Tag: Tozzer Library

  • Nation & World

    Snatching a culture back from state-sanctioned violence

    Binalakshmi Nepram, a Harvard Library Fellow through Harvard’s Scholars at Risk Program, has spent the past 15 years fighting the oppression of the nearly 50 million Indigenous people in Manipur, India.

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    Binalakshmi Nepram delivered the George Parker Winship Lecture at Houghton Library.
  • Nation & World

    Curating the future

    An exhibit of indigenous-language materials is now housed in Tozzer Library. The exhibit will run until June 2020.

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    Sadada Jackson with exhibit.
  • Nation & World

    Guarding the dazzle of the past

    The Gazette visited the Weissman Preservation Center to see how conservators preserve Harvard’s rare and unique collections.

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  • Nation & World

    Portraits of vanished Indian life

    A pair of 19th-century photo albums, recataloged after more than 130 years at Harvard, reveals a vanishing world of North American Indians.

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  • Nation & World

    The epic of Hadzi

    The stone sculpture “Gilgamesh” by the late Professor Dimitri Hadzi, who died in 2006, was donated to Harvard’s Mineralogical and Geological Museum by his wife, Cynthia.

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  • Nation & World

    A lifelong love of African art

    The Peabody Museum’s Monni Adams, 90, continues to research and publish in her field, now focusing on African masks.

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  • Nation & World

    Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending June 11. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

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