Purchase Books & Postcards

To inquire about or purchase any of the items below, call 978-749-4490 or e-mail rspeabody@andover.edu.

Mikwitemanej Mikmanaqi'k: Let Us Remember the Old Mi'kmaq

Price: $25.00 (hardcover), $19.95 (paperback)

The Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and The Confederacy of Mainland Mi'kmaq in Truro, Nova Scotia, co-produced this exhibition of photographs taken in Mi'kmaw communities in 1930-31 by anthropologist Frederick Johnson. The images, taken in seven communities in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, portray many aspects of community life, from people fishing and making baskets to the annual celebration of St. Anne's Day.

Over two years, exhibition curators met with more that 50 Mi'kmaw elders throughout Nova Scotia to discuss these images. They drew on the memories of these and other present-day Mi'kmaw people, as well as historical information, to provide context for the images within 20th century Mi'kmaw experience. The exhibition examines Mi'kmaw life in 1930-31, as well as changes brought about by Canadian Indian policy instituted after 1930.

International support for the exhibition's planning and production, and for the catalog scheduled to be published this fall, has come from the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, the Maine Humanities Council, the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Nova Scotia Arts Council and Sable Offshore Energy Inc. The exhibition will travel to venues throughout the Northeast over the next two years. We are grateful to all for helping to make this complex project possible.

Origins and Ancestors: Investigating New England's Paleo Indians

Price: $8.00 (U.S. postage paid)

One of the museum's recent major exhibitions, Origins and Ancestors: Investigating New England's Paleo Indians,is now available as a catalog. The 32-page booklet considers the region's landscape and inhabitants at the end of the last Ice Age, 13,000 to 11,000 years ago. Recent research and discoveries about Paleo Indians and their rapidly changing environment--by archaeologists, geologists, geographers and palynologists -- provide new information. The catalog includes original maps and artwork, a time-line and a recreated pollen core.

The catalog recently received a first place award for educational materials in the New England Museum Association's publications competition.

Postcards Celebrating Our Exhibits

Price: 50¢ each or 12 for $5.00