62 Kevin Dumouchelle LEFT: Emil Haury (ASM director from 1938 to 1964) standing in a canal at Four Canal Station, along the Snaketown Canal, Snaketown, Gila River Indian Community, AZ, 1964. Arizona State Museum, inv. 78719. Photo: Helga Teiwes. BELOW: Pot sherds. Southwestern United States. Bichrome terracotta. Terracotta with bichrome slip. Arizona State Museum. LEFT: Plainware seed jar, tecomate, reconstructed from fragments. Agua Caliente (pre- Hohokam), Stone Pipe Site, Tucson Basin, Arizona. AD 50–150. Terracotta. Arizona State Museum, inv. 98-136-177. Photo: Jannelle Weakly. Constantine Petridis this once-vibrant world. Thanks to advances in artifact analysis and modern computer technology, researchers have new tools to investigate the environmental and social stresses that caused depopulation. Like reconstructing a pot from sherds (which are a central part of this exhibition), archaeologists are fi tting facts together to form a new perspective on life in the terminal Hohokam period of the fourteenth and fi fteenth centuries, and the latest results of this work are traced in this exhibition. Excavations at the archaeological site known as Snaketown on Gila River Indian Community lands under the direction of Emil W. Haury in the 1930s and 1960s were fundamental in defi ning the Hohokam. A satellite exhibition of photographs from ASM’s permanent collection, titled Snaketown: Hohokam Defi ned, showcases Snaketown’s iconic features, honors the Akimel O’odham crews who unearthed the site, and illustrates the excavation process. MUSEUM news The Hohokam Puzzle TUCSON—Central and southern Arizona was once home to the Hohokam people. They grew cotton, beans, squash, and corn; constructed buildings several stories high and impressive ball courts; crafted and traded colorful pottery; and built an immense system of irrigation canals, much of which is still in use today. After thriving in the desert of the American Southwest for more than a millennium, these people abandoned their settlements during the fi fteenth century and disappeared from the archaeological record, leaving archaeologists to wonder, “What happened to the Hohokam?” Pieces of the Puzzle: New Perspectives on the Hohokam, on display at the Arizona State Museum until July 1, 2017, provides an overview of the Hohokam of New Appointments CHICAGO AND WASHINGTON, DC—This season brings two shifts in curatorial positions. After having been with the Brooklyn Museum since 2007 as curator for the arts of Africa and the Pacifi c, Kevin Dumouchelle has taken on a curatorial position at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, DC. Holding advanced degrees from Columbia University, Dumouchelle has been responsible for innovative rotating exhibitions in Brooklyn, a dynamism that he hopefully will be able to bring to the capital city. Another move has been made by Constantine Petridis, who has left the curatorial position he has held at the Cleveland Museum of Art since 2002 to fi ll the space vacated by Kathleen Bickford Berzock at the Art Institute of Chicago. Petridis holds a doctorate from Ghent University and has curated numerous exhibitions and published extensively on African art (most recently in this issue). We wish them both well in their new endeavors.
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