Story Archive

Story Archive

  • A Landmark “Fancy Basket” Enters the Collections

    A Landmark “Fancy Basket” Enters the Collections

    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...
  • Exhibition | Legacy: Selections from the Gillett G. Griffin Collection

    Exhibition | Legacy: Selections from the Gillett G. Griffin Collection

    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...
  • Naming and Claiming: The Language of Indigenous Art

    Naming and Claiming: The Language of Indigenous Art

    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...
  • What is in a name?

    What is in a name?

    This year, the Museum’s Andrew W. Mellon Research Specialist for Understudied Collections in Native American art, Dr. India Young, has been considering histories of collecting and currents in digital repatriation.
  • Considering Sheldon Jackson: A Summer Intern Project
    Apache boys taken to Hampton Institute by Rev. Sheldon Jackson, 1881.

    Considering Sheldon Jackson: A Summer Intern Project

    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...
  • Highlights from the Gillett G. Griffin Bequest
    Gillett G. Griffin in the galleries of the Art Museum

    Highlights from the Gillett G. Griffin Bequest

    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 story explores highlights of his bequest from several collecting areas.
  • Highlights from the Gillett G. Griffin Bequest
    Mochica: Vessel in the form of a notable wearing a turban, A.D. 500–800. (2016-1073).

    Highlights from the Gillett G. Griffin Bequest

    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...