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Makonde Mask 2 Makonde Mask 2 Artist: Unknown Makonde artist Name: lipiko helmet mask Origin: Makonde people of Northeast Mozambique and Southern Tanzania Made of: Wood (ntene) and pigment Dimensions: H: 9.5” 24.1 cm); W: 9” (22.9 cm); D. 11.5” (29.2 cm) From: Gift of Oliver and Pamela Cobb, 2008 Accession no. 2008-02-005 On display in the PLU’s Mortvedt Library (2nd floor) Northeast Mozambique and Southern Tanzania Description: This large, light brown wooden mask, which has been blackened in
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Online is a work in progress and we will continue to work on it until we have all the artifacts accessible. Our progress has been slowed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Each record needs to updated for best practices and accuracy. We hope you enjoy what we have made accessible so far! The SCC has accepted artifact donations since 1983. If you are interested in donating artifacts to the collection, please read the summaries below and contact the SCC Director for more information about our collection policy
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2015 Holocaust ConferenceThe theme of the 8th Annual Powell-Heller Conference on Holocaust Education, March 4-6, 2015, was titled “Children’s Voices, The Holocaust and Beyond.” Children of the past, present and future were the focus of the conference. Beth Kraig, faculty planning co-coordinator explained, “The conference should remind and inform audiences of the past destruction and abuse of children in the Holocaust, while provoking us all to realize that children are still heavily targeted
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Bamana Mask Bamana Mask Artist: Unknown Bamana Artist Name: Kiwarani mask from the Ntomo society Origin: Bamana people of Mali Made of: Wood, mirrors, cowrie shells, seeds, animal horns Dimensions: 31 x 8 x 20.5 in. (79 x 20 x 52 cm) From: Gift of Hans and Thelma Lehmann, 1983 1983.01.004 On display in the PLU’s Mortvedt Library (2nd floor) Mali Description: The mask is an oval shaped face with a long nose, no mouth, and three crowning horns that curve backward. The mask’s face is decorated
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Congressman updated on pressing issues and write the Congressman’s official responses to constituents concerned about issues regarding immigration, Medicare, Medicaid, trade, labor, women’s rights and women’s health, agriculture, and justice.My job is incessant, but my study away experiences taught me that no matter the chaos, I come out on the other end having learned a whole lot. In one of those letter-to-yourself letters before the beginning of my semester program in Beijing, I wrote, “often the best
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Likomba Mask 2 Likomba 2 Artist: Unknown Makonde artist Name: Likomba (pl. makomba; sometimes also called lipiko) face mask Origin: Makonde people of Northeast Mozambique and Southern Tanzania Made of: Wood (ntene), human hair, beeswax, natural pigment Dimensions: Height: 10¼ in (26 cm), width: 7¼ in (18.4 cm), depth: 4¼ in (10.7 cm) From: Gift of Dr. Oliver E. and Pamela F. Cobb, 2009 Accession no. 2009.02.003 On display in PLU’s Mortvedt Library (2nd floor) Mozambique Tanzania Description: A
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Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays. Winner of the Oregon Book Award, the Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Award, and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize, he teaches at Willamette University and lives in Salem, Oregon. Mentor. Workshops and classes in fiction. Statement: “As a writer, I am endlessly surprised and fascinated by the possibilities offered by narrative and by language; as a teacher, I try to get students excited about those possibilities by sharing my discoveries and
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was very interesting looking at it through the economic standpoint,” said junior communication major Chelsea Paulsen. “It’s not very often we get to see or talk about the economic side,” said Parkland resident Theresa Reda Martinez. “”It still has ramifications in today’s life. Slavery wasn’t that long ago.” Read Previous “Overexposed: The Cost of Compassion” Read Next ‘Porgy and Bess’ COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled
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Breaking down Fences Posted by: Marcom Web Team / April 2, 2018 April 2, 2018 By Thomas Kyle-MilwardPLU Marketing & CommunicationsPLU junior’s first production fields university’s first all-black castJosh Wallace ’19 wanted to do something different for his directing debut with PLU Theatre. A creative who also dabbles in acting, music and art, the junior figured the time was right to take on a challenge ― put together the university’s first all-black cast for a production of “Fences,” a play
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forgotten. “If you look a little deeper it’s not that hard to figure out why people come here,” said Germano about life in the U.S. One interview subject featured in the documentary makes $13 a day working in Mexico when he could be making between $ 70 and $80 a day in the U.S. “If people invest in Mexico, we won’t want to leave,” said another interview subject. Throughout the course of the year, the Department of Language and Literature Film Festival Series screens a film for every language in the
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