Video Category: Educational

Making Piki Bread
This video, made by Victoria Spencer and Marlene Sekaquaptewa in 1995, documents the process of maki...
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Middle Mekong Archaeological Project
Joyce White, co-Director of the Middle Mekong Archaeological Project (MMAP), talks about the origins...
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What in the World Game Show at the Penn Museum
Penn Museum hosts a recreation of the 1950s What in the World game show to a very excited (and vocal...
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What in the World - Part Five by Pablo Helguera
This video is the fifth installment of What in the World, a series of six videos produced by Pablo H...
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What in the World - Part Four by Pablo Helguera
This video is the fourth installment of What in the World, a series of six videos produced by Pablo ...
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What in the World - Part Three by Pablo Helguera
This video is the third installment of What in the World, a series of six videos produced by Pablo H...
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What in the World - Part One by Pablo Helguera
This video is the first installment of What in the World, a series of six videos produced by Pablo H...
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Dressing Queen Puabi
Much of what we know of the people and cultures of early Mesopotamia comes from the material uncover...
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Paul Cobb Talks About the New Map in the Islamic Gallery
Paul Cobb, Associate Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern History in Near Eastern Languages & Civ...
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Footage from King Midas' Tomb at Gordion, Turkey 1951 and 1957
This footage was shot during two excavation seasons at Gordion, Turkey in 1951 and 1957. The Midas M...
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Cultural Heritage Project in Iraq - Part One
In April 2009, Dr. Brian Rose, Deputy Director of the Penn Museum was invited by the State Departmen...
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Cultural Heritage Project in Iraq - Part Two
In April 2009, Dr. Brian Rose, Deputy Director of the Penn Museum was invited by the State Departmen...
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What In The World 6 (ca. 1952)
British version of "What in the World" BBC's "Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral" HOST: Dr. Froelic...
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"What In The World" 5 (ca. 1952)
All rights are reserved by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Pe...
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What In The World 4 (ca. 1952)
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"What In The World" 3 (ca. 1952)
PRODUCER: WCAU TV (CBS, Philadelphia) HOST: Dr. Froelich Rainey PANELISTS: -Dr. Carleton Coon...
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"What In The World" 2 (ca. 1952)
All rights are reserved by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Pe...
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"What In The World" 1 (ca. 1952)
All rights are reserved by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Pe...
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Ancient Egyptian Mummies Get Cat Scanned
Three ancient Egyptian mummies including a mummy puppy come out of their cases at the Penn Museum to...
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Conserving the Spider Monkey Pot
Conservators Nina Owczarek and Julia Lawson reveal all their conservation secrets and discuss the ch...
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Maya Gourd Rattles
Ethnomusicologist John Burkhalter demonstrates how the Maya use gourd rattles for percussion during ...
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Maya Music
Ethnomusicologist John Burkhalter speaks about how Maya music takes its cues from nature....
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The Maya Conch
Ethnomusicologist John Burkhalter demonstrates how the Maya would manipulate the pitch of the conch ...
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The Maya Jaguar Drum
Ethnomusicologist John Burkhalter demonstrates how the Maya mimicked the sound of a growling jaguar ...
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Conserving the Pots for Painted Metaphors
Conservator Lynn Grant talks about conserving the Maya pots for the exhibition Painted Metaphors: Po...
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The Chama Conservation Project
Conservators at the Penn Museum apply the latest technology to conserve fragmented Maya pots. Analys...
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The Prophecy
The Prophecy poetically recounts the Prophecy of the Fourth Crow, which is understood to parallel th...
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Teri Rofkar, Tlingit Basket Weaver
Teri Rofkar, Tlingit basket weaver, tours Penn Museum's American Collection Storage...
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Royal Tombs of Ur
The late 1920s excavation of royal tombs at Ur, in southern Iraq, provided one of the most renowned ...
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River of Gold
River of Gold: Precolumbian Treasures from Sitio Conte features artifacts from Penn Museum's 1940 ex...
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