In the summer of 1867, Fort Stevenson was built along the banks of the Missouri River, and Fort Totten was built along the ...

Islip Town now has a New York State historic marker that honors a soldier who local historians say is “one of the town's most famous veterans.” The new marker was unveiled Friday on Foster Avenue in ...

A Trobriand Islands family who I came to know very well gave this wonderful item to me in 1989. They explained its significance as a trade item, which they had acquired through a 'bride price' ...

Ethnographic context : the place and the people -- Modernity and primitivity : definitions and discourses in imagining alterity -- Fixing the tourist gaze : essentializing the primitive and the ...

On the remote Trobriand Islands, researchers studied villagers’ reactions to images of facial expressions and found their reactions differed from Western societies. (All photography by Carlos Crivelli ...

Takeaways from CLIA's annual reportThere was a lot to learn here, from the strength of the premium market to the surprising steadiness of Canadian cruisers... A decade of growth: Dream Vacations has ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Jerry Leach was one of the founding ...

Traditional music of the Trobriand Islands is played on a variety of flutes, from simple curving stems to panpipes. Songs (wosi) are also an important part of Trobriand music, and although everyone ...

Here are a few more things worth knowing about the Government of Papua New Guinea, University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology & Ethnography documentary flick. Trobriand Cricket starring Jerry Leach ...

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