Thesiss

Originally intended for art historians and collectors, museums and auction houses, provenance research has begun to infiltrate the general public’s interest. This is widely due to restitution claims involving collections with Nazi-era histories, antiquities’ looting, or colonial…

This thesis investigates and documents sixty-one Ohio Hopewellian objects that form a collection currently housed at the Milwaukee Public Museum (MPM). The objects were excavated from the Hopewell site of Ross County, Ohio which lends its name to a renowned and geographically ex…