[Aztlan] Pre-Columbian Society of the University of Pennsylvania Museum Meeting

[michael ruggeri]

Listeros,

Just posted;

Mike Ruggeri

Next Meeting of the Pre-Columbian Society of the University of  
Pennsylvania Museum

Saturday, October 11, 2008, 1:30 pm U Penn Museum Room 345
Elin Danien, PhD., Research Associate, University of Pennsylvania Museum
HOW TO CATCH A PAINTED METAPHOR:
Creating an exhibition out of pots, gods, and chocolate, with a  
little obsession on the side

On April 5th, 2009, Painted Metaphors: Pottery and Politics of the  
Ancient Maya,  will open at the Penn Museum. Maya Weekend attendees  
and Museum members will preview the exhibit on April 3rd. Curator  
Elin Danien  will take PCS members behind the scenes for an  
illustrated look at the development of the exhibition.  She will also  
share some previously unknown anecdotes about the unusual people  
whose work is the basis for the whole thing: archaeologist Robert  
Burkitt, the man who came to tea and stayed for thirty years, and M.  
Louise Baker, the Museum artist who let nothing stop her – not even  
the threat of an earthquake.
           Dr. Elin Danien is a Research Associate in the American  
Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, where she was  
responsible for the recent renovation of the Mesoamerican gallery.    
She earned her Ph.D. in 1998, with a dissertation on the collection  
of Maya polychrome pottery in the University Museum.  That collection  
forms the core of the upcoming exhibition.  Her recent publications  
include the web publication,  Paintings of Maya Pottery: The Art and  
Career of M. Louise Baker, posted 9/5/06 at: http://www.famsi.org/ 
reports/03029/index.html,  and two edited volumes:  Maya Folktales  
from the Alta Verapaz, and, with John M. Weeks, The Lost Notebooks of  
Robert Burkitt,  Maya Linguist.

http://www.precolumbian.org/



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