Tag Archives: anthropology
Delbridge Honanie, 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner
The Southwest Indian Art Fair is proud to name Delbridge Honanie as its 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner. Delbridge is a Hopi artist specializing in paint and wood carvings, born in 1946 in Winslow, Arizona. He grew up in Shungopavi Village, Second Mesa, on the Hopi Reservation and has spent the last 20 years living [...]
Southwest Indian Art Fair 2013
Arizona State Museum’s Southwest Indian Art Fair brings together a cross-section of Native American cultural traditions through art sales, music and dance performances and demonstrations by highly skilled artists. Living cultural practices, coupled with meaningful conversations with the artists, provide context for understanding the artwork produced and on sale. This year’s fair, on February 23rd [...]
Bird Migration To ASM Archives
Today’s blog was written by Arizona State Museum’s archivist Amy Rule. She can be found working alongside the rest of the Library and Archives staff in the beautiful second floor reading room at ASM providing preservation and access to over 1500 linear feet of archival and manuscript holdings. Bird-lovers are heading out to Willcox, Arizona, to watch [...]
Repatriation and Collaboration: Opening Our Doors to Indigenous Communities
Today’s blog is written by Dr. John McClelland, Lab Manager for ASM’s Osteology Lab and NAGPRA Coordinator. Most people think of museums as places where things are preserved in perpetuity. It may surprise you to learn that my job at the Arizona State Museum is to find ways to give things back! As Native American [...]
Happy GIS Day!
In honor of GIS day, ASM research specialist Shannon Twilling wrote today’s blog. Shannon is the Assistant Manager of the AZSITE Database and ASM’s Archaeological Records Office. AZSITE is the official geographic information system for managing cultural resources in the state of Arizona. November 14, 2012 is the annual celebration of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) [...]
Secrets in Stone
Arizona State Museum Deputy Director Dr. Irene Bald Romano reports on her summer 2012 research in Italy. Dr. Romano came to ASM and the University of Arizona last February. She is a specialist in Greek cult practices, Greek and Roman sculpture, terracotta figurines, and Hellenistic pottery, and is the author/co-author of five books and numerous [...]
Snake Season in the Library
“Reports of rattlesnake bites in Arizona on rise,” proclaimed the Arizona Daily Star on August 21st. Recently, I had an encounter with a rattler—stepped on it while running one evening. So when ASM Archivist Amy Rule submitted her latest blog titled Snake Season in the Library I feared that even while at work I might have [...]
Cool Culture
As Tucson’s temperatures soar in continuous triple digits, many of us seek out the AC. If you haven’t been to ASM in a while, perhaps now is when you’d like to enjoy some cool culture. Our AC is on full, and as students are gone for the summer, parking is easy. So come spend a [...]
Whose Hand Made Those Markings?
Today’s blog was written by Arizona State Museum’s archivist Amy Rule. She can be found working alongside the rest of the Library and Archives staff in the beautiful second floor reading room at ASM providing preservation and access to over 1500 linear feet of archival and manuscript holdings. It is not every day that a [...]
A Slow Look, A Short Poem
Today’s blog is written by Lisa Falk, Arizona State Museum’s Director of Education, and this blog’s editor. People come to museums for a variety of reasons, but chief among these are to see objects, the art and artifacts on display. But according to those who study visitors in museums, visitors spend very little time actually [...]
