Among the Museum’s holdings are examples of weapons from around the world- clubs, axes, daggers, swords, throwing spears, bows and arrows and blowguns. The exhibit will group the weapons by type, comparing and contrasting the different materials used to make them and their use in warfare, in hunting and as objects of status and power. One section of the exhibit will deal specifically with Pre-Columbian warfare and will include West Mexican ceramic figurines that depict warriors, battle scenes and captives.

Among the Hudson Museum collections are baskets from around the World. All are made from locally available materials, such as grasses, bark, roots, branches, reeds, rushes, fronds, and straw. A variety of techniques were used to create the baskets ranging from coiling, to plaiting and twining. Explore how people around the World created baskets.

Explore Maine Indian history and culture. Watch contemporary Maine Indian artist carry on traditions that are thousands of years old. See Maine Indian basketry, birchbark work, wood carving traditions and decorative arts. Learn about UMaine research that explores how Maine’s environment, geography, climate, plant, animal and human life has changed over time.

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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