ANTHROPOLOGY

Margaret Bender
Fathers and Sons of Indian Country: Received Cultural Histories of Masculinity and Fatherhood among Oklahoma Kiowas, Comanches, Apaches, and Chickasaws
Amount: $2,500
Source: American Philosophical Society, Phillips Fund

From 1998 through 2000, this ethnohistorical component of the American Indian Fatherhood Project collected 375 interviews with 204 consultants (80% men and 20% women) from the Kiowa, Comanche, Fort Sill Apache, and Chickasaw tribes in Oklahoma on the topics of fatherhood and masculinity. Focus groups from each community, including representatives of tribal government, worked with researchers to design two interview instruments. Consultants were asked about influences on their beliefs and practices related to fatherhood and masculinity, and many hinted at the role of their own various tribal cultural histories in their shaping.

Dr. Bender will return to Oklahoma to interview the 30 most relevant consultants about the kinship and marital traditions, gender-related institutions and concepts, and masculine role models that have shaped their lives. These more in-depth and open-ended interviews will allow a detailed exploration of the ethnohistorical differences and similarities among these communities and contribute to our understanding of Native American men, whose experience has to date received little scholarly attention.

Steven Folmar
Methodological Development for Research on Tourism and Social Structure
Awarded $8,050 for the period 5/2/05 to 11/1/05
Source: WFU Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Research Fund

This pilot study will field test nine data collection instruments needed to conduct theoretical work on the effect of tourism on host community social structure and to field train undergraduate students. Results will provide preliminary data for proposals to the National Science Foundation’s Cultural Anthropology program and Research Experience for Undergraduates program in August 2005. The study will be conducted in Godavari, a village in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal.

• Geology, Paleontology, and Biogeography of the North African Early Miocene
  Awarded $60,000 for the period 5/1/05 to 4/30/07
  Source: National Science Foundation; US/Egypt Joint Science and Technology Fund
  This international collaboration investigates early Miocene North African mammalian and primate evolution. Two locales in Egypt’s western desert are critical for our understanding of the earliest phases of higher primate evolution and for interpreting major mammalian biogeographic dispersal patterns in the Neogene of the Old World. Wadi Moghra in the northeastern end of the Qattara Depression is an important site for primate and mammalian evolution. A suite of fossil mammals (14 families) have been recovered there, including one of the world’s earliest known Old World monkeys (Miller, 1999). Moghra also contains the remains of an as yet unnamed ape (Hominoidea), so it documents the presence of two lineages shortly after their initial divergence. Much less is known about the Siwa oasis. Representatives of four terrestrial mammalian taxa have been recovered there (Hamilton, 1973), but the exact location of the original fossil-bearing beds has been lost.
  
  This project will: 1) study the sedimentology and stratigraphy of Wadi Moghra to reconstruct the ancient deposits and link specific fossil materials to them; 2) use the biostratigraphy of Moghra to test hypotheses about early Miocene North African mammalian and primate evolution; and 3) locate, renew collecting, and tie the stratigraphy of the lost mammals at Siwa to what is known about Moghra to gain a better understanding of regional mammalian evolution in the North African early Miocene. Moghra and Siwa are particularly important because, although located in Africa, they are physically closer to Eurasia, which means they occupy a pivotal position for documenting the nature and extent of contact between Miocene African and Eurasian faunas.
• Adaptive Diversity among the Earliest Known Old World Monkeys
  Awarded $17,675 for the period 1/15/04 to 1/14/05
  Source: Leakey Foundation

Buluk, Kenya, is an early-middle Miocene (17 million years ago) locality that contains the remains of one of the earliest known Old World monkeys. At present, almost everything known about their evolution comes from work at a single site, Maboko Island, Kenya, leaving substantial questions about the range of their initial adaptations and their divergence from apes. This project will explore the degree of adaptive diversity and paelobiology of these earliest cercopithecoid monkeys by collecting new fossils from the Buluk site and making detailed museum comparisons with other fossil and extant Old World monkeys. Results will elucidate the origin and early evolution of Old World monkeys, including their divergence from apes, and provide a framework within which to interpret future cercopithecoid discoveries. The Buluk project will test hypotheses about what constitutes intra- versus interspecific and generic variation, and the methods used have clear application to parallel problems in early human evolution. This research is relevant to the university's mission, Pro Humanitate, as the split of Old World monkeys from apes was the last major divergence before the one in which hominids diverged from apes, so that investigations provide a context within which to interpret the evolution of our own line.

• Adaptive Diversity among the First Old World Monkeys
  Awarded $9,993 for the period 1/03-1/04
  Source: WFU Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Fund
  Buluk, Kenya, is an early-middle Miocene locality that contains the remains of one of the earliest known Old World monkeys. At present, almost everything known about early Old World monkey evolution comes from work at a single locality, Maboko Island, Kenya, leaving substantial questions about the range of adaptations present among the first cercopithecoids and the divergence of Old World monkeys from apes. This project will collect new fossils from Buluk and make detailed museum comparisons with other fossil and extant Old World monkeys to explore the degree of adaptive diversity among the earliest cercopithecoids. Results will enhance our understanding of the origin and early evolution of the Old World monkeys, including the divergence of Old World monkeys and apes.

• Testing Lots near the Fayetteville Arsenal, Fayetteville, NC
  Awarded $30,259 for the period 3/12/07 to 3/11/08
  Source: Museum of the Cape Fear Historical Complex

• Survey and Testing, Vicinity of Charlotte Airport, Mecklenburg, Co., NC
  Awarded $16,952.06 for the period 3/2/07 to 8/1/07
  Source: Charlotte Douglas International Airport

• Field Program, Museum of the Cape Fear, Fayetteville, NC
  Awarded $14,174 for the period 3/15/07 to 1/15/08
  Source: Museum of the Cape Fear

• Testing, Tot Hill Farm Road Parking Lots, Randolph County, NC
  Awarded $2,508.60 for the period 2/14/07 to 8/1/07
  Source: Uwharrie National Forest

• Archaeology Investment, Fountainhead Spring, Fayetteville, NC–Supplement #1
  Awarded $1,359.30 for the period 12/13/06 to 2/28/07
  Source: Fayetteville Public Works Commission

The goal is to identify the remains of Fountainhead Spring, an early source of water for the Town of Fayetteville and the 19th-century municipal water system, and to provide recommendations regarding preservation of the site.

• Fountainhead Spring, Fayetteville, NC – Supplement #2
  Awarded $2,640.80 for the period 1/12/07 to 2/28/07
  Source: Fayetteville Public Works Commission

The study aims to identify the remains of the spring and to provide recommendations regarding preservation of the site.

Survey, Ray’s Creek Outfall, Franklin County, NC
Awarded $14,977.72 for the period 1/25/07 to 5/15/07
Source: Hobbs, Upchurch, & Associates

The goal of this survey is to identify and to assess archeological resources in the area of Ray’s Creek outfall in Franklin County, NC, and to provide recommendations regarding the preservation of any significant sites that might be affected by proposed development.

• Archeological Survey, Area Surrounding Endor Furnace, Lee County, NC
  Awarded $42,330 for the period 1/10/07 to 7/31/07
  Source: City of Sanford

  The Endor Iron Works is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It provided iron to the Confederacy from 1862-1865 and closed in 1896. The survey aims to identify any significant archeological resources in a 426-acre tract surrounding the site in Lee County, North Carolina, and to make recommendations regarding their preservation.

• Survey, Bear Creek Force Main, Davie County, NC
  Awarded $14,993.97 for the period 11/2/06 to 12/31/06
  Source: Grey Engineering, Inc.

  The survey aims to identify any significant archeological resources.

• Historical and Industrial Archaeology of the Idols Hydro-electric Facility
  Awarded $54,698.08 for the period 10/23/06 to 12/31/06
  Source: City of Winston-Salem

  The Wake Forest University Archaeology Laboratories will document the history and industrial archeology of the Idols hydro-electrical facility on the Yadkin River in Forsyth County, North Carolina.
• Survey, Handy District, Davidson and Montgomery Counties, NC
  Awarded $1,194.21 for the period 8/17/06 to 8/16/07
  Source: Hobbs, Upchurch & Associates

  The survey aims to identify and to assess any archeological resources along a proposed outfall system in the Badin Lake area of Davidson and Montgomery Counties and to provide recommendations regarding the preservation of significant sites.

• Ground-Penetrating Radar of Possible Graves, Bentonville Battlefield
  Awarded $5,000 for the period 9/29/06 to 11/17/06
  Source: Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site

  A ground-penetrating radar study will be conducted in the Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site in Johnston County, NC, to determine the possible location of gravesites.

• Phase I Survey, German Tract, Caldwell Co., NC
  Awarded $18,868.96 for the period 9/15/06 to 12/31/06
  Source: HDR Engineering

The investigation aims to determine if significant archaeological sites are present in an area near Donahue Creek in Caldwell County, NC.

• Cemetery Documentation, German Hill Tract, Caldwell Co., NC
  Awarded $49,861.74 for the period 9/15/06 – 12/31/06
  Source: HDR Engineering

The investigation seeks to document a historic-era cemetery located near Donahue Creek in Caldwell County, NC, in compliance with federal and state environmental regulations.

• Excavation and Survey, William Smith House, Cumberland Co., NC
  Awarded $15,711.23 for the period 8/28/06 to 12/31/06
  Source: Averasboro Battlefield Commission

Archaeological investigations are part of an effort to restore the historic William Smith House in Cumberland County, NC, and make it a museum. Investigators will excavate the rear yard of to locate the former detached kitchen and survey an area where a battlefield sign is to be constructed.

• Survey, Handy District, Davidson and Montgomery Counties, NC
  Awarded $7,902.18 for the period 8/17/06 to 8/16/07
  Source: Hobbs, Upchurch, & Associates
  
  
  The survey aims to identify and to assess any archeological resources along a proposed outfall system in the Badin Lake area of Davidson and Montgomery Counties and to provide recommendations regarding the preservation of significant sites.

• Mapping, First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Guilford County, NC
  Awarded $13,914.22 for the period 7/15/06 to 8/21/06
  Source: First Presbyterian Church

  Wake Forest University Archaeology Laboratories will archaeologically map the historic First Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Greensboro.

• Survey of Shoreline of Development Tract, Montgomery Co., NC
  Awarded $5,866.62 for the period 7/12/06 to 7/11/07
  Source: Trigon Engineering

In compliance with the Yadkin shoreline management plan as called for by Alcoa and the Federal Energy Management Administration, Wake Forest University Archaeology Laboratories will conduct a Phase I survey of a shoreline tract where development is proposed. Any archaeological resources will be assessed and recommendations provided regarding the preservation of sites that might be affected by land disturbances.

• Field School for Teachers and Arsenal Investigation, Fayetteville, NC
  Awarded $14,174 for the period 7/10/06 to 7/9/07
  Source: Museum of Cape Fear
  Wake Forest University Archaeology Laboratories will conduct an archaeological field school for public school teachers, investigating the Fayetteville Arsenal site.

• Ground-Penetrating Radar of Yards, William Smith House,
  Averasboro Battlefield
  Awarded $6,229.61 for the period 7/30/06 to 8/15/06
  Source: Averasboro Battlefield Commission

  Wake Forest University Archaeology Laboratories will conduct a ground-penetrating radar study of the yards around the William Smith house on the Averasboro Battlefield in Harnett County, NC, as part of an archaeological and historical assessment of the historic house.

• Fountainhead Spring, Fayetteville, Cumberland Co., NC
  Awarded $ 9,980.40 for the period 4/24/06 to 12/12/06
  Source: Fayetteville Public Works Commission

  Wake Forest Archaeological Laboratories will investigate Fountainhead Spring, an early source of water for the Town of Fayetteville and its nineteenth-century municipal water system, to identify any remains and to provide recommendations regarding preservation of the site.

• Archaeology at the First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Guilford County, NC
  Awarded $1,688 for the period 6/6/06 to 8/15/06
  Source: First Presbyterian Church

Archaeological probing and excavation seek to determine where paths should be placed in the historic Greensboro cemetery .

• Archaeological Investigations at Fort Dobbs State Historic Site
  Awarded $15,352 for the period 4/11/06 to 6/30/06
  Source: State of North Carolina
• Archaeological Investigation of Fort Dobbs State Historic Site
  Awarded $12,357 for the period 4/11/06 to 6/30/06
  Source: Fort Dobbs Alliance, Inc.
  
  Fort Dobbs in Iredell County, NC, was constructed during the French and Indian War to protect European settlers from Indian attacks. The archaeological study aims to collect information relating to the fort’s configuration to test ideas about how it was constructed and used, prior to its reconstruction.

• Boggs Property on High Rock Lake, Davidson County, NC
  Awarded $3,480.28 for the period 3/6/06 to 5/20/06
  Source: Boggs Realty

The survey aims to identify and to assess archeological resources on land along the shoreline of High Rock Lake, where development is proposed, and to provide recommendations regarding the preservation of sites that might be disturbed.

• Archaeological Survey of the Spooner Creek Development Area, Carteret County, NC
  Awarded $7,490 for the period 12/1/05 to 1/23/06
  Source: Waterfront Lifestyle Properties

As part of their Public Archaeology Program, Wake Forest University Archaeology Laboratories will conduct a Phase I survey of property under development to identify and to assess any archeological resources in the area and to provide recommendations regarding the preservation of sites that might be affected by land disturbance.

• Archaeological Investigation of Salisbury Confederate Prison
  Awarded $14,000 for the period 9/1/05 to 12/20/06
  Source: Salisbury Confederate Prison Association

A preliminary investigation of the site in Salisbury, North Carolina, seeks to locate part of a Confederate prison wall and associated archeological features. It includes a geophysical survey and archeological test excavations.

• McCray Farms Cemetery Boundary Confirmation, Burlington, NC
  Awarded $697.94 for the period 6/5/05 to 9/1/05
  Source: Russell-Koury Properties, LLC

Wake Forest University archeologists will confirm the boundaries of an abandoned cemetery on the McCray Farms Development in the Alamance County, NC.

• Historic Overview of Pekin Area, Uwharrie National Forest, Montgomery County, NC
  Awarded $2,400 for the period 6/1/05 to 7/29/05
  Source: United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service

  The Archaeology Laboratories will conduct historical research and prepare a report that will provide an overview of the area’s history that can be used by archeologists conducting field studies.

• Archaeological Assessment of Land near the William Smith Historic House, Averasboro Battlefield, Cumberland County
  Awarded $1,632 for the period 4/6/05 to 12/29/05
  Source: Averasboro Battlefield Commission

• Endor Iron Furnace Archaeological Investigation
  Awarded $8,350 for the period 2/1/05 to 8/31/05
  Source: City of Sanford

The Endor Iron Furnace is one of Lee County’s most significant historic structures and one of the three most important iron furnaces in North Carolina. It was built in the early 1860s to take advantage of local iron ore deposits and operated until the early 1870s. It sparked the creation of the Western Railroad, which hauled iron and coal from Endor and the nearby Egypt mine to Fayetteville for river shipment to Wilmington, and the city of Sanford, which developed in the 1870s to serve the railroad. For decades, Endor Street was the main thoroughfare in Sanford.

Today, the National Register-listed furnace is severely degraded and in need of repair. The Triangle Land Conservancy (TLC) acquired it and the surrounding tract with state and private funds in 2001 then transferred the property to the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, which gave management responsibility back to TLC. TLC turned it over to the Railroad House Historical Association, Inc. (RRHA), Lee County’s historic preservation organization. RRHA is currently raising money to restore the furnace.

Before restoration can begin, however, a Phase I archeological survey of the area must ensure that important remains are protected and enhanced during the process. State Historic Preservation Funds will be used to identify and to evaluate existing structures and resources adjacent to the furnace. The eventual goal is restoration of the furnace and creation of a public park.

Archeological investigation at the Endor Furnace will be invaluable in elucidating the history of extractive industries, like coal, iron, brownstone quarrying, and clay for brickmaking, so closely tied to Sanford’s origin, as well as the contributions of slave labor to furnace operations.

• Survey and Backhoe Testing, Manorcas Creek, Phase I Stream Restoration Study Area, Historic Bethabara Park
  Awarded: $24,383.64 for the period 2/7/05 to 5/20/06
  Source: Trustees of Historic Bethabara Park

The purpose of the study is to identify and to assess any significant archaeological resources within or near the stream channel. Historic Bethabara Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated by the National Park Service as a National Historic Landmark.

• Survey of a 325-Acre Tract on River Road, Cumberland County, NC
  Awarded $19,914.02 for the period 11/7/05 to 12/6/05
  Source: Prestige Homes

As part of their Public Archaeology Program, Wake Forest University Archaeology Laboratories will conduct a Phase I survey to identify and to assess archaeological resources in the area and to offer recommendations regarding the preservation of sites that might be affected by land disturbances.

• Archaeological Survey, Naked Run and Stewarts Creek Outfall Corridors, Mt. Airy, Surry County, NC
  Awarded $4,952 for the period 8/4/05 to 8/4/06
  Source: Adams-Heath Engineering, Inc.

  This survey of sewer corridors aims to identify and to assess the significance of archaeological resources that might be disturbed by construction. It is being conducted to comply with state and federal laws and regulations relating to the protection of significant historic resources.

• Archaeological and Historical Documentation of Five Historic Structures, Hope Mills Lake, Cumberland County, NC
  Awarded $80,104 for the period 8/19/04 to 12/29/05
  Source: The Rose Group

  This project will document five historic structures of the nineteenth and early twentieth century that were exposed when the Hope Mills Lake dam was breached. A concrete dam and spillway structure that dates from the 1920s is located within the Hope Mills Historic District. A log building and timber dam date to the early nineteenth century. The remaining structures include the remains of a railroad trestle (1880s) and a bridge from a plank road constructed in the 1850s. The investigation, which will include photo-documentation and measured drawings, is in compliance with state and federal laws and regulations relating to the preservation of significant historical resources.

• Archeological Documentation of the Morningstar Church
  Cemetery, Matthews, NC (Mecklenburg County)
  Awarded $8,498 for the period 10/1/04 to 9/30/05
  Source: Morningstar Church

  The archeological documentation of the Morning Star Lutheran Church in Matthews, NC, will involve a geophysical survey, archeological probing, and mapping.

• Archeological Monitoring and Documentation, Davenport Spring Site, Avery County, NC
  Awarded $4412.76 for the period 10/1/04 to 12/1/05
  Source: Unimin Corporation
• Archeological Field School for Teachers, Cape Fear Museum
  Awarded $14,174 for the period 7/11/05 to 7/10/06
  Source: Cape Fear Museum

A field school, directed by Wake Forest University Archaeology Laboratories, will introduce schoolteachers in southeastern North Carolina to the principles and ethics of archaeological research and provide information that they can use in their classroom. The project is being conducted in conjunction with the Cape Fear Museum, a regional part of the North Carolina Museum of History.

• Archeological Investigation of the Spring Place Mission Site in North Georgia
  Awarded $10,000 for the period 7/1/2004 to 12/1/2005
  Source: Georgia Department of Natural Resources

The survey will involve a Phase II documentation and evaluation of portions of the site of a Moravian mission in northern Georgia.

• Archaeology of Happy Hill, An African-American Community in Winston-Salem, NC
  Awarded $3,561.62 for the period 4/1/04 to 12/29/04
  Source: Housing Authority of Winston-Salem

  The Wake Forest Archaeology Laboratories will investigate the possible site of a historic schoolhouse in Happy Hill, a Winston-Salem community, to determine if further investigation is warranted.

• Challenge Cost Share Agreement
  Awarded $11,875 for the period 12/22/03 to 9/30/07
  Source: United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

WFU Archeology Laboratories entered into a Challenge Cost-Share Agreement with the Caribbean National Forest (US Forest Service) and the Puerto Rican Army National Guard to investigate sites on a military training base on the southern coastal plain of Puerto Rico. Led by the Director of Public Archeology, Wake Forest students will join the staff of the Caribbean National Forest in investigating and assessing the significance of pre-Columbian and Spanish colonial sites. Information gathered will be used to prepare a comprehensive Cultural Resources Management Plan for the military base. Students will learn how to apply tscientific archeology methods to the protection and management of cultural resources on federal lands, while gaining field experience and education in the archeology and culture of the Caribbean.

Jeanne Simonelli

• Childhood Immunizations: Understanding Local and Global Practice and Perceptions
  Awarded $8,400 for the period 5/06 to 5/07
  Source: WFU Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research Fund
  

  This pilot research examines the social and public health implications of family and community choices about childhood immunizations in Chiapas, Mexico. Zapatista families systematically reject aid from the Mexican government, including immunization, yet anecdotal evidence suggests that they experience very little childhood disease. Acquiring baseline statistics on the incidence of childhood diseases among this group is critical to ethical provision of immunization and has implications for immunization policy.

• Forchheimer Visiting Professorship at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, spring 2005, to investigate peace and conflict resolution

• Living Maya Culture and History
  Awarded $1,200 for the period 9/6/04 to 10/31/04
  Source: North Carolina Humanities Council (NCHC)

Funds helped to support a two-week visit from FOMMA (Fortaleza de la Mujer Maya), a Mayan women’s cooperative that uses original theatrical productions to raise public awareness about global and local concerns. At Wake Forest and in venues throughout North Carolina, including public schools, audiences viewed plays and attended workshops that provided them a historical, religious, literary, and cultural framework for understanding indigenous peoples in the Americas, especially in North Carolina.

Paul Thacker
Local Raw Material Variability and Hunter-Gatherer Lithic Economy in the Portuguese Magdalenian
Awarded $70,059 for the period 1/1/04 to 8/31/05
Source: National Science Foundation (NSF)

This 3-year project investigates how the form, diversity, size, and abundance of chert, quartz, and quartzite affected Magdalenian (16,000 - 9,500 BCE) hunter-gatherer stone use in central Portugal. Previous fieldwork has mapped three valley systems with very different lithic resources. High-quality, large chert cobbles were exploited throughout the Paleolithic period in the Rio Maior region in contrast to the Sor drainage, where no chert sources were found in the survey area. Quartz and quartzite cobbles are found in stream gravels and deflated pavements throughout all three valleys, but significantly larger cobbles characterize the Sor region.

Four Upper Paleolithic open-air campsites will be excavated to obtain large lithic assemblages with associated radiometric dates: two in the Alcobertas valley (Sertão and Carapua) and two in the Sor valley (Vale do Bispo Cimeiro and Corças). Intrasite, 3-D analysis of piece-plotted levels will determine the impact of postdepositional processes and the degree to which the site assemblages are comparable. This sampling strategy will provide at least one Early and one Late Magdalenian assemblage in each region, facilitating local and regional comparison.

While faunal remains, pollen, and other organic material are unlikely to have been preserved at these open-air sites, residue and use/wear studies will inform interpretation. New data will help to explain raw material constraints in Portuguese Magdalenian lithic technology or acquisition and reduction behaviors that were social rather than functional. Results will have broad significance for both middle-range theory in lithic studies and understanding how hunter-gatherer technological organization and lithic exploitation relate to subsistence and settlement strategies.

Stephen Whittington, Museum of Anthropology

• Samurai and Kimonos: Japanese Culture
  Awarded $2,350 for the period 6/1/10 to 7/31/10
  Source: Center for Global Partnership/Japan Foundation

The Museum of Anthropology offers 3 one-week sessions of a summer camp for 15 children ranging in age from 6 to 12. On Monday, children will be introduced to Japanese culture. During the week, they will learn some basic words and phrases. They will paint their own kimonos and learn how to wear them. We will discuss the history and role of the samurai and demonstrate kendo, Japanese fencing. The children will hear traditional Japanese music and learn a folk dance. They will have the opportunity to make a kite, a fish print, and several origami objects. On the last day, they will make sushi and prepare a bento box to take home. Dressed in their kimonos, they will greet their families in Japanese and perform the traditional dance.

• Painted Hide Conservation
  Awarded $1,645 for the period 6/1/09 to 10/30/09
  Source: North Carolina Preservation Consortium

The project will conserve an important and endangered Comanche painted hide robe in the Museum of Anthropology collection. Once the object has been treated by a professional conservator, it will be used in exhibits and programs to teach the public about southern Great Plains culture during the midnineteenth century and featured in the online artifact database to highlight the importance of preserving historic objects for future generations.

• Korea and America: Intersections of Culture Film Series
  Awarded $1,200 for the period 12/1/08 to 11/30/10
  Source: North Carolina Humanities Council

The Museum of Anthropology will partner with the Korean School of Greensboro, Reynolda House Museum of American Art, and the Wake Forest University Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures to offer an exhibit of Korean artifacts and special events. "Korean Funerary Figures: Companions for the Journey to the Other World" will be open to the public from January 20 through May 16, 2009. Activities will include an opening reception, curriculum-based programs for K-12 students, a series of four films relevant to the Korean experience, two scholarly lectures on funerary figures, four Cultures up Close programs, and a Korean Family Day, featuring traditional crafts, performances, and storytelling.

• Development of the Korean-American Audience for the Museum of Anthropology
  Awarded $6,000 for the period 7/1/08 to 5/31/09
  Source: North Carolina Arts Council

The Museum of Anthropology will host the exhibit, “Korean Funerary Figures: Comparisons for the Journey to the Other World,” in spring 2009. Public programming at the museum and the Reynolda House will include a film series, scholarly lectures, Family Sundays, and Family Day to encourage various ethic groups to mingle and to appreciate each other’s cultures.

• Web Access for the Museum of Anthropology’s Archives
  Awarded $50,561.17 for the period 8/1/08 to 7/31/10
  Source: Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)

The Museum of Anthropology will prepare its archives for public access on the web. Employees will digitize documents and photographs and assist the registrar in creating a catalog record for each. The archival records will elucidate the cultural and environmental context of the collections and help with interpretation of unfamiliar archeological and ethnographic objects. Project activities will include a marketing campaign and workshops to make primary and secondary school teachers and students, university faculty and students, independent researchers, and the general public more aware of resources and better oriented for their use.

• Rosebud Sioux Exhibit and Humanities Programs
  Awarded $8,789 for the period 6/1/07 to 9/30/07
  Source: North Carolina Humanities Council

The Museum of Anthropology and the Guilford Native American Art Gallery presented an exhibit of Lakota Sioux photographs and artifacts, “Rosebud Sioux – A Lakota People in Transition,” from 17 June through 18 August 2007. Ancillary activities included scholarly lectures, a Native American Festival, Native American Family Day, films focused on Native American cultural survival and revitalization, and Literacy through Photography workshops for underserved children. The free exhibit and programs provided people interested in Native American culture, photography, oral history, and genealogy with information about how Native American groups maintain cultural continuity with the past, while moving into the twenty-first century. 

• Web Access to the Museum of Anthropology’s Collection Catalogue
  Awarded $149,000 for the period 8/1/06 to 7/31/08
  Source: Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)

The Wake Forest University Museum of Anthropology has secured support for a registrar for 2 years, 5 student assistants for 18 months, and the museum’s educator to complete a web-based, public-access version of its catalogue for use by universities, scholars, school children, and the general public. The registrar will perform data cleanup and enter research data for the museum’s ethnographic collections. Students will assist with inventory, basic condition assessment, and digital photography of all objects not photographed before 2002. The project will provide physical and intellectual control of the collections, laying the groundwork for formulation of an intellectual framework statement, collections plan, and disaster plan. The website will greatly expand the museum’s educational and collections care missions, enabling it to become a global cultures center for Wake Forest University and the regional community. Through the web-based catalogue, the museum will expand outreach to underserved secondary schools through 4 teacher workshops on web catalogue navigation for student research and creating 2 lesson plans for web learning.

• Reanalysis of Ceramics and Obsidian from Teozacoalco, Mexico
  Awarded $2,120 for the period 5/06 to 5/07
  Source: WFU Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research Fund
  

Funds support a research trip to Oaxaca to consult with experts on ancient Mixtec ceramics and to reanalyze selected obsidian samples.

• Development of a Long-Range Conservation Plan for Museum of Anthropology Collections
  Awarded $5,000 for the period 1/1/06 to 6/30/06
  Source: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

The Museum of Anthropology will hire a conservator to work with staff in producing a long-range plan for its 27,433 archeological and ethnographic objects. The conservator will visit to assess policies, practices, and conditions that affect the care and preservation of the collections and prepare a report that summarizes findings and prioritizes recommendations for future actions. The document will be a key element in developing a plan to focus collecting and to control future growth and deaccessioning. It will also guide a disaster plan and the design of a storage facility to hold the collections, which are currently in crowded, unstable conditions.

• Anthropology/Hispanic Arts Initiative Arts Classes
  Awarded $3,000 for the period 7/15/05 to 6/30/06
  Source: Arts Council of Winston-Salem

The Museum of Anthropology (MOA) and the Hispanic Arts Initiative (HAI) are collaborating to present Hispanic arts classes on Saturdays and weeknights. Classes in puppetry, dance, piano, and chorus will be offered in Spanish to children from 6-18 years of age at Centenary United Methodist Church. The first three classes expand existing programs to include more low-income children; chorus is a new offering. Although the target audience is Hispanic, other children who wish to take advantage of the language and cultural immersion as well as the artistic opportunities are welcome. Teachers will provide some translation as necessary. This project represents the first collaboration between MOA and HAI and an expansion of the outreach activities of each to an underserved community.

• Travel Grant
  Awarded $7,485.97 for the period 5/16/05 to 6/30/06
  Source: Museum Loan Network

Two staff members from the Museum of Anthropology and two community advisors will visit the Quick Center for the Arts at St. Bonaventure University; the Field Museum; and the University of Pennsylvania Museum to negotiate long-term loans of ancient Maya artifacts. The resulting exhibit will strengthen relationships among the Museum of Anthropology, local schools, and the area’s Hispanic community by supporting the North Carolina social studies curriculum and through English and Spanish text and labels.

• Conservation of Ancient Maya Ceramics to Enable Scholarly Access and Publication
  Awarded $9,030 for the period 5/1/05 to 10/31/05
  Source: WFU Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Research Fund

St. Bonaventure University has an undocumented collection of 72 ancient Maya objects. Its F. Donald Kenney Museum, in collaboration with the Wake Forest University Museum of Anthropology, plans to document, publish, and exhibit the collection to provide scholarly access. A major project expense will be conserving 36 ceramic vessels so that images and hieroglyphs on the surfaces can be studied and published in an exhibition catalog and on scholarly websites. Conservator Ronald Harvey, who has successful experience with Maya ceramics, will travel to St. Bonaventure to treat the objects in May 2005.

• Asian Games: The Art of Contest
  Awarded $1,200 for the period 4/5/05 to 9/30/05
  Source: North Carolina Humanities Council

The Museum of Anthropology will host an exhibition of games and sports equipment originating in Asia from 31 May through 16 August 2005. Activities include a Family Day, a lecture on Japanese baseball by a renowned scholar from Yale, and tours for chess, sports, church, and YMCA summer camps. The free exhibit and programs will provide people familiar with games and sports, such as chess, Parcheesi, and polo, with important but little-known information about their Asian origins and history, and especially appeal to members of the underserved Asian community.

• Collections Database Improvement for the Museum of Anthropology
  Awarded $54,869 for the period 10/1/04 to 1/31/06
  Source: Institute of Museum and Library Science (IMLS), Museums for America

Wake Forest’s Museum of Anthropology will purchase a data management program designed specifically for museums and hire a temporary registrar to facilitate data migration and catalog cleanup. The present program, ACCESS, is inefficient and awkward to use, and collections and collections research have outgrown it. Improved data management is necessary to complete entry for approximately 21,000 archeological artifacts and to correct its ethnographic collections catalog of some 5,000 objects. The new program, Re:discovery, will enable (1) more efficient access to collections data and tracking of object locations; (2) collections growth and expansion, including research notes; and, ultimately, (3) digital photographs of objects to accompany catalog information. Hiring a professional registrar will facilitate data migration, record entry on archeological materials from catalog cards, and catalog clean-up. These improvements will strengthen the museum’s application for American Association of Museums accreditation.

• Lectures on West Mexico
  Awarded $1,200 for the period 2/15/04 to 6/30/04
  Source: North Carolina Humanities Council

The Museum of Anthropology will present three, free public lectures in conjunction with "Images for Eternity: West Mexican Tomb Figures," an exhibit of ceramic figures made by artisans in Jalisco, Nayarit, and Colima two millennia ago. The project will help the museum to continue its program of outreach to, and education about, the Triad's Hispanic community.

• Archeological Survey, Oaxaca, Mexico
  Awarded $8,223 for the period 1/1/03 to 1/1/04
  Source: WFU Social and Behavioral Science Research Fund

Using El Mapa de Teozacoalco, an early colonial map and genealogy, as a guide, this archeological survey will continue fieldwork in a 30 by 70 km mountainous area around San Pedro Teozacoalco, Oaxaca, Mexico, inhabited by the Mixtec people. The project will address interrelated issues: association of Mixtec and Spanish place-names on El Mapa with archeological sites, natural features, and extant settlements; and testing of postulated continuities and discontinuities between postclassical and colonial settlements. The project will collect data demonstration what changes in settlement patterns accompanied two major cultural transformations in ancient Mexico.

• Ancient Mexican Ceramics Exhibit
  Awarded $1,200 for the period 10/7/02 to 2/28/03
  Source: North Carolina Humanities Council

The Museum of Anthropology will exhibit decorated ceramic vases made by Maya artisans of Mexico and Central America more than 1,000 years ago. At least 14 faculty members in seven Wake Forest departments and programs will use the exhibit, "Worldviews: Maya Ceramics from the Palmer Collection," to support their teaching. The exhibit will also be accessible to the public through special events, including lectures by visiting scholars, programs, including a children's program and gallery activities, tours, videos, and bilingual text and labels.

• General Operating Support
  Awarded $31,119 for the period 10/1/001 to 9/30/03
  Source: Institute of Museum and Library Services

Funds will contribute significantly toward the realization of the Museum of Anthropology's mission statement and long-range plan. They will partially support an Educator, to oversee public programs, and a part-time Collections Manager, who will insure that professional standards of object care are maintained.