Arts of Diplomacy
Lewis and Clark's Indian Collection

Castle McLaughlin
Photographs by Hillel S. Burger
Foreword by James P. Ronda

When Meriwether Lewis and William dark led the Corps of Discovery across the American West, they were acting as Thomas Jefferson's diplomatic emissaries to the Native American peoples they encountered along the way. In Arts of Diplomacy, Castle McLaughlin challenges conventional wisdom about the expedition and reveals it as a complex process of diplomacy, mutual discovery, and exchange.

The vehicle for this analysis is the Peabody Museum's "Lewis and Clark collection," a set of magnificent eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century objects long thought to be the only surviving ethnographic items acquired by the Corps. McLaughlin and a team of anthropologists, art historians, and material culture specialists spent half a decade analyzing these buffalo robes, basketry hats, and ceremonial pipes and tracing their histories from public and private collections to their probable sources among Native makers and users.

With contributions by scholars Gaylord Torrence and Anne-Marie Victor-Howe, Wasco basketry artist Pat Courtney Gold, and Mandan-Hidatsa community activist Mike Cross, and commentary by and profiles of other contemporary Native artists, Arts of Diplomacy is a model for how museum collections can be used to tell their own vivid stories.

Social anthropologist Castle McLaughlin is Associate Curator of Native American Ethnography at the Peabody Museum.

Published with the University of Washington Press.

416 pages, 195 illustrations, 150 in color, notes, bibliography, index, 8 3/4 x 10 ¾

Cloth, ISBN 0-29598-360-4 $60.00
Paper, ISBN 0-29598-361-2 $40.00

Copies signed by Castle McLaughlin are available upon request.

Finding Aid for the Philippines Collection
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Harvard University

Erin Hasinoff

This guide to the museum's 2,729 objects from the Philippines is a useful reference tool for researchers interested not only in the objects collected but also in the archival information relevant to the accessions and the collectors. Includes a breakdown of the items according to type; listings by collector and accession number; a cross-reference according to cultural affiliation; a list of donors; brief biographies of selected collectors; and a bibliography.

86 pages, 1 color photo, bibliography, 8 1/2 x 11
Comb-bound photocopy $25.00

Finding Aid for Tibet and Areas of Influence
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Harvard University

Laura Kogonis

Tibetan culture reaches far beyond the political boundaries of the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China, influencing communities from Mongolia to Siberia, from Bhutan and Sikkim to Ladakh and Nepal. Thus "Tibetan culture" may be understood as an important component of the local cultures throughout a vast area of Inner Asia. This finding aid is designed to assist researchers who wish to familiarize themselves with the Peabody Museum's collection of over 850 objects from Tibet and these areas of Tibetan influence.

41 pages, 1 color photo, 8 1/2 x 11
Comb-bound photocopy $15.00

Archaeological Field Notebook

This 80-page metric-grid notebook, prepared by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, is indispensable for the student or professional practitioner of field archaeology. A classic for use in the field!

Paper, 7 5/8 x 10 $7.50