Chris Buckley

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Anthropologist with interests in cultural evolution, phylogenetics, classical methods, weaving. Interface of archaeology and ethnography. Author of "Stone and Fiber: Daily life in the Baliem valley, Papua".

two ground stone axe blades
V&A East Storehouse
Cover of "Stone and Fiber: Daily life in the Baliem valley, Papua" and link to Ian McNiven's review of this book
ruined phone box in Edinburgh
the book "Stone and Fiber: Daily life in the Baliem valley, Papua"
a Hubula (Dani) adze from the Baliem valley, part of the Hampton Archive of Papuan ethnographic material
Gilt bronze statue of Acala, a Tibetan protector god
a tubular skirt made by Li (Hlai) speakers on Hainan Island, decorated with ikat, warp patterning and supplementary weft designs
Talk by Chris Buckley, on the Baliem valley in Papua, at the Hillside Club in Berkeley, California
detail of a green silk cloth with lotus design
a shrunken head from Ecuador
a pisco sour
screenshot from the FT of Noam Chomsky and Jeffrey Epstein, on Epstein's private jet
Margarita Yambay weaving a narrow belt
Man wearing traditional Cacha region poncho
Setting up the warp. The warp is false-circular, like most Ecuadorean weaving, meaning the warp reverses direction around a locking stick or cord. Removing this stick gives a flat piece of finished cloth, which can be 4-selvedge, or may have fringes at the warp ends
Rafael Perugachi is the current master weaver. Rafael’s wife, Luz Maria Andrango also weaves. Both can do the same types of weaving on the same looms, but Rafael generally tackles the wider, heavier pieces. In this photo they are wearing traditional dress, which can still be seen on Sundays when the whole town attends Mass. Rafael has a wool poncho in a twill weave, and both are wearing felt hats
call for papers for textile archaeology session 191 at EAA 2026 in Athens
Tibetan wall painting depicting snow lions
Scrawny coyote
Bookshelf in Mexico City with actual human skull
Some monkeys in a huddle in the rain
Microphotograph of an archaeological textile
Turkeys at the Chevron station
Very old textile from the island of Lombok, Indonesia
A phylogeny of Tibetan Buddhists sects
Diorama of plains wildlife at the American museum of natural history
Director Hector Manuel Meneses Lozano and curator Alejandro de Avila Blomberg of the Museo Textil Oaxaca holding an Ecuadorean ikat poncho donated by Tracing Patterns Foundation
Book titled "Stone and Fiber: daily life in the Baliem valley, Papua", on the ethnography and material culture of New Guinea
shino-ware plate from Japan, with kintsugi repair
palm fiber weaving made by Sobei people on New Guinea
Macgregors fire retardant shorts