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Meet Lise
My name is Lise Puyo. I come from Orléans, a town south of Paris known for having been freed by Joan of Arc in 1429. Little did I know, coming to the University of Pennsylvania as an exchange student...
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Talking with the Belts at Harvard Peabody
(From left to right: Margaret Bruchac; Patricia Capone, Museum Curator and Director of Research and Repatriation; Lise Puyo; Stephanie Mach; Susan Haskell, Curatorial Associate and Research...
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Meet Stephanie
Stephanie Mach at the Penn Museum holding a Tlingit basket tray. Photo by Tom Stanley. My name is Stephanie Mach. I have been working with the collections at the Penn Museum for the past five years....
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Rummaging the Archives
by Lise Puyo What does it mean to be rummaging the archives? As a budding academic, I have been trying to make peace with the fact that my work might not really matter outside of a very narrow group of...
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The Glass Belt at the Archives of Nicolet Seminary
by Lise Puyo On Tuesday, Marie Pelletier, who manages the Archives du Séminaire de Nicolet (Nicolet Seminary) welcomed us for a whole afternoon to examine the two wampum belts in their collections. One...
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Of Shells and Ship’s Nails
by Marge Bruchac * Article Update, December 2017: This article was originally published in 2014, when the material assemblages from Fort Shantok were still housed in several disparate locations. During...
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A Balancing Act: Traditional and Museological Care of Wampum
by Stephanie Mach In many ways this project is as much about exploring the cultural significance of wampum as it is examining how museums curate and construct understandings about wampum. So far, we...
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Meet Sarah
Sarah Parkinson beside a woodland lake somewhere in northern Ontario. My name is Sarah Parkinson. I decided I wanted to major in Cultural Anthropology as soon as I began my undergraduate studies at...
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