The Museum recently acquired an exceptional basket produced by perhaps the most famous Mono Lake Paiute artist, Wutoni (Tina Charlie). This basket is thought to be the artist’s first “fancy basket”—a larger basket with more complex designs than those typically...

This summer the Art Museum celebrates the life and career of one of its most renowned curators in Legacy: Selections from the Gillett G. Griffin Collection . The exhibition will feature a group of artworks and artifacts from among the...

What is in a name? I have spent the last few months pondering just this question as the Museum’s Andrew W. Mellon Research Specialist for Understudied Collections in Native American Art. The second of three specialists who will work with...

Julia Grummitt, 2018 Art Museum summer intern in the Art of the Ancient Americas department, explored the photographs and objects collected by Reverend Dr. Sheldon Jackson in the late nineteenth century, which are now stored both in Princeton University Library’s...

Gillett G. Griffin, curator of Pre-Columbian and Native American art, emeritus, bequeathed more than 3,500 works of art to the Princeton University Art Museum in 2016. This series will explore the highlights of his bequest, beginning with the art of...

New research on the Museum’s holdings of Native American material has expanded over the last two years.

The Princeton University Art Museum has in its care a small but exceptional collection of Northwest Coast Native art. Thanks to a few prominent individuals and a well-funded survey expedition, the collection grew from nothing to nearly eight hundred objects...

Ancient Andean art can be challenging to teach to undergraduates. In order to explore the art these civilizations produced, students first have to understand the complex cultural contexts.