were not quite prepared for the fact that in the final fall 2014 participate in comparable opportunities. A total of more than publication, 200 of the entries are from our collection, including 3,500 students came with their classrooms for on-site visits. All the famed Bull’s Head of the Great Lyre of Ur in a magnificent participating students were given free family memberships to double spread on the title pages, and a detail from one of our the Penn Museum, 63 of which were activated through the end beautifully illuminated Persian manuscripts in another double of the school year. For support of this high impact program, we spread on the foreword pages. are deeply grateful to the GRoW Annenberg Foundation and the This invaluable testimonial was a timely reminder of many individual, foundation, government agency, and corporate the responsibility that comes with stewardship of such an donors who made generous matching gifts in 2014–2015, partic- extraordinary collection, just as we embark on a comprehensive ularly our Overseer Diane von Schlegell Levy with her husband renovation of many of the galleries and storage areas that Robert M. Levy. house it. 2014–2015 saw significant advances in planning The highlights above show different ways our remarkable that renovation of our Harrison and Coxe (Egyptian) Wings, archaeological collection can be used to transform understanding as well as the completion—in September 2014—of a similarly of our human experience; a fourth is, of course, exhibitions. In comprehensive project on the West Wing of the original 1899 our own galleries, Beneath the Surface: Life, Death, and Gold in portion of our building. Ancient Panama offered new insights into the excavation that Left: In the new The final phase of that West Wing renovation was a stunning uncovered a spectacular burial not far from Panama City in the Conservation Lab transformation, designed by Samuel Anderson Architects, of 1940s, and Corn: From Ancient Crop to Soda Pop was our first opened in September 2014, conservators a now-beautiful set of conservation and teaching labs, with exhibition with curatorial development and design entirely by Julia Lawson ancillary spaces including a classroom, seminar room, and offices, students. Loans and collaborations increased the reach of Penn (foreground) and in perfect time for the launch of the Center for the Analysis of Museum collections through a wide range of exhibitions beyond Nina Owczarek Archaeological Materials (CAAM)—our Museum’s joint initiative our own walls; of special mention must be our partnership prepare objects for with Penn Arts & Sciences—in October 2014. Three courses were with NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World in the the February 2015 exhibition Beneath offered through CAAM in each of the fall and spring semesters, at exhibition From Ancient to Modern: Archaeology and Aesthetics, the Surface: Life, levels ranging from undergraduate freshman seminar to graduate; which gave New York audiences a chance to see a selection Death, and Gold in all had enrollment beyond inaugural year projections. Several of our objects and archival materials from the great ancient Ancient Panama. other classes visited CAAM for specific sessions to interact with Mesopotamian site of Ur, including the headdress, jewelry, and teaching specialists, or see its spaces and collections. In addition, cape of Queen Puabi. the labs were used for mentoring by teaching specialists, and For all of the many contributions of time, talent, and financial for individual research projects conducted by undergraduates, resources that made these highlights and the myriad other graduate students, and post-docs. In sum, this implementation research, teaching, conservation, and public programming of one of the major new initiatives of our strategic plan just initiatives possible, we are, of course, deeply appreciative. 18 months after its endorsement by our Board of Overseers exceeded our highest hopes and expectations. We owe a debt of gratitude to the donors who provided funding for both the lab renovation and the new CAAM teaching positions, and to our Faculty Steering Committee led by CAAM Director Steve Tinney, with Lab Coordinator Marie-Claude Boileau, for extraordinary Michael J. Kowalski, W74 Julian Siggers, Ph.D. work in planning and implementation. Chairman Williams Director As the West Wing of our Museum came alive with undergraduates energized by their classes, the Kress Entrance and classrooms on the eastern side were similarly animated by thou- 4

Penn Museum Annual Report 2014–2015 A STRATEGIC VISION

AS OUR PENN MUSEUM SAW, in 2014–2015, the launch of the Our vision for this significant project—a true building trans- Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials, the Un- formation—includes that: packing the Past partnership program with the School District • Our Museum audiences will encounter an engaging environ- of Philadelphia, and the completion of a full renovation of the ment, filled with new ideas and experiences, as comfortable galleries, labs, and lecture room in the West Wing of our original as it is beautiful. Many become Museum members to return 1899 building, we now stand poised to initiate the 3rd major goal for unlimited, deeper exploration of the galleries. of our 2013–2020 Strategic Plan: the complete redevelopment and reinstallation of the Upper and Lower Egyptian Galleries, the • Visitors of all ages will appreciate the universal accessibility iconic Rotunda, and the Near East Galleries. These spaces con- in all areas and new amenities. Their number and diversity tain some of our strongest collections, originating from many of will grow, from families with children in strollers enjoying the Museum’s important excavations. They also contain several the interior and garden spaces, to senior groups engaged in of our iconic art objects, pertaining to subject matter of great daytime tours and lectures. public appeal. • Our Penn Museum reputation, and with it the University of Our remarkable collections, when used to full dramatic effect, Pennsylvania’s, will grow internationally with the new world- have the potential to tell compelling narratives. And, opened in class galleries. Penn will be seen more than ever as a gener- 1915 and 1926 respectively, the Harrison and Coxe Wings offer ator of knowledge in the cultural and scientific worlds. soaring and distinctive architecture and a spectacular setting for both object display and events. • Learning in the galleries and beyond will be enhanced for The planned renovation will upgrade both front and back of University and K-12 students through careful and relevant house areas which have been left more-or-less untouched for de- interpretation, an increase in the focus on diversity, and a cades, bringing air-conditioning to two thirds of the Museum’s broad range of content digitally available. public spaces and significantly improving stewardship of the col- • Stewardship of the world heritage represented in the Penn lection as well as visitor comfort: adding new ramps and eleva- Museum’s archaeological and anthropological collection tors to make all Museum areas fully ADA and stroller accessible, will be significantly improved through gallery environments and improving visitor amenities including new 1st and 3rd floor including better lighting, casework materials, particle filtra- restrooms. With the concurrent construction by the University of tion, and select climate-controlled cases, as well as a new Pennsylvania Health System of a new Patient Pavilion designed collection storage facility. Left: Chairman by noted architects Foster and Associates, comes a timely oppor- Mike Kowalski and tunity to upgrade shared spaces including the Museum’s freight • Efficiency will be enhanced and environmental conserva- Williams Director Julian Siggers elevator and loading docks, and to create a dramatic new pedes- tion fore-fronted, with new loading docks, energy efficien- in the 3rd floor trian walkway from the University City SEPTA station across from cies including HVAC plants, and LED lighting for all new gal- Egyptian Gallery the Museum’s Kress Entrance to 34th Street. leries. with the statue A firm belief that the Museum should strive to transform of Ramses II, the • Revenue from increased visitors and members to our gal- the way our visitors see the past, and the way in which they under- great Pharaoh and leries, Pepper Mill Café, and Museum Shop, will enable the stand the world and their place in it, is at the heart of everything we father of Merenptah, Museum to serve more populations through community, whose throne room set out to achieve. The creation of new galleries of the ancient Near outreach, and learning programs. will be installed at East, Egypt, and Asia—comprising over 35,000 square feet of dramatic height in new installation—will cast Penn’s iconic collections in a new light, The Penn Museum is a dynamic research institution with the Museum’s new exploring the origins of great world civilizations by showcasing and many ongoing research projects. With the completed renova- galleries. contextualizing their art and artifacts in spectacular, engaging, and tion of its galleries and public spaces, it will fulfill our vision as educational galleries at the highest level of interpretive museum a vibrant and engaging place of continual discovery. design. Chief among many highlights will be the installation of elements from the 3,200-year-old palace of Merenptah, the only Egyptian royal palace substantially represented in a museum collection outside Egypt, with the potential, once installed at its full height in the 59-foot high 3rd floor Egyptian gallery, to become a marquee destination for visitors to Philadelphia. Already underway in fall 2015 with the creation of a new pe- destrian entrance ramp and cleaning and repointing of the South Street façade, the renovations and gallery reinstallations will be implemented—pending funding—in a three-phased project with the important milestone of new Galleries of the Middle East in fall 2017 and overall completion by fall 2020. Phasing the project will allow the Museum to stay open throughout. 6

7 THE YEAR IN REVIEW

Right: Glazed pottery 2014–2015 was, by any measure, an extraordinary year of activity camel found in tomb, Tang Dynasty, China, at the Penn Museum, with the implementation of two of the major 618–907 CE. UPM object #C466. new initiatives of its strategic plan—the new teaching center in Left: Students in the freshman seminar Food and Fire: Archaeology archaeological science in the form of the Center for the Analysis in the Laboratory, taught by Kate Moore, of Archaeological Materials, and the School District Partnership Mainwaring Teaching Specialist, in the new program Unpacking the Past—alongside a global testimonial to Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials. its collections through the inclusion of 200 of its artifacts in the DK/Smithsonian History of the World in 1,000 Objects.

Beside these highlights, 2014–2015 saw a continuation of a breadth of activities under the four “pillars” of what we do—research, teaching, collections stewardship, and public engagement. The following pages offer a brief snapshot of both the highlights and the myriad additional activities.

THE YEAR IN REVIEW PENN MUSEUM 2014–2015: BY THE MONTH

JULY 2014 9 In this Summer Wonders concert, local musicians Kurt Jung and Qin Qian perform using various Chinese instruments and 2 ThePhiladelphia Songwriters Project showcases up-and- discuss the history and development of Chinese music. coming musicians who have a diverse array of sounds that engage audiences with their lyrical and musical nuance. This 14 Penn Museum Learning Programs hosts the first of three P.M. @ Penn Museum Summer Nights performance features summer 2014 Professional Development Days introducing the winner of their 9th annual songwriting contest. the Unpacking the Past program to a total of 71 teachers in the Philadelphia School District. 2 Young participants in this Summer Wonders family series have fun learning basic, age-appropriate belly dance—a traditional 16 Trinidelphia performs at the Penn Museum for P.M. @ Penn dance common to Egypt and the Middle East—demonstrated Museum Summer Nights, delighting audiences with its fusion by accomplished dancer Michele Tayoun of Meesha Belly of Trinidadian Soca and Calypso with Latin jazz, reggae, salsa, Dance. and American top 40.

9 Zydeco-A-Go-Go combines Creole Zydeco and Cajun 2-steps 16 Master puppeteer Steve Abrams mesmerizes Summer Wonders to create a mix of New Orleans rhythm and blues and vintage series attendees with his puppetry of Aesop’s fables, in which Louisiana rock ‘n roll for this P.M. @ Penn Museum Summer a brave mouse, a lazy fox, and a very determined turtle are the Nights concert. featured players.

23 M’oudswing, a Moroccan fusion band, layers oud (a musical instrument) and modal jazz improvisation over North African grooves, allowing Arabic music and jazz to coexist in harmony while still retaining their distinctive sounds. A P.M. @ Penn Museum Summer Nights concert.

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

30 The West Philadelphia Orchestra performs the poignant melodies and propulsive rhythms of Eastern Europe for P.M. @ Penn Museum Summer Nights audiences.

30 A group of internationally acclaimed musicians, the Spice Route Ensemble, honors diverse Middle Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean traditions in a concert for Summer Wonders series attendees. JULY 14

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AUGUST 2014 SEPTEMBER 2014

6 Newspaper Taxis, an award-winning local group, celebrates the 3 Bill Koutsouros’ internationally acclaimed ensemble, Animus, spirit of The Beatles with an energetic show at P.M. @ Penn performs the season finale of the P.M. @ Penn Museum Museum Summer Nights. Summer Nights concert series, offering an exciting fusion of ancient and modern music with traditional elements of Greek, 13 Philadelphia-based drum and music ensemble, Leana Song, rock, Middle Eastern, blues, Indian, jazz, and African music. performs for P.M. @ Penn Museum Summer Nights. The ensemble specializes in Afro-Cuban and West African 6 The Clio Society, the Museum’s undergraduate student interest drumming that combines traditional call-and-response group, hosts its Open House Picnic. patterned Yoruba songs with modern folk and jazz instruments 11 In this Brown Bag Lecture, Dr. Tom Scheinfeldt, Associate and harmony. Professor of Digital Media and Design and Director of Digital 16 The Year of Color: Stone and Marble from Antiquity to the Humanities in the Digital Media Center at the University of Present, developed in conjunction with the Penn Humanities Connecticut, recounts his experiences as a member of the team Forum 2014-15 theme, opens in the Special Exhibitions that helped build the Web Archives after 9/11. Presented by the Gallery. Penn Cultural Heritage Center.

20 With a unique combination of Brazilian and American roots, 13 “Borneo Odyssey” is a FringeArts experimental performance, Minas’ innovative yet timeless sound blends north and south based on the 1896–1898 Penn Museum expeditions to for magical music that hints at folk, blues, jazz, scat, and samba northern Borneo made by William Furness III, Alfred in this P.M. @ Penn Museum Summer Nights concert. Harrison, Jr., and Hiram Hiller. This event is supported in part by Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts, PECO, the Provost’s 24 Penn Museum hosts the New Student Orientation Toga Interdisciplinary Seminar Fund, and the Penn Art and Party. Students are invited to dress in the garb of the ancient Culture Initiative. world, and creative togas abound. 21 The Penn Museum joins Philadelphia’s observance of 27 The Jimmy Pritchard Band, an International Blues Challenge International Peace Day with a community-wide poetry semi-finalist, noted for its sharp sound that respects the celebration featuring Sonia Sanchez, poet laureate emeritus tradition of blues while pushing its contemporary boundaries, of Philadelphia and an international peace activist, as well as performs for P.M. @ Penn Museum Summer Nights visitors. the art and poetry of more than 100 Philadelphia children, participating in the ACE (Artistic and Cultural Enrichment) Program in West Philadelphia.

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

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30 Penn Museum celebrates the renovation of a suite of 12 Filmmaker Rowena Potts kicks off the Second Sunday Culture conservation and teaching laboratories in its West Wing and Films series, “Local Color” with two of her short films: Kaker dedicates the new Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Kolkata/Kolkata of the Crows (2012) and Mecho Bazaar/The Materials with a ceremony led by Provost Vincent Price, Fish Market (2013). Manjita Mukharji, Lecturer, Penn South Dean of Penn Arts and Sciences Steven J. Fluharty, Asian Studies, helps to lead the post-screening discussion. Chairman Michael J. Kowalski, and Williams Director Co-sponsored by the Penn Humanities Forum, Penn Cinema Julian Siggers, and an Open House in the labs and ancillary Studies, and the South Asia Center. study spaces. 15 Part of P.M. @ Penn Museum evening programming for young 30 In this Evening Lecture, Dr. Yannis Galanakis, Lecturer in professionals, visitors partake in this “Paranormal Museum” Greek Prehistory, University of Cambridge, explores how, event, featuring flashlight tours, eerie ghost stories, and close through the 19th-century European antiquities trade, the encounters with a mummy. Supported by the Young Friends commodification of the past became inextricably interwoven of the Penn Museum. with power and politics. Sponsored by the American Institute 16 In this Brown Bag Lecture, Ron Maldonado, Tribal Historic of Archaeology. 10 Preservation Officer, Navajo Nation Preservation Department, and Jon Berkin, Principal, National Resource Group, LLC, OCTOBER 2014 11 discuss conflicts over the management of Navajo traditional 1 Dr. David Silverman, Curator-in-Charge, Penn Museum cultural properties. Presented by the Penn Cultural Heritage Egyptian Section, presents the opening lecture in the Great Center. Wonders Lecture Series on Giza’s pyramids and Sphinx.

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

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

12 In this Family Second Sunday Workshop, guests learn about the funerary practices of the ancient Etruscans and have

the chance to sculpt with Model Magic, depicting a person OCT 18 reclining for an afterlife feast.

PENN MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2014–2015 17 The International Student Reception, attended by over 1,000 students, takes place at the Penn Museum. Activities include tours of the Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials (CAAM), and adventure and craft activities.

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

21 Penn President Amy Gutmann joins Superintendent Dr. William Hite, Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell, and Williams Director NOV 1 Julian Siggers for a press event officially announcing the Penn Museum’s partnership program with the School District of Philadelphia, Unpacking the Past, and a tour and interactive NOVEMBER 2014 workshop with students from the Penn Alexander School. 1 The Penn Museum, the Mexican Cultural Center, and the 23 In this Evening Program, the Junior Fellows of the Kolb Mexican Consulate in Philadelphia join forces to present the Society at the Penn Museum present their current research. family-friendly, annual Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos) celebration. This event is supported in part by the William M. 25 In this Afternoon Lecture, Dr. Steve Vinson, Associate King Charitable Foundation. Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Indiana University, Bloomington, discusses the association between 5 In this Great Wonders lecture, Dr. Megan Kassabaum, renowned Egyptologist Battiscombe Gunn and the notorious Weingarten Assistant Curator, Penn Museum American Section, occultist Aleister Crowley. Presented by the American explores the exceptional variability in Mississippi Valley Research Center in Egypt—Pennsylvania Chapter. mounds and the prehistoric cultures that constructed them.

29 The Women’s Committee of the Penn Museum hosts a gala 5 In the second installment of the Making Workshop series, preview for the Sixth Treasures Sale & Show, co-chaired by students are joined by Dr. Jane Hickman for a presentation of Druellen Kolker, Doranne Lackman, and Arlene Olson, jewelry from the Museum’s collection. Justine Frederick, a Phil- running October 30–November 2. Treasures features jewelry by adelphia-based jewelry designer, leads students as they make their 26 distinguished dealers and designers. own jewelry inspired by the ancient Near East Section collection.

30 TheClio Society hosts a Halloween Party, featuring mummy tours 7-8 The Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiativehosted with Dr. Janet Monge, Keeper and Associate Curator-in-Charge, a conference on “Indigenous Knowledge in the Academy” fea- Penn Museum Physical Anthropology Section, as well as ancient turing Doug George Kanentiio (Mohawk) from the Hiawatha Egyptian games and crafts, and the first installment of a series of Institute for Indigenous Knowledge and Dr. Scott M. Stevens History Mystery Movie Nights—National Treasure: Book of Secrets. (Mohawk) from Syracuse University, among many others.

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THE YEAR IN REVIEW 16 New music ensemble Relâche begins a Three-Concert Residence with this afternoon performance, featuring three silent films by Maya Deren, the first female Avant-Garde filmmaker: Meshes of the Afternoon, At Land, and The Very Eye of Night. 19 Penn Museum Learning Programs Departments hosts Homeschool Day, the first in a new 9 Kids and families join in this Family Second Sunday program serving homeschool families. Fifty participants Workshop to tour the Mexico and Central American Gallery enjoyed gallery tours and special interactive workshops. with a scavenger hunt, and work with paint and mosaic tiles to decorate a death mask in the style of the ancient Maya. 19 At P.M. @ Penn Museum’s Drinks with the Sphinx, guests can show off their moves during a belly dancing workshop, test 9 In this edition of Second Sunday Culture Films, renowned their knowledge in a “What in the World” object trivia game, muralist Cesar Viveros presents two films about life in Mexico. and more, with drinks available at a cash bar. Attendees also Day of the Dead (2010), a short film about the Zapotec Dia de explore the galleries with a flashlight tour. Supported by the los Muertos in Teotitlán del Valle; and Tiempo de Vals (2006), Young Friends of the Penn Museum. a film about the quinceañera as a rite of passage in Tlaxcala. Co-sponsored by the Latin American and Latino Studies 22 Penn Museum hosts a One-Day Symposium, The History Program, the Mexican Consulate of Philadelphia, Casa of Music in China, with Penn’s Department of East Asian Latina, Cinema Studies, the Penn Museum Library, and the Languages and Civilizations. Early Chinese instruments in the Penn Humanities Forum. collection are brought out for participants to examine.

13 In this Brown Bag Lecture, Dr. Douglas Boin, Assistant 22 At this Afternoon Lecture, Adrienne Mayor, Research Professor of History, Saint Louis University, discusses some of Scholar, Stanford University Classics Department, reveals the ethical “gray areas” that are the source of current debate surprising details and new insights about the lives of flesh-and- among archaeologists, classicists, papyrologists, ancient blood women of the Eurasian steppes, who were mythologized historians, and religious scholars. Sponsored by the Penn as Amazons. Cultural Heritage Center. 24 This Brown Bag Lecture introduces a research project called 14 The first event of the 2014-2015 40 Winks with the Sphinx “Trafficking Culture,” funded by the European Research takes place. This popular sleepover program is geared to ages 6 Council, which aims to produce an evidence-based picture to 12 and their parents or chaperones. A scavenger hunt and a of the contemporary global trade in looted cultural objects. flashlight expedition through the galleries offer ways to connect Speakers included Simon Mackenzie, Neil Brodie, and with ancient artifacts. This sleepover program takes place Donna Yates, all of the University of Glasgow. Presented by the several times during the year. Penn Cultural Heritage Center.

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DECEMBER 2014 14 At this Second Sunday Family Workshop, families work together to create a kente cloth-inspired paper weaving, learn 3 In this Great Wonders lecture, Dr. Clark Erickson, Curator- some Akan proverbs, and discover unique gold weights in the in-Charge, American Section, discusses how the existence Africa Gallery. of Western Amazonian monumental earthworks—called geoglyphs—shows the ability of native peoples to transform 14 In this edition of Second Sunday Culture Films, director their landscapes on a massive scale. Lane Clark presents his newly remastered film, Kyeremu Proverbs (1995) about Twi language proverbs and how they 3 At De-Stress Fest, held during exams, Penn students are inform and instruct. Co-sponsored by the African Center, invited to relax at the Museum with a Lego station, Nintendo CAMRA, the Office of the Provost, Cinema Studies, and 64 and Wii video game room, and therapeutic coloring station. Penn Humanities Forum. In the galleries students can calm their minds and bodies with yoga and guided meditation. JANUARY 2015 6 In celebration of our World Culture Series, the Penn Museum 7 In this Great Wonders lecture, Dr. Grant Frame, Associate hosts its 19th annual Peace around the World holiday Curator of the Penn Museum’s Babylonian Section, discusses celebration. Visitors receive Museum “passports for peace” the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II (604–562 BCE) and upon arrival, then “depart” on a world tour through the his Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Museum’s international galleries to explore holiday festivals, history, cuisine, and traditions from various cultures. Supported 9 Dr. C. Brian Rose, Curator-in-Charge, Mediterranean in part by the William M. King Charitable Foundation, the Section, receives the Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Women’s Committee of the Penn Museum, and CxRA. Archaeological Achievement, the highest honor of the Archaeological Institute of America, at the AIA’s annual award ceremony in New Orleans, for his work in the field, his visionary efforts to provide cultural heritage training to members of the US military, and his role as an educator.

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

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

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THE YEAR IN REVIEW FEBRUARY 2015 JAN 31 1 In this illustrated Afternoon Lecture, Dr. Jodi Magness, Professor of Religious Studies, UNC Chapel Hill, discusses recent archaeological finds at the Talpiyot tomb within the context of ancient Jewish tombs and burial customs in Jerusalem in the time of Jesus (late Second Temple Period). Cosponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America.

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

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

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

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

7 The opening day celebration for the Museum’s new exhibition, Beneath the Surface: Life, Death, and Gold in Ancient 24 The Free Library of Philadelphia selected Orphan Train by Panama, includes Latin American music, dance, curators’ Christina Baker Kline (2013) as its One Book, One talks, and more. Philadelphia 2015 selection. Dr. Lucy Fowler Williams, Associate Curator and Sabloff Keeper of Collections, Penn 8 At this Second Sunday Family Workshop, participants Museum American Section, offers a special workshop that picks sharpen their skills at paper-cutting, craft a puppet in honor up on themes from the book. of the Chinese New Year, and enjoy an animal-themed tour of the China Gallery. 25 New music ensemble Relâche continues their Three-Concert 14 Residence, “Music for the Mystery of Silents,” at the Penn 8 For this edition of the Second Sunday Culture Film Series, Museum with this afternoon performance—featuring a brand Dr. James Chan, Cultural Consultant, Penn’s Center for East 15 new score by Mike Stambaugh for Ernst Lubitsch’s silent Asian Studies, presents two films from the Long Bow Village film, The Eyes of the Mummy (1918). group: Stilt Dancers of Long Bow Village (1980) and Guomen: A Village Wedding (2003.) Co-sponsored by Cinema Studies, 30 Dr. Brian Daniels, Penn Cultural Heritage Center, discusses Penn East Asia Center, the Penn Museum Library, and Penn an alternative model for protecting heritage in Syria and Iraq Humanities Forum. that focuses on community activists and local professionals in this Brown Bag Lecture. Sponsored by the Penn Cultural 10 Nearly 60 students attend the first-ever exhibition reception Heritage Center. for students for Beneath the Surface. This event includes an introduction to the Museum’s newest exhibition from Curator, 31 Visitors of all ages are invited to help shepherd in the Year of Dr. Clark Erickson and student curators Monica Fenton, the Sheep at this daylong Chinese New Year Celebration, part Ashley Terry, and Sarah Parkinson. of the Museum’s World Culture Series. 12 The exhibition From Ancient to Modern: Archaeology and Aesthetics, presented by NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) in collaboration with the Penn Museum, opens in ISAW’s galleries showcasing iconic objects excavated by the Museum at Ur in Mesopotamia.

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

PENN MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2014–2015 15 Local Girl Scouts visit the Penn Museum on Scout Badge 19 The Penn Museum and Penn Cultural Heritage Center Days to earn the “Playing the Past” Junior badge, touring the present a Brown Bag Lecture by Dr. Sarah Parcak, Egyptian Galleries and focusing on women in ancient Egypt. University of Alabama at Birmingham, on protecting global heritage in the 21st century and the implications of new 16 At the hot chocolate Making Workshop, students learn how the technology in this effort. ancient Maya turned cacao beans into a drink for the gods with Penn Anthropology’s Dr. Joanne Baron and Dr. Kate Moore. 21 In this afternoon lecture, Dr. Kathryn Bard, Professor of Archaeology, Boston University, speaks about Punt 18 The Penn Museum’s second Homeschool Day serves 140 and discusses new insights on its possible location in participants, who enjoy a wide variety of tours and interactive antiquity. Presented by the American Research Center in workshops. Egypt—Pennsylvania Chapter. 18 At this rendition of P.M. @ Penn Museum, guests learn about 26 The Penn Museum hosts the FebClub Class of 2015 Party. some ancient romantic customs during R-Rated Romans, a The iconic Rotunda sets the stage for a bookending of the Class humorous talk by Dr. C. Brian Rose, Curator-in-Charge, Penn of 2015’s collegiate experience. Museum Mediterranean Section, followed by a guided tour of suggestive objects in the galleries. Supported by the Young 27 As part of the Penn Student Access Series, Dr. C. Brian Rose, Friends of the Penn Museum. Curator-in-Charge, Mediterranean Section gives a tour of the Roman Gallery to a group of Penn students.

28 FEB 15 The rich cultures of Africa and the African diaspora take center stage in the Museum’s Celebration of African Cultures, an annual World Culture Series celebration featuring drum and dance workshops, storytelling, crafts, games, cuisine, art, and artifacts.

MARCH 2015

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

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

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

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

FEB 10

MAR 4

THE YEAR IN REVIEW 8 Speakers Dr. Amardeep Singh and Samian Kaur offer insights 21 Egyptomania is a celebration of all things Egyptian at this into the film Himself He Cooks (2011), directed by V. Berteau World Culture Day. The galleries come to life with a variety and P. Witjes, for this edition of the Second Sunday Culture of activities to help visitors discover ancient Egypt, one of the Film Series. Sponsored by the South Asia Center, the Penn world’s oldest civilizations. Museum Library, Cinema Studies, and the Penn Humanities 21 The Penn Museum presents a Native American Voices Forum. performance, featuring Native American rap and hip- 14 In the annual Korsyn Lecture, Dr. Ronald Leprohon, Professor hop artists Def-I, Tall Paul, and Frank Waln. This public of Egyptology, University of Toronto, offers a description of the programming is underwritten by the Delaware Investments/ scenes of the 18th Dynasty tomb chapel of Pahery, the tomb Macquarie Group Foundation. Co-sponsored by Natives at chapel of the mayor of El Kap. Presented by the American Penn, Greenfield Intercultural Center, and Dubois CCCP. Research Center in Egypt—Pennsylvania Chapter. 24 In this Evening Lecture, Dr. C. Brian Rose, Curator-in- 18 At this rendition of P.M. @ Penn Museum, guests explore the Charge, Penn Museum Mediterranean Section, and Frank art of tattoos and body modification. Dr. Julian Siggers, Penn Matero, Professor of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, Museum Williams Director, speaks about techniques used for present an overview of the most recent archaeological and hundreds of years and compares them with those used by tattoo conservation fieldwork at Gordion under the auspices of the artists today. Supported by the Young Friends of the Penn University of Pennsylvania. Museum. 25 At this installment of the Making Workshop series, Penn students are joined by artist Kathryn Sclavi to learn about the ancient Japanese art of shibori tie-dye. Over 40 students MAR 21 attend this event to design and dye their own silk scarves.

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

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

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

MAR 25

PENN MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2014–2015 APRIL 2015

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

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

3 In this Penn Student Access Series tour, Penn students learned APR 17 about the conservation and collections management of mummies in the exhibition In the Artifact Lab with conservator, Molly Gleeson and Dr. Janet Monge, Keeper and Associate Cura- tor-in-Charge, Penn Museum Physical Anthropology Section.

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

11 In an Afternoon Lecture, Dr. Aidan Dodson, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol, explores the facts and theories regarding the reigns of Tutankhamun and Horemheb. Presented by the American Research Center in Egypt—Pennsylvania Chapter. APR 20 12 In a Beneath the Surface Lecture, Dr. Katherine Moore, Zooarchaeologist and Mainwaring Teaching Specialist, considers the burials at Sitio Conte to answer questions about the role 15 P.M. @ Penn Museum offers an exploration of the Beneath of animals in ancient Panama. the Surface: Life, Death, and Gold in Ancient Pana- ma exhibition—with gallery tours, an interactive dig site, 12 At a Family Second Sunday Workshop, families explore the pottery painting, and more. Supported by the Young Friends Museum’s new exhibition, Beneath the Surface: Life, Death, of the Penn Museum. and Gold in Ancient Panama, and work with foil to etch gold plaques inspired by the exhibition’s artifacts. 17 Dr. Brian I. Daniels, Director of Research and Programs, and Dr. Salam Al Kuntar, Associate Faculty, Penn Cultural Heritage 14 At the Penn Museum’s Quaker Days Open House, students Center, receive the Society for American Archaeology’s Presi- explore the Museum through tours by student members of the dential Recognition Award at the SAA’s annual meeting in San Clio Society, and learn about the Center for the Analysis of Francisco for their leadership efforts to assist Syrian archaeolo- Archaeological Materials, and related departments. gists, museum curators, and heritage experts in the protection of archaeological and other cultural assets inside Syria.

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

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

20 At the Museum’s Annual Volunteer Luncheon, Williams Director Julian Siggers and Museum staff thank volunteers who gave at least 14,706 hours of their time during 2014–2015. APR 18 Nineteen volunteers are recognized for an extraordinary 10 to 40 years of service. Dr. Siggers presents the annual Volunteer of the Year award to Elin C. Danien, Ph.D., CGS82, G89, GR98, whose more than 40 years of service includes founding the annual Maya Weekend.

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

THE YEAR IN REVIEW MAY 4

23 Christopher McDougall, bestselling author of Born to Run, MAY 2015 hosts an Evening Program based on his newest book, Natural 3 Internationally acclaimed new music ensemble Relâche Born Heroes, which examines the ancient wellness practices concludes their Three-Concert Residence season at the Penn and traditions on the island of Crete and their role in modern Museum with this afternoon performance. The program athleticism. The program includes parkour, knife-throwing, and features the silent film Rocks of Kador (1912) accompanied by “Wildfitness” demonstrations. music of French composer Régis Huby. 26 At this Explorer Sunday Workshop, visitors learn the physics 4 The Women’s Committee of the Penn Museumpresents behind the atlatl, an important hunting tool for the early Digging Dames: Women Archaeologists Come Clean, a Native Americans, and then practice using one. Presented in benefit luncheon lecture program featuring Dr. Kate Moore, conjunction with the Philadelphia Science Festival. Mainwaring Teaching Specialist, and an archaeologist who has 27 ThePenn Cultural Heritage Center partners with the Penn conducted fieldwork in South America and Central Asia. Museum to present a Brown Bag Lecture by Dr. Lamya Khalidi, 6 In this Great Wonders lecture, Dr. C. Brian Rose, Curator- National Center for Scientific Research, in which he discusses new in-Charge, Penn Museum Mediterranean Section, speaks about data that sheds light on Afro-Arabian prehistoric interactions. 18 the history and legacy of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.

19 10 Dr. Janet Monge, Keeper and Associate Curator-in-Charge, Physical Anthropology Section, gives a talk for the Beneath the Surface Lecture Series about the challenges posed for physical anthropologists when only photographs remain of an excavated burial site.

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

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

MAY 10

PENN MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2014–2015 JUNE 2015

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

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

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

4 In this Beneath the Surface Lecture, Conservator Julia Lawson discusses what was involved, both in the past and now, in transforming broken, dirt-encrusted fragments from the Sitio Conte excavation into objects in an exhibition. JUN 24 11 Through a Live From the Field Skype event, Penn Museum Members travel virtually from Rainey Auditorium to Smith Creek, Mississippi, where the excavation project of Dr. Megan 24 With a sound as rich and diverse as his native São Paulo, Kassabaum, Weingarten Assistant Curator, Penn Museum Xande Cruz adeptly blends urban and traditional styles in this American Section, sheds light on Coles Creek cultures. soulful P.M. @ Penn Museum Summer Nights concert.

17 The Harrisburg Mandolin Ensemble kicks off the Museum’s 29 The popular Museum summer camp program Anthropologists sixth annual P.M. @ Penn Museum Summer Nights Concert in the Making begins. The eight-week camp includes themes Series with original tunes and arrangements, as well as selections as varied as Rome, World Mythology, and Ancient Egyptian of jazz, swing, bluegrass, old-time, folk, and world music. Magic. About 60-70 campers, aged 7 to 13, attend each week.

JUN 1

THE YEAR IN REVIEW PENN MUSEUM 2014–2015: BY THE NUMBERS AT THE MUSEUM

VISITORS AND PROGRAMS

CENTER FOR THE 166,292 ANALYSIS OF Total visitors ARCHAEOLOGICAL MATERIALS 32,016 People who enjoyed a rental 28,000 event in the Penn Museum galleries, Elements of skeletal specimens gardens, and auditoriums cleaned, labeled, and organized in CAAM’s Zooarchaeology Lab 23,390 People who attended one of 186 6,500 lectures, film screenings, family or Approximate years of age of other public events a skeleton from Ur used as a student lab report case study in the Human Skeletal section of CAAM’s Living World 5,046 in Archaeological Science course Visitors who enhanced their Penn Museum experience through a group tour 20 376 21 Penn undergraduates and graduates 3,305 enrolled in courses in the Center Visits from Penn Museum members using for the Analysis of Archaeological their unlimited free admission Materials in its first year

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

4 Dedicated CAAM teaching specialists by the end of its first year COLLECTIONS USE AND COLLEGE AND K-12 STEWARDSHIP 27,104 25,382 School children, teachers, Artifacts and Physical Anthropology and chaperones attending an onsite collections moved for examination by 179 workshop, program, or tour visiting researchers 4,777 6,180 Penn students participating Visitors to In the Artifact Lab to in a class session in a classroom, watch conservators treat ancient guided storage tour, or gallery Egyptian mummies and objects 4,241 4,743 Participants in 131 International Artifacts surveyed for conservation Classroom programs condition, of which 546 received active conservation treatment 3,556 Seventh grade students in Philadelphia 3,175 public or charter schools who came Accessions to the collection, with their classroom for onsite visits including 334 cultural objects gifted through the Unpacking the Past program and 2,841 archival materials gifted

3 260 New exhibitions with Collections tours given to visiting student curators researchers by Penn Museum keepers or curatorial assistance of collections PENN MUSEUM 2014–2015: BY THE NUMBERS OUT IN THE WORLD

RESEARCH AND LEARNING PROGRAMS 1,553 Offsite K-12 students participating in 47 Distance CULTURAL HERITAGE Learning programs PROTECTION AND EDUCATION 573 Research requests on collections, research projects, or 862 object identification answered Events of cultural heritage destruction in Syria identified by Penn Cultural Heritage Center 195 researchers Penn Museum curators, 22 research project managers, and 23 consulting scholars engaged in active 364 research around the globe Scholars attending a program about heritage destruction in conflict zones 183 Classrooms in 65 schools 150 throughout Philadelphia where GRoW Penn ROTC students trained in Annenberg Unpacking the Past cultural heritage programming in the educators drove a Mummy Mobile to Middle East by Curator Brian Rose deliver workshops 35 25 Iraqi heritage professionals Countries where Penn Museum- consulted and trained by the Penn funded field projects or Cultural Heritage Center and student research took place in 2015 associated teams DIGITAL VISITORS 983,957 Unique visitors to the Penn Museum website 606,948 ARTIFACTS AND Searches through the Online ARCHIVAL MATERIALS Collections 32,030 579,339 Views to the Penn Museum Number of miles flown by collections YouTube channel staff couriering Penn Museum objects for loans or traveling exhibitions 2,656 28,658 Retweets of 1,005 Penn Artifact images added to Online Museum tweets Collections database

2,577 16,888 Facebook likes Records added to Online Collections database

299 Artifacts loaned out to 11 borrowing institutions

200 Entries of Penn Museum artifacts featured in DK/Smithsonian’s History of the World in 1,000 Objects book PENN MUSEUM 2014–2015: BY THE NUMBERS Statement of Museum Fiscal Year Activity

THE PENN MUSEUM is funded through a variety of sources, including investment income (managed with the University of Pennsylvania endowments); gifts from individuals, foundations, and corporations; grants; subvention from the University of Pennsylvania; and earned revenue from admissions, catering, and rental fees, artifact loan fees, traveling exhibition fees, publications, and K-12 and public programs.

REVENUE FY15 FY14 Investment Income $ 3,827,523 $ 3,636,296 Gift Income 6,307,462 9,552,838 Sponsored Program Revenue 887,204 1,015,513 University Subvention (Programmatic & Allocated Costs) 9,296,000 8,937,000 Transfers / Other 11,569,388 1,773,259 Total Revenue 31,887,577 24,914,906

EXPENDITURES Total Compensation 9,056,821 8,618,871

Current Expense: Traveling Exhibitions and Loan costs, Other Travel & Entertainment 818,026 948,505 Supplies & Minor Expense 536,476 712,972 Non-Capitalized Equipment 278,069 323,681 Rental Income (internal) (172,214) (253,491) Communications & Computing 599,319 377,830 Professional & Other Services 1,662,070 1,380,039 Operations & Maintenance 922,108 1,188,770 Other 72,784 79,446

24 Total Current Expense: 4,716,638 4,757,752

25 Capital Transactions 939,673 1,406,229

Internal Penn Income (Expense Credits) (418,174) (217,258)

University Allocated Cost Charges: Library Charges 727,000 696,000 Facilities Maintenance Charges 2,805,000 2,742,000 University Services Charges 1,363,000 1,349,004 Development Charges 1,265,000 1,220,004 Research Charges 8,000 6,000 Total University Allocated Cost Charges 6,168,000 6,013,008

TOTAL EXPENDITURES 20,462,958 20,578,603 TOTAL OPERATING SURPLUS/(DEFICIT) $ 11,424,619 $ 4,336,303

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

PENN MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2014–2015 PENN MUSEUM 2014–2015: BY THE GEOGRAPHY

Student Project(s) Photo: Anna Sitz, GR20 Researcher Project(s)

Photo: Paul Mitchell, C13, G14, GR25

Photo: Alexandria Mitchem, C16

Photo: Elizabeth Clay, GR23

THE YEAR IN REVIEW Teaching and Research: 2014-2015 Penn Museum-Sponsored Field Projects

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

• Azerbaijan • Jamaica • Canada • Lebanon • China • Mexico • Egypt • Peru Photo: Kamillia Scott, C16 • France • Romania • French Guiana • Singapore Curator, Keeper, and Consulting Scholar • Republic of Georgia • Spain Research Projects • Greece • Thailand Penn Museum-affiliated researchers in 2014–2015 included • Israel • Turkmenistan 41 curators, project managers, and keepers and 154 • Italy • United States consulting scholars across 11 curatorial sections and two teaching and research centers, most engaged in active field research around the globe. Photo: Annie Chan, GR21 Of the numerous recent and current research projects directed or co-directed by these scholars, the Penn Museum was pleased to support, through the Director’s Field Fund, 17 projects in the United States and 13 other countries, which took place in the winter, spring, or summer of 2015, and are summarized in the pages that follow.

26 • Smith Creek Archaeological Project (Mississippi, USA) • On the Wampum Trail: Restorative Research in North 27 American Museums (North America) • Understanding Pueblo Cloth in Context (North America) • Silver Reef Project (Utah, USA) • The Caste War of the Yucatan: The Tihosuco Heritage Preservation and Community Development Project (Mexico) • Early Hunters at Cuncaicha (Peru) • The La Florida Archaeology Project: Exploring an Ancient Maya River Port (Guatemala) • Gordion Archaeological Project (Turkey) – Historical Landscape Preservation at Gordion – Gordion Jewelry Project – Gordion Cultural Heritage Program • Kani Shaie Archaeological Project (Iraqi Kurdistan) • La Ferrassie (France) • The Georgia Genetic History Project (Georgia) • Excavations at the Mortuary Complex of Pharaoh Senwosret III at Abydos (Egypt) • The Borders of Chinese Architecture (China and Mongolia) • Middle Mekong Archaeological Project (Laos)

PENN MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2014–2015 Smith Creek Archaeological Project (Mississippi, United States) Project Director: Megan C. Kassabaum, Ph.D., Weingarten Assistant Curator, American Section Penn Graduate Student Team Members: Stacey Espenlaub, Susannah Fishman, Kyle Olson (Anthropology) Penn Undergraduate Team Members: Zhenia Bemko, Monica Fenton, Alexandria Mitchem, Benjamin Reynolds, Jordi Rivera-Prince, Sheridan Small, Ashley Terry Other Penn Team Members: Tom Stanley, Penn Museum Social Media Coordinator The team also included students from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and the University of Alabama.

Top Right: Project SUMMER 2015 marked the inaugural season of the Smith excavations allowed for the testing of these hypothesized Director, Dr. Megan Creek Archaeological Project (SCAP). This project serves similarities through systematic coring and targeted Kassabaum (center), as both a research project and a volunteer field school. As excavation. The investigations revealed much about the demonstrates coring as a method a research project, SCAP investigates important social, methods and chronology of mound construction and the of site survey to political, and economic changes that took place within the patterns of use on the mound summits and in off-mound, undergraduates Native groups of the late prehistoric American South. As a plaza areas, suggesting that the long history of occupation Zhenia Bemko (left) field school, SCAP trains Penn students in the techniques at the site may span the transition from hunter-gatherer and Sheridan Small of archaeological excavation and the prehistory and history subsistence to corn agriculture and from vacant ceremonial (right). of the Lower Mississippi Valley. Director Meg Kassabaum centers to semi-hierarchical villages. Analyses of the ceramic, Top Left: Project hopes that it will soon be offered for credit. plant, and animal remains from the site are currently being Director, Dr. Smith Creek is a Coles Creek period (700–1000 undertaken in the Anthropology Department and the Megan Kassabaum (background), and CE) mound site in southwestern Mississippi. Like most Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials. graduate student, sites from this time period, it consists of three earthen Stacey Espenlaub mounds surrounding an open plaza. Due to its similarity (foreground), clean with later, decidedly hierarchical sites of the Mississippi the walls of the period, this site layout has been interpreted as indicating excavation in the southern plaza to chiefly political activities. However, recent excavations prepare for final at contemporary sites have suggested that Coles Creek photos. mound centers likely served as nonresidential locations for communal feasting and ritual activities aimed at bringing together a large, dispersed population. In addition to site layout, test excavations in 2013 revealed other similarities between Smith Creek and other Coles Creek ritual sites including standing posts and bear ceremonialism. The 2015

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

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

THE “WAMPUM TRAIL” project directed by Dr. Margaret wampum belts that had been repatriated from the New Bruchac combines archival research, material analysis, York State Museum to Haudenosaunee Wampum-Keepers. ethnographic interviews, and object cartography to document To date, the team has conducted comparative analyses wampum (shell bead) belts, collars, and strings. During May of more than 80 wampum belts in collections across the of 2015, Dr. Bruchac, Stephanie Mach, Sarah Parkinson, and northeast, documenting previously overlooked distinctions Zhenia Bemko examined wampum in the Harvard Peabody in construction that include: visibly different sources of Museum, Canadian Museum of History, McCord Museum, shell beads (quahog, whelk, conch); anomalous beads and Royal Ontario Museum, among others. Meanwhile, (stone, bone, clay, glass); weaving techniques (using sinew, Lise Puyo continued close studies of wampum in French hemp, leather); treatments of warp strands (dyed, knotted, collections including Chartres Cathedral and Quai Branly. braided); and clear evidence of the routine re-use of older The team also consulted with Indigenous tribal leaders beads and repurposed warp strands in newer belts. These and wampum experts, most notably Richard W. Hill Sr. details bespeak important artisanal, aesthetic, practical, and (Tuscarora), Coordinator of the Deyohahá:ge Indigenous symbolic choices, reflecting the complexity of wampum Knowledge Centre in Ohsweken, Ontario. In July, Bruchac as an Indigenous system of communication and diplomacy. and Mach were invited to witness the Recital of the Great Some details have enabled the identification of historical Law of Peace at Akwesasne, where they were offered a mysteries. More information about “On the Wampum unique opportunity to study some of the iconic historic Trail” can be found at wampumtrail.wordpress.com.

Bellow: Sarah Parkinson and Stephanie Mach examine an odd 28 wampum belt collected from John Wampum (alias Chief Waubuno) in 29 the collections of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario. Object #ROM911.3.130B. Photograph by Margaret Bruchac.

Above: Richard W. Hill Sr. with Stephanie Mach, discussing Haudenosaunee wampum belts at the Recital of the Great Law (Kaianerasere’ Kówa) in Akwesasne (Mohawk Nation territory), New York. Wampum belts shown on display were crafted by Ken Maracle. Photograph by Margaret Bruchac.

Right: Margaret Bruchac studying the construction of the original Hiawatha wampum belt that depicts the five founding nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Photograph by Stephanie Mach.

PENN MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2014–2015 Understanding Pueblo Cloth in Context (North America) Project Director: Lucy Fowler Williams, Ph.D., Associate Curator, and Jeremy A. Sabloff, Keeper of Collections, American Section

IN 2015 Lucy Fowler Williams worked with Pojoaque events and to mark life achievements and milestones. Pueblo in New Mexico as Guest Curator of the tribe’s Poeh The exhibit combined ritual and wedding garments with Museum and Cultural Center. Since 2001 she has worked text and video about the artists, the history of Pueblo with Pueblo embroiderers to study the production, use, cloth and design, and explanations of the utilitarian and meanings of Pueblo ceremonial cloth. This year the and ceremonial roles of each textile. Notably, the artists tribe asked for her help in mounting an exhibition of the constructed an interior alter to show how cloth is used work of two textile artists: Isabel Gonzales of Jemez/San to create the appropriate space for prayer to Catholic Ildefonso Pueblos and Shawn Tafoya of Santa Clara Pueblo. saints and Pueblo spirits. For the opening, the gallery For Williams, this was a special opportunity to support her was decorated with fresh lavender, sunflowers, corn Pueblo colleagues while observing the nuanced presentation stalks, fruits and vegetables, and freshly baked bread and of cloth within a tribal museum. She traveled to Pojoaque pies to feed the spirits; a Catholic Mass was held in the to help gather 55 garments now owned by Pueblo families, gallery for the artists and their extended families, and 400 and to help plan and write labels and text panels. Paths of community members were served a traditional Pueblo Beauty: Isabel Gonzales and ShawnTafoya ran from August feast. Throughout the process, there was no clear division 20–November 16, 2015. between the secular and the sacred as the tribal museum The exhibit was developed primarily for a Pueblo was transformed into a space for prayer and community audience and emphasized cloth in its lived contexts as celebration. expressions of Pueblo prayer. Pueblo textiles represent This project is part of Williams’ broader research the garments of the gods and mark sacred domain. interests in the meanings and materiality of indigenous Embroidered with motifs that signify prayers for rain cloth in North America, representation in museums, and other blessings, Pueblo people wear them today, as and her methodological goals to practice collaborative they have for hundreds of years, during annual religious anthropology that supports tribal communities.

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

Right: Invitation for Paths of Beauty: Isabel Gonzales and Shawn Tafoya.

THE YEAR IN REVIEW Silver Reef Project (Utah, United States) Project Director: Robert L. Schuyler, Ph.D., Associate Curator- in-Charge, Historical Archaeology Section 30

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

PENN MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2014–2015 The Caste War of the Yucatan: The Tihosuco Heritage Preservation and Community Development Project (Mexico) Project Director: Richard M. Leventhal, Ph.D., Curator, American Section; Executive Director, Penn Cultural Heritage Center Co-Directors: Carlos Chan Espinosa (Museo de la Guerra de Castas), Eladio Moo Pat (La Comunidad de Tihosuco), Demetrio Poot Cahun (La Comunidad de Tihosuco), Elias Chi Poot (Ejido de Tihosuo) Penn Student Team Members: Tiffany C. Cain (Graduate Student, Anthropology; Kolb Junior Fellow), Kathryn C. Diserens (Graduate Student, Anthropology), Aldo Anzures Tapia (Graduate School of Education), Frances Kvietok (Graduate School of Education), Kathryn Schaeffer (Anthropology), Whit Schroder (Graduate Student, Anthropology), Christa Cesario, Ph.D. Other Team Members: Suzanne Abel (Stanford University), Julio Hoil Gutierrez (CIESAS and UNO, Mexico), Marcelina Chan Canche (La Comunidad de Tihosuco), Secundino Cahun Balam (La Comunidad de Tihosuco), Maria del Socorro Poot Dzib (La Comunidad de Tihosuco), Beatriz Poot Chable (Museo de la Guerra de Castas), Rosy Carolina Pat Puc (Alcaldia, Tihosuco), José Arturo Poot Caamal (La Comunidad de Tihosuco), Antonia Poot Tuz (Museo de la Guerra de Castas), Norma Linda Uh Uicub (Museo de la Guerra de Castas), Nuria Matarredona, (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain), Drew R. Leventhal (Vassar College)

DURING THE 2015 season of the Tihosuco Heritage on the preservation of the Maya language. This language Preservation and Community Development Project, program included the publication, in Spanish and Maya, of the team expanded our knowledge of the 19th century a short graphic book on the life of one of the leaders of the Caste War rebellion and continued to work closely within 19th century rebellion, Jacinto Pat. In addition, we initiated the Tihosuco community on a variety of development a new project of self-portraiture of the people and families of Below: Frances Kvietok programs. The Caste War rebellion, when the Maya fought Tihosuco. These photographs are structured by the people of (Penn GSE), Beatriz Poot against Mexico, was one of the most successful indigenous the community and include autobiographical information. Chable, and Antonia rebellions in the Americas. Poot Tuz (Museo de la During our work this year, we identified and mapped Guerra de Castas) play with children at the eight 19th century haciendas, an entire series of small Caste War Museum of habitation sites, jungle paths, and a small town, K’i’ixil, Tihosuco (Quintana Roo, that might have been a place of refuge during and after the Mexico), as they work to rebellion. Other 19th century houses and remains were preserve and promote identified and mapped within the modern town of Tihosuco. the Yucatec Maya language. Photograph The 2015 Tihosuco project continued to work within the by Aldo Anzures Tapia, community. Most importantly, team members from Tihosuco Project. the Penn Graduate School of Education expanded our work

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Estamos enfrente del altar para que salga el lugar donde hago la fiesta de la Santa Cruz el tres de Mayo. Toco el Mayapax algunos con el nombre de Sakpakal y P’at íicham.

We are in front of our altar to demonstrate the place where we hold the celebration of Santa Cruz on the third of May. I play the Mayapax, some songs with names like Sakpakal and P’at íicham.

Above: Photograph by Drew Leventhal, Tihosuco Project.

THE YEAR IN REVIEW Above: A view of our tents one snowy morning with the cave mouth in the hillside behind them. The weather highlights the cave’s role as a shelter from the elements. In the background, a glacier peeks over the mountains.

Left: Excavator Judith Beier examines a newly exposed early Holocene burial. Ochre and soot stains the cave, all overhanging the grave site.

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

IN JULY AND AUGUST, 2015, Katherine Moore helped plant remains found using flotation, and the geological lead a team of scholars at the rockshelter site of Cuncaicha, traces of ancient behavior in soil thin sections. Taking these in the Peruvian department of Arequipa. The site, at 14,700 different sources of information together will help the team 32 feet (4480 m) is surrounded by spectacular snowcapped assess how well the early hunters coped with the difficult 33 peaks which rise to 20,000 feet (6000 m). Previous environmental conditions of persistent cold and thin air. excavations at Cuncaicha established that the site was Were occupations brief and limited to gathering a few occupied from the very end of the last glacial period (more resources before descending to lower altitudes, or could they than 12,000 year ago) making it one of the highest late have used such sites as base camps for hunting wild animals Pleistocene sites in the world. This year’s excavation opened over many years? up new areas of the deepest part of the shelter, revealing The local community of the Pucuncho basin became four burials in addition to one found previously. Another increasingly involved in the excavations as the work set of excavation units explored the remains along the outer progressed, designating a community member to observe rim of the cave. The Penn team’s major research goal was to the research process on a daily basis in the excavations and find evidence for hunting and food preparation in ancient tent laboratory. Team members also produced an illustrated times using the animal bones recovered from the site. Other booklet about the archaeological research at Cuncaicha team members were gathering related information on the and protecting cultural resources for the families in the isotopic signatures of the bones, the seeds and charred community.

PENN MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2014–2015 The La Florida Archaeology Project: Exploring an Ancient Maya River Port (Guatemala) Project Director: Joanne Baron, Ph.D., Consulting Scholar, Penn Cultural Heritage Center Project Co-Director: Liliana Padilla (licenciatura, Guatemala) Team Members: Joshua Freedline (Brandeis University); José Subuyuj (Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala); Walter Ochoa (Universidad de san Carlos de Guatemala)

IN JULY OF 2015 the La Florida Archaeology Project In 2014, we identified a carved hieroglyphic altar at La explored and mapped this Classic Period Maya city. We Florida that had not previously been documented. This year are investigating this ancient polity’s use of strategically we conducted nighttime photography to decipher its poorly placed architecture to dominate the San Pedro River Valley. preserved inscription. This new information indicates that This corridor once served as an important route of travel the altar is probably La Florida Altar E, missing since 1944. between Maya urban centers and agricultural regions But its text raises more questions than answers, appearing further west. The rulers of La Florida built two distinct to reference a political relationship with a yet unidentified site centers approximately 2 km apart, to control visibility Maya site. around a set of river bends. These twin groups were The project is also working closely with the modern inter-visible from the tops of their tallest structures. Each community of El Naranjo to promote site preservation and also controlled its own formal port for canoe access. We eco-tourism development. We ran workshops with children believe these ports may have played a vital role in the Maya from four schools within the community, discussing economy, moving agricultural products from the Tabasco students’ ideas about the site and archaeology. In coming Plain to large cities like Tikal and Piedras Negras (both years, we plan to collaborate with El Naranjo leaders in the subjects of Penn investigations). We will investigate this creation of a site museum. commercial activity with excavations starting in 2016.

Above: Students from El Naranjo present their ideas about archaeology in a school workshop. Photograph by Joanne Baron.

Top Right: Setting off to explore a new part of the site. Photograph by José Subuyuj.

Bottom Right: Group Photo: Project Members Walter Ochoa, Rene Aguilar, Joshua Freedline, Joanne Baron, José Subuyuj, and Total Station “Camille.” Photograph by José Subuyuj.

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PENN MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2014–2015 Gordion Archaeological Project (Turkey) Project Director: C. Brian Rose, Ph.D., Curator-in-Charge, Mediterranean Section Director, Site Conservation Program: Frank Matero, Director, Historic Preservation Program, Penn Design (in 2014); Elisa Del Bono (in 2015) Assistant Director: Ayşe Gürsan-Salzmann, Ph.D., Consulting Scholar, Mediterranean Section Penn Graduate Student Team Members: Peter Cobb, Olivia Hayden, Samuel Holzman, Kathryn Morgan, Janelle Sadarananda, Lucas Stephens, Kurtis Tanaka (Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World) Penn Undergraduate Student Team Members: Braden Cordivari, Emma McNamara (College of Arts and Sciences) Additional Penn Team Members: Gareth Darbyshire, Ph.D., Gordion Archivist (Penn Museum), Jane Hickman, Ph.D., Editor of Expedition magazine and Consulting Scholar, Mediterranean Section (Penn Museum), Naomi Miller, Ph.D., Consulting Scholar, Near East Section (Penn Museum)

Left: Conservation of the OUR MAIN RESTORATION PROJECT at Gordion Some of our most exciting discoveries this year were Early Phrygian Citadel in 2015 was the Early Phrygian Gate, the best-preserved made on the southern side of the mound, including a Gate. Gordion Archives citadel gate in Iron Age Asia Minor (9th century BCE), network of entrances, fortification walls, and bastions image #2015w-1. Photo by Gebhard Bieg. which was in desperate need of stabilization. With generous that span a period from the 9th to the 4th century BCE. support provided by the J. M. Kaplan Fund, the Selz Excavation produced a new bastion with a thickness of 8 Excavation of medieval Foundation, and the Merops Foundation, we had the m that was constructed on the west side of a road leading (Seljuk period) camel bones in Area 4 on the resources to acquire and erect a new scaffolding system for into the citadel; a complementary bastion also 8 m thick Citadel Mound. With the gate, above which we placed an aluminium gantry crane was discovered at the east. The two bastions created a fan- Selen Soysal (Ankara capable of lifting 1500 kilos. This gave us the capability of shaped entrance to a road that has a width of nearly 5 m, University), Janine van removing the damaged or displaced stones from the Gate and both sides of which are formed by walls with enormous Noorden (Groeningen moving them to the scaffolding where they were conserved. multi-colored stones. University), and Catalin Pavel (New Europe The conservation of the Early Phrygian Terrace A new trench in the center of the mound yielded five College, Bucharest). Building, an eight-room industrial complex with a length of medieval occupation phases spanning the 13th and the early Gordion Archives image over 100 m, has continued since 2009. Our focus in 2015 14th centuries. Pig bones were found in a dozen contexts, #2015-02483. Photo by included epoxy repair of fractured blocks, rebuilding the suggesting that this was a Christian settlement operating Gebhard Bieg. walls with the newly conserved blocks, and the insertion of during the Seljuk period. An unexpected discovery was the stainless-steel bars to reinforce the conserved stones. One of presence of camel bones in the pits, which is the first evidence the treasures of the Gordion Museum is the multi-colored we have found of their presence in medieval Gordion. pebble mosaic (ca. 850 BCE) from one of the elite Early Since 2007 we have devoted considerable attention Phrygian buildings, Megaron 2. It ranks as the oldest to a reconstruction of Gordion’s city plan, and in 2015 a colored stone mosaic ever discovered, and in 2015 we new campaign of remote sensing revealed the outlines of finished the conservation of one of the panels that will be a monumental mudbrick fort in the Outer Town, which traveling to the Penn Museum for the Gordion exhibition means that the residential districts were protected by at least that opens in February. three forts between the 8th and 6th centuries BCE.

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

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

DURING THE 2015 field season at Gordion, Jane Hickman began her study of jewelry from four Late Phrygian cremation burials. The focus in 2015 was on Tumulus A, which was excavated by Rodney Young and the Penn Museum in 1950. Dated 540–520 BCE, this burial of a young girl contained a horse-drawn funerary carriage and numerous objects of value, including 79 gold or Historical Landscape Preservation electrum beads and 82 other objects of gold or electrum. In at Gordion addition to beads, classes of jewelry represented in Tumulus Project Director: Naomi F. Miller, Ph.D., Consulting Scholar, A included pendants and chains, earrings, bracelets, and Near East Section miscellaneous gold objects such as a small lion’s head and a spool-shaped box. Some objects were melted or blackened, Above: Students Eda PLANT AND VEGETATION management at Gordion indicating they were placed with the burial at the time of Kaygusuz and Ișık serves the larger purposes of regional biodiversity, historical cremation or soon after. Abacı show off a freshly landscape, and archaeological site preservation. We treat Excavation notebooks, plans, catalog cards, photography planted slope of native grasses. Photograph by the Citadel Mound as a specialized kind of native plant files, and an unpublished manuscript by Ellen Kohler Naomi Miller. garden—the flat, conserved walls of the Citadel Gate were reviewed. The Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Building and the Terrace Buildings are topped with a soft Ankara granted permission to study and photograph 23 vegetative roof capping of shallow-rooted grass. The wild objects from storage. Dr. Hickman also traveled to the Uşak plants were particularly lush this rainy year, so Project Museum of Archaeology to study comparable objects from 36 Director Naomi F. Miller developed a more efficient the Lydian Treasure. Analysis of the jewelry from Tumulus approach to maintaining the treated walls—removing only A will be included in a comprehensive article on the 37 the most noxious weeds, like deep-rooted thistle. A newer construction of the tomb, the burial, and the grave goods. initiative aims at controlling the spread of deep-rooted and invasive plants by planting and encouraging native steppe grasses on the slopes of the old excavation. Dr. Miller field-tested the walking tours of Gordion, which are now posted online (https://www.sas.upenn.edu/ ~nmiller0/gordion.html). They are intended to promote the visitor’s understanding of the natural and cultural resources within walking distance of the site and museum.

Above right: Some objects, such as these three gold floral or tassel pendants, were damaged. The melted bronze cores are evident. Photograph by Gebhard Bieg.

Right: This gold bracelet with lion head terminals was recovered in excellent condition from Tumulus A. Lion’s head bracelets, dated to the 6th century BCE, are found at other sites in ancient Anatolia as well as in Greece and Cyprus. Photograph by Gebhard Bieg.

PENN MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2014–2015 CHEP students, with Project Director Ayşe Gürsan- Salzmann, putting together the skeleton of a “Phrygian” sheep. Photograph by Naomi Miller.

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

THE SECOND YEAR of the Gordion Cultural Heritage The program fulfills multiple goals: building sensitivity Program (CHEP) served eight high school students, most in the local community to value cultural heritage toward from villages near Gordion, as well as one university preserving Gordion and its environment, through education student studying forensic anthropology in Ankara. The of high school students; fostering cross-cultural interaction program included guided visits to local and distant sites between local villagers, students, and non-Turkish-speaking and museums and hands-on work experiences at Gordion. members of the Gordion Project; and increasing the The students cleaned and examined excavated objects willingness of the students to share their knowledge with and and animal bones, reconstructed the whole skeleton of a get feedback from their communities. Phrygian sheep, and helped to dig the remains of a medieval At the end of an excursion, one student remarked on the hearth. Guided trips provided an opportunity to ask objective of the program. Using two examples, one of a Roman questions of other archaeologists, including the Japanese bath in Ankara, which was built over an ancient Phyrgian excavation team at the Kaman site and the German director settlement, and another example of a contemporary Turkish bath of the monumental Hittite capital site at Boğazkale. Other constructed on the remains of a 15th century Ottoman mosque, trips included visits to an authentic Japanese garden at she wrote, “I learned the earth I step on is not just earth; it Kaman and a bird sanctuary teeming with bird life and embodies many civilizations that connect humankind.” many species of butterflies near the Roman cemetery of Juliopolis, which widened our perspectives of what the local CHEP link to blogs: http://www.penn.museum/blog/ environment of the Roman landscape might have been. tag/gordion-cultural-heritage-education-project/

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

IN THE SPRING of 2015, the Kani Shaie Archaeological The goal of KSAP is to explore the origins of the Bronze Project (KSAP), with permission of the Sulaimaniyah and Age in the Zagros Mountains (ca. 3000 BCE), a time when Iraqi Kurdish General Directorate of Antiquities, undertook long distance trade between Mesopotamia and the Iranian its second season of excavations at Kani Shaie in the Bazyan highlands intensified giving rise to the first political entities Valley on the road between Kirkuk and Sulaimaniyah. The site and cities. Our work has revealed that during this poorly sits on a major road connecting north Iraq with the central understood period, Kani Shaie was a small administrative Zagros region in Iran. The Bazyan Valley is best known as the center facilitating trade through a mountainous region location of the Babite Pass where rebels built a wall to stop and a node within a network spanning Mesopotamia, the advancement of the Neo-Assyrian king Assurnasirpal II in northwestern Iran, and the Zagros Mountains. In 2015, we the 9th century BCE. This act would be repeated in 1805 by started exposing a larger area of the site to reveal the layout the Kurdish prince ‘Abd al-Rahman Baban against advancing of the Early Bronze Age site and its architectural units. In Ottoman forces, and in 1919, the Bazyan Pass was the location addition, we focused on the more recent history of the site of a milestone in the history of Kurdish nationalism when through excavation of a cemetery, most likely used by a Shaykh Mahmud Barzani was defeated by the British army. Kurdish community in the 18th century CE.

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

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

PENN MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2014–2015 La Ferrassie (France) Project Directors: Harold L. Dibble, Ph.D., Curator-in-Charge, European Archaeology Section; Alain Turq, Conservateur en Chef du Musée National de Préhistoire, Les Eyzies, France Penn Graduate Student Team Members: Sam Lin (Anthropology), Zeljko Resek (Anthropology), Aylar Abdolahzadeh (Anthropology), Annie Chan (East Asian Languages and Civilizations)

Above: View of the IN 2011, excavations began at the site of La Ferrassie, excavation in located in southwestern France, with primary funding from the main area of the National Science Foundation, the Leakey Foundation, La Ferrassie. and the Penn Museum. La Ferrassie is one of the classic Right: Prof. Harold Neandertal sites, and it was there that the remains of several Dibble at the site of individual Neandertals were discovered in the early 1900s. La Ferrassie. The goals of this new project were to obtain absolute dates for the Neandertal layers, to reconstruct the formation processes that have affected the sediments there, and to obtain fresh samples of the archaeological assemblages. Excavations ended in 2014, and in 2015 the processing of the recovered artifacts (over 24,000 stone tools and animal remains) was finished. Given that the original excavations at La Ferrassie were conducted so long ago, it is not a surprise that the recent excavations have resulted in many new interpretations of the site and its remains. For example, while La Ferrassie and composition of the stone tool industries—one of was originally thought to be a single site, the new work which defined what is called the “Ferrassie Mousterian”—is has revealed multiple and independent occupations at primarily a result of bias in terms of what kinds of tools various loci, and contrary to earlier interpretations, not all were saved during the earlier excavations. All of these of the Neandertal human remains are contemporaneous. findings and more are leading to a radical change in the way It has also been possible to demonstrate that the nature we understand Neandertal behavior.

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

THE OVERARCHING GOAL of this study is to Our genetic results were fascinating. Svans exhibited determine what the patterns of genetic variation in Georgia, a great diversity of mtDNA lineages (H, I, J, K, U1-U7, placed within archaeological, historical, and linguistic M1, R0a1, N1b1, T, X2, W6), with the majority being contexts, can tell us about the population history of the of putative West Eurasian or Near Eastern origin. We also South Caucasus. In 2012, we initiated work on this project found low frequencies of East Eurasian lineages (C and in Svaneti, a historically autonomous region situated in the D) that were likely brought to the Caucasus by expanding northwestern Georgian highlands. Its relative geographic Turkic or Mongolic populations. From a Y-chromosome and linguistic isolation from its neighbors has raised long- perspective, Svans had far fewer lineages (G2a, I2, J2a, N, standing questions as to the origins of Svans, and their R1a), with one (G2a) being present in 80% of Svan men. relationships to contemporaneous regional groups. To Interestingly, G2a showed great haplotype (sublineage) explore these questions about Svan history, we characterized diversity, suggesting either a great antiquity for this lineage genetic diversity in 184 individuals from 13 village in the region or considerable interregional gene flow in the districts and townlets throughout Upper Svaneti, including South Caucasus. Geographically speaking, G2a is found Ushguli. This analysis focused on the mitochondrial DNA in eastern Anatolia, the Caucasus and Iran, while R1a may (mtDNA), which reveals information about female genetic have its roots in the Pontic steppe region, J2a in the Near lineages, and the Y-chromosome, which reveals information East, I2 in eastern and central Europe (Balkans), and N in about male genetic lineages. We also conducted interviews eastern Eurasia. These contrasting results attest to a complex with participants about their genealogies and knowledge set of geographic sources and pre- and proto-historic of local history, as this information was crucial for the settlement epochs shaping the ethnogenesis of Svans. On interpretation of the genetic data. a broader level, our data reveal genetic similarities between Svans and neighboring Ossetian, Aydege, and Abkhaz (non- Kartvelian-speaking) populations, but also distinct patterns of mtDNA and Y-chromosome variation amongst them. This anthropological genetic study represents the beginning of a comprehensive analysis of genetic variation in Georgia that will situate its history more firmly within the broader context of the Caucasus and the Near East. Eventually, we will be in a position to assess the extent 40 to which Georgians are the genetic descendants of

41 Bronze Age (e.g. Kura-Araxes), Neolithic, or even Upper Paleolithic settlers in the region. For these reasons, this interdisciplinary project is of great national interest to Georgians.

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

PENN MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2014–2015 Above: The village of Ushguli in Svaneti, built in the 10th–13th centuries. Photograph by T. Schurr.

Right: Ramaz Shengelia speaking with Svan women from the village of Laghani. Photograph by Aram Yardumian.

THE YEAR IN REVIEW Excavations at the Mortuary Complex of Pharaoh Senwosret III at Abydos (Egypt)

2014–15 Winter (December–January) 2015 Summer (May–June) Below left: detail of Project Director: Josef W. Wegner, Ph.D., Associate Curator, Project Director: Josef W. Wegner, Ph.D., Associate Curator, the skull of Woseribre Senebkay showing an Egyptian Section Egyptian Section axe wound (marked Co-Director: Jennifer Houser Wegner, Ph.D., Associate Curator, Co-Director: Jennifer Houser Wegner, Ph.D., Associate Curator, A) to the cranium. Egyptian Section Egyptian Section Analysis completed in January 2015 shows Penn Graduate Student Team Members: Paul Verhelst, Leah Penn Graduate Student Team Members: Paul Verhelst, the king died violently Humphrey, Valentina Anselmi (Near Eastern Languages and Matthew Olson (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) in battle. Below right: Civilizations) Other Team Members: Chelsea Cordle (Rowan University), facial reconstruction Maria Rosado, Ph.D. (Rowan University), Jane Hill, Ph.D. (Rowan University) of Senebkay by Maria Other Team Members: Poblete Arias. Jane Hill, Ph.D. (Rowan University)

WORK AT ABYDOS during the winter of 2014–15 expanded the investigation of the large late Middle Kingdom royal tomb (tomb “S10” attributed now to king Masonry restoration to the burial chamber 42 of king Woseribre Senebkay (ca. 1650 BCE) at Sobekhotep IV of Egypt’s 13th Dynasty) adjacent to the South Abydos (May 2015) 43 tomb of king Senebkay discovered in 2014. Excavations led down into the huge superstructure of this monument as we searched for further evidence of the relationship between EXCAVATIONS AT ABYDOS during the summer of this tomb and that of Senebkay located right next to it. At 2015 saw the culmination of the investigation of the tomb the same time, osteological analysis of the remains of king of king Sobekhotep. This work has unfolded over the Senebkay and other skeletal remains of the Abydos Dynasty last two years following the discovery of a huge 60-ton kings was completed. The body of Senebkay provided royal burial chamber that initially appeared to have been some surprising evidence: extensive remains of traumatic removed from Sobekhotep’s tomb by later rulers of the injuries including axe blows to the king’s skull showed that Abydos Dynasty. Upon reaching the lower substructure Senebkay died in battle. Other physical evidence from the of Sobekhotep’s tomb the burial chamber was found royal bodies suggest these were kings who emerged from a remarkably preserved, still in-situ. This discovery suggests military tradition reflecting the territorial competition that that tombs of three late Middle Kingdom pharaohs were defined the era of Egypt’s Second Intermediate Period. constructed near the burial of Senwosret III. The excavation program inside the tomb of Senwosret III continued with strong indications for additional parts of the tomb. With support from the American Research Center in Egypt, restoration work was completed on the tomb of Senebkay including stabilization of the burial chamber. Excavations in the nearby town site produced a large new sample of administrative seal impressions and other material remains of the ancient settlement at South Abydos.

PENN MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2014–2015 Excavations in the substructure of Tomb S10 at South Abydos (June 2015). The tomb is attributed to king Sobekhotep IV of Dynasty 13 (ca. 1720 BCE).

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

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

Türk, Uyghur, Balhae, Khitan, Jurchen, and Mongol ethnicities. The Max Van Berchem Foundation, University Research Foundation, and Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art also supported this research. These questions were addressed in the Reischauer Lectures at the Fairbank Center at Harvard in April 2014. A book entitled The Borders of Chinese Architecture is under contract at Harvard 44 University Press. Fieldwork this summer focused on the architecture of 45 states of the Xiongnu, Northern Wei (493–534), Balhae kingdom (698–926), and Jin dynasty (1115–1234). The latter two flourished in today’s China, Russia, and North Korea. The search for Balhae remains brought us to Hunyuan where Russians are able to come by boat to China and North Korea in the same day, and to the Korean

Site of Liao pagoda, Balin zuoqi, Inner Mongolia, left to right: Wang Bowen, Qu Lian, autonomous counties of Jilin.This summer we saw 10 of the chief excavator Dong Xinlin (CASS), Nancy Steinhardt, Chinese postdoc. 47 identified Balhae Buddhist monastery sites and four of the Balhae capitals. We also saw stone sculpture in situ in THE RESEARCH TRIP during July and August of 2015 wooded areas of Jilin. Colleagues at the Chinese Academy was the third of three summers of field research in China of Social Sciences, Archaeology Division, took us to and (the Republic of) Mongolia to study architectural China’s two oldest Chinese Buddhist monasteries, both still remains at China’s borders, particularly to the west, north, unpublished, built in northern Shanxi in the 5th century, and east. The project demonstrates the use of the Chinese and to the remains of a hexagonal Liao (907–1126) pagoda building tradition by people of the Goguryeo, Xianbei, where excavation began in 2012 and is ongoing.

PENN MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2014–2015 Middle Mekong Archaeological Project (Laos) Project Director: Joyce C. White, Ph.D., Consulting Scholar, Asian Section Co-Director: Bounheuang Bouasisengpaseuth, Deputy Director of the National Museum, Vientiane, Laos Penn Alumni Team Members: Elizabeth Hamilton, Ph.D., Consulting Scholar, Asian Section; Shawn Hyla, Penn Museum IT Project Leader Other Team Members: Kathleen Johnson, Ph.D. (University of California, Irvine), Michael Griffiths, Ph.D. (William Patterson University), Andrea Borsato, Ph.D. (University of Newcastle, Australia), Christopher Wood, graduate student (University of California, Irvine)

THE MIDDLE MEKONG Archaeological Project placed in the cave in 2013. They also collected samples of

(MMAP) was initiated by the Penn Museum in 2001 cave drip water, soil overlying the cave, and soil gas (CO2) when a visit to Laos by Joyce White revealed that the for radiocarbon analysis. Finally, the team downloaded and Luang Prabang region has evidence of thousands of years serviced data from loggers that have been continuously of human occupation. Since then, surveys have identified recording cave temperature, relative humidity, and drip rate 85 sites along several tributaries to the Mekong, four cave since 2010. sites have been excavated, and specialists in geology, human Documenting changing human adaptation in the remains, archaeobotany, and faunal remains have studied Southeast Asian subtropics as climate changed, beginning collections retrieved from the surveys and excavations. with a drier cooler late Pleistocene, is one objective In 2014–15, the emphasis was on collecting data on of MMAP research. Several subsequent changes in the paleoclimate; speleothems (stalagmites and other temperature and monsoon rainfall particularly over the last formations) from caves help reconstruct the earth’s climate 10,000 years also likely impacted the societies of the Middle going back tens of thousands of years. This season the Holocene. The next MMAP field season’s plan is to conduct palaeoclimate team revisited Tham Mai to conduct cave archaeological site surveys close to Tham Mai along the Ou monitoring work, which is critical for understanding the River in northern Laos to begin to find evidence of changes linkage between speleothem chemistry and climate. The in the human occupation of the Middle Mekong Region team collected samples of modern calcite from glass plates close to this important paleoclimate record.

Top right: Dr. Andrea Borsato (University of Newcastle, Australia) and Dr. Michael Griffiths (William Patterson University, USA) at Tham Mai retrieving a glass plate that had been left since 2013 to collect modern calcite. This calcite will be used to calibrate the environmental signals that are recorded in Tham Mai speleothem geochemistry.

Bottom right: Ph.D. student Christopher Wood (University of California, Irvine) measures

the concentration of CO2 in soil gas sampled from above the cave. Radiocarbon measurements of these gas samples will be utilized to improve our understanding of speleothem carbon isotope variations.

Far Right: Ph.D. student Christopher Wood (University of California, Irvine) samples cave drip water for isotopic and elemental analysis. These data will be utilized to calibrate the geochemical signals incorporated in speleothems from this cave.

THE YEAR IN REVIEW Collections: New Acquisitions

DURING 2014-2015, the Penn Museum Acquisitions Committee reviewed offers of gifts to its Curatorial Sections, Archives, and Learning Programs collections on three occasions in the fall, winter, and spring. Based on recommendations from the Acquisitions Committee as well as from the Curatorial Sections and the Archives, Williams Director Julian Siggers accepted fourteen donations of cultural objects to its Curatorial Sections; ten donations of photographic collections, research records, and other materials; and one cultural object to its Learning Programs Teaching Collection. The 334 cultural objects from 17 individual and institutional donors came from Africa, including Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Mali, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe; Oceania including Easter Island, Indonesia, and Australia; the Americas, including Guatemala, Canada, and the United States; from Asia, including China, Japan, and Vietnam; and from Europe including Turkey and Italy.

Gifts to the Curatorial Sections:

Gift of Ann Bradley Anderson in memory of 1. Pants, Museum object #2014-19-133, Guatemala. Man’s pants Rev. John Chester Hyde with alternating vertical white and purple stripes, and five horizontal Forty-one African artifacts, procured by Rev. John Chester Hyde bands of brocade animals at lower end of each pant leg. (1864–1941) when he was in missionary services in Mataldi/ Lukolela, Belgian Congo around 1890 2 Basket and basket lid, Museum objects #2014-16-28.1 and #2014-16-28.2, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Plaited and Gift of Mark P. and Peggy L. Curchack coiled rectangular basket with lid. Fiber is worked to create zig-zag Three beaded necklaces and one wooden lock, procured from Mali and diagonal lines on basket base, chevron designs on basket lid, and multi-directional plaiting on sides of basket. Gift of Robert and Marilyn Forney, PAR Six Oceanian objects from Thursday Island, Easter Island, Indonesia, 3 Head rest, Museum object #2014-16-2, Democratic Republic and Australia, one of which was accessioned to the Penn Museum of the Congo. Wood head rest with step pyramid base, undecorated Teaching Collection, and four First Nations objects from Canada, central post and curved or cresent shaped head support. Carved procured during their world trips. geometric design on top of head support. Gift of David W. Fraser, M.D., INT75, and Barbara G. Fraser Twenty-seven ethnographic textiles from Indonesia assembled during 4. Box lid, Museum object #2014-16-3.2, Democratic Republic their research work in the past 40 years of the Congo. Box lid intricately carved to form an amused face. Boxes such as this are typically used to hold camwood powder or Gift of the Philadelphia Zoo ceremonial objects. Two groups of animal (monkey, gorilla, and primate) remains, 46 transferred from the Philadelphia Zoo as part of an ongoing 5. Bracelet/Money, Museum object #2014-17-7, North Africa. 47 collaboration between the Philadelphia Zoo and Penn Museum Spikes and bands of detailed designs cover entire bracelet. A woman’s jewelry, such as this bracelet, can be used for adornment and as Gift of David C. Rilling, M.D., INT67, and Karina Rilling currency (savings). Eighty-three African objects including 38 varieties of currency, 24 pottery vessels, and 21 pieces of textiles from Tanzania, Zimbabwe, 1. Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, and Mali. Six Fali beaded dolls from Cameroon

Gift of Marianna Shreve Simpson, CW71, in memory of Ann Townsend Simpson A Naga Hills basket and crossbow, procured by Ann Ingersoll Townsend (Simpson) while serving in WWII with the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the 20th General Hospital in Asia

Gift of Louis Weinstock and Rosa Portell-Weinstock A collection of 141 Guatemalan textiles, assembled by Louis Weinstock when he was in Guatemala with the Peace Corps from 1967 to 1970

PENN MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2014–2015 Gift of the Westervelt Family Trust A Mid-Late 19th Century Vietnamese robe

Gift of Lynn W. Williams One Tibetan prayer box from Szechuan, China

Gift of Vincent Williams in celebration of the opening of the Native American Voices: The People, Here and Now exhibition Two feather fans made by Vincent Williams, one given in honor of Dr. Ann Dapice

Gift of Wendell Woolman One Lenape stone tool

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THE YEAR IN REVIEW 6. Doll, Museum object #2015-15-5, Cameroon. Fertility doll, given by a young man to his fiancée. Wood, glass beads, cowrie shells, and leather. Wood doll is dressed with layers of beads around body and neck. Arms and legs are made of strips of leather and cowrie shells. Hair is made of 9. Robe, Museum object #2015-11-1, Vietnam. Mangao or formal twined cotton topped with trade beads. robe in burgundy silk. Embroidered with ten, four-clawed dragons typical of wedding attire. This type of robe would have been worn 7. Blouse or huipil, Museum object #2014-19-45, Guatemala. Two with a pleated skirt with a dragon and phoenix. The neckband may pieces of hand-woven cotton cloth sewn together. Red background with be a later addition. vertical stripes (moving outward from center) in dark blue, white, green, pink, purple, yellow, and light blue. Multicolored embroidered flowers 10. Amulet box and lid, Museum objects #2015-16-1.1 and #2015- around neck area, horizontal bands of multicolored embroidery cover 16-1.2, Tibet. Woman’s double-square amulet box (ga’u). This amulet joins at center and sides, green embroidered arm holes at top. box would have been worn, suspended by a strap or sash, for protection against evil. The central motif is a stylized lotus bud with elaborate 8. Box and lid, Museum objects #2015-13-9.1 and #2015-13-9.2, filigree work and semi-precious stones. It holds a Tibetan prayer printed Canada. Bentwood box (single piece of wood, bent and joined together on a folded piece of paper. at one corner) with elaborate animal design on long front and back panels. Design on one side has two single eyes, design on other side 11. Pot, Museum object #2014-17-61, Zimbabwe. Vessel with bulbous has two double eyes. Smaller designs on side panels are identical. All body, vertical medium-sized neck, and slightly out-turned rim. Clay with the designs are carved out and painted in red and black. red and green pigment. Used to store water, beer, or grain.

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PENN MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2014–2015 Gifts to the Archives: Gift of German Society of Pennsylvania Two typed manuscripts, one on Ancient Mexican Material Culture Gift of Robert C. Clothier III and the other on A Comparative Study of Aztec Hieroglyphs, each A collection of 373 lantern slides from the trip of Clarkson Clothier, with tipped-in, hand-colored photographs (published by the Penn with his family, to Asia and the Middle East, ca. 1903 Museum in the 1940s)

Gift of Harrison (Nick) Eiteljorg II, Ph.D., GR73 Gift of Scott W. Hawley, C92, W92 Twenty-four color slides, taken by the donor, from Penn Museum A group of 117 letters written by George F. Dales (1927–1992; archaeology project at Gravina di Puglia, in the Province of Bari, former Penn employee) to his family from Pakistan, India, Italy, in 1971 Thailand, Afghanistan, and other places while pursuing his career in archaeology Gift of Emily Brinton Thompson Gable Complete set of publications and five scrapbooks by Daniel Garrison Gift of William Potter, WG88, and Joanne Ruckel, WG88, PAR Brinton (1837–1899), one of the founders of the Penn Museum and Thirteen vintage silver gelatin prints by three photographers, Marilyn the Museum Library Bridges, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Leonard Freed

Gift of Stephen B. Richmond Approximately 2,200 35mm color slides taken in Truk (Chuuk), Micronesia, 1960s, associated with the 89 Chuukese objects donated in 2013

Gift of Dana Lydon Strome Scrapbook of George Byran Gordon’s (1870–1927; Penn Museum Director 1910–1927) personal correspondence

Gift of Bension Varon, Ph.D., WG67, PAR A group of 98 post cards from Turkey and the Ottoman Empire

Gift of Dilys Winegrad, Ph.D., GR70, PAR Five cassette tape recordings of interviews with Penn Museum curators, 1984–1988, for Winegrad’s history of the Museum, 10. Through Time, Across Continents (UPM, 1993)

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THE YEAR IN REVIEW Collections: Outgoing Loans and Traveling Exhibitions

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

International Loans Loans across the United States

TELUS World of Science, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Museum of Science, Boston, MA 69 objects from across Curatorial Sections and four Archival 31 American objects for the exhibition Maya: Hidden Worlds Revealed documents for the exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology San Diego Natural History Museum, CA 31 American objects for the exhibition Maya: Hidden Worlds Revealed 3. Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York, NY Three Egyptian objects for the exhibition When the Greeks Ruled Egypt: From Alexander the Great to Cleopatra

Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York, NY 132 Near East objects and 24 Archival documents for the exhibition From Ancient to Modern: Archaeology and Aesthetics

PENN MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2014–2015 Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta, GA ON LOAN One Babylonian object for the exhibition Two of Each: The Nippur 1. Dish, Museum object #SA2279 Deluge Tablet & Noah’s Flood Camutins, Marajo Island, Brazil, 1000–1500 CE Loaned to the Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, ME 11 American objects for the exhibition Coming Home 2. Flood Tablet, Museum object #B10673 Nippur, Iraq, 17th century BCE Princeton University Art Museum, NJ Loaned to the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta, GA 10 American objects for the exhibition Art of the Ancient Americas 3. Queen Puabi’s Jewelry Ur, Iraq, 2600–2450 BCE Jewish Museum, New York, NY Loaned to the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, 12 Near East objects for the exhibition Repetition and Difference New York, NY

Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA 4. Lime Flask, Museum object #SA2751 Two Mediterranean objects for the exhibition Ancient Life on Quimbaya, Columbia, ca. 200 BCE–1000 CE Greek Pottery Loaned to the Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ

5. Belt, Museum object #30-12-559 National Geographic Museum, Washington, DC Ur, Iraq, 2600–2450 BCE 69 objects from across Curatorial Sections and four Archival Loaned to the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, documents for the exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure New York, NY of Archaeology 6. Attic Black-Figure Hydria, Museum object #MS694 8. Traveling Exhibitions Vulci, Tomb 72, Etruria, Italy, ca. 500 BCE Loaned to Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA Art Museum of Myrtle Beach, Myrtle Beach, SC 7. Cast Gold Bat Effigy Pendant, Museum object #40-13-33 Rainbow Serpent (19 loaned-in objects), May 2014 through Sitio Conte, Panama, 500–900 CE September 2014. Loaned to TELUS World of Science, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and to the National Geographic Museum, Washington, Museum of Culture and Environment at Central Washington DC University, Ellensburg, WA Righteous Dopefiend (64 photographs), January 7, 2015 through TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS March 21, 2015. 8. Sugar Leaf Dreaming Australia 6. 7. From the Penn Museum traveling exhibition Rainbow Serpent

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Penn Museum Annual Report 2014–2015 SUPPORTING THE MISSION

Right: Zapotec Grey The resources to realize the vision of the Penn Museum’s strategic Ware human figure from Mexico. This ceramic plan come from a deeply generous cadre of members and object is an urn. UPM object #29-41-705. Dorling Kindersley: University supporters. The vast range of teaching, research, conservation, of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and learning, exhibition, and event programs documented in the Anthropology.

Left: Learning previous pages were made possible by their support, and had Programs staff talks to Philadelphia students about impact on audiences across our Penn campus, our city and life in ancient Rome. region, and around the world.

The Penn Museum expresses profound thanks to the individuals and organizations recognized in the following pages, whose leadership financial support during 2014–2015 advanced our mission to transform understanding of the human experience.

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

The 2015 exhibition TRANSFORMATIONAL DONORS Bernard and Lisa Selz, The Selz Foundation Beneath the Surface: Donald C. and Ingrid A. Graham, the Graham Foundation Patricia L. Squire and Elizabeth Jean Walker, SW74 Life, Death, and Gold in The Kowalski Family Foundation Jeffrey Weiss and Jill Topkis Weiss, C89, WG93, PAR Ancient Panama Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy, WG74 contained many gold A. Bruce Mainwaring, C47, and Margaret R. Mainwaring, objects, including this large PRINCIPAL DONORS ED47, HON85, PAR embossed plaque. Anonymous in memory of Michel and Nelly Abemayor Perforations indicate it was Adam D. Sokoloff, W84, and Susan Drossman Sokoloff, Lois and Robert M. Baylis sewn onto clothing. M.D., C84, PAR Cummins Catherwood, Jr., and Susan W. Catherwood UPM object #40-13-11. Gregory A. Weingarten, GRoW Annenberg Foundation Dana Eisman Cohen, C88, and Michael E. Cohen, D.M.D., D89, PAR Shelby White, Leon Levy Foundation Greg Danilow and Susan F. Danilow, Esquire, CW74, G74, PAR Charles K. Williams II, Ph.D., GR78, HON97 Criswell Cohagan Gonzalez Jacqueline W. Hover and John C. Hover II, C65, WG67 GROUNDBREAKING DONORS Ann M. Huebner and Ross Waller David T. Clancy, W70, and McCarroll Sibley Clancy Bonnie Verbit Lundy, CW67, and Joseph E. Lundy, Peter W. Davidson, J.M. Kaplan Fund Esquire, W65 Daniel G. Kamin, C64 Carlos L. Nottebohm, W64, and Renee Nottebohm Frederick J. Manning, W69, and the Manning Family Gretchen P. Riley, CGS70, and J. Barton Riley, W70, PAR 54 Estate of Neil C. Miller, Jr. Barbara Rittenhouse 55 Adolf A. Paier, W60, and Geraldine S. Paier, Ph.D., Alexandra Schoenberg and Eric J. Schoenberg, Ph.D., HUP66, NU68, GNU85, GR94 GEN93, WG93, PAR Frances Rockwell and John R. Rockwell, W64, WG66, PAR Mary Ellen Simmons, O.D., C81, and Steve Simmons Malcolm H. Wiener, The Institute for Aegean Prehistory Bayard T. Storey, Ph.D., and Frances E. Storey* Helen P. Winston and Richard E. Winston, G48, PAR LEADERSHIP DONORS Mo Zayan and Nanou Zayan, CW73, PAR Joanne H. Conrad, C79, and William L. Conrad, PAR Peter G. Gould, Ph.D., LPS10, and Robin M. Potter, WG80 BENEFACTORS Estate of Hermine L. Herzfeld Johanna Berkman and Emanuel Weintraub, C87 H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang, Ph.D., G98, GR04, and Francis J. Carey, Esquire, C45, L49, PAR* Oscar Liu-Chien Tang Marie A. Conn, Ph.D. Lisa D. Kabnick, Esquire, C77, and John McFadden David Crane and Isabella de la Houssaye Curtis S. Lane, W79, WG80, and Stacey Rosner Lane, Gretchen R. Hall, Ph.D., CGS97 C80, GR13, PAR Alexandra M. Harrison and Peter D. Harrison, Ph.D., GR70* Annette Merle-Smith Gary Hatfield, Ph.D., and Holly Pittman, Ph.D. Estate of Ellen Cole Miller Robert W. Kalish, M.D., C55 Rosa Portell-Weinstock and Louis Weinstock Judy and Peter Leone William L. Potter, WG88, and Joanne S. Ruckel, WG88, PAR Gregory S. Maslow, M.D., C68, M72, GM77, and David C. Rilling, M.D., INT67, and Karina Rilling, PAR Laurie Maslow, CW69, PAR David A. Schwartz, M.D., and Stephanie Schwartz John J. Medveckis, PAR

PENN MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2014–2015 Mary Ann D. Meyers, Ph.D., GR76, PAR Eleanor Leventhal Karin Lindblad Yanoff, Ph.D., G67, GR88 Howard H. and Maxine S. Lewis Rachel C. Lilley, CW66

PATRONS Frank and Sharon N. Lorenzo George Harold Anderson Marianne Lovink and Julian Siggers, Ph.D. Wendy Ashmore, Ph.D., GR81 Marco L. Lukesch, C01, W01 James Averill Ole W. Lyngklip III, Esquire, C85 Eileen Baird Donna Mackay, M.D., and Robert Mackay Cheryl Louise Baker Linda McCarthy and Thomas A. McCarthy, Jr., W78 Nicholas Bass, ENG09, and Emily Zenger, C09 Elizabeth Ray McLean, C78 Lauren Bayster-Morel and Donald Morel, Jr., Ph.D. Robert and Susan McLean Arnold W. Bradburd, W49, and Julia A. Bradburd, CGS07 Missy McQuiston and Robert E. McQuiston, CGS07 Sara M. Brown, Ph.D., GRD64 Ella Warren Miller, CW51, and Paul F. Miller, Jr., Arthur J. Burke, Esquire, C89, W89 W50, HON81, PAR G. Theodore and Nancie W. Burkett Amanda Mitchell-Boyask and Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Ph.D. Todd Carson and Elizabeth Tabas, C01 A. M. Mulroney, CW57, PAR James Catrickes and Pauline Catrickes, CW75, PAR Stanley Muravchick, M.D., and Arlene Olson, PAR Debra and Morris Chandler Bonnie J. O’Boyle, CW68 Lawrence S. Coben, Ph.D., G03, GR12 Judith L. Oppenheimer, CW73 Julie Comay and Dan Rahimi M. Kate Pitcairn, CGS77, G78 Carrie and Kenneth Cox, PAR George R. Pitts, Ph.D., GR77 Edwin D. Coyle, Ed.D., GED05, and Patricia Coyle Annette Price and Vincent Price, Ph.D., PAR George E. Doty, Jr., W76, and Lee Spelman Doty, W76, PAR Jay Reinfeld A. Webster Dougherty, Jr., C57, and Janet S. Dougherty Donna Conforti Rissman and Paul Rissman, Ph.D., C78, GR85 Jane A. Duffy and Michael P. Duffy, L86 C. Brian Rose, Ph.D. Cynthia J. Eiseman, Ph.D., GR79, and James Eiseman, Jr., L66 Randi L. Rust and William Rust III, Ph.D., GR08 Gary A. Emmett, M.D., and Marianne Emmett, M.D. Joseph B. and Rita P. Scheller Jason Fehntrich and Amie Spatz John R. Senior, M.D., M54, FEL59, and Sara Spedden Senior, Lily Ferry and Peter C. Ferry, C79 CW52, PAR Marilyn Forney and Robert C. Forney, Ph.D., PAR Georg U. Simon and Janet A. Simon Esther G. Fox, ED53, and Robert A. Fox, C52 Kathryn Sorkin and Sanford Sorkin, W67 Pamela Freyd, Ph.D., GED68, GR81, and Peter Freyd, Ph.D., PAR Matthew Jordan Storm, C94, WG00, and Natalia Storm Kathleen and P. Gregory Garrison Lee Evan Tabas, C72, ME72, and Nancy Freeman Tabas, PAR Shannon Garrison and Nikil Saval George H. Talbot, M.D., and Sheryl F. Talbot, M.D., GM84 Lisa Gemmill Stephen Tinney, Ph.D., and Beatriz Urraca, Ph.D. Elizabeth S. Gephart, CGS79, and George W. Gephart, Jr., Jeannette G. Tregoe, PAR WG79, PAR Samuel Phineas Upham, Ph.D., WG05, GRW06 Catherine A. Giventer, C95, and Craig M. Giventer, C92 Ellis G. Wachs, and Peggy B. Wachs, Esquire, Dale D. Graham and Gregory T. Graham, C73, PAR CW59, GCP75, L86, PAR Anthony Grillo, WG78, and Elaine Grillo Mary Warden and William G. Warden III Anna Sophocles Hadgis, CGS70, G85, and Caroline Waxler, C93 Nicholas J. Hadgis, Ph.D., PAR Andrea Weiss and Carl Weiss, Esquire, PAR Bryan R. Harris, C83 Joanne T. Welsh, CW52, and Raymond H. Welsh, W53 Hannah L. Henderson David Wood Fredrik T. Hiebert, Ph.D., and Katherine Moore Hiebert, Ph.D. Diane Dalto Woosnam and Richard E. Woosnam James H. and Pamela M. Hill Cindy and Matthew I. Hirsch SPONSORS Jessica S. Johnson Brett and Nancy Altman Dr. Stephen T. Kelly Markus Aman and Carl Engelke Harvey and Virginia Kimmel Janet Kestenberg Amighi and Lawrence Davidson H. Lewis Klein, C49, and Janet S. Klein, ED51, PAR Bruce A. and Ellen Asam DruEllen Kolker and James D. Kolker, M.D., C76 Arthur K. Asbury, M.D., and Carolyn Asbury, Ph.D., GR82 Andrea R. Kramer, Esquire, L76, and Lee A. Rosengard, Esquire, Benjamin Ashcom, Ed.D., GRD74, and Jane Ashcom, Ph.D., G64 L76, PAR Vesna Bacic and Zlatko Bacic, Ph.D. Evelyn S. Kritchevsky, Ph.D., GR78 Carol Baker, LPS13 and Mark E. Stein Robin Lehman Sylva C. Baker, CW52, G53, PAR

SUPPORTING THE MISSION Mona N. Batt Ann N. Greene, CW54 Peter A. Benoliel, G58, and Willo Carey, PAR Mary G. Gregg and John M. Ryan Gene B. Bishop, M.D., and Andrew M. Stone, M.D. Randie and Robert Harmelin Matthew C. Blair and Michael J. Haas Cynthia M. Harrison, Ph.D., GR82 Andrew F. Blittman and Linda Zaleski Katie Hartner and William Russell Pfaff John Bomalaski, M.D., FEL84, and Patricia Bomalaski, R.N., GNU98 Donna F. and Vincent W. Hartnett Liza Bontecou Andrew and Kathleen Hazeltine Samuel S. Brewer, WG04 Meredith and Stephen Hecht Ira Brind, Esquire, C63, L67 Jean Henry, Ph.D., M.S.S., B.C.D. Dr. Robert A. Brooks and Shirley Brooks Paul Hirshorn, C62, GCP64, GAR72 Keith D. Brown, Ph.D., GR90, and Patricia Flores-Brown, C87 Alan and Nancy J. Hirsig Ann B. Brownlee, Ph.D., and David B. Brownlee, Ph.D. Lynda K. and W. Anthony Hitschler Michael Buckley Hon. Harris N. Hollin, CCC57, and Sandra F. Hollin, PAR Loyd and Maria Burcham W. Lynn Holmes, Ph.D., and Mary P. Osbakken, M.D., Ph.D. Elizabeth and John Bussard Julie Laughlin Holt and Leo A. Holt Anne C. Butcher and McBee Butcher, C61, PAR Danielle Hutjer Rebecca Calder Nugent and Timothy Nugent Lee M. Hymerling, Esquire, C66, L69, and Rosedale Hymerling Carl J. Capista and Donna E. Ostroff, Esquire, C81 Shirley Jackiewicz Jeff Cepull and Lynne A. Hunter, Ph.D. Francis B. Jacobs II and Patricia Harrison Jacobs Albert A. Ciardi III, W88 Elise F. Jones, G69, GR79 Elizabeth Spiro Clark and Warren Clark, Jr. Donald Kajioka Joan I. Coale Anne A. Kamrin and Robert P. Kamrin, M.D., M59, INT66 Barbara R. Cobb David Kaufman, M.D., and Geraldine Kaufman, D.V.M. Abbi L. Cohen, Esquire, L83, and Thomas O’Connell, Esquire, PAR David S. Kirk, C65, WG67 Patricia Conard Josephine Klein Howard Coonley, C66, PAR Morrie E. Kricun, M.D., GM79, and Virginia M. Kricun, CGS04 Mari and Robert Corson Doranne M. Lackman and Richard D. Lackman, Alexandre Costabile, WG08, G08, and Susan Dando M.D., M77, INT82, PAR Patrick Coue, CGS07, and Sampath Kannan, Ph.D., PAR Margaret J. Laudise, GNU87, and Derek P. Warden, C83, PAR Robert Coughlin, Ph.D., GR64, and Louisa H. Spottswood Christopher and Misti Layser James D. Crawford, Esquire, L62, and Judith N. Dean, Esquire, Betsy and Robert Legnini CW59, L62 William Levant and Carol R. Yaster Raphael J. Dehoratius, M.D., M44, GM48 Marshall Levine and Harriet Potashnick Caroline and Joseph W. Dellapenna Dale P. Levy, Esquire, L67, and Richard D. Levy Robert J. Dixson William Lobosco and Jane Rinn 56 Lee Dodoo and Joy Frazier-Dodoo Rebecca Marcus

56 Peggy Duckett Mary Ann and Raymond Marks, PAR Howard J. Eisen, M.D., M81, INT84, and Judith E. Wolf, M.D., INT84 Michael and Therese Marmion Harrison Eiteljorg II, Ph.D., GR73, and Linda I. Weiss Betty and James M. Matarese Lucia Esther, G82 E. Ann Matter, Ph.D. Mary J. Fallon, G81, and Daniel Kurdilla Robert M. Maxwell, C84, G86, and Julia R. Toner Catherine G. Fine, Ph.D., and Robert Fine, M.D., C70, PAR Barbara W. McNerney, CW52, and William R. McNerney Katherine M. Fisher Janet M. Monge, Ph.D., GR91 Jean Flood and Paul Nemeth Anselene M. Morris Andre Forney Martha and Peter Morse Frank A. Franz, Ph.D. and Judy Franz June S. Morse, CGS84 Elizabeth Gemmill, Esquire, CGS04, CGS06 William R. Muir, M.D., INT59 Alice L. George, Ph.D., GGS96 W. Gresham O’Malley III, W54 Julie and Mitchell Gerstein Dr. Robert F. Olszewski, Jr. Robert Gilmour and Cynthia Mabry Sandra B. Portnoy, CW67, and Sidney Portnoy, Ph.D. James A. Glasscock, D.Min., and Lois R. Glasscock Sandra W. Posey and Warren M. Posey, WG65 Donna Glickstein and Stewart Krevolin Laura Raab Marguerite P. Goff and Stephen Goff, AR62, PAR Kate S. and Michael A. Riccardi Andrew R. Golden, W74, and Vickie G. Golden, W74, PAR Edward A. Richards, GAR59 Frederick Golec, Jr., Ph.D., and Susan Robinson Golec Anthony B. Riley Janet H. Goren and Robert Goren, M.D., C73, GM81 Elizabeth R. Rivers and William H. Rivers, SW62

PENN MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2014–2015 Matthew and Patricia Robertson Francis R. Strawbridge III and Mary Jo Strawbridge Michael D. Rose and Chelsey Sytsma Elizabeth and Richard Szucs John Rosenau Robert J. Wallner, M.D. Lawrence Rueger and Marjorie B. Rueger, CW70 Franca C. Warden, PAR Linda Ryan and Michael Ryan, M.D. Ada Warner and Frank W. Warner, Ph.D., PAR Helen Schenck, G81 Deborah R. Willig, Esquire, CW72 Grace E. Schuler and Thomas Tauber, Ph.D. John Ellis Knowles Wisner Harlan Scott Daphne Wood Andrea Scott and H. Rodney Scott, C70 Michael Wood Carl A. Seaquist, Ph.D., C90, GR04 Lauren and Mike Zabel Marcia C. Shearer Victor Zhang Judith A. Silver and Donald F. Stevens, PAR Theodore Simmons Laird and M. Trudy Slade James M. and Melissa P. Smith James S. and Janis M. Smith Renee Y. Snowten Gregory Snyder Edward J. Solomon, W76, and Cathy Weiss Ann W. Spaeth and Karl H. Spaeth, Esquire Alexander C.S. and Vanessa G. Spiro Arthur Staddon, M.D., M72, FEL78, and Marcia Robb Staddon, CGS74 Burke and Nancy Stinson

East Greek aryballos (ceramic vase) in the shape of a helmeted Hoplite soldier, ca. 600–570 BCE. UPM object #31-9-1. Dorling Kindersley: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

SUPPORTING THE MISSION THE LOREN EISELEY SOCIETY AND EXPEDITION CIRCLES

Unrestricted gifts to the Penn Museum membership program, annual fund, and Director’s Discretionary Fund provide the most vital type of funding—available where needed at any time to support a vast range of Museum activities on a day-to-day basis.

The Penn Museum is deeply grateful to the following 2014–2015 members of the Loren Eiseley Leadership Giving Society (LES)—which was created to recognize donors to the membership program or annual fund of $1,500 or more and to honor the memory of the long-time Penn Museum anthropologist, essayist, and poet—and of the Expedition Circles, whose members donate $250 to $1,499 annually.

Special thanks to our LES Co-Chairs, Joanne and Bill Conrad for outstanding personal leadership.

LOREN EISELEY SOCIETY Frances Rockwell and John R. Rockwell, W64, WG66, PAR WILLIAMS DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE Alexandra Schoenberg and Eric J. Schoenberg, Ph.D., Joanne H. Conrad, C79, and William L. Conrad, PAR GEN93, WG93, PAR Peter G. Gould, Ph.D., LPS10, and Robin M. Potter, WG80 Mary Ellen Simmons, O.D., C81, and Steve Simmons Donald C. and Ingrid A. Graham Mo Zayan and Nanou Zayan, CW73, PAR H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang, Ph.D., G98, GR04, and Oscar Liu-Chien Tang GOLD CIRCLE Barbara D. and Michael J. Kowalski, The Kowalski Family Foundation Johanna Berkman and Emanuel Weintraub, C87 Curtis S. Lane, W79, WG80, and Stacey Rosner Lane, David Crane and Isabella de la Houssaye C80, GR13, PAR Robert W. Kalish, M.D., C55 Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy, WG74 Judy and Peter Leone A. Bruce Mainwaring, C47, and Margaret R. Mainwaring, Gregory S. Maslow, M.D., C68, M72, GM77, and 58 ED47, HON85, PAR Laurie Maslow, CW69, PAR

59 Gregory A. Weingarten John J. Medveckis, PAR Jeffrey Weiss and Jill Topkis Weiss, C89, WG93, PAR David A. Schwartz, M.D., and Stephanie Schwartz Charles K. Williams II, Ph.D., GR78, HON97 SILVER CIRCLE PLATINUM CIRCLE Cummins Catherwood, Jr., and Susan W. Catherwood Lois and Robert M. Baylis Lawrence S. Coben, Ph.D., G03, GR12 David T. Clancy, W70, and McCarroll Sibley Clancy George E. Doty, Jr., W76, and Lee Spelman Doty, W76, PAR Dana Eisman Cohen, C88, and Michael E. Cohen, D.M.D., Lisa Gemmill D89, PAR Catherine A. Giventer, C95, and Craig M. Giventer, C92 Greg Danilow and Susan F. Danilow, Esquire, CW74, G74, PAR Harvey and Virginia Kimmel Jacqueline W. Hover and John C. Hover II, C65, WG67 Andrea R. Kramer, Esquire, L76, and Lee A. Rosengard, Esquire, Ann M. Huebner and Ross Waller L76, PAR Bonnie Verbit Lundy, CW67, and Joseph E. Lundy, Esquire, W65 Frank and Sharon N. Lorenzo Frederick J. Manning, W69, and the Manning Family Marco L. Lukesch, C01, W01 Annette Merle-Smith Donna Mackay, M.D., and Robert Mackay Carlos L. Nottebohm, W64, and Renee Nottebohm Mary Ann D. Meyers, Ph.D., GR76, PAR Adolf A. Paier, W60, and Geraldine S. Paier, Ph.D., Stanley Muravchick, M.D., and Arlene Olson, PAR HUP66, NU68, GNU85, GR94 George R. Pitts, Ph.D., GR77 William L. Potter, WG88, and Joanne S. Ruckel, WG88, PAR John R. Senior, M.D., M54, FEL59, and Sara Spedden Senior, Gretchen P. Riley, CGS70, and J. Barton Riley, W70, PAR CW52, PAR

PENN MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2014–2015 Patricia L. Squire and Elizabeth Jean Walker, SW74 Ole W. Lyngklip III, Esquire, C85 Matthew Jordan Storm, C94, WG00, and Natalia Storm Missy McQuiston and Robert E. McQuiston, CGS07 Andrea Weiss and Carl Weiss, Esquire, PAR Ella Warren Miller, CW51, and Paul F. Miller, Jr., W50, HON81, PAR Joanne T. Welsh, CW52, and Raymond H. Welsh, W53 Amanda Mitchell-Boyask and Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Ph.D. Linda McCarthy and Thomas A. McCarthy, Jr., W78 BRONZE CIRCLE Robert and Susan McLean Elie M. Abemayor, M.D., C78, and Judith Abemayor A. M. Mulroney, CW57, PAR James Averill Bonnie J. O’Boyle, CW68 Cheryl Louise Baker Judith L. Oppenheimer, CW73 Nicholas Bass, ENG09, and Emily Zenger, C09 Donna Conforti Rissman and Paul Rissman, Ph.D., C78, GR85 Lauren Bayster-Morel and Donald Morel, Jr., Ph.D. C. Brian Rose, Ph.D. Eileen Baird Joseph B. and Rita P. Scheller Arnold W. Bradburd, W49, and Julia A. Bradburd, CGS07 Mary Ellen Simmons, O.D., C81, and Steve Simmons Arthur J. Burke, Esquire, C89, W89 Theodore Simmons G. Theodore and Nancie W. Burkett Bayard T. Storey, Ph.D., and Frances E. Storey* James Catrickes and Pauline Catrickes, CW75, PAR Lee Evan Tabas, C72, ME72, and Nancy Freeman Tabas, PAR Debra and Morris Chandler George H. Talbot, M.D., and Sheryl F. Talbot, M.D., GM84 Edwin D. Coyle, Ed.D., GED05, and Patricia Coyle Stephen Tinney, Ph.D., and Beatriz Urraca, Ph.D. Julie Comay and Dan Rahimi Jeannette G. Tregoe, PAR A. Webster Dougherty, Jr., C57, and Janet S. Dougherty Mrs. Robert L. Trescher Jane A. Duffy and Michael P. Duffy, L86 Samuel Phineas Upham, Ph.D., WG05, GRW06 Gary A. Emmett, M.D., and Marianne Emmett, M.D. Ellis G. Wachs, and Peggy B. Wachs, Esquire, Jason Fehntrich and Amie Spatz CW59, GCP75, L86, PAR Marilyn Forney and Robert C. Forney, Ph.D., PAR Caroline Waxler, C93 Pamela Freyd, Ph.D., GED68, GR81, and Peter Freyd, Ph.D., PAR Helen P. Winston and Richard E. Winston, G48, PAR Kathleen and P. Gregory Garrison Diane Dalto Woosnam and Richard E. Woosnam Shannon Garrison and Nikil Saval Anthony Grillo, WG78, and Elaine Grillo EXPEDITION CIRCLES Fredrik T. Hiebert, Ph.D., and Katherine Moore Hiebert, Ph.D. EXPEDITION CIRCLE BENEFACTORS James H. and Pamela M. Hill Wendy Ashmore, Ph.D., GR81 Cindy and Matthew I. Hirsch Sara M. Brown, Ph.D., GRD64 Sandstone human H. Lewis Klein, C49, and Janet S. Klein, ED51, PAR Ann B. Brownlee, Ph.D., and David B. Brownlee, Ph.D. effigy pipe, from DruEllen Kolker and James D. Kolker, M.D., C76 Harrison Eiteljorg II, Ph.D., GR73, and Linda I. Weiss Ferguson Planation, Jefferson Howard H. and Maxine S. Lewis County, Mississippi, Alice L. George, Ph.D., GGS96 ca. 1200–1800 CE. UPM Rachel C. Lilley, CW66 Elizabeth S. Gephart, CGS79, and George W. Gephart, Jr., object #14328. Marianne Lovink and Julian Siggers, Ph.D. WG79, PAR Ann N. Greene, CW54 Bryan R. Harris, C83 Hannah L. Henderson Mary Ann and Raymond Marks, PAR Annette Price and Vincent Price, Ph.D., PAR Jay Reinfeld Anthony B. Riley Mary Warden and William G. Warden III Deborah R. Willig, Esquire, CW72

EXPEDITION CIRCLE FELLOWS Brett and Nancy Altman Arthur K. Asbury, M.D., and Carolyn Asbury, Ph.D., GR82 Peter A. Benoliel, G58, and Willo Carey, PAR Andrew F. Blittman and Linda Zaleski Elizabeth Spiro Clark and Warren Clark, Jr. Marie A. Conn, Ph.D. Robert J. Dixson Jean Flood and Paul Nemeth

SUPPORTING THE MISSION Elizabeth Gemmill, Esquire, CGS04, CGS06 EXPEDITION CIRCLE PATRONS Andrew R. Golden, W74, and Vickie G. Golden, W74, PAR Markus Aman and Carl Engelke Meredith and Stephen Hecht Janet Kestenberg Amighi and Lawrence Davidson Alan and Nancy J. Hirsig Bruce A. and Ellen Asam Lee M. Hymerling, Esquire, C66, L69, and Rosedale Hymerling Vesna Bacic and Zlatko Bacic, Ph.D. Elise F. Jones, G69, GR79 Carol Baker, LPS13 and Mark E. Stein David S. Kirk, C65, WG67 Sylva C. Baker, CW52, G53, PAR Evelyn S. Kritchevsky, Ph.D., GR78 Mona N. Batt Margaret J. Laudise, GNU87, and Derek P. Warden, C83, PAR Gene B. Bishop, M.D., and Andrew M. Stone, M.D.

Standing male ceramic figure Betsy and Robert Legnini Matthew C. Blair and Michael J. Haas from the Las Remojadas culture William Levant and Carol R. Yaster John Bomalaski, M.D., FEL84, and Patricia Bomalaski, R.N., GNU98 in Mexico, ca. 500-700 CE. Michael and Therese Marmion Samuel S. Brewer, WG04 He wears an animal head Robert M. Maxwell, C84, G86, and Julia R. Toner Ira Brind, Esquire, C63, L67 headdress and skin shirt and is Janet M. Monge, Ph.D., GR91 Dr. Robert A. Brooks and Shirley Brooks adorned with earrings, armlets, June S. Morse, CGS84 Keith D. Brown, Ph.D., GR90, and Patricia Flores-Brown, C87 anklets, a necklace, and a Martha and Peter Morse Michael Buckley belt. UPM object #61-1-2. Renee Y. Snowten Dorling Kindersley: University Elizabeth and John Bussard of Pennsylvania Museum of Gregory Snyder Anne C. Butcher and McBee Butcher, C61, PAR Archaeology and Anthropology. Franca C. Warden, PAR Carl J. Capista and Donna E. Ostroff, Esquire, C81 Jeff Cepull and Lynne A. Hunter, Ph.D. Joan I. Coale Barbara R. Cobb Abbi L. Cohen, Esquire, L83, and Thomas O’Connell, Esquire, PAR Patricia Conard Howard Coonley, C66, PAR Mari and Robert Corson Alexandre Costabile, WG08, G08, and Susan Dando Patrick Coue, CGS07, and Sampath Kannan, Ph.D., PAR Robert Coughlin, Ph.D., GR64, and Louisa H. Spottswood James D. Crawford, Esquire, L62, and Judith N. Dean, Esquire, CW59, L62 Raphael J. Dehoratius, M.D., M44, GM48 Caroline and Joseph W. Dellapenna Prema Deshmukh, WEV10, and Sanjay Deshmukh, PAR Lee Dodoo and Joy Frazier-Dodoo 60 Peggy Duckett

61 Howard J. Eisen, M.D., M81, INT84, and Judith E. Wolf, M.D., INT84 Lucia Esther, G82 Mary J. Fallon, G81, and Daniel Kurdilla Catherine G. Fine, Ph.D., and Robert Fine, M.D., C70, PAR Katherine M. Fisher Andre Forney Frank A. Franz, Ph.D. and Judy Franz Julie and Mitchell Gerstein Robert Gilmour and Cynthia Mabry James A. Glasscock, D.Min., and Lois R. Glasscock Donna Glickstein and Stewart Krevolin Marguerite P. Goff and Stephen Goff, AR62, PAR Frederick Golec, Jr., Ph.D., and Susan Robinson Golec Mary G. Gregg and John M. Ryan Randie and Robert Harmelin Cynthia M. Harrison, Ph.D., GR82 Katie Hartner and William Russell Pfaff Donna F. and Vincent W. Hartnett Andrew and Kathleen Hazeltine Lynda K. and W. Anthony Hitschler

PENN MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2014–2015 Hon. Harris N. Hollin, CCC57, and Sandra F. Hollin, PAR W. Lynn Holmes, Ph.D., and Mary P. Osbakken, M.D., Ph.D. Julie Laughlin Holt and Leo A. Holt Danielle Hutjer Shirley Jackiewicz Donald Kajioka Anne A. Kamrin and Robert P. Kamrin, M.D., M59, INT66 David Kaufman, M.D., and Geraldine Kaufman, D.V.M. Doranne M. Lackman and Richard D. Lackman, M.D., M77, INT82, PAR Christopher and Misti Layser Marshall Levine and Harriet Potashnick Dale P. Levy, Esquire, L67, and Richard D. Levy William Lobosco and Jane Rinn Rebecca Marcus Betty and James M. Matarese E. Ann Matter, Ph.D. Barbara W. McNerney, CW52, and William R. McNerney Anselene M. Morris William R. Muir, M.D., INT59 Rebecca Calder Nugent and Timothy Nugent Dr. Robert F. Olszewski, Jr. W. Gresham O’Malley III, W54 Sandra B. Portnoy, CW67, and Sidney Portnoy, Ph.D. Sandra W. Posey and Warren M. Posey, WG65 Laura Raab Kate S. and Michael A. Riccardi Edward A. Richards, GAR59 Barbara Rittenhouse Elizabeth R. Rivers and William H. Rivers, SW62 Matthew and Patricia Robertson Michael D. Rose and Chelsey Sytsma John Rosenau Lawrence Rueger and Marjorie B. Rueger, CW70 Linda Ryan and Michael Ryan, M.D. Helen Schenck, G81 Grace E. Schuler and Thomas Tauber, Ph.D. Andrea Scott and H. Rodney Scott, C70 Harlan Scott Marcia C. Shearer Judith A. Silver and Donald F. Stevens, PAR James S. and Janis M. Smith Edward J. Solomon, W76, and Cathy Weiss Ann W. Spaeth and Karl H. Spaeth, Esquire Arthur Staddon, M.D., M72, FEL78, and Andean hollow silver figurine from Peru, 1476–1550 Marcia Robb Staddon, CGS74 CE. This 8” votive figure of Burke and Nancy Stinson a woman was probably paired Francis R. Strawbridge III and Mary Jo Strawbridge with a gold figure as an offering Elizabeth and Richard Szucs at a human burial. It would Robert J. Wallner, M.D. have been dressed in miniature Ada Warner and Frank W. Warner, Ph.D., PAR woven garments. UPM object Karin Lindblad Yanoff, Ph.D., G67, GR88, and Myron Yanoff, M.D., #SA2490. Dorling Kindersley: C57, M61, PAR University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Lauren and Mike Zabel Anthropology. Victor Zhang

SUPPORTING THE MISSION CORPORATE, FOUNDATION, AND GOVERNMENT AGENCY SUPPORTERS The Penn Museum gratefully acknowledges the following foundations, corporations, government agencies, and organizations for financial support of its general operations, exhibition, conservation, education, and special research programs.

Painted wooden rowboat 1984 Foundation The Kowalski Family Foundation with 16 figures from Tomb Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture Curtis and Stacey Lane Fund of Khentkhety, Egypt, ca. American Endowment Foundation Leon Levy Foundation 2130–1980 BCE. Ten of the American Research Center in Egypt The A.G. Leventis Foundation oars are preserved. UPM object Bank of America Lockheed Martin Corporation #E14347. Dorling Kindersley: Baylis Charitable Foundation Loeb Classical Library Foundation University of Pennsylvania Louis N. Cassett Foundation Museum of Archaeology and Lorenzon Brothers Company Anthropology. The Chingos Foundation Macquarie Holdings, Inc. The Coca-Cola Company J. J. Medveckis Foundation Frederic W. Cook & Company Merck Company Foundation Cox Family Charitable Fund Fowler Merle-Smith Family Charitable Lead Trust 62 The Dalton School The Merops Foundation Delaware Investments/Macquarie Holdings, Inc Moorestown Free Library Association 63 Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation PECO Dow Chemical Company Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Friends of Upper Dublin Public Library The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Fulbright Association The Philadelphia Zoo German Society of Pennsylvania The PoGo Family Foundation Inc. GlaxoSmithKline PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Luther I. Replogle Foundation The Graham Foundation Restaurant Associates GRoW Annenberg Foundation Joseph Rosen Foundation Mary B. and Alvin P. Gutman Fund The Rust Family Foundation The Haney Foundation Trust Lee, Nancy, Samuel, Elizabeth, Theodore & Melissa Tabas Fund IBM Corporation Matching Gift Program Samuel Tabas Family Foundation The Institute for Aegean Prehistory Vision Resources of Central PA International Visitors Council of Philadelphia Weiss Family Donor Advised Fund Johnson & Johnson Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation The J. M. Kaplan Fund, Inc. C.K. Williams Foundation The Hagop Kevorkian Fund Winston Holding, Inc. KeyBank National Association The Wistar Institute Klasko, Rulon, Stock & Seltzer, LLP The Women’s Committee Louis J. Kolb Foundation

PENN MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2014–2015 SARA YORKE STEVENSON LEGACY CIRCLE The Sara Yorke Stevenson Legacy Circle, named for the visionary curator of the Museum’s Egyptian and Mediterranean Sections from 1890 to 1905, honors individuals who have committed financial resources to support the Penn Museum through a planned gift of a bequest, living trust, retirement plan, life insurance policy, or life income gift that will benefit the Museum in the future.

Special thanks to Sara Yorke Stevenson Legacy Circle Chair, Joseph E. Lundy, Esquire, W65, whose diligent work has helped to enhance this program in 2014-2015, and to the following members:

Anonymous (2)* Janet M. Andereck Celeste Anderson, CW68, and Peter Anderson Deborah L. Augusta James D. Crawford, Esquire, L62* Charlotte Garretson Cronin, CW45 Elin Danien, Ph.D., CGS82, G89, GR98 L. Daniel Dannenbaum Charles H. Davis, W56, WG63 James DeHullu Marcia Doelman Marilyn Forney and Robert C. Forney, Ph.D., PAR Beverly Caplan Freeman, OT54 Lisa Gemmill Mrs. Louis Gerstley III, GM57 Barbara H. Roberts, CGS70 Helen H. Gindele, CW51 John R. Rockwell, W64, WG66, PAR Mary E. Golin, GED63 Ralph A. Rosenbaum, C65 Mary Bert Gutman Mitchell S. Rothman, Ph.D., GR88 and Leslie Simon, GR80 Luba Holowaty, Ph.D., ED53, GR70 John R. Senior, M.D., M54, FEL59, PAR Jacqueline W. Hover and John C. Hover II, C65, WG67 Sara Spedden Senior, CW52, PAR Josephine Arader Hueber, CW47, PAR David P. Silverman, Ph.D. James H. Kinsman Wilma S. Slyoff, CW64, GED68 Dr. Frank G. Klein Kathryn Sorkin and Sanford Sorkin, W67 Rachel C. Lilley, CW66 Patricia Squire Bonnie Verbit Lundy, CW67, and Joseph E. Lundy, Esquire, W65 Emily W. Starr and Harold P. Starr, L57 Michael B. Luskin Curtis Eugene Thomsen, Ph.D. A. Bruce Mainwaring, C47, PAR Mrs. Robert L. Trescher Margaret R. Mainwaring, ED47, HON85, PAR Diana T. Vagelos, PAR Therese Marmion Karen R. Venturini, CGS83 Rudolph Masciantonio, Ph.D., G66 Robert Vosburgh, Jr. Linda L. Mather, Ed.D., GRD77 Elizabeth Jean Walker, SW74 Patricia A. Mattern, CW72, G72 Jackie Wiegand, CW48, PAR James McClelland Carole and James Wilkinson Lois Meyers Naomi F. Miller, Ph.D. *New member in 2014–2015 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

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65 THE GIFT OF TIME

Above: Metal coin from In the following pages, the Penn Museum acknowledges— the Qing Dynasty, China, 1736-1795. Chinese characters (as shown here) with deepest thanks—the many volunteers and staff whose are engraved on one side and Manchu script appears on the reverse side. UPM dedication, loyalty, and outstanding efforts further its research, object #2011-12-23.

Left: Embroidered teaching, stewardship, and public engagement day in, day out. silk Mandarin square from Korea, Yi Dynasty. One of a pair of rank badges. UPM object #17641B. Dorling Kindersley: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Right: Using modern versions of Greek helmets, Docent Joe Balmos describes how armor protected soldiers in antiquity.

THE GIFT OF TIME PENN MUSEUM VOLUNTEERS The Penn Museum gratefully acknowledges the work of more than 200 volunteers who contribute their time on a regular, ongoing basis in almost every curatorial section, Museum department, and for many projects and programs.

Penn Museum recognizes with Oceanian Section Learning Programs gratitude the following Jessica Carmine Carole Brewer volunteers for service during Natasha Cohen-Carroll Ben Kelly 2014–2015. Sr. Dr. Ann M. McCloskey Elinor Roth Hesson CURATORIAL SECTIONS AND Jim Millisky Faith Williams MUSEUM CENTERS Hilary Symes African Section Public Programs Yin Liu Penn Cultural Heritage Cameron Copeland Sr. Dr. Ann M. McCloskey Center Rachel Crouch Maricruz Gutierrez-Villa Ariannis Hines American Section Lindsey Lyons Ben Kelly Joseph Aguilar Kevin MacLary Paul Verhelst, G14, GR19 Bronze door handle or The following individuals were George Fago Raymond McCormack, C17 knocker from Beth Shean, recognized for their extraordinary Virginia Greene, G68 Summer Sloane Registrar’s Office Israel. This Byzantine object service at the Annual Volunteer Barbara J. Hayden, Ph.D. Mary Campbell dates ca. 300–1100 BCE. Luncheon in April 2015: Christopher Jones, Ph.D., G63, UPM object #29-108- Physical Anthropology Rebecca Cruz Volunteer of the Year 104. Dorling Kindersley: GR69, PAR* Section Zhao Wai Yan Elin C. Danien, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania Emily Jean Leischner Melissa Carpenter CGS82, G89, GR98 Museum of Archaeology and David McCormick Lisa Gemmill SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND Anthropology. Gail P. Wallis Jean Henry, Ph.D., M.S.S., B.C.D. PROJECTS 10 Years of Service William D. Wallis Kevin Murphy Anthropologists in the David T. Clancy, W70 Making Summer Camp Michael Feng, C79 Egyptian Section MUSEUM DEPARTMENTS Joe Abegg Vida M. Klemas, CW62, PAR Elizabeth Jean Walker, SW74 Archives Philippe Atallah Frederick J. Manning, W69, PAR Jean E. Craig, G76 Drew Babin Janet A. Simon Historical Archaeology James R. DeWalt Kenna Barrett Section Elisa Landaverde Staci Bell 66 15 Years of Service Leota Terry Shapoor Pourshariati Olivia Brintlinger-Conn Gretchen R. Hall, Ph.D., CGS97 67 Megan Reinprecht Claire Byrnes Joseph E. Lundy, W65 Mediterranean Section Lawrence Rosen Tabbi Cavaliere Barbara Rittenhouse Francesca Saldan Janet A. Simon Simone Chatham Lawrence Rosen Kevin Lee Wai Yan Zhao Joseph Deegan Katharine Nelson, GCP09 Alberta Zuema Danielle Falciani 25 Years of Service Diane Panepresso, LPS15 Jonathan Falciani Criswell Cohagan Gonzalez Natalie Reynolds, C17 Conservation Michael Geisinger Gretchen Riley, CGS70, PAR N. Saldan Cassia Balogh Mia Gold Glendora Trescher Jane Sancinito Liu Boxi Sara Gonzalez Laurel Burmeister Lorraine Grayson 30 Years of Service Near East Section Stephanie Caratto Sarah Halpern Joan R. Holmes Lara Fields Yan Ling Grace Hong Alida N. Lovell Claire Gaposchkin Liz McDermott Conrad Jones Annette Merle-Smith Kelly Lauer Marissa Miller, C02, GED03, G05 Sierra Jones Charles K. Williams II, Ph.D., Olivia Nardone Yifei Mu Ben Kelly GR78, HON97 Tom Pedrick Rachel Kline Cindy Srnka, LPS16 Maria Leone 40 Years of Service Elena Yandola Laura Liu Joan Bachman Maryellen Martin Helen P. Winston, PAR Peter Martin

PENN MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2014–2015 Sejal Menghani Rebecca Butterfield Caitlin Mongan Mark P. Curchack, Ph.D. Roman Nikonov Emilio Caucci June S. Morse, CGS84 Elin C. Danien, Ph.D., Arpit Prasad Tabbi Cavaliere Megan O’Meara CGS82, G89, GR98 Jana Pugsley Connie Chen Cristina Palma James DeHullu Aditya Risbud Karen Chernick Esther Payne, CGS82 Michael F. Doyle Elinor Roth Hesson Sophia Clampet-Lundquist Philip Perrone Arlene L. Goldberg, CW64 Emma Sarr Tuera Clark Sarah Piotrowski Anna Sophocles Hadgis, CGS70, Zach Smith Debra Crasnick Anthony Rey G85, PAR Katherine Wang Katrina Denk Aditya Risbud Joan Harrison, NU60, PAR89 Emily White Stuart Draper Amy Rodriguez Gail Hauptfuhrer Faith Williams John Dwyer Elinor Roth Hesson Stephen Hecht Danielle Falciani Benjamin Rovito Theresa A. Joniec Ban Chiang Project Jonathan Falciani Amy Serafino Marcia Klafter Leila Bolce-Schick Becky Ferguson Mozelle Shamash Rosenthal Vida M. Klemas, CW62, PAR Dan Lo Mastro Harrison Fishman Malika Shukurova Elpida Kohler Samuel K. Nash, Sc.D. Julia Frances Ananya Sinha Linda Lempert Beth Van Horn Miriam Francisco Nina Spitofsky Marilyn Lieberman Vivian Wolovitz, PAR Frank Giorgilli Alex Stern Eugene Magee Jenna Goldman Donta J. Stevenson Lawrence McClenney Biomolecular Archaeology Marjorie Haines Kevin Stewart Richard N. McKinney, C61 Program Emma Heath Lisa Marie Sticco Cheryl Grady Mercier Theodore Davidson Emma Hess Moriah Taylor Nancy W. Naftulin, G69 Gretchen R. Hall, Ph.D., CGS97 Ariannis Hines Rebecca Vandewalle Suzanne Y. Naughton Patrick McGovern, Ph.D., GR80 Julian Hirsch Katherine Wang Dorothy Page Samuel K. Nash, Sc.D. Kate Huangpu Cathy Yang Esther Payne Cynthia G. Orr Day, C77, G87, Haleemah Jackson Marjorie Robbins WG91 Kimberly Jovinelli Clio Society of T. Wayne Roberts Ben Kelly Student Docents Toby Schwait Cartifacts Program Alex G. King Monica Fenton, C15 Krista Smart Indu Achuthakumar Brooke Krancer Sarah Lynch, C15 Robert P. Sprafkin Bronze figurine in the Carl Adamczyk Josephine Lippincott Charlotte Matthai, C17 Donald S. Todd, GED61 shape of two oxen placed Claudia Ashworth Mike Maccherone Leo Page-Blau, C18 Dr. Joan Wider, PAR back to back, with long James Baffa Julia Mackin-McLaughlin Paige Parsons, C18 Mindy Widman, horns. From Umbria, Joseph J. Balmos Max Madero Elizabeth Peng, C18, W18 D.S.W., SW80, GRS85 Italy, ca. 599-500 BCE. Michele Belluomini Jose Magana Sheridan Small, C18 Ken Wissler Dorling Kindersley: University of Pennsylvania Theresa Boyer Peter Martin Thomas Wille Museum of Archaeology and Mary Brown Colin McCrossan Gordion Project Anthropology. Sharon Burgess Kai McGinn Docent Program Samuel Butler Barbara Anglisz Phoebe A. Sheftel, Ph.D., Benjamin Ashcom, Ed.D., GR74, PAR GRD74 Cheryl Louise Baker International Joseph J. Balmos Classroom Program John P. Barry Tag Brewer Michele Belluomini Elise Bromberg NAGPRA Program Richard H. Burger Zhenia N. Bemko, LPS16 Charlotte N. Byrd Ava L. Childers Adrian D. Copeland, M.D. Shlomit Heering, C16 Ellen Copeland *deceased

Penn Museum makes every effort to maintain its volunteer records. If you volunteered at the Penn Museum during 2014–2015 and are not included in the list above, or as a member of one of the volunteer groups recognized in the preceding pages, please accept our deepest apologies and notify us of the correction at [email protected].

THE GIFT OF TIME WOMEN’S COMMITTEE Founded in 1937, the Women’s Committee develops and champions programs to stimulate interest in the Penn Museum, cultivates new audiences, and promotes Museum membership and attendance. The Committee provides financial support for Museum fund-raising efforts, and creative ideas and funding for new and ongoing projects. The Penn Museum is deeply grateful to Chair M. Trudy Slade, Vice Chair Lisa Siegel, and the following members of the Women’s Committee for their service in 2014–2015:

Joan Bachman Ann N. Greene, CW54* John T. Murray** Mrs. Francis J. Bagnell Mary Bert Gutman, PAR* Arlene Olson, PAR Mary Margaret Ballinger, OT81 Katherine Hall Gretchen P. Riley, CGS70, PAR Mona N. Batt* Nancy Hastings, PAR* Barbara Rittenhouse Ann M. Beal* Suchinda Heavener* Lisa Siegel Anne C. Butcher, PAR** Joan R. Holmes* M. Trudy Slade Beth Howland Butler Josephine Arader Hueber, CW47, PAR Ann W. Spaeth Susan W. Catherwood Patricia Hueber Nancy Freeman Tabas, PAR Pauline Catrickes, CW75, PAR Anne V. Iskrant Mrs. Robert L. Trescher** Joan I. Coale Holly M. Jobe Nancy Tyminski Joanne H. Conrad, C79, PAR Esther D. Johnson* Nina Robinson Vitow, CW70, WG76 Maude de Schauensee** Pamela C. Keon Helen S. Weary Bonnie C. Derr Nancy Kneeland Nancy Bendiner Weiss, CW62 Janet S. Dougherty* DruEllen Kolker Helen P. Winston, PAR* Perry Durkin Doranne M. Lackman, PAR Schuy Wood Beth Fluke, CGS98 Joyce Cochrane Lewis** *Associate Member Mrs. Louis Gerstley III, GM57** Alida N. Lovell* **Honorary Member Anna Gniotek** Bonnie Verbit Lundy, CW67 Marguerite P. Goff, PAR MaryAnn Marks* Mrs. Herman H. Goldstine** Missy McQuiston Criswell Cohagan Gonzalez** Rosa Myers Ingrid A. Graham Margy Meyerson, G93** 68

YOUNG FRIENDS OF THE PENN MUSEUM The Young Friends of the Penn Museum is a group of Museum members aged 21 to 45 who work to raise awareness of the Museum among the region’s young professionals through a variety of educational and social programs for young professionals, planned and executed in conjunction with the Museum’s Public Programs and Membership Departments by a Young Friends Board. The Penn Museum is deeply grateful to the following members of the Young Friends Board for their time and ideas in 2014–2015:

Frances Emmeline Babb, Esquire, C03 Sarah Klem Beth Uzwiak Lauren Brown, CGS05, CGS07 John Kuehne, CGS06 Clinton Walker Sara Castillo Amanda Leslie Mike Zabel Abigail Green, Esquire Bethany R. Schell Lisa A. Johns, C97, CGS03 Nicole Stach, Esquire

PENN MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2014–2015 BOARD OF OVERSEERS The Penn Museum extends grateful thanks to Chairman Mike Kowalski and the members of its Board of Overseers for their personal philanthropic leadership, and their collective leadership in strategic guidance and service in 2014–2015:

Michael J. Kowalski, W74, PAR, Chairman Susan Frier Danilow, Esquire, CW74, G74, PAR Robert M. Baylis Peter C. Ferry, C79* David Brownlee, Ph.D. (ex-officio) Steven J. Fluharty, Ph.D., C79, GR81, PAR (ex-officio) Dana Eisman Cohen, C88, PAR* Peter G. Gould, LPS10 William L. Conrad, PAR Ingrid A. Graham Carrie S. Cox, PAR Amy Gutmann, Ph.D. (ex-officio) John C. Hover II, C65, WG67 H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang, Ph.D., G98, GR04* Stacey Rosner Lane, Esquire, C80, GR13, PAR Diane von Schlegell Levy Joseph E. Lundy, Esquire, W65 Bruce Mainwaring, C47, PAR (Emeritus) Carlos L. Nottebohm, W64 Geraldine Paier, Ph.D., HUP66, NU68, GNU85, GR94 William L. Potter, WG88 Vincent Price, Ph.D. (ex-officio) John R. Rockwell, W64, WG66, PAR Eric J. Schoenberg, Ph.D., GEN93, WG93, PAR M. Trudy Slade (ex-officio) Julian Siggers, Ph.D. (ex-officio) Adam D. Sokoloff, W84, PAR* Aztec pottery stamp from Gregory Annenberg Weingarten Mexico. UPM object #31- Jill Topkis Weiss, C89, WG93, PAR 41-59. Dorling Kindersley: Charles K. Williams II, Ph.D., GR78, HON97 (Emeritus) University of Pennsylvania

Museum of Archaeology and * New member in 2014–2015 Anthropology.

DIRECTOR’S COUNCIL Established in 2009, the Director’s Council advises the Williams Director through semi-annual meetings on engagement areas critical to the Museum’s Strategic Plan. Penn Museum is deeply grateful to Chairman Peter G. Gould, Ph.D., LPS10 and the following members of the Director’s Council for their service in 2014–2015:

Samuel S. Brewer, WG04* Adolf A. Paier, W60 Lawrence S. Coben, Ph.D., G03, GR12 George R. Pitts, Ph.D., GR77 Isabella de la Houssaye* J. Barton Riley, W70, PAR Luis Fernandez-Moreno, WMP89 David A. Schwartz, M.D.* Derek Gillman Matthew J. Storm, C94, WG00* Catherine Giventer, C95* Brian P. Tierney, C79, PAR Andrea R. Kramer, Esquire, L76, PAR Samuel Phineas Upham, Ph.D., WG05, GRW06* Sharon N. Lorenzo Carl Weiss, PAR Marco L. Lukesch, C01, W01 Diane Dalto Woosnam Gregory S. Maslow, M.D., C68 M72 GM77, PAR Nanou Zayan, C73, PAR John J. Medveckis, PAR * New member in 2014–2015

THE GIFT OF TIME PENN MUSEUM ADVISORY BOARD Established in 2009, the Penn Museum Advisory Board advises and assists the Williams Director and his team in crafting outreach and programmatic initiatives to increase engagement by its University and public audiences. Members of the Advisory Board are leaders in the University and cultural community professionals who represent these audiences in their own professions. The Penn Museum is deeply grateful to the following members of the Advisory Board for their time and ideas in 2014–2015:

David B. Brownlee, Chair Oliver St. Clair Franklin Shapiro-Weitzenhoffer Professor of the History of Art, O.B.E. Investment analyst (former President of University of Pennsylvania International House)

Karen Beckman George W. Gephart Jr. Jaffe Professor of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania President & CEO, Academy of Natural Sciences of Ancestral Pueblo ceramic jar Drexel University from Northeast Arizona, Rebecca Bushnell ca. 1100-1125 CE. School of Arts and Sciences Board of Overseers Professor of Terry Gillen The painting technique English, University of Pennsylvania Executive Director, Redevelopment Authority, is described as Flagstaff City of Philadelphia Black-on-White Ware. Timothy Corrigan UPM object #29-77-686. Professor of English (Cinema Studies), University of Pennsylvania Susan Glassman Dorling Kindersley: Director, Wagner Free Institute University of Pennsylvania Dennis DeTurck Museum of Archaeology and Evan C. Thompson Professor for Excellence in Teaching, Jane Golden Anthropology. Mathematics, and Dean of the College, University of Pennsylvania Executive Director, City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program

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

Will Noel Director, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, and the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, 70 University of Pennsylvania

71 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

PENN MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2014–2015 IN MEMORIAM The Penn Museum acknowledges with great sadness the loss of the following members of its family during 2014–2015. We recognize their service and support with gratitude and extend deepest condolences to their families.

Ruth E. Brown, CW42 Volunteer and Supporter Ms. Brown was a volunteer bibliographer in the Museum’s Ban Chiang Archaeology Project for over ten years. She also generously supported the project and the Museum as a loyal member throughout her life. She died on February 14, 2015 at the age of 94.

Theresa Howard Carter, Ph.D., G54 Archaeologist, Near East Dr. Carter was a pioneer female archaeologist. Her flash camera produced the first images at the tomb of King Midas’ father at Gordion in Turkey during the summer of 1957, where she worked with a Penn Museum team led by Director Rodney Young. She died on April 19, 2015 at the age of 85.

Helen T. Madeira Supporter Mrs. Madeira was a longtime and generous supporter of the Penn Museum, most recently underwriting the special exhibition, MAYA 2012: Lords of Time in honor of Peter D. Harrison. She died on August 4, 2014 at the age of 98.

Michael Parrington Researcher, MASCA Mr. Parrington was an archaeologist in the Philadelphia region and a researcher in the Museum’s Museum Applied Science Center for Archaeology (MASCA). In 1992, he co-wrote The Buried Past: An Archaeological History of Philadelphia. He died on October 18, 2014 at the age of 70.

Åke Waldemar Sjöberg, Ph.D. Faculty and Researcher, Babylonian Section Dr. Sjöberg was the Emeritus Clark Research Professor of Assyriology and Emeritus Curator of the Tablet Collection at the Penn Museum. In 1974, together with Dr. Erle Leichty, Dr. Sjöberg founded The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary, which is still a Carved wooden comb from work in progress, now in digital form, and managed by the Penn the Benin Kingdom in Museum. Dr. Sjöberg died on August 8, 2014 at the age of 90. Nigeria. Collected before 1897. The comb depicts a Frances E. Storey man on horseback dressed in Volunteer and Supporter modern European clothing and carrying a musket. UPM Mrs. Storey was a volunteer in the Museum’s American Section. object #AF5111. Dorling Together with her husband, Bayard T. Storey, Ph.D., she was Kindersley: University of a member of the Museum’s Loren Eiseley Society as well as a Pennsylvania Museum of supporter of exhibitions and capital projects. She died on October Archaeology and Anthropology. 5, 2014 at the age of 81.

THE GIFT OF TIME CURATORIAL SECTIONS AND MUSEUM CENTERS

Stephen J. Tinney, Ph.D., ASIAN SECTION Faculty Steering Committee: Deputy Director and Chief Curator Nancy Steinhardt, Ph.D., Curator Clark Erickson, Ph.D., Anthropology Adam Smith, Ph.D., Assistant Curator Frank Matero, Historic Preservation, AFRICAN SECTION Stephen Lang, Lyons Keeper of Collections Architectural Conservation Lab Dwaune Latimer, Friendly Keeper of Holly Pittman, Ph.D., Art History Consulting Scholars: Collections C. Brian Rose, Ph.D., Classical Studies Marcus Bingenheimer, Ph.D. Robert Schuyler, Ph.D., Anthropology Consulting Scholars: Virginia Bower Adam Smith, Ph.D., East Asian Languages Lee V. Cassanelli, Ph.D. Roberto Ciarla, Ph.D. & Civilizations Kathy Curnow, Ph.D. Julie N. Davis, Ph.D. Thomas Tartaron, Ph.D., Classical Studies Kathleen Ryan, Ph.D. David W. Fraser, Ph.D. Richard Zettler, Ph.D., Near Eastern Lan- John M. Fritz, Ph.D. guages & Civilizations AMERICAN SECTION Derek Gillman Clark L. Erickson, Ph.D., Curator-in-Charge Praveena Gullapalli, Ph.D. EGYPTIAN SECTION Richard M. Leventhal, Ph.D., Curator Elizabeth Hamilton, Ph.D. David P. Silverman, Ph.D., Simon Martin, Ph.D., Associate Curator Victor H. Mair, Ph.D. Curator-in-Charge and Keeper of Collections Justin McDaniel, Ph.D. Jennifer Houser Wegner, Ph.D., Lucy Fowler Williams, Ph.D., Associate Bryan Miller, Ph.D. Associate Curator Curator and Sabloff Keeper of Collections Vincent C. Pigott, Ph.D. Josef W. Wegner, Ph.D., Associate Curator Megan Kassabaum, Ph.D., Weingarten Fiorella Rispoli, Ph.D. Stephen Phillips, Ph.D., Curatorial Assistant Curator Christopher P. Thornton, Ph.D. Research Coordinator William Wierzbowski, Keeper Joyce White, Ph.D. Elizabeth Jean Walker, Keeper of Collections of Collections Stacey Espenlaub, Kamensky NAGPRA BABYLONIAN SECTION Project Coordinator Stephen J. Tinney, Ph.D., Associate Consulting Scholars: Curator-in-Charge Jane Hill, Ph.D. Consulting Scholars: Grant Frame, Ph.D., Associate Curator Joshua Roberson, Ph.D. Ricardo Antonio Agurcia Fasquelle, Ph.D. Philip Jones, Ph.D., Associate Curator and Casey Barrier, Ph.D. Keeper of Collections EUROPEAN ARCHAEOLOGY SECTION 72 Ellen Bell, Ph.D. Jeremiah Peterson, Kowalski Family Re- Harold L. Dibble, Ph.D., Curator-in-Charge Judith E. Berman, Ph.D. 73 search Associate, Ur Digital Project Lawrence S. Coben, Ph.D. Consulting Scholars: Elin Danien, Ph.D. Consulting Scholars: Carolyn Corinne Barshay-Szmidt, Ph.D. Nancy M. Farriss, Ph.D. Ann Kessler Guinan Philip G. Chase, Ph.D. Pamela Geller, Ph.D. Nancy W. Leinwand, Ph.D. James R. Mathieu, Ph.D. Russell Dean Greaves, Ph.D. Jamie Novotny, Ph.D. Deborah Olszewski, Ph.D. Pamela Jardine, Ph.D. Karen Sonik, Ph.D. Dennis Michael Sandgathe, Ph.D. Christopher Jones*, Ph.D. Ilona Zsolnay, Ph.D. Hattula Moholy-Nagy, Ph.D. HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY SECTION Katherine M. Moore, Ph.D. CENTER FOR THE ANALYSIS Robert L. Schuyler, Ph.D., Associate Marilyn Norcini, Ph.D. OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL MATERIALS Curator-in-Charge Ann H. Peters, Ph.D. Stephen J. Tinney, Ph.D., Director Consulting Scholars: Timothy B. Powell, Ph.D. Marie-Claude Boileau, Ph.D., Research Joel T. Fry Teri Rofkar Associate, Conservation and Jed Levin Frauke Sachse, Ph.D. Teaching Labs Teagan Schweitzer, Ph.D. Loa P. Traxler, Ph.D. Katherine M. Moore, Ph.D., Mainwaring Richard Veit, Ph.D. Dorothy K. Washburn, Ph.D. Teaching Specialist John Weeks, Ph.D.

PENN MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2014–2015 MEDITERRANEAN SECTION Kyra Kaercher, Kevorkian Fund Research Mariam Bachich C. Brian Rose, Ph.D., Assistant, Ur Digitization Project Joanne Baron, Ph.D. Curator-in-Charge Peter Gould, Ph.D. Consulting Scholars: Ann Blair Brownlee, Ph.D., Elizabeth Greene, Ph.D. Janice Barrabee, Ph.D. Associate Curator Ben Jeffs Eliot Braun, Ph.D. Gareth Darbyshire, Ph.D., Research Morag Kersel, Ph.D. Megan Cifarelli, Ph.D. Associate, Gordion Archivist Sarah Kurnick, Ph.D. Michael Danti, Ph.D. Lynn Makowsky, DeVries Keeper of Louise Krasniewicz, Ph.D. Theodore Davidson, Ph.D. Collections Justin Leidwanger, Ph.D. Richard S. Ellis, Ph.D. Christina Luke, Ph.D. Consulting Scholars: Michael W. Gregg, Ph.D. Ali Othman, Ph.D. Ann H. Ashmead, Ph.D. Gretchen H. Hall, Ph.D. Sasha Renninger Philip P. Betancourt, Ph.D. Andreas Michael Hauptmann, Ph.D. Shaker Shbib Elizabeth Barringer Fentress, Ph.D. Fredrik T. Hiebert, Ph.D. Corine Wegener Susan Ferrence, Ph.D. Sabine Klein, Ph.D. Susan Wolfinbarger, Ph.D. Michael D. Frachetti, Ph.D. Michelle I. Marcus, Ph.D. Ayşe Gürsan-Salzmann, Ph.D. Patrick McGovern, Ph.D. PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY SECTION Lothar Haselberger, Ph.D. Naomi Miller, Ph.D. Janet M. Monge, Ph.D., Associate Sebastian Heath, Ph.D. James Muhly, Ph.D. Curator-in-Charge and Keeper of Ellen Herscher, Ph.D. Sam Nash, Ph.D. Collections Jane Hickman, Ph.D. Robert G. Ousterhout, Ph.D. Ann L. Kuttner, Ph.D. Brian L. Peasnall, Ph.D. Consulting Scholars: Margaret L. Laird, Ph.D. Aubrey Baadsgaard Poffenberger, Ph.D. Meredith Bastian, Ph.D. Justin Leidwanger, Ph.D. Yelena Z. Rakic, Ph.D. Jacqueline Bowman, Ph.D. Richard F. Liebhart, Ph.D. William C.S. Remsen, Ph.D. Kevin Boyd, M.S., D.D.S. Camilla MacKay, Ph.D. Mitchell S. Rothman, Ph.D. Francesca Candilio, Ph.D. Frank G. Matero Bruce Routledge, Ph.D. Samantha Cox Joseph Nigro Karen Rubinson, Ph.D. Anna Dhody, M.F.S. G. Kenneth Sams, Ph.D. Marinus Anthony van der Sluijs Marianna Evans, D.D.M. Lynne A. Schepartz, Ph.D. Jill Weber, Ph.D. Morrie E. Kricun , M.D. Alessandro Sebastiani, Ph.D. Irene J. Winter, Ph.D. Robert W. Mann, Ph.D. Elizabeth Simpson, Ph.D. Paul Zimmerman, Ph.D. Nancy Minugh-Purvis, Ph.D. Joanna S. Smith, Ph.D. Herbert Poepoe Robert F. Sutton, Jr., Ph.D. OCEANIAN SECTION Emily Renschler, Ph.D. Thomas Tartaron, Ph.D. Adria Katz, Fassitt/Fuller Keeper L. Christie Rockwell, Ph.D. Compton James Tucker, Ph.D. of Collections Lynne A. Schepartz, Ph.D. Jean Turfa, Ph.D. P. Thomas Schoenemann, Ph.D. Karen Vellucci PENN CULTURAL HERITAGE CENTER Page Selinsky, Ph.D. Mary Voigt, Ph.D. Richard M. Leventhal, Ph.D., Ann-Marie Tillier, Ph.D. Gregory P. Warden, Ph.D. Executive Director Michael Weisberg, Ph.D. Charles K. Williams II, Ph.D. Brian I. Daniels, Ph.D., Director Richard S. Wilson, Jr., DMD Katharyn Hanson, Ph.D., Michael A. Yudell, Ph.D., MPH

NEAR EAST SECTION Post-doctoral Fellow Michael Zimmerman, M.D., Ph.D. Richard L. Zettler, Ph.D., Associate Salam Al Kuntar, Ph.D., * Deceased Curator-in-Charge Post-doctoral Fellow Renata Holod, Ph.D., Curator Margaret M. Bruchac, Ph.D., Holly Pittman, Ph.D., Curator Associate Faculty Deanna Bell, Administrative Coordinator Brian J. Spooner, D.Phil., Curator (to April 2015) Lauren Ristvet, Ph.D., Dyson Shannon Renninger, Administrative Associate Curator Coordinator (from April 2015) Katherine Blanchard, Fowler/Van

Santvoord Keeper of Collections Consulting Scholars: William B. Hafford, Ph.D., Kowalski Suzanne Abel Family Project Manager, Ur Ricardo Antonio Agurcia Fasquelle, Ph.D. Digitization Project Mariano J. Aznar, Ph.D.

THE GIFT OF TIME PENN MUSEUM DEPARTMENT STAFF

OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR COMPUTING & INFORMATION SYSTEMS Julian Siggers, Ph.D., Williams Director Shawn Hyla, IT Project Leader Melissa P. Smith, CFA, Chief Operating Officer Rajeev Thomas, IT Network Administrator Dan Rahimi, Executive Director of Galleries Michael Condiff,IT Programmer/Analyst James R. Mathieu, Ph.D., Chief of Staff to the Williams Director and Head of Collections CONSERVATION Margaret R. Spencer, Executive Assistant to the Williams Director Lynn Grant, Head Conservator Maureen Goldsmith, Administrative Coordinator Julia Lawson, Conservator Nina Owczarek, Williams Associate Conservator OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR Tessa de Alarcon, Kowalski Family Project Conservator, Stephen J. Tinney, Ph.D., Deputy Director Ur Digital Project Marie-Claude Boileau, Ph.D., Research Associate, Molly Gleeson, Rockwell Project Conservator Conservation and Teaching Labs Alexis North, Project Conservator Sasha Renninger, Kowalski Family Project Programmer, Cassia Balogh, Conservation Intern and Technician Ur Digital Project Morgan Burgess, Conservation Intern and Technician Stephanie Carrato, Conservation Technician ACADEMIC ENGAGEMENT Laura Iwanyk, Conservation Technician Stephen J. Tinney, Ph.D., Head of Academic Engagement Anne Tiballi, Ph.D., Mellon Curricular Facilitator DEVELOPMENT Stephanie Mach, Student Engagement Coordinator Amanda Mitchell-Boyask, Director of Development James Moss, Academic Engagement Coordinator (to April 2015) Tracy H. Carter, Director of Major Gifts (from April 2015) Karen Thomson, Collections Assistant Robert Vosburgh, Jr., Esquire, Director of Major Gifts (to December 2014) ARCHIVES Kate Fox, Associate Director, Membership & Annual Fund Alessandro Pezzati, Senior Archivist (from May 2015) Eric W. Schnittke, Assistant Archivist Therese Marmion, Associate Director, Major Gifts Kate R. Pourshariati, Film Archivist Christine Fox, Corporate & Foundation Officer Jody Rodgers, Processing Archivist Emily Goldsleger, Assistant Director, Membership & Annual Fund 74 Daniel DelViscio, Digital Images Coordinator (to March 2015) Maureen Goldsmith, Rights and Reproductions Coordinator Jane Hickman, Ph.D., Editor, Expedition Magazine 75 Lisa Batt, Administrative Coordinator BUILDING OPERATIONS Kelley Stone, Administrative Assistant, Membership & Annual Fund Brian McDevitt, Director of Building Operations Edgardo Esteves, Chief Custodial Supervisor EXHIBITIONS Michael Burin, Night Supervisor Kate Quinn, Director of Exhibitions David Young, Supervisor Michael Barker, Preparator & Multimedia Technician Kevin Calvert, Supervisor Jessica Bicknell, Interpretive Planning Manager (from January 2015) Monica Mean, Financial Administrative Coordinator Matthew Gay, Preparator & Mountmaker Robert Lawlor, Part-time Custodian Benjamin Neiditz, Chief Preparator Yuan Yao, Graphic Designer BUSINESS OFFICE Mary Dobson, Business Administrator FACILITY RENTALS Kris Forrest, Finance Manager Atiya German, Director of Facility Rentals Linda Halkins, Administrative Assistant Stefanie Sutton, Facility Rentals Coordinator Matthew McGregor, Administrative Assistant Andrea Mules, Grants Coordinator (from March 2015) Veronica Sewell, Administrative Assistant

PENN MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2014–2015 GIFT SHOP PUBLICATIONS Scott Lloyd, Gift Shop Manager James R. Mathieu, Ph.D. Director of Publications Dan Ellerbroek, Gift Shop Sales Clerk Jennifer Quick, Senior Editor Gabriel Vanlandingham-Dunn, Gift Shop Sales Clerk Maureen Goldsmith, Administrative Coordinator Page Selinsky, Ph.D., Copyeditor and Book Designer HOUSEKEEPING Yolanda Connelly, Custodian REGISTRAR’S OFFICE James Coppedge, Custodian Xiuqin Zhou, Ph.D., Senior Registrar Timothy Crawford, Custodian Robert Thurlow, Special Projects Manager Reinaldo Del Valle, Custodian Chrisso Boulis, Registrar, Records James Drumm, Custodian Anne Brancati, Registrar, Loans Ayele Habtemichael, Custodian Danielle Peters, Database Administrator Cherita Holden, Custodian Celina Candrella, Assistant Registrar (from August 2014) Lateef July, Custodian (to October 2014) Yin Liu, Collections Inventory Assistant John Lawler, Custodian (from May 2015) Daniel LoMastro, Collections Inventory Assistant Bruce Mason, Custodian Laura Hazeltine, Collections Inventory Assistant David McBride, Custodian Ashley Scott, Collections Inventory Assistant John Notte, Custodian Taylor Barrett, Collections Inventory Technician (from March 2015) Linda Wood, Custodian Jacqui Bowen, Collections Inventory Technician (from March 2015) Severine Craig, Collections Inventory Technician (from March 2015) KOWALSKI DIGITAL MEDIA CENTER Caroline Western, Collections Inventory Technician (from March 2015) James R. Mathieu, Ph.D., Director of Digital Media Jennifer Bornstein, Grants and Resource Coordinator VISITOR SERVICES (through December 2014) Conor Hepp, Director of Visitor and Gallery Services Michael Condiff,Web Developer Cynthia Whybark, Visitor Services Manager Lee Roueche, Digital Media Developer Katherine Thorburn, Group Tours Coordinator Francine Sarin, Head Photographer Bonnie Crosfield, Receptionist Jennifer Chiappardi, Assistant Photographer Layla Ballner, Visitor Services Representative Laurel Burmeister, Visitor Services Representative LEARNING PROGRAMS Claire Burns, Visitor Services Representative Ellen Owens, Merle-Smith Director of Learning Programs Katherine Driggs, Visitor Services Representative Emily Hirshorn, GRoW Annenberg Program Manager Stephanie Gruver, Visitor Services Representative Allyson Mitchell, Outreach Program Manager Jonnie Handschin, Visitor Services Representative Kevin Schott, Guide Program Manager Sarah Morawczynski, Visitor Services Representative Hitomi Yoshida, Diversity Programs Manager Shannon Renninger, Visitor Services Representative Megan Becker, GRoW Annenberg Museum and School Educator Jennifer Leibert, GRoW Annenberg Museum and School Educator Thomas Leischner, GRoW Annenberg Museum and School Educator Kelley Hirsch, Museum Programs Associate

MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS Teri Scott, Director of Marketing and Communications Pam Kosty, Public Relations Director Christina Jones, Art Director

Tang Dynasty painted clay Yuan Yao, Graphic Designer mortuary figurine of a dancer. Tom Stanley, Public Relations/Social Media Coordinator From China, ca. 618—906 Jemmell’z Washington, Public Relations Associate CE. Part of a set that contained two dancers and PUBLIC PROGRAMS three musicians. UPM object Kate Quinn, Director of Public Programs #C421. Dorling Kindersley: Tena Thomason, Assistant Director, Public Programs University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Jennifer Reifsteck, Public Programs Manager Anthropology. Rachelle Kaspin, Administrative Coordinator, Public Programs

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This view of the north side of Trench 2 shows the excavation of several burials at Sitio Conte, Panama, 1940. Objects from this excavation were featured in the exhibition Beneath the Surface: Life, Death, and Gold in Ancient Panama. Design: Eastern Standard

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