Weeknotes: 1/14/24-1/20/24

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This Week:

I did a lot of NAGPRA work this week, preparing new summaries and getting started on a grant to facilitate the return of some remains to a tribe. We also received a claim from a tribe for an object late last week, and I’m working on writing the Notice of Intent to Repatriate.
Dominic and I finished reading “Voyage of the Dawn Treader”, which I think might be my favorite Narnia book so far.
I also finally read Saga Volume’s 10 and 11, which continues to be the greatest comic series of the 21st century that I’ve read, and is clear-eyed in its commitment to the vision that violence can never be a way out of violence.
I re-watched the original Highlander film, which feels like the kind of film that couldn’t really be made any more–an artistically shot, fantastical film that wears its nonsense on its sleeve.
We gave our new interim president a tour of the Museum and discussed some artwork to hang in his office and at Thornwood.