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Volume 42, Number 3

Winter 2000

Cover: Photo by Francine Sarin, UPM 29-225-37. A Kalighat painting of the goddess Chandi with elephant.

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Features

American Collections Inspire Native Artists and Indian Communities
Lucy Williams and Melissa Wagner

Kalighat Paintings from Nineteenth Century Calcutta in Maxwell Sommerville's "Ethnological East Indian Collection"
Pika Ghosh

The Margarita Tomb at Copan, Honduras--A Research Update
Ellen E. Bell, Robert J. Sharer, David W. Sedat, Marcello A. Canuto, and Lynn A. Grant

"The Real Me"--Therapeutic Narrative in Cosmetic Surgery
Rebecca Huss-Ashmore

A Melanesian Wedding--Santa Cruz Island
William Davenport

 

Departments

From the Director

From the Archives--Painted Walls, Painted Faces

Research Notes--Unraveling Threads

Science & Archaeology--Edible Wild Plants as Digestive Aids

Museum Mosaic--People, Places, Projects

Index to Volume 42

What in the World--Unique Bronze Age Stamp Seal Found in Central Asia