| Museum Details |
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| Name: | Peabody Museum of American Archeology and Ethnology, Harvard University |
| Street Address: | 11 Divinity Av |
| City: | Cambridge |
| State: | Massachusetts |
| Country: | United States |
| Zipcode: | 2138 |
| Telephone: | 617-496-1027 |
| Fax: | 617-495-7535 |
| Email: | peabody@fas.harvard.edu |
| Website: | http://www.peabody.harvard.edu |
| Staff Contacts: | Dir: Rubie Watson;
Cur: Diane Loren;
Coll Info: 617-496-0099, pmresrch@fas.harvard.edu |
| Quality of Online Info: | Excellent: links to galleries, concise overviews of departments and their collections, helpful on-line features; Collections Online: browse and search selections; results include identification of objects |
| Size: | Large |
| Focus: | ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS: CENTRAL AMERICAN ART: Maya artifacts from the sites of Copan, Labna, Holmul, Piedras Negras, and Uaxactun; Jaina figurines from E.H. Thompson; Playa de los Muertos and Ulua Valley polychromes from Honduras;
ETHNOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONS: CENTRAL AMERICAN ART: small collection of Guatemalan textiles from G.B. Gordon, painted fiesta masks from Mexico, woven garments from Honduras, and molas; Osteological Collections; Online Collections |
| Source: | Grube, Nikolai, ed. Maya: Divine Kings of the Rain Forest. Cologne: Konemann, 2000. 455.
Schulze, Marco and Boris Eggers, eds. Museums of the World. 11th Rev. and Enl. ed. Volume 2.
Handbook of International Documentation and Information Series. Volume 16.
Muchen: K.G. Saur, 2004. 706. U of Utah Libraries.
http://www.peabody.harvard.edu |