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. 

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.

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.”