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Manifest: Thirteen Colonies is a photographic project and journey through the repositories of African-American material culture found in libraries, museums, and archives of the original thirteen English colonies. Conceived by photographer Wendel White...
Caring for Navajo Culture: In Museums and Beyond
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Join Stephanie Mach (Diné), Peabody Museum Curator of North American Collections and Diné (Navajo) guests for a panel conversation about the ways they each care for Navajo cultural heritage within their various areas of work and interest. Hybrid Panel...
Audio: Tornadoes, Twin Towers, and Hurricanes: 20 Years of Urban Disaster Clean-up
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Roughly every five years since 1992, the United States has experienced major urban destruction, both natural and man-made. Even before the shock has passed, dealing with trash and rubble is a critical part of post-disaster response. How do cities clean up...
Standing Bear’s Pipe-Tomahawk Returned to the Ponca Tribe
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On Friday, June 3, 2022, a delegation from the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska, including several members of Tribal Council and staff, visited the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Harvard University for a ceremony returning the pipe-tomahawk owned by...
Audio: Waste Ecologies: The Landscape of Energy Cycling, Material Movements, and Resource Exchanges
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The golden age of mass disposal is now being supplanted by the age of mass recycling. Managing waste production has become an economic and ecologic imperative. Waste Ecologies: The Landscape of Energy Cycling, Material Movements, and Resource Exchanges...
Audio: Stuff by the Yard: Campus Materials Management
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Harvard generates as much trash as a small city, with a wide spectrum of refuse from residences, dining facilities, offices, clinics, and research laboratories. How does the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university recycle and reduce waste? Stuff by the...
Audio: Products, Plastics, Putrefaction, and Power
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The majority of urban trash is plastic or biodegradable. What is the best way to manage these materials? Businesses and environmentalists are battling it out right now. Products, Plastics, Putrefaction, and Power Trash Talk Public Lecture by Samantha...
Audio: Garbage: Learning to Unsee
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Garbage is rich with contradictions. It is both intimate and global, ubiquitous and invisible. We generate trash in vast quantities but few of us know where it goes, or how it gets there, or what happens to it next. Garbage: Learning to Unsee Trash Talk...
Audio: Rags, Bones, and Plastic Bags: Trash in Industrial America
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Every human culture leaves some broken pottery and more, which fill the trash dumps that archaeologists study. But the trash of today is a product of industrialization. Rags, Bones, and Plastic Bags: Trash in Industrial America Trash Talk Lecture by Susan...
Take Your Place/Toma tu lugar
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In-Person Special Event for All Ages Leer en español Latino/a/x teens in the Hear Me Out/Escúchame project exhibit a group artwork that challenges stereotypes. What is important to know about Salvadoran or Honduran culture? What is overlooked in Mexican...
Bibliographic References tagged with North America
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Philip Phillips and James A. Brown. 1975. Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from the Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma, Part 1. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press
Philip Phillips and James A. Brown. 1975. Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from the Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma, Part 1. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press
Edwin L. Wade and Lea S. McChesney. 1981. Historic Hopi Ceramics: The Thomas V. Keam Collection of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press
Edwin L. Wade and Lea S. McChesney. 1981. Historic Hopi Ceramics: The Thomas V. Keam Collection of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press
1990. Hall of the North American Indian. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press
1990. Hall of the North American Indian. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press
Castle McLaughlin. 2003. Arts of Diplomacy: Lewis & Clark’s Indian Collection. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press
Castle McLaughlin. 2003. Arts of Diplomacy: Lewis & Clark’s Indian Collection. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press
Robert Gardner. 2010. Just Representations. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press
Robert Gardner. 2010. Just Representations. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press
Barbara J. Russell. 1982. The Wheeler’s Site: A Specialized Shellfish Processing Station on the Merrimack River. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press
Barbara J. Russell. 1982. The Wheeler’s Site: A Specialized Shellfish Processing Station on the Merrimack River. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press
James B. Stoltman. 1974. Groton Plantation: An Archaeological Study of a South Carolina Locality. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press
James B. Stoltman. 1974. Groton Plantation: An Archaeological Study of a South Carolina Locality. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press
James C. Gifford and Watson Smith. 1978. Gray Corrugated Pottery from Awatovi and Other Jeddito Sites in Northeastern Arizona. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press
James C. Gifford and Watson Smith. 1978. Gray Corrugated Pottery from Awatovi and Other Jeddito Sites in Northeastern Arizona. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press
Dorothy Koster Washburn. 1977. A Symmetry Analysis of Upper Gila Area Ceramic Design. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press
Dorothy Koster Washburn. 1977. A Symmetry Analysis of Upper Gila Area Ceramic Design. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press
Polly Schaafsma. 1971. The Rock Art of Utah: A Study from the Donald Scott Collection, Peabody Museum, Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press
Polly Schaafsma. 1971. The Rock Art of Utah: A Study from the Donald Scott Collection, Peabody Museum, Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press