Among the Museum’s holdings are examples of weapons from around the world.  Explore clubs, spears, bows and arrows and blowguns and darts. Look for sharp and sinister implements from Africa, the Arctic, Plains, and even Maine.

 This temporary exhibit features gold, jade, shell, turquoise and crystal jewelry from Mesoamerica.  Explore these treasures from our collection.

Dumbarton Oaks is pleased to announce that the Roosevelt and Cross photographic archive is now available online. In 1934, Cornelius van S. Roosevelt and Richard J. Cross accompanied the noted Peruvian archaeologist Dr. Julio C. Tello on an expedition to explore important pre-Hispanic sites of the Ancash region of Peru.  The online archive presents 355 photos, only few of them previously published, documenting aspects of the expedition through the Huaura and Fortaleza valleys in the Lima region, as well as the valleys of Huarmey, Casma, Nepeña and Santa in the Ancash region. Highlights of the collection include several images of Julio C. Tello in the field, and early photographs of Chanquillo and Chavín de Huántar. There is extensive documentation of Chavín tenoned heads, the Lanzón, and diverse Recuay stone sculpture.

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