News and Announcements

Reopening Plans

The Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology is excited to expand visitation to Harvard ID holders, HMSC members, volunteers, and their accompanied guests. Learn more about our reopening plans.

Chief Standing Bear’s Pipe Tomahawk

Jointly, the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska, the Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Harvard University are in active discussion about the homecoming of Chief Standing Bear’s pipe tomahawk to the Ponca people.

Wendel White Named 2021 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography

The Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University, is pleased to announce the selection of the 2021 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography. Following an international search, the Gardner Fellowship committee awarded the fellowship to photographer Wendel White. The fellowship provides a $50,000 stipend to begin or complete a proposed project followed by the publication of a book.

Sarah Clunis Named Director of Academic Partnerships and Curator of African Collections

The Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Harvard University is pleased to announce that Dr. Sarah Clunis has accepted the position of Director of Academic Partnerships and Curator of African Collections to start on August 30, 2021.

Tindal named director of Harvard Museums of Science and Culture

Remembering LaDonna Brave Bull Allard (1956-2021)

The museum regrets the passing of LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, Standing Rock Sioux historian, who helped to coordinate resistance to the Dakota Access pipeline. LaDonna worked with Butch Thunder Hawk, Castle McLaughlin, and their team to develop the exhibit Wiyohpiyata: Lakota Images of the Contested West, which foregrounds contemporary Lakota perspectives. As Tourism Coordinator at Standing Rock, La Donna guided the team to significant places on the reservation and narrated several of the gallery videos created by Professor Lucien Taylor.

Message from the Peabody Museum Director

Dear Members of the Peabody Community,

Museum Galleries Temporarily Closed

The museum galleries remain temporarily closed due to COVID-19. Please check Peabody Museum Online Resources for online exhibits, videos, 3D models, and to search the collections. Museum offices will be closed Dec. 19, 2020–Jan. 3, 2021.

Remembering Dr. David M. Gipp

Peabody Museum to Digitize and Share Kalahari Archives with Descendant Communities in Africa

The Peabody Museum begins a two-year project to catalog, digitize, and share the photographs and records of one of the most significant contributions to American anthropology: the eight Marshall Family expeditions to the northwest Kalahari region of Southern Africa (1950 –1961). The museum will share the archives with the descendants of the Ju/’hoansi and G/wi, with whom the Marshalls worked.

The Marshalls documented how the Indigenous peoples of the Kalahari San (primarily the Ju/’hoansi) lived prior to extended contact with the “modern world.”

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