Organization

Exhibition: Wiyohpiyata: Lakota Images of the Contested West

Presented by Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

May 12, 2009-December 30, 2013

Wiyohpiyata: Lakota Images of the Contested West explores the meanings of a recently discovered nineteenth-century "artist's book," in the collection of Houghton Library, that had been recovered from the Little Big Horn battlefield after Custer's defeat in 1876. The exhibit presents colored drawings by Plains Indian warriors from the...

Translating Encounters: Travel and Transformation in the Early Seventeenth Century

Presented by Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

August 6, 2012-December 31, 2013

Broadly explores the responses by Africans, Native Americans, and Europeans in the age of colonial exploration, as each struggled to comprehend the other.

Digging Veritas: The Archaeology & History of the Indian College & Student Life at Colonial Harvard

Presented by Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

August 6, 2012-June 30, 2013

Shows how today’s Harvard students understand the role of the Indian College and student life in Harvard’s early years. Student archaeologists unearthed evidence of colonial Harvard as a landscape shaped by social and religious tensions.

Conservators at Work: Alaska's Historic Kayaks Renewed

Presented by Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

August 6, 2012-June 30, 2013

Features conservators working in the Hall of the North American Indian gallery on historic Alutiiq kayaks and more.

Storied Walls: Murals of the Americas

Presented by Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

August 6, 2012-December 31, 2014

Features large-scale drawings, photographs, and actual pieces of murals from the Awatovi, Maya, and Moche cultures. From New Mexico and Guatemala to the desert cities of Peru, the murals provide a rare and unique glimpse into the past.

Opening Reception and Book Signing Stephen Dupont: Papua New Guinea Portraits and Diaries

Presented by Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

May 2, 2013

Join award-winning photographer Stephen Dupont at the exhibition opening reception and book signing.

As the Museum’s 2010 Robert Gardner Photography Fellow, Stephen Dupont explored the human condition. Through photographs and artist’s journals, he documented the Westernization of traditional society in Papua New Guinea, from...

Everyday Life in Colonial Peru: Archaeology and Texts of an Early Town

Presented by Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Geological Lecture Hall

March 14, 2013

A common view holds that the 15th-century Spanish conquest of Peru was rapid and that native culture was swept away by the imposition of European beliefs and practices. Until very recently, views of the conquest and the early Colonial Period life were almost entirely derived from texts written by Spanish conquistadors or indigenous people under...

Divination Series Lecture - Happiness: What Your Mother Didn't Tell You

Presented by Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Geological Lecture Hall

February 20, 2013

Lecture to be held at the Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., followed by a reception at the Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Ave.

Speaker: Daniel Gilbert, Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University and bestselling author of Stumbling on Happiness. Most of us think we know what would make us happy and that our only problem is...

Family Drop-in Event: Mexican Flag Day -School Vacation Week

Presented by Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

February 19-February 22, 2013

Recommended for ages 5 and up accompanied by an adult.

February 24th is Mexican Flag Day. Come explore the history of the flag and the Aztec origin of the eagle and the cactus in the flag’s coat of arms. Enjoy the story of the founding of Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City, and learn more about the Mexica people. And don’t miss...

Family Drop-in Event: Mexican Flag Day Discovery Room

Presented by Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

February 16, 2013

Recommended for ages 5 and up accompanied by an adult.

February 24th is Mexican Flag Day. Come explore the history of the flag and the Aztec origin of the eagle and the cactus in the flag’s coat of arms. Enjoy the story of the founding of Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City, and learn more about the Mexica people. And don’t miss...