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Published in 2006, this last general guide to the permanent exhibitions of the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin came out a decade before the museum was closed in 2017. It was believed then, that the museum was to be changed soon to the... more

Published in 2006, this last general guide to the permanent exhibitions of the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin came out a decade before the museum was closed in 2017. It was believed then, that the museum was to be changed soon to the Schloßlatz in the center of Berlin. However, it would take another five years, or even more, before the museum will start to open some of its new exhibitions. Thus this guide is a historical document for the history of the Ethnologisches Museum at Berlin Dahlem.

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  • Museum Anthropology, History of Museums, History of Collections, Collecting and Collections

An object, catalogued in an American museum as a gunstock club, was recognized by the author as related to a reputedly unique “sacred slab” thought to have been given by the Shawnee Prophet Tenskwatawa to the Winnebagos in the early... more

An object, catalogued in an American museum as a gunstock club, was recognized by the author as related to a reputedly unique “sacred slab” thought to have been given by the Shawnee Prophet Tenskwatawa to the Winnebagos in the early nineteenth century. Further research showed that six such “prophet sticks” had ended up in collections, and the cumulative evidence raised doubts about their origin and meaning. Fifteen years later, the author noted the club/prophet stick’s appearance on the Native American art market and helped the museum to recover it. The museum’s curator was identified as the thief and sentenced to fifteen years in prison.
Thirty-five years after first encountering this unusual piece, the author looks at these prophet sticks in the contexts of their collection histories and of the prophetic movements as well as iconographic and mnemonic traditions of the early nineteenth century in the western Great Lakes region of North America. He suggests their association with the Winnebago prophet Wabo­kieshiek and interprets their pictographic inscriptions as a combination of cosmographic representation and (perhaps) a mnemonic prayer record. But there are no final truths either in research or in the museum world.

• • by Christian Feest
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  • Native American Artifacts, Native American Art, winnebago / Ho-chunk history, Museum Ethnology
• • by Guillaume Jacques
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  • Art, Museum Ethnology
• • by Akihiko Akamatsu
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  • Philosophy, Perspectivism, Museum Ethnology

Recent radiocarbon determinations obtained from Ifugao agricultural terraces suggest later development of rice cultivation in the region. This information is combined with ethnohistoric reconstructions, ethnographic information, and... more

Recent radiocarbon determinations obtained from Ifugao agricultural terraces suggest later development of rice cultivation in the region. This information is combined with ethnohistoric reconstructions, ethnographic information, and landscape analysis to argue that wettaro cultivation is an earlier adaptive practice and an important component in the development of Ifugao agricultural system. In addition, the landscape context for the shift in agricultural practice is also presented. As part of a larger study, this article summarizes the probable expansion, and intensifi cation of Ifugao agricultural systems.

• • by Stephen Acabado
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  • Geography, Archaeology, Anthropology, Museum Ethnology
• • by yoshihito shimada
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  • Sociology, Ethnic Identity, Islam, Music and identity