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Past Exhibitions
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May 4, 2011-February 28, 2012
Native Life in the Americas: Artists' Views
Native Life showcased the work of important though not well-known artists who focused on various aspects of Native American life and culture.
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March 2, 2011-September 5, 2011
House of Love: Photographic Fiction, Dayanita Singh
As the Museum’s 2008 Robert Gardner Photography Fellow, Dayanita Singh explored the human condition through images that began as a photographic diary and became the photographic fiction she titled House of Love.
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May 27, 2009-March 31, 2011
Masked Festivals of Canton Bo, Southwest Ivory Coast
Through rare drawings and photographs, along with masks from the Peabody Museum collections, Masked Festivals explores the different kinds of masked spirit forms and their performances.
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April 29, 2010-January 30, 2011
Spying on the Past: Declassified Satellite Images and Archaeology
Using declassified U.S. government spy satellite and aerial images, Harvard student archaeologists explore sites in Northern Mesopotamia and South America. These images are both visually arresting and potent archaeological tools. Four case studies in Syria, Iraq, Iran and Peru reveal complex early cities, extensive trackways, intricate irrigation canals and even traces of nomadic journeys.
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October 22, 2009-April 3, 2010
Sacred Spaces: Reflections on a Sufi Path
"Song for Children." Mixed media. Samina Quraeshi, 2009
Diane Moore of the Harvard Divinity School interviews the Curator Samina Quraeshi:Sacred Spaces: Reflections on a Sufi Path (audio and slide show)
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April 29, 2009-September 8, 2009
Avenue Patrice Lumumba: Photographs by Guy Tillim
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June 4, 2008-April 6, 2009
Fragile Memories: Images of Archaeology and Community at Copan, 1891–1900
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September 25, 2008-April 30, 2009
Remembering Awatovi: The Story of an Archaeological Expedition in Northern Arizona, 1935-1939
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May 2, 2008–April 25, 2008
Feeding the Ancestors: Tlingit Carved Horn Spoons
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April 5, 2008–October 19, 2008
Remix: Indigenous Identities in the 21st Century
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October 25, 2007–April 30, 2008
A Good Type: Tourism and Science in Early Japanese Photographs
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April 11, 2007–November 9, 2007
Vanished Kingdoms: the Wulsin Photographs of Tibet, China, and Mongolia, 1921–1925
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November 15, 2006–February 28, 2007
Michael Rockefeller: New Guinea Photographs, 1961
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April 19, 2006–September 4, 2006
A Noble Pursuit: The Duchess of Mecklenburg Collection from Iron Age Slovenia
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February 15, 2006–September 30, 2006
Reconfiguring Korea: Roger Marshutz's Photographs of Pusan, 1952–1954
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October 21, 2005–November 30, 2007
The Moche of Ancient Peru: Media and Messages
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June 2, 2005–October 31, 2005
Gifts of the Great River: Arkansas Effigy Pottery from the Curtiss Collection
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April 14, 2005–December 31, 2005
Breaking the Silence: Native American Photography and Federal Indian Policy
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December 2, 2004–August 30, 2006
Imazighen! Beauty and Artisanship in Berber Life
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October 21, 2004–February 28, 2005
Field Photography: The Marsh Arabs of Iraq, 1934
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May 20, 2004–April 30, 2005
Bringing Japan to Boston: The Edward S. Morse Collection
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March 17, 2004–September 15, 2004
Regarding the Kalahari: The Marshall Family and the Ju/Wasi
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December 11, 2003–September 30, 2008
From Nation to Nation: Examining Lewis and Clark's Indian Collection
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September 18, 2003–January 15, 2004
Portraits from China, 1923—1946: Photographers and Their Subjects
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May 29, 2003–
Painted by a Distant Hand: Mimbres Pottery from the American Southwest
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February 7, 2003–February 2004
These Shoes Were Made for ... Walking?
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October 18, 2002–August 31, 2003
Charles Fletcher Lummis: Southwestern Portraits, 1888-1896
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March 6, 2002–August 1, 2003
Embedded Nature: Tapa Cloths from the Pacific Islands
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October 3, 2001–February 1, 2004
Distinguished Casts: Curating Lost Monuments at the Peabody Museum
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December 9, 1999-October 1, 2001
Heads and Tales: Adornments from Africa
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