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From the President

So, How DO WE Look?

After printing In the Field for eight
years in a newspaper format, we
decided a few months ago to give it
a totally new look with the goal of
making it more reader friendly and
legible. The result is a dramatically
different-looking publication with
cleaner, more dignified typefaces;
thicker and whiter paper; more
white space on each page; and a
smaller, more manageable trim
size. And, thanks to a more
advanced printing method, the
photographs in this new magazine-
style format are richer in detail and
depth, and the colors more accu-
rate and vibrant.

The improvements to In the
Field, however, follow other major
enhancements and changes, all
driven by our commitment to
improve the benefits you receive as
members and to enrich the quality
of your next visit.

Some of these changes will no
doubt make your visit more com-
fortable, such as much-needed
renovations to our restrooms and
the installation on the ground floor
of new carpeting and lighting.

Other improvements, however,
are aimed at making your visit run
more smoothly. Over the summer,
for example, we designed a
"wayfinding" system that consists
of 242 new directional signs placed
throughout the building, five new
admission kiosks installed at the
Museums two main entrances and
display booths on each floor where
you can find details on everything
from the location of your favorite
exhibit to a listing of upcoming
programs and events.

At your suggestion, we also
replaced Picnic in the Field with a
Corner Bakery restaurant, com-
plete with its own outdoor dining
area on the north terrace overlook-
ing the Museum Campus and the
lake front. To make sure you don't
forget why you came to the
Museum as you consume one of
the cafe's famous sandwiches, we
designed an exhibit inside Corner
Bakery that explores the history of
bread and its importance to cul-
tures around the world. In
addition, we are renovating the
McDonald's restaurant on the
ground floor and have constructed
an adjoining outdoor dining area
on the southwest terrace and a
Ronald's Cave for those special
birthday outings.

In early June, we opened our
new Museum store, a 6,000-
square-foot facility that masterfully
combines the design needs of a
retail space with our building's
classic architectural style. Inside,
you can find hundreds of unique
items from around the world,
including handcrafted jewelry from
Tibet and Nigeria, rice baskets
from the Philippines, drums from
New Guinea and pottery and crafts
designed by Native American

artists. And, of course, the store
offers a prodigious supply of T-
shirts, baseball caps, books, music
CDs and stuffed animal toys.

Throughout the summer, we
also installed and designed a num-
ber of new exhibits such as the
McDonald's Fossil Preparation
Laboratory on the second floor.
On July 2, 1998, we unveiled City
From The Field, a series of pictor-
ial panels on the belvedere of the
Museum Campus that serve as a
guide to Chicago's renowned sky-
line. Earlier this summer, our
exhibit staff renovated the
Grainger Gallery, which contains
some of the Museum's most price-
less artifacts, and added to it four
new permanent exhibits. In the
Eskimos and Northwest Coast
Indians exhibit, we installed new
carpeting, cleaned all the display
cases and placed inside each sen-
sors that dim the lights when
visitors walk away. This not only
saves electricity but protects the
artifacts from prolonged exposure
to artificial light.

And lastly, across from the
Rice Wildlife Research Station, we
set up a reading rail under the
mural of the Great Rift Valley that
provides visitors with information
on the history, ecology and geology
of East Africa.

This is just the beginning of
many more improvements we have
planned for your Museum. If you
didn't get a chance to drop by this
summer, then I urge you to come
pay us a visit ... I think you will
be pleasantly surprised by how
much we've changed.

John W. McCarter,Jr.
President & CEO

We would like to know what you
think about In the Field . . .

Please send comments or questions to Robert Vosper,
publications department. The Field Museum,
Roosevelt Road at Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL
60605-9410, or via e-mail at «rvosper@fmnh.org».

Inside

The exhibit "Swedish Folk Art: All
Tradition is Change" opens Oct.
17, 1998. See the "exhibit" page in
the Calendar Section for details.

Museum botanist chases the
1997/1998 El Nino across Peru.

Museum names Randy Borman,
leader of Ecuador's Cofan indians,
as its next Parker/Gentry
Conservation Award recipient.

11

For most Americans, Yemen is
still a place of mystery, a forgot-
ten gem on the southern tip of the
Arabian Peninsula.

13

The Asian long-horned beetle

arrives in Illinois.

Your Guide to the Field

A complete schedule of events for
September/October, including
activities for the Celebracion '98
Latin American festival.

Find out what this little North
American migratory songbird has
to do with the coffee you drink.

Museum sends aid to survivors of
the worst natural disaster to occur
in New Guinea this century.

INTHEFIELD

September/October 1998 Vol. 69, No. 5

The Field Museum

Exploring
The Earth And Its
People

Editor and Designer:
Robert Vosper

Design Consultants:
Hayward Blake & Company

In the Field (ISSN #1051-4546) is published
bimonthly by The Field Museum, Roosevelt Road
at Lake Shore Drive, Chicago IL 60605-2496.
Copyright © 1998 The Field Museum.
Subscriptions $6 annually, $3 for schools.
Museum membership includes In the Field sub-
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Notification of address change should include
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Illinois.

Cover Photo by Soren Hallgren of a Swedish
parstuga, a special loft used to store garments
and textiles. The Museum will install a parstuga
in the "Swedish Folk Art" exhibit, which opens
Oct. 17, 1998.

Around Campus

Shedd Aquarium

Come to Shedd Aquarium the weekend
of Sept. 26 - 27 to learn about home
aquarium keeping. Local retailers will be
on hand to show guests the best prod-
ucts to use for home aquariums or
terrariums. Shedd husbandry staff also
will be available to answer questions
about what kinds of fishes, amphibians
and reptiles make the most suitable
aquatic or semiaquatic pets and to help
troubleshoot any problems home aquar-

ists might have. The special event will
also feature fish hats and seahorse "tat-
toos" for kids. Call 312.939.2438 for
more information.

Adler Planetarium

On Sept. 20, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., the
Adler Planetarium will observe the
return of cooler weather with Autumnal
Equinox Sunfest, a celebration of the
changing of the seasons. Join the Adler
for safe views of the turbulent surface

of the Sun (weather permitting), Fall
Sky Tales storytelling sessions, hot apple
cider and demonstrations and activities.

There is more than one ghost or ghoul
lurking in the halls of the Adler
Planetarium, and they have dug them
up just for Halloween Fright Night! On
Oct. 30, 1998, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.,
hear "spooktacularly" scary sky tales,
win a prize for the most creative cos-
tume and explore the darkened halls of
the Planetarium by candlelight!

SEPTEMBER • OCTOBER 1998 1

Chasing the 1997/1998
El Nino Across Peru

Above: El Nino rains, which ham-
mered Peru from December 1997 to
March 1998, created this lake in the
middle of the Peruvian desert, some
300 miles south of Lima. Though
located in one of the driest places on
Earth, the lake is not expected to
dissipate for at least a year.

Information about Michael Dillon's
botanical research in Peru can be
found on his Web site (ABIS) at
<<http://homepage.interaccess.com/
~mddillon/abis/index.html»

2 IN THE FIELD

By Michael Dillon

Botany Curator and Head of Phanerogams

As I looked out the window of our passenger jet while
it circled in for a landing at the airstrip outside Trujillo
on the northwest coast of Peru, I couldn't believe my
eyes — the area's normally dry, barren desert was
teeming with patches of green vegetation. It was early
February and there was no doubt about it, the
1997/1998 El Nino that ocean scientists had predicted
the year before was in full swing, bringing torrential
rain and heavy fog to one of the driest areas on Earth.

I was flying into Peru to study the effects of El
Nino on the country's desert vegetation, a project I
started in 1983 when the last major El Nino pum-
meled the region. But this one, which meteorologists
were hailing as the most powerful in recorded history,
was packing a much harder punch. And though I had
just finished two months of fieldwork in the Atacama
desert of northern Chile and had recorded the effects
of El Nino rains there, I was totally unprepared for
the devastation and dangers that awaited me in Peru.

For Peruvians, however, the violent forces that
accompany an El Nifio, which is short for El Nino
Southern Oscillation or ENSO, are nothing new.
Local fishermen originally applied the name, which
means Christ Child in Spanish, to the surge in ocean
temperatures they periodically witnessed around
Christmas. Scientists now know an El Nino develops
about two to seven years, and that they have been
around for some time, with powerful episodes
recorded from the 1500s and with geologic evidence of
their existence dating back more than 5,000 years.

But even with this knowledge and with the recent
ability of ocean scientists to predict the onset of an El
Niiio by measuring increases in ocean temperatures
along the equator, scientists are still mystified as to
what sets these violent weather formations in motion.
Their theories range from sunspot activity to undersea
volcanoes, though some experts believe things as sim-
ple as increased cloud formations can trigger them.
What is perfectly clear, however, is that the large-scale
climate changes that accompany an El Nifio can devas-
tate crops, can wreak havoc on populated areas and
can transfigure natural communities.

For example, locals call Trujillo siempre primavera
(always springtime) because of its agreeable climate.
However, when I was there, temperatures were in the
90s and the air was laden with moisture. As a testa-
ment to its usually exceptional aridity, the town is
home to Chan Chan, a 800-year-old adobe city pre-
served for centuries by the area's dry climate. As I
drove by these archaeological ruins on my way into
town, however, their famous mud walls were showing
signs of erosion from the constant barrage of recent
El Nino rains.

Within a day of arriving in Peru, I realized the
rains also had exacted a high price from the local pop-

Above: On the slopes of Cerro Cabezon, a small mountain north of Trujillo, Dillon
discovered hundreds of thousands of blooming individuals o/Nolana humifusa,
an annual in the potato family. During El Nino events, mass blooms replenish the
seed banks of plants that then wait for the next favorable episode to flower.

ulace. For example, flooding fueled by raging rivers in
the Andean foothills had made towns in extreme
northwest Peru like Tumbez and Piura virtually inac-
cessible. To the north, heavy rains had destroyed parts
of the Pan-American Highway, the only paved road
running north and south along the country's coastline.
And to the north of Trujillo, between Chiclayo and
Piura, torrential rains had filled the basin of the
Sechura desert, giving birth to a 6,000-square-mile
lake that is not expected to dissipate until after 1999.

Though the situation in Peru looked bleak, I
decided to stick to my original plan of renting a truck
and travehng with Miyuki Tago, a graduate student
from the Tokyo Metropolitan University, and with a
couple of my Peruvian colleagues along the coast mak-
ing observations and collecting samples of the desert
vegetation known as lomas formations (Spanish for
small hills).

Our first stop, which was on Feb. 10, 1998, was
Cerro Cabezon, a small mountain about 13 miles
north of Trujillo and on which I first witnessed the
patches of green vegetation from our plane. As we
walked up the mountain's lower slope we encountered
literally thousands of flowering plants, as well as an
equal number of seedlings. Best of all, the plants pop-
ulating the lower slopes were Nolanas, a group of
desert plants I've been studying for the last 15 years.
As we began collecting and photographing these
plants, the most bizarre thing happened — it started
to rain. Here I was getting soaked in the world's driest
desert, all the while surrounded by a lush green
landscape that looked like it had been torn from the
Irish countryside.

SEPTEMBER • OCTOBER 1998 3

At 4 p.m., two hours after the first raindrop fell,
rays from the scorching tropical sun began slicing
through the thick, gray rain clouds, at which point we
decided to head back to town, a 20-minute drive at
most. But the clouds that had drenched us on the
mountain had moved inland into the foothills where
torrential downpours were charging the normally dry
river valleys.

After driving about six miles, we hit the first of
several places where traffic waited idly as newly
formed rivers flowed angrily across the road.
Fortunately, our 4x4, armed with off^-road tires, plowed
efix)rtlessly through these hazards. Our luck, however,
didn't last. Eventually, we reached a point where the
rain had completely washed away the road, forcing us
to wait more than six hours until officials showed up
with earth-moving equipment.

Exhausted and hungry, we finally arrived in
Trujillo around 11 p.m., only to find the city engulfed
in darkness from a blackout and submerged in more
than a foot of water. Though it had taken us more
than seven hours to drive the last four miles, we were
among the fortunate ones. In less than 12 hours the
same weather that had so mesmerized us on the slopes
of Cerro Cabezon had claimed the lives of three peo-
ple and had destroyed many homes. The destruction,
however, was not over.

While picking up supplies at the town's central
market the following morning, we heard a warning
that water was coming. Sure enough, a wall of brown,
muddy water more than a foot high carrying trash and
household items came barreling through the town on
a path to the ocean. Apparently, an earthen dam above
Trujillo had ruptured, releasing all the rainwater cap-
tured the night before. During the next 12 hours,
townspeople were in total panic as water flooded mar-

Above: An El Nino-induced downpour on Feb. 10, 1998, engulfs Cerro Campana,
a 3,000-Joot-high mountain two miles southwest of Cerro Cabezon. The rainstorm
then moved inland and washed out the Pan-American Highway and flooded
Trujillo, the town that Dillon was using as his base of operations.

kets, houses and all the major streets. It had even
washed out a cemetery, unearthing cofiins and corpses
that proceeded to drift through the submerged streets.
With the help of the military, the situation returned
to normal within the next few days, though the
continuing rains caused additional damage to the
Pan-American Highway, this time south of Trujillo.
We were now trapped, unable to drive north, south
or east. Because the floods had destroyed the only
road leading to the airstrip, we couldn't even escape
by plane.

After about two weeks of waiting as officials
repaired the roads, we finally left Trujillo on Feb. 20 by
pickup truck and headed for Tacna, a town in south-
ern Peru located along the Chilean border. From
Tacna, we slowly worked our way back north along the
coast collecting plants and comparing them to the flo-
ral communities I had studied during the 1982/1983
El Nirio. Though many plants in the south were past
their prime, the Nolanas were still in full bloom.
During the next two weeks, we collected and pho-
tographed no fewer than 18 Nolana species. After we
analyze this material, we should have a better idea of
the relationships that exist in this complex and beauti-
ful plant group, as well as a greater understanding of
the age and history of Peru's coastal deserts.

After returning to Chicago in late March, I soon
learned that El Nino had also dominated the news
here — flooding and mud slides in California; ice
storms in New England; and a very pleasant, balmy
and virtually snowless winter in the Midwest. Even
now, nearly six months after its peak, people continue
to blame the 1997/1998 El Nino for such phenome-
nons as early summer rains and snowfalls out West,
and heightened mold and plant growth that has made
life unbearable for allergy sufferers. Clearly, the impact
of this EI Niiio reached around the globe, and the
final count of how much destruction it caused has yet
to be calculated.

When I departed Peru, El Nino had killed 300
people and left nearly 300,000 people homeless. Some
problems like the destruction it caused to agriculture
and roads will be ongoing. And though the rains did
increase gnat and mosquito populations, which is
making life down there miserable, the flooding didn't
lead to a cholera and malaria epidemic as predicted by
the medical community.

Even so, I don't think anyone in Peru will soon
forget the 1997/1998 El Niiio. While it leaves in its
wake untold destruction, our research is showing that
the level of floral diversity found in Peru's coastal
deserts wouldn't exist without recurrent El Nifios. We
also have discovered they are responsible for periodi-
cally recharging the seed banks of the region's plant
populations and providing spurts of growth for long-
lived perennials. In this sense. El Nino plays a pivotal
role in the continuing evolution of Peru's unique plant
communities in the Earth's driest desert.

4 IN THE FIELD

Field Updates

CoFAN Leader to Receive
Field Museum's
Conservation Award

Oil exploration and deforestation are slowly destroying
the Cofan indigenous territories in the Amazonian
lowlands of eastern Ecuador — a wilderness of magic
and beauty containing more biological riches than any
other place on Earth. Yet, under Randy Bormans over-
sight, the Cofan of Zabalo are creating innovative
conservation programs that are reversing this trend.

For Borman's leadership and exceptional efforts,
the Museum's Founders' Council will present him with
the Parker/Gentry Award on Sept. 28, 1998. The
Museum presents this annual award to an "individual,
team or organization in the field of conservation biol-
ogy whose efforts have had a significant and practical
impact on preserving the world's rich natural heritage,
and whose actions can serve as a model to others."

Though Borman's parents are American mission-
aries — hence the suntanned skin, blue eyes and blond
hair — he grew up among the Cofan and is considered
by them to be one of their own. Because of this
unusual background, Borman is able to navigate with
ease between the two vastly different worlds of Cofan
and Western culture. It is this rare skill that has
allowed Borman to facilitate and inspire creative solu-
tions for the long-term survival of Cofan society and
the large expanses of forest in which they live.

Borman grew up in Dureno, a small Cofan village
on the banks of the Rio Aguarico, about 145 miles east
of Quito. When his parents arrived at the village in
1955, with Borman only a few months old, they found
an indigenous culture largely isolated from the
Western world. Twenty years later, the Cofan culture
in Dureno began to crumble.

In the early 1960s, Texaco Petroleum Company, a
subsidiary of Texaco, discovered oil in the region and,
in a race to extract it, systematically tore apart the rain
forest. With much of the forest annihilated around
Dureno and with the rivers dying, Borman and several
Cofan families in 1984 set downstream. The site they
picked for their new village, Zabalo, lies in the
630,000-hectare Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve near the
Colombian border. Though Zabalo is located in pro-
tected land, the government has turned a blind eye to
oil exploration in the region. To protect Cofan territo-
ries and the livelihood of his people, Borman has spent
much of the last decade in complex and often tense
negotiations with oil companies and the government.

When not consumed by these negotiations, the
Cofan have directed their energies to other pressing
environmental issues. One of their immediate concerns
is to protect the endangered river turtles that inhabit
Amazonia. Two species in particular, the Giant South

Above: Randy Borman, the leader of the Cofan of Zabalo,
with Joshua, one of his three children.

American River Turtle and the Yellow-spotted Amazon
River Turtle, have been a major food resource for the
peoples of Amazonia throughout history and, within
the last 40 years, for the colonist that have settled in
the area. As market demand for these turtles escalated,
their populations in the 1970s plummeted.

As populations continued to decline, "we began
searching for positive ways to turn the trend around,"
explains Borman.

In 1991, the Cofan launched an innovative experi-
ment: capturing and raising turtle hatchlings, then
reintroducing them to the wild once they were large
enough to escape most natural predators. At the end of
their first year of operation, the Cofan released 300
baby turtles into the river; last year, those numbers
were close to 3,400. Indications suggest the wild turtle
populations are making a comeback.

Borman and the Cofan also established an eco-
tourism business, and they are exploring the possibility
of raising native fish to sell to local markets as a way to
counteract the dangers of farming exotic species.

"Randy and the Cofan have developed programs
that capitalize on their knowledge and that link
directly with their needs and culture," explains Debby
Moskovits, director of the Museum's Office of
Environmental and Conservation Programs. "It's a
powerful example of how conservation can address,
simultaneously, the needs of both human and non-
human communities."

Currently, the Museum and the Cofan are
discussing the possibility of a partnership that com-
bines the Museum's collections and scientific expertise
with the deep-rooted knowledge and experience of the
Cofan. The immediate focus of this partnership is to
develop a joint monitoring program to measure the
benefits of the turtle project, as well as to help
fine-tune it.

SEPTEMBER • OCTOBER 1998 5

Field Updates

A Return to the Roots

Museum Launches Natural Products Initiative

Left: Herrania, a wild relative of chocolate found in the
Ecuadorean rainforest.

By Sophia Twichell

Manager, Natural Products Initiative
Environmental & Conservation Programs

After sipping a cup of hot coffee, enjoying a ripe
banana or savoring a delicious bar of chocolate, have
you ever stopped to consider the source of these
foods? If you are like most people, the answer is
probably "no." But don't feel guilty, you are in very
good company.

Every day, millions of Americans reach for natural
products on supermarket shelves without considering
the origin or history of these foods. Take chocolate, for
instance. Each of us consumes roughly 12 pounds of
this mouthwatering substance a year, yet few know
that the Aztecs were early connoisseurs of chocolate.
And probably even fewer know they mixed their
chocolate with corn and chilies, instead of the milk
and sugar we prefer. Another interesting fact about
chocolate is that it is made from the seeds of
Theobroma cacao — a rain forest tree in the Upper
Amazon Basin that was first domesticated in Central
America. The genetic diversity of wild populations of
cacao and its relatives may help develop disease-resis-
tant strains of chocolate — yet one more reason to
protect South America's dwindling rain forests.

What about bananas? Each of us consumes 25

pounds of this fruit on average a year, yet few of us
know that Spanish explorers in the 1500s brought
them to the Americas from Southeast Asia. As you
probably noticed, bananas have no seeds. Though this
is convenient for consumers, it makes it difficult for
growers to develop disease-resistant strains. Therefore,
the right disease potentially could destroy the ever-
popular banana industry.

Another everyday food many of us enjoy, but
whose agricultural origins may be a mystery, is coffee.
Though drinking a cup of coffee in the morning is a
daily ritual for many Americans, not too many of us
realize that it's grown on vast plantations in tropical
climates. To make room for these plantations, farmers
have to clear-cut thousands of acres of land. This loss
of native habitat displaces all kinds of wildlife, includ-
ing songbirds migrating from North America.
Fortunately, another option exists called shade coffee
that allows Americans to continue enjoying their cup
of Java with a clearer conscience. Instead of clear-cut-
ting existing vegetation, it is economically feasible for
farmers to grow their crops in the understory or shade
of native forest trees. In this way, coffee can be culti-
vated in a wildlife-friendly manner.

Products such as chocolate, bananas and coffee
demonstrate how far modern society has distanced
itself from nature. In response to this growing gulf
between humans and their environment. The Field
Museum recently created the Natural Products
Initiative (NPI). This initiative capitalizes on the rich
interconnections among anthropology, botany, zoology
and environmental conservation. For example, NPI is
developing the program From Nature's Pantry to Yours: A
Shopper's Guide to the Supermarket for its Web site
<<www.fmnh.org/candr/ecp/NPI/>>. Funded by
Abbott Laboratories, this program will provide
information on the botanical source, land of origin,
associated myths and legends, as well as conservation
concerns for a variety of popular foods consumed
by Americans.

So, the next time you toss a chocolate bar, banana
or coffee into your grocery cart, you can contemplate
something other than their price. Instead, escape the
checkout line by visualizing the Aztecs drinking
chocolate, bananas growing in Southeast Asia or song-
birds wintering in tall trees above shade coffee.

6 IN THE FIELD

Museum Sends Aid to
Papua New Guinea

By Robert Vosper

On one of his last field expeditions to the remote
West Sepik (Sandaun) province on the northwest
coast of Papua New Guinea, Museum anthropologist
John Terrell recalls with a smile how he entertained a
group of children at the lagoon near the village of
Sissano by pretending to be a monster. As Terrell
waved his arms in the air and contorted his face into a
snarl, the children ran into the lagoon screaming and
laughing. Moments later they reappeared, begging the
crazy American scientist to continue his antics.

For a few days in late July, newspapers around the
world ran photographs showing the exact location
where Terrell had played with these children, though
most readers probably wished they had never seen
them. What the photographs captured were rescuers
adorned in white surgical masks, removing from the
lagoon hundreds of bloated and decomposing bodies
of the people of Sissano who were swept there after
three tidal waves at least 23 feet high slammed into
the Sepik coast on July 17, 1998.

Three days later, on July 20, Museum officials
established a relief fund for the survivors of the worst
natural disaster to befall the island of New Guinea
this century. Starting with an initial contribution by
the Museum of $10,000, the fund at press time had
grown to $54,189, some of which was donated by trav-
elers who joined Museum President John McCarter
and his wife Judy on a Field Museum tour to the
Sepik coast in September 1997.

"Obviously, the recovery from this disaster will
take a long time," said McCarter. "Meanwhile, we hope
the money will provide some much needed assistance."

The disaster occurred when a 7-magnitude earth-
quake located 12 miles off the coast of Papua New
Guinea set in motion a series of tidal waves known as
tsunamis. Minutes after the earthquake shook the
region, the giant waves tore into the 22-mile, palm-
lined sand spit that defines the Sepik coast, killing
2,182 people, leaving thousands injured and 10,000
homeless. In addition, the tsunamis virtually erased
any evidence that the coastal villages of Sissano, Arop,
Warapu and Malol had ever existed.

One reason officials felt compelled to organize a
relief fund is that The Field Museum has had a long
and close relationship with the villagers who live along
the Sepik coast, beginning in 1910 when Museum
curator Albert Lewis explored the area and returned
to Chicago with a vast collection of ethnographic
material. And for the last 10 years. Field Museum
anthropologists John Terrell and Robert Welsch have
been documenting the region's history and cultural

diversity. As part of their research, they also are inves-
tigating how life has changed for the people of this
province since Lewis made his initial observations.

"By raising this money. The Field Museum is in a
sense acting as a friend should in Papua New Guinea
— a role we took on as an institution the day A. B.
Lewis first set foot on the Sepik coast," said Terrell.

Friendship is an age-old tradition on this coast
where villagers maintain an involved network of rela-
tionships based on inherited friendships rather than
marriage alliances. Such friendships are handed down
from one generation to the next and tie people
together across great distances.

"The inherited friendship tradition acts like a
social security system," explained Terrell. "If your local
village is destroyed, then you always have a place to go
and have friends to call on. We know we are far away
and that the people along this coast can't seek refuge
with us in Chicago, but we had to do something to
show them that we care and that we are thinking
about them."

Hearing of Welsch and Terrell's close relationship
with these villagers, the government of Papua New
Guinea recently asked the two to come to Aitape to
help the survivors cope with their grief. Welsch and
Terrell will be leaving for Papua New Guinea early
next year.

Contributions to the relief fund should be sent to:
Papua New Guinea Relief Fund, c/o Stephanie
Powell, The Field Museum, Roosevelt Road at Lake
Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605,

Above: A home in Arop on the narrow sand spit that defines the Sepik coast. The
water in the foreground is the Sissano Lagoon; the light blue behind the house is the
Pacific Ocean.

SEPTEMBER • OCTOBER 1998 7

Field Updates

Cultural Connections: CCUC Introduces a New
Public Program in Urban Anthropology

The Field Museums Center for Cultural
Understanding and Change (CCUC) is offering a new
fall program this year to members and the public as a
way to introduce them to Chicago's rich cultural diver-
sity using urban anthropology as a guide.

The program, called Cultural Connections, con-
sists of a series of eight events in which participating
museums across Chicago will highlight their specific
ethnic community. At these events, program partici-
pants will use the anthropologist's technique of
participant observation to interact with people of
diverse backgrounds, learn about each community's
ethnic heritage and uncover common connections
and concerns.

"This program also highlights the innovative ways
in which anthropology collections can be used to
speak to contemporary issues," explains Alaka Wali,
John Nuveen Curator of Anthropology and director of
the CCUC program.

Cultural Connections is a joint program of The
Field Museum, Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian
Culture, DuSable Museum of African American
History, Hellenic Museum, Mexican Fine Arts Center,
Polish Museum of America, Spertus Museum and the
Swedish American Museum.

Current members at any of the eight participating
museums will receive a 15 percent discount on the reg-
istration fee, which for Museum members is $30 for
each event and $35 for nonmembers. The fee for all
eight events is $210 for members and $250 for non-
members. Those registering for four or more events
will receive a five-month membership at each partici-
pating museum and a monthly Cultural Connections
newsletter. Please call 312.922.9410, ext. 530, for more
information or to register. Additional information is
also available on the Web at <<www.fmnh.org/cen-
ters/connect.htm> > .

Schedule of Events

Exploring our Connections: Urban
Anthropology in Chicago
Sept. 17; 6 -8:30 p.m.
The Field Museum

Behind a Mexican Tradition: The
Day of the Dead Celebration
Oct. 6; 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Mexican Fine Arts Center

Polonia: The History of Chicago's
Polish Community
Oct 21; 6:30 -8:30 p.m.
Polish Museum of America

It's all Greek to me: Exploring
the Diversity of Chicago's
Greek Community
Oct. 29; 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Hellenic Museum and
Cultural Center

Our Continuing Traditions:
Chicago's Jewish Community
Nov. 12; 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Spertus Museum

One Hundred Years of Lithuanian
History in Chicago
Nov. 19; 6:30 -8:30 p.m.
Balzekas Museum of
Lithuanian Culture

Chicago's Swedish Community
Dec. 1; 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Swedish American Museum

Celebrate the Holidays:
Celebrate Kwanzaal
Dec. 10; 6:30 -8:30 p.m.
DuSable Museum of African
American History

Above: Cultural Connections builds
upon the anthropological framework
introduced in the Living Together
exhibit. The Museum developed the
exhibit, which opened Nov. 8, 1997, to
promote respect and appreciation for
the world's rich cultural diversity by
demonstrating the interconnection
between people through three universal
themes: home, image and community.
In the image section (shown above) vis-
itors are challenged to think about the
many different ways people express
themselves through their appearance.

8 IN THE FIELD

Membership Lecture Series

Multiculturalism: The 'Disuniting' or the
Reuniting of America?

Lecture with Ronald Takaki

Thursday, Oct. 1, 1998

7 p.m. in James Simpson Theatre

Ronald Takaki, professor of ethnic studies at the
University of California at Berkeley, is the nations
foremost spokesman for multicultural education. A
distinguished scholar and award-winning historian, he
has inspired audiences throughout the world with
an uplifting vision of the richness of America's
social diversity.

Takaki's mission is to show that multiculturalism
is not only an unquestionably accurate assessment of
social reality but an intellectually stimulating approach
to an array of academic disciplines.

A prolific writer, Takaki has published numerous
books that explore the American experience, including
a study of the Southern ideological defense of slavery
and an examination of 19th-century black novelists. In
his most recent book, A Different Mirror: A History of
Multicultural America, he analyzes the comparative
experiences of African Americans, Asian Americans,
Chicanos and Native Americas, as well as English,
Irish and Jewish Americans. 'Publisher's Weekly praised
the book as likely "to become a classic of multicultural
studies." A book signing will follow the lecture.

Above: Ronald Takaki, who is the grandson of Japanese laborers in Hawaii,
believes that "an educated, culturally literate person must understand America's
cultural diversity."

Human Evolution and Diversity

Friday, Oct. 9, 1998

6:30 p.m. in James Simpson Theatre

Mary-Claire King — the American Cancer Society
Research Professor at the University of Washington's
departments of medicine and genetics — was the first
person to prove that breast cancer is inherited in some
families. Currently, she is investigating how the normal
products of these cancer genes can be developed as a
therapy for breast and ovarian cancer. Her other
research interests include genetic analysis of inherited
deafness, systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid
arthritis and AIDS. King is also interested in human
genetic diversity and evolution, and in the application
of DNA sequencing to human rights issues. The lec-
ture is presented by the Museum in conjunction with
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the
Sloan Foundation.

Left: Mary-Claire King received her
Ph.D. in genetics from UC Berkeley
and served on its faculty from 1976 to
1995. She moved to Washington in
1995, where she teaches undergraduate
courses in human genetics and graduate
courses in genetics and molecular biol-
ogy at the University of Washington.

Ticket Sales and Information

Takaki Lecture: $12 for members and $16 for nonmembers. Group rates for 10
or more are available.

King Lecture: $3 for members and $7 for nonmembers

Tickets can be purchased at the door or in advance by mailing a check — made
payable to The Field Museum — to the Membership Department, The Field
Museum, Roosevelt Road at Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605. Please spec-
ify on the check which lecture you wish to attend. You can also charge tickets
by phone by calling 312.322.8871 (there Is a $10 minimum on all charges). For
more information, please call 312.922.9410, ext. 453.

SEPTEMBER • OCTOBER 1998 9

Your Guide to the Field

Inside

Exhibits

Calendar of Events

Get Smart

Free Visitor Programs

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7

Swedish Folk Art.

All Tradition is Change

The exhibit "Swedish Folk Art: All Tradition
Is Change" features 300 objects that cele-
brate the richness and beauty of Sweden's
folk art. On display from Oct. 17, 1998, to
Jan. 4, 1999, the exhibit uses woodwork,
textiles, furniture, baskets and a variety of
Swedish handicrafts to explore the intricate
connections between 18th century rural art
and modern Swedish design. It also exam-
ines the many facets of Swedish style and
culture, as well as folk art and design.

"Swedish Folk Art" is divided into seven sec-
tions: Swedish home; Swedish wood; Saami
folk art (the Saami are a group of people
indigenous to Sweden, Norway, Finland and
the Kola Peninsula of Russia); ritual and cer-
emony; textiles, folk costumes and other
clothing; folk art as inspiration; and con-
temporary folk art.

One of the most interesting aspects of this
exhibit is how it illustrates the adaptation
of old characteristics into the new. Many of
the traditional elements of Swedish craft
and decorative arts continue to appear in
the country's contemporary artworks. The
elements sometimes emerge in a very inten-
tional and fun way, as in the piece in which

craftsman Staffan Svensson manipulated
Sweden's national symbol, the dala horse,
to create a motorcycle in the same form
(see p. 6 of calendar section). In other
works, the past may be echoed in a more
subtle way — perhaps by using an antique
pattern in a modern item of clothing.

For example, the Swedish home section
examines the links between visually rich,
old-fashioned peasant homes and contem-
porary Swedish living spaces. Through table
cloths, candlesticks and other common
household items, visitors can explore the
interesting similarities between the objects
of old and their more modern counterparts.

"Swedish Folk Art" is a joint international
project of the Kulturhuset Stockholm, the
Swedish Institute, the Museum of
International Folk Art and the TREX:
Traveling Exhibitions Program of the
Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, in collab-
oration with the Dalarnas Museum Falun,
Kulturen Lund, Leksands Kulturhus,
Nordiska Museet and the National
Association of Swedish Handicraft Societies.
Corporate sponsors for this exhibit include
American Airlines and IKEA North America.

Above: Contemporary Swedish folk art
designed by artist Peter Wassberg (1892 -
1971). Often considered eccentric by his con-
temporaries, Wassberg shows the spontaneity
of his country's art and culture.

Swedish Folk Art:
Opening Day Festivities

Saturday, Oct. 17, 10 a.m. -3 p.m.

Celebrate the opening of "Swedish Folk
Art" with a day of festivities highlighting
the music, dance and traditions of
Sweden. In addition, come and meet the
Swedish artists and curators who have
traveled to The Field Museum to share
their culture. See the "Free Visitor
Programs" page for a complete schedule.
Admission to Opening Day Festivities
is free with regular Museum admission.
Please call 312.922.9410, ext. 497,
for more information.

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SEPTEMBER • OCTOBER 1998

Exhibits

Poster Art From the Golden Age
OF Mexican Cinema, 1936 - 1957

During Mexican cinema's two-decade long
Golden Age {La Epoca de Oro), the Mexican
film industry released more than 1,500 films
drawing record crowds. For Mexican cin-
ema, the Golden Age was their most
commercially successful and artistically
vibrant period in its long film history.
"Poster Art From the Golden Age of
Mexican Cinema," which is on display from
Sept. 5, 1998, to Nov. 29, 1998, presents
more than 25 film posters from movies pro-
duced in this period. These posters also
represent five major genres: comedies,
cabaretera (prostitute) films, charro
(Mexican cowboy) films, horror movies and
melodrama. The Museum selected these
posters to give visitors a taste of the variety
of movies produced during the Golden Age,
to illustrate the cinematic careers of key
Golden Age stars and to celebrate the con-
siderable talents of the artists who designed
the posters.

Right: A poster of actress Maria Felix from
the movie Dona Diabla — one of the many
critically acclaimed films produced during
Mexican cinema's Golden Age.

Below: A Philippine Frogmouth — a noctur-
nal bird unique to the Philippines. A few
related species also are found from India
to Australia.

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Philippine Centennial Exhibits

In celebration of the Philippine Centennial,
The Field Museum has created two special
exhibits; "Voyage of a Nation: The
Philippines," and "Vanishing Treasures of
the Philippine Rain Forest," both of which
are currently on display until Nov. 29, 1998.

"Voyage of a Nation: The Philippines" is a
3,500-square-foot exhibit featuring 120 cul-
tural artifacts from the Museum's
collections, as well as from collections of
other cultural institutions and the Filipino
community. It recalls significant events in
the island nation's history and emphasizes
the creative skills of Filipinos throughout

the country's different regions. A highlight
of the exhibit is the Agusan Statue, a
solid gold object representing a Buddhist or
Hindu deity discovered on the island of
Mindanao and dating from 1000 AD to 1300
AD. This statue reflects the long history of
contact between the Philippines and other
world cultures.

The second exhibit, "Vanishing Treasures of
the Philippine Rain Forest," highlights the
rare birds and mammals found only in the
Philippines and the ecological crisis that
threatens their future.

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Calendar of Events

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in iVIelanesia

9/23, Wednesday, 6 p.m.

Robert Welsch, The Field Museum's adjunct
curator of anthropology and visiting profes-
sor at Dartmourth College, will present a
slide-illustrated lecture about his new book.
An American Anthropologist in Melanesia:
A.B. Lewis and the Joseph N. Field South
Pacific Expedition 1909-1913. In the book,
Welsch documents Albert Lewis' travels for
four years through the former colonies of
Melanesia as an ethnological researcher for
The Field Museum. Though Lewis traveled
farther, collected more artifacts and stayed
longer in the field than any of his col-
leagues, his expedition was in many ways
typical of the period in anthropology
known as the "expedition period." An
American Anthropologist in Melanesia
offers readers a firsthand account of condi-
tions in Melanesia before World War I and
an inside look at how the world's great
natural history and ethnological museums
built their collections. $12 ($10 members).
Call 312.322.8854 for more information or
to register.

The National Summit on Africa
Activity Day

9/26, Saturday, 1 1 a.m. - 3 p.m.
As one of the regional hosts for The
National Summit on Africa, The Field
Museum is sponsoring a day of demonstra-
tions, performances and activities that
explore the rich traditions, cultures and
environments of the African continent.
During the festivities, visitors can learn how
to say "hello" in many African languages,
can hear traditional African stories told by
Shanta and Thetu Mwanki and can take a
guided tour through the Museum's Africa
exhibit. Field Museum scientists and Peace
Corps volunteers who have worked in Africa
will be on hand to share their knowledge
and experiences. All activities are free with
general Museum admission. For more infor-
mation call 312.922.9410, ext. 497.

Health and Global Human Genetic
Diversity Symposium

9/26, Saturday, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
This day-long symposium will report the
findings of a consortium of researchers who
are examining how multidisciplinary studies
of human genetic diversity can contribute
to the advancement of public health. Their
basic goal is to develop a better under-
standing of what determines intelligent,
careful, considerate and appropriate collect-
ing and use of global human genetic
information. A keynote address by Virginia
Dominiquez, a member of the committee
on Human Genome Diversity Project with
the National Research Council, will be fol-
lowed by presentations of research findings
and commentary on the issues by
researchers, an anthropologist, a layperson
and a health-care advocate. The day will
conclude with a round-table discussion
moderated by journalist and radio host
Mara Tapp. A box lunch will be provided
for all participants. $65 ($55 members).
Call 312.322.8854 for more information
or to register.

Above: A scientific illustration by Marlene Donnelly — a 19-year Museum veteran. Donnelly
will be teaching the Scientific Illustration at the Field course beginning Oct. 6, 1998.

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SEPTEMBER • OCTOBER 1998

Above: A view of Chicago's Downtown Landscape from the belvedere of the Museum Campus.
In the foreground is the Museum's new outdoor exhibit, The City From The Field — a series of
pictorial panels that serve as a guide to Chicago's famous skyline.

Reading the Downtown Landscape

9/27, Sunday, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Join us on a walking tour of downtown
Chicago as we explore the rocks used by
architects to create the faces of some of
Chicago's famous buildings. Discover how
the use of dimension stone changed as
builders learned the limits of limestone and
marble and began using the harder (and
heavier) granites, gabbros and metamorphic
rocks for facing stones. During the tour, par-
ticipants will visit the Chicago Tribune
building and examine the hundreds of rocks
placed in its face from other buildings
around the world. The tour meets at the
south entrance of the Chicago Cultural
Center at 78 E. Washington Street. Please
bring a bag lunch and wear comfortable
walking shoes. $28 ($24 members).
Call 312.322.8854 for more information or
to register.

Scientific Illustration at the Field

10/6 - 1 1/24, Tuesdays, 6-8 p.m.

The primary goal of this in-depth course is
to teach participants various drawing tech-
niques like stipple, line drawing and tone
that are used by scientific illustrators.
During in-class drawing sessions, partici-
pants will learn the applications of technical
illustration, the importance of observation
and the tricks and tools of the trade. A list
of supplies needed for the course will be
available at the first session. No prior course
work is required. Advanced projects will be
available for continuing students. $100 ($85
members). Call 312.322.8854 for more infor-
mation or to register.

The Dead Speak: Lessons
from a Tyrannosaur

70/74, Wednesday, 6 p.m.

Meet Sue, the largest and most complete
Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever unearthed.
Field Museum scientist Chris Brochu — who
is writing the first definitive monograph
ever compiled on Tyrannosaurus rex as a
species — will discuss some of the things
scientists are learning about this fossil and
will reveal some mysteries surrounding this
fascinating animal. $12 ($10 members).
Call 312.322.8854 for more information or
to register.

Stones and Bones

70/77, Saturday, 9 a.m. - noon
Meet Chicago's deceased and famous when
your family visits Graceland Cemetery, one
s of the city's most historically significant and
I scenic cemeteries. Ron Vasile, a local

z

I historian, will guide participants through
I the cemetery while anthropologist Jennifer
S Blitz will explain the meaning of certain
9 tombstone symbols. Adults and children

grades 6 and up. $27 ($23 members).

Call 312.322.8854 for more information or

to register.

What's Hiding in the
Pumpkin Patch?

70/77, Saturday, 11 a.m. - noon
and 1 -2 p.m.

Pumpkins make great jack-o'-lanterns, but
how else can we use them? Some cultures
use pumpkins, which are a type of squash,
as decorations and as food. During this
preschool workshop, participants can learn
how to make a rhythm instrument from a
pumpkin and how to decorate a pumpkin
using Native American and Mexican designs.
For adults and children ages 3 and 4. $8 per
participant ($6 per member participant).
Call 312.322.8854 for more information or
to register.

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Get Smart

Celebracion '98

Oct. 24 to Oct. 27

This year's "Celebracion" festival will fea-
ture performances, activities and
demonstrations that will focus on the Maya
and the close relationships that Latin
Americans have with their environment.
Programs are free with regular Museum
admission. Call 312.922.9410, ext. 497, for
more information. See "Free Visitors
Program" page for a complete schedule.
This event is sponsored by Abbott
Laboratories, lead corporate sponsor of the
Living Together exhibit.

Festival Highlights:

Performances

Feature Performance: Terracota, a popular
group from Guatemala, will perform tradi-
tional music that embodies the Maya
culture. By researching Guatemala's pre-
Columbian musical instruments, brothers
and band members Leonel and Max Flores
discovered that the descendants of the
Maya have been using these instruments
continuously for the last 500 years.

Inkamaya, a Chicago-based group, will per-
form a fusion of contemporary and
traditional music inspired by both Inca and
Maya cultures.

Activities

Jaguar Masks: Make a replica of a Jaguar
mask that the Maya wear during the Deer
Dance and learn how people from Latin
America use masks in their culture.

Amazing Maize: Find out how corn changed
the course of history and grind corn with
mano and matate.

Above: Terracota, a popular group from Guatemala, uses traditional Mayan instruments that
reflect the sounds of nature.

Puzzle Map of Latin America: Stroll across a
large floor map and match the Latin
American countries with their flags.

Demonstrations

Clay Whistles: Learn about the people and
traditions of Latin America while making a
musical instrument out of clay. For cen-
turies, indigenous people of Latin America
have used clay to develop their own distinc-
tive pottery style.

You Are What You Wear: Learn about the
various dialects of the Maya language and
how clothing can reveal a person's identity.

Meet Field Museum Scientists: Find out
about the research Museum scientists are
undertaking in Latin America and view
specimens and artifacts they have collected
from the region.

Celebracion 98: Schedule

Saturday, Oct 24, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 25, 10 a.m. -3 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 26, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
(School Group Day, preregistration
required)

Tuesday, Oct. 27, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
(School Group Day, preregistration
required)

Unity Day

Saturday, Sept. 19, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Join the Museum as it celebrates Unity
Day with a festival featuring hands-on
activities, dancers, face painters and
mask makers. During this day of festivi-
ties, the Museum will invite its visitors to
create a collage reflecting Chicago's cul-
tural diversity. In addition, the United
Neighborhoods Organization will pre-
sent their annual "Take Ten Kick-Off, "
which encourages parents to spend 10

minutes each day with their children.
The kick-off takes place at 9 a.m. on the
Museum's north steps and is open to the
public. The Allstate Foundation and
Children's Memorial Hospital will provide
safety demonstrations in the Museum
and on the Museum Campus. Admission
to Unity Day is free with regular
Museum admission. Call 312.922.9410,
ext. 497, for more information.

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SEPTEMBER • OCTOBER 1998

Caring For a Meaningful
Ceramic Collection

Words of Wisdom from Echo Evetts,
Ceramic Conservator

Friday, Oct. 23, 1998, at 5:30 p.m.
Reception and slide presentation at
the Rice Wildlife Research Station.
$28 members ($20 students);
free to Asian Ceramics Conference
registrants.

Above: A porcelain plate made in China
between the 15th and 16th century and
exported to the Philippines. Tfce character
depicted in the middle is a qilin, an auspicious
legendary animal having a dragon's head, a
lion's tail, a scaly body and hooves of a cow.

As part of the third biennial Field
Museum/ACRO conference on Asian ceram-
ics, world-renowned ceramic conservator
Echo Evetts will speak at the reception fol-
lowing the first day's proceedings. A
graduate of The Sir John Cass College of Art
in London, Evetts has written extensively on
the subject of restoring priceless ceramic art
and has evaluated ceramic artifacts for
museums, private collectors and auction
houses. During the lecture, Evetts will dis-
cuss a variety of topics, including what to
look for in an object, how to store and
display ceramics and ways of avoiding disas-
ters by properly packing and unpacking
priceless objects.

The Field Museum/ACRO conference, Asian
Ceramica: Resolving the Enigmas of the
15th Century Gap, runs from Oct. 23 to Oct.
25, 1998. Twenty specialists from around the
world will attend the conference to discuss
ceramic production, trade and technology
that occurred in the 15th century — a cru-
cial, but little-known period in the history
of ceramics. Museum anthropologists
Chuimei HO and Ben Bronson are the con-
ference cochairs.

The price for attending the three-day con-
ference is $125 ($95 for Museum and ACRO
members; $20 for students). For more infor-
mation, call 312.922.9410, ext 832, or e-mail
Chuimei HO at «ho@fmppr.fmnh.org».

The Art of the Motorcycle

Coming to the Field on Nov. 7, 1998

Cruise a century of fascinating motorcycle
designs and explore the social history of this
vehicle in a display of 72 classic cycles from
1869 to the present. "The Art of the
Motorcycle" examines the motorcycle as
both a cultural icon and as an achievement
in design and technology. The motorcycles
on display run the gamut from the first
wooden-frame, steam-powered models of
the 19th century to the futuristic designs of
the 1990s.

Right: A 1974 Ducati 750ss 748cc.

Halloween Harvest
Festival

Saturday, Oct. 31, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Come enjoy the Museum's second annual
Halloween Harvest Festival featuring
activities, demonstrations and perfor-
mances with an autumn theme.
Highlights of the festival include an
exhibit of jack-o'-lanterns decorated by
local artists, an activity where children
can create their own lanterns and a
demonstration on how to prepare tasty
harvest food. At 10 a.m. and at noon in
the Rice Wildlife Research Station,
African-American storyteller Shanta will
regale listeners with tales of the harvest
season. Then, at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.,
George, Michele and Ezra Schricker will
present Halloween songs and stories.
Visitors are also welcome to join
Lanialoha Lee of the Polynesian Resource
Center as she shares the traditions of the
Polynesian Harvest.

At the grand finale, visitors are
encouraged to create paper pumpkin
masks, lanterns, percussion instruments
and skeleton puppets and then join Red
Moon Theater's larger-than-life stilt-
walking puppets for a "Halloween
Lantern Parade and Spectacle" on the
Museum Campus.

Halloween Harvest Festival is free
with regular Museum admission — call
312.922.9410, ext. 497, for more infor-
mation. See the "Free Visitor Program"
page for a complete schedule.

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Free Visitor Programs

Daily through Labor Day and
Every Saturday and Sunday after
Labor Day

1 p.m. Story Time: Facts, Fables and Fiction

is an exciting program for presclioolers in
the Crown Family Place For Wonder, a
hands-on area for children that is open
from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on weekdays and
10 a.m. to 4:40 p.m. on weekends. Enjoy a
relaxing time, learn new songs and stories
and have fun creating artwork all in about
15 minutes. One adult for every three
children, please.

Every Saturday and Sunday

Interpretive Stations activities. Visit dynamic
hands-on stations located throughout the
Museum's halls. At these stations, a facilita-
tor invites visitors to touch objects and take
part in activities. Please check the daily
activities sheet on the informational directo-
ries located throughout the Museum for
specific times and locations.

Sept. 6 — Sunday

2 p.m. Film: Popol-Vuh: The Creation Myth
of the Maya. Presented in the Webber
Resource Center, this 60-minute animated
film depicts the Creation Myth of the
Maya Indians.

Sept. 13 — Sunday

2 p.m. Film: Daughters of Ixchel: Maya
Thread of Change. Presented in the Webber
Resource Center, this 30-minute documen-
tary explores the lives of contemporary
Maya women, portrays their ancient
weaving processes and examines the
economic, political and cultural forces that
affect them.

Sept. 19 — Saturday

10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Unity Day. Celebrate
Chicago's cultural diversity with a variety of
activities and a mask parade. See the "Get
Smart" page for more information.

Sept. 20 — Sunday

1 1 a.m. - 6 p.m. The 1998 Windy City
International Documentary Festival kicks off
with a day of film. Call 312.344.7773 for a
complete schedule.

Sept. 26 — Saturday

1 1 a.m. - 3 p.m. The National Summit on
Africa Activity Day. Spend a day discovering
the rich traditions, cultures and environ-
ments of the African continent.
Demonstrations, performances and activities
will be offered throughout the day. See
"Calendar of Events" page for details.

Above: Staffan Svensson's 1992 version of the dala horse, the national symbol of Sweden.
This is one of 200 objects on display in the "Swedish Folk Art: All Tradition is Change"
exhibit that opens on Oct. 17, 1998.

Oct. 4 — Sunday

2 p.m. Film: Rain Forest. Presented in the
Webber Resource Center, this 60-minute
film takes viewers on a journey to the dense
Costa Rican rain forest where leaf-cutting
ants carry sections of leaves many times
their weight to underground fungus gar-
dens, basilisk lizards walk on water and
howler monkeys bask in the sun.

Oct. 10 — Saturday

10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Dinosaurs and More
Festival. Join us for a closer look at
dinosaurs, the Museum's most popular
attraction. During the festival, visitors can
watch Museum scientists explain their work,
can catch up on all the latest news about
dinosaurs and can watch Museum prepara-
tors work on Sue, the largest and most
complete T. rex ever found.

Oct. 11 — Sunday

10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Dinosaurs and More
Festival continues from Oct. 10.

Oct. 12 — Monday

10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Dinosaurs and More
Festival continues from Oct. 10.

2 p.m. Film: Columbus Didn't Discover Us.

Presented in the Webber Resource Center,
this 25-minute documentary shows how
Christopher Columbus impacted the lives of
indigenous peoples.

Oct. 17 — Saturday

10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Swedish Folk Art: All
Tradition is Change. Participate in a day of
festivities highlighting Sweden's music,
dance, handiwork and traditions.

Swedish Folk Art: Demonstration. Observe
folk artists from Sweden demonstrate
woodcarving and wheat weaving. Chicago-
area artists will also present knitting and
folk painting.

Swedish Folk Art: Gallery Activities. Try your
hand at making traditional Swedish crafts.

10:30 a.m., noon & 1:30 p.m. Swedish Folk
Tales: Puppet Performance. Life-size puppets
and interactive theater combine to intro-
duce visitors to a host of characters.

11 a.m. & 2 p.m. Swedish Fiddlers. Fiddlers
from Sweden will play traditional songs on
authentic Swedish instruments.

Noon. Swedish Folk Art: Gallery Facilitators.

Join exhibit curators from Sweden as they
discuss the folk art featured in the exhibit.

12:30 p.m. Swedish Folk Art: Nordic Folk
Dancers. Watch as dancers from Nordic
countries perform regional dances in tradi-
tional clothing.

1:30 p.m. Swedish Folk Art: Gallery Tour

Tour the exhibit with a curator from
Sweden and gain insight into the country's
folk-art traditions.

Please note that programs are subject to change. Check the informational directories located throughout the Museum for daily program listings.

7 THE FIELD MUSEUM

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

SEPTEMBER • OCTOBER 1998

Oct. 18 — Sunday

2 p.m. Film: Corn and the Origins of Settled
Life in Mesoamerica. Presented in the
Webber Resource Center, this 41 -minute
film shows the work of an archaeologist,
anthropologist and a botanist who are
trying to learn how corn was domesticated.

Oct. 24 — Saturday

10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Celebracion '98: Explore the
diversity of Latin American cultures and
environments at a festival with special focus
on the Maya.

Celebracion '98: Field Museum Scientists.

Learn about the research activities of Field
Museum scientists working in Latin America.

Celebracion '98: Activities/Demonstrations.

See traditional clothing from Guatemala,
discover the history of chilies and chocolate
and make a musical instrument.

11 a.m. & 1 p.m. Celebracion '98: Terracota.
Hear music inspired by the sounds of nature
from a Guatemalan group that has spent
more than a decade studying
pre-Columbian musical instruments.

Noon & 2 p.m. Celebracion '98: Inkamaya.

Hear Chicago-based performers play tradi-
tional and contemporary Andean music.

Oct. 25 — Sunday

10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Celebracion '98 continues.

Oct. 26 — Monday

10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Celebracion '98: School
Festival (Group registration required; call
312.322.8852).

1 p.m. Celebracion '98: Field Museum
Scientists. Learn through demonstrations
and presentations about the research activi-
ties of Field Museum scientists working in
Latin America.

1 p.m. Celebracion '98: Activities and
Demonstrations. Find out about the history
of chocolate, watch a weaving demonstra-
tion and learn about the geography of
Latin America.

Noon. Celebracion '98: Inkamaya. Hear
Chicago-based performers play traditional
and contemporary Andean music.

Oct. 27 — Tuesday

10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Celebracion '98: School
Festival (See Oct. 26).

Oct. 31 — Saturday

10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Harvest Festival. Celebrate
the harvest season at The Field Museum.

10 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Harvest Festival:
Creation Stations. Create masks, lanterns
and other harvest decorations at our
"Creation Stations" and bring them to a 2
p.m. parade on the Museum Campus.

10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Harvest Festival: Great Wall
of Pumpkins. View a unique collection of
jack-o'-lanterns designed by local artists.

10 a.m. & 1 p.m. Harvest Festival: Stories by
Shanta. Hear tales of the harvest season.

1 1 a.m. and 1 p.m. Harvest Festival: Songs
and stories by the Schrikers. Enjoy a family
concert that focuses on Halloween and
harvest songs.

2 p.m. Harvest Festival: Halloween Lantern
Parade and Spectacle. Join in a parade
around the Museum Campus and watch a
performance by Red Moon Theater featur-
ing dancing skeletons, fire-breathers and
stilt walkers.

Africa Resource Center

Learn about the cultures of Africa and
African-American peoples through books
and audio/visual tapes.
Daily, 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Daniel F. & Ada L. Rice
Wildlife Research Station

Learn about the animal kingdom through
videos, computer programs, books and
activity boxes.Daily, 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Webber Resource Center,
Native Cultures of the Americas

Find out about the native peoples of the
Americas, past and present, through a vari-
ety of resources. Daily, 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Pawnee Earth Lodge

Visit a traditional home of the Pawnee
Indians and learn about their life on the
Great Plains. Weekday programs at 1 p.m.;
weekend programs at 11 a.m., noon and
3 p.m.; and Sunday programs at
10 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

McDonald's Fossil
Preparation Laboratory

Watch Field Museum preparators work on
Sue, the largest and most complete T. rex
ever found. Open daily, from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Above: African-American storyteller Shanta
will perjorm at both the Halloween Harvest
Festival and The National Summit on
Africa Activity Day.

Daily Highlight Tours

Visit the exhibits that make this Museum
one of the world's finest. Find out about
the stories behind the exhibits. Tours are
offered Monday through Friday at 11
a.m. & 2 p.m. Check the informational
directories located throughout the
Museum for a daily listing.

Please note that programs are subject to change. Check the informational directories located throughout the Museum for daily program listings.

THE FIELD MUSEUM

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

SEPTEMBER • OCTOBER 1998 8

Members' Nights 1998

When the Museum closes its doors on most weeknights at
5 p.m., an eerie silence envelops the building. But from 5
p.m. to 1 1 p.m. on July 23 and July 24, the Museum's halls
came alive with the sound of 9,600 members embarking
on a behind-the-scenes journey into the heart of The Field
Museum. During these two nights, members got to see
areas normally off limits to the public — such as the
research labs and collection storage areas — and to meet
the curators, educators, researchers, exhibit developers and
educators who bring the world and its people to Chicago.

Top Left: Benny the Bull shows off the six NBA trophies
won by the World Champion Chicago Bulls.The trophies
were on display at the Museum from July 20 to July 30.

Middle Left: Two children listen intently as Julian Kerbis
Peterhans, adjunct curator in the mammals division, recounts
the story of the legendary Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo.

Middle Right: A young girl shows no fear as she approaches
a log teeming with live snakes.

Right: A young couple "swing" to the music of The Blues
Swingers — one of three performers who provided members
with some late-night entertainment.

10 IN THE FIELD

Field Notes

Yemen: Arabia's
Forgotten Gem

Willard White, vice president for institutional advance-
ment, replies to a letter asking about his interest in Yemen
and the Gulf States.

Dear William,

What is it about Yemen that attracts me? Your note
and question arrived just after I returned from my
third visit, a five-week residence in the capital city of
Sana'a for Arabic immersion training at the Yemen
Language Center. Since my return I have been recruit-
ing a group of Museum members to join me on an
Arabian adventure to Yemen and Oman from Nov. 10
through Nov. 26.

Even well-traveled Americans know very little
about Yemen. It is still a place of mystery — though
that secrecy is no longer self-imposed. Scarcely any
mention occurs in our Western press, except for the
occasional kidnapping of oil workers who are treated
so hospitably that tourists fantasize about a kidnap-
ping. At least word of the Yemenis' famous hospitality
is finally reaching our shores.

Yemen was not always so forgotten. Persian,
Greek and Roman historians described the wealth of
South Arabia in exaggerated, almost fantastic lan-
guage. Rome attempted in the first century B.C. to
gain control over the trade in frankincense and myrrh,
but was defeated by mountainous terrain and Yemeni
guerrillas. Yemen's wealth and independence endured
until the spread of Christianity precipitated a fatal cri-
sis in the incense market.

In the 17th century, Yemen's economy collapsed
again when coffee — first cultivated in the temperate
highlands — was smuggled to Brazil by the
Portuguese, effectively ending Yemen's domination of
the world market. Two common terms reveal the ori-
gins of coffee culture: the "arabica" bean from southern
Arabia and the word "mocha" from Yemen's Red Sea
port that once exported most of the world's coffee.

Yemen is a nation of builders and engineers. The
"skyscraper" first appeared there, at least in the form
of the tower house, a seven- or eight-story structure of
mud brick ornamented with gypsum. In Sana'a, I lived
in such a house, something like a large square light-
house anchored with a massive stone staircase. In the
countryside, these houses bundle together on moun-
tain peaks and rocky ledges, defensible and cool. The
great dam at Mar'ib, the seat of the Sabaean kingdom,
was another ancient engineering marvel. Built in the
8th century B.C. to direct flash floods into fields on
both sides of the valley, it supported 50,000 people for
more than 1,000 years. The wealth of the incense

Above: The summer palace of the last imam crowns a
megalith outside Yemen's capital. For information about the
November tour to Yemen and Oman, call 312.322.8857.

trade made the dam possible; in turn, the dam sup-
ported agriculture for a flourishing society.

We believe it was from Mar'ib that Yemen's most
famous and most elusive citizen ruled. Bilquis, the
Queen of Sheba, is traditionally associated with a site
outside Mar'ib where the German Archaeological
Institute has meticulously cleared the temple to the
moon god Almaqah. Nearby is an even more imposing
site known as the "Sun Temple," where an American
team is just beginning its excavation. Our Field
Museum group will tour this area in November.

A major exhibit about Yemen sparked great inter-
est in Paris last fall. Comprising some 500 pre-Islamic
alabaster sculptures, stone inscriptions. Neolithic stat-
ues and funerary steles, this is the most extensi"e
collection from Yemen to be displayed in the West.
From Paris, the show moves to Vienna and to Munich,
and I hope to help it reach England and North
America in 2000 and 2001. Such an exhibition will
bring fresh awareness of Yemen to these shores.

Our Museum travelers will encounter two very
different societies. Yemen, an elected republic, reveals a
more traditional Arabia moving into the present.
Oman, a progressive monarchy, proudly brings its past
into a modern society sustained with moderate oil
wealth. Yemen is rugged and chaotic. Oman is orga-
nized and tidy, the Switzerland of the Middle East.

I am eager to acquaint more Americans with this
part of the Arab world. My question for you is this:
When will you join me and The Field Museum for an
introduction to an intriguing and unforgettable place?

SEPTEMBER • OCTOBER 1998 1 1

The Archives

From the Photo Archives .

Some Chicagoans might have been confused by the
Museums decision earlier this year to keep Sue as the
name for its newly acquired T. rex after conducting a
lengthy renaming contest. But they shouldn't have
been. Anyone familiar with our history knows that
when it comes to choosing names, we have a less than
perfect track record.

A case in point: In 1943, Museum officials decided
the name "The Field Museum of Natural History"
really didn't capture the spirit of the institution's local
mission. During the Museum's 50th birthday celebra-
tion that same year, the board officially changed the
name to "Chicago Natural History Museum." In an
announcement to members. President Stanley Field
clarified the decision: "Mr. Marshall Field has dis-
cussed with me several times the matter of the name
of the Museum. He had felt that since the Museum
was created and maintained for the public ... it would

be appropriate to, and also in the best interests of the
Museum, if the name were changed."

In 1966, however, officials had a change of heart
and switched the name back to "The Field Museum of
Natural History." They felt the Museum's name should
in some way pay tribute to its founder, Marshall Field,
and to its builder, Stanley Field — who served for 50
years as Museum president and board chairman. So,
in March 1966, workers (above) scaled the front of the
Museum and removed the obsolete 700-pound bronze
nameplate that adorned the south entrance for more
than two decades.

And that is all she wrote . . . well, not all. The
Field Museum used to be called the Columbian
Museum of Chicago until 1894 and then the Field
Columbian Museum until 1905, but that's a story for
another issue.

12 IN THE FIELD

From the Field Archives

September 1938

The Museum displayed a nesting
colony of oropendulas (closely
related to orioles, meadow-larks and
grackles) collected by Museum scien-
tists from a 100-foot-long tree in the
Montagua valley in eastern
Guatemala. Unable to get to the
nests by climbing the tree's 7-foot
diameter, branchless trunk, the scien-
tists took out their field axes and
simply chopped down the tree.

Fritz Haas, a German scientist well
known at the time for his important
biological research, joined the
Museum as curator of lower inverte-
brates. Haas immigrated to the
United States under the sponsorship
of the Emergency Committee in Aid
of Displaced German Scholars and
the Jewish Welfare Fund of Chicago.

Wilfred H. Osgood, chief zoology
curator, returned from an expedition
to the white sands of the Tularosa

Basin in south central New Mexico.
In this area, where the sands con-
stantly shift, few plants and animals
can adapt. While in Tularosa, how-
ever, Osgood collected a white lizard,
a black mouse and a number of
kangaroo rats.

A Field Museum archaeological expe-
dition to the Southwest discovered in
Cahone Canyon, Colo., the ruins of
an Anasazi Indian village believed at
the time to be more than 1,000 years
old. Among the ruins, they found a
circular slab structure used for rituals,
meetings and storytelling.

October 1938

A Museum botanical expedition
returned from the Bay of Fundy in
Nova Scotia with three 35-gallon
barrels filled with samples of the
region's intertidal vegetation.
Expedition members collected the
800 pounds of material near Sandy
Cove, about 20 miles south of

Digby on the rocky, narrow peninsula
between the Bay of Fundy and
St. Mary's Bay.

The Museum displayed a detailed
alabaster model of India's Taj Mahal
constructed by an artisan from Agra
in Uttar Pradesh where the real mau-
soleum stands. The Taj Mahal was
built in 1648 as a memorial to
Mumtaz Mahal, the favorite wife of
Shah Jahan, the fifth Mughal
emperor of India.

Julian Steyermark, assistant curator
of the Museum's herbarium, con-
cluded his botanical survey of the
flora of the St. Francis River in Wayne
County, Mo. The purpose of his trip
was to document the area's native
plants before the government com-
pleted construction on the
Wappapello Dam and flooded the
entire region.

Alive: The Asian Long-Horned Beetle

In July, federal agriculture authori-
ties notified the Illinois
Department of Agriculture that
they had found Asian long-horned
beetles (Anoplophora glahripennis) in
Chicago's Ravenswood neighbor-
hood. A few weeks after the
warning and after quarantining the
infested area, department officials
confirmed they also had discovered
the beetle in Summit, Wheeling
and DuPage County.

The beetle, which originates
from China, is one of the most
destructive pests in the world. The
larvae of this beetle can live in a
tree for up to three years, during
which time they burrow through
the tree's vascular system, which
carries water and nutrients to and

from the leaves. Eventually the tree
dies. The only effective way to
eradicate the beetle is to destroy
the host.

Illinois is not the first state to
have problems with this beetle. In
September 1996, New York
officials discovered an infestation
and since then have had to cut
down and burn thousands of trees
to contain the spread of the pest.
Anyone who believes they have
sighted an Asian long-horned bee-
tle, which is about an inch long
with a black body and white spots,
should notify the Illinois
Department of Agriculture at
1.800.641.3934. Information about
the beetle is available on their Web
site at <<www.agr.state.il.us.>>

SEPTEMBER • OCTOBER 1998 13

Field Museum Tours at a Glance

Join either Bruce Patterson or William Stanley (Field
Museum zoologists) on expeditions to the world-famous
Serengeti next February. Hundreds of thousands of wilde-
beest and tens of thousands of zebras and antelope amass in
this area each year, attended by lions, cheetahs, hyenas and
other predators.

Tunisia Unveiled

Oct. 15, 1998, to Oct. 28, 1998
Duration: 14 days
Guest Leader: Nejib Ben Lazreg
Price: $5,070, including air fare
from Chicago

Please call 3 12.322.8862 for more infor-
mation about this tour.

For more infor-
mation and
free brochures,
please call Kelly
or Christine at
800.811.7244,
or e-mail them
at «fmtours
@sover.net».

Arabian Adventure:
Yemen and Oman

Nov. 11, 1998, to Nov. 26, 1998
Duration: 15 days

Field Museum Leader: Willard White,
VP of institutional advancement
Price: $7,400, including air fare
from Chicago.

Please call 312.322.8857 for more infor-
mation about this tour.

The Antarctic Peninsula &
The Falkland Islands

Jan. 19, 1999, to Feb. 1, 1999

Duration: 14 days

Guest Leader: polar scientist

Rita Mathews

Price: Starts at $4,395; air fare is

not Included.

Egyptian Odyssey

Jan. 24, 1999, to Feb. 7, 1999

Duration: 15 days

Field Museum Leader: anthropologist

Jonathan Haas

Price: $4,090, including airfare

from Chicago.

Costa Rica's Wildlife
and Ecology

Jan. 29, 1999, to Feb. 7, 1999

Duration: 10 days

Field Museum Leader: botanist

William Burger

Price: $3,125, including air fare

from Chicago.

Africa and the Indian Ocean
by Private Jet

Feb. 7, 1999, to March 3, 1999

Duration: 25 days

Field Museum Leader: zoologist

Bruce Patterson

Price: $27,950, including air fare

London/London via private,

first-class jet.

Beginning Jan. 29, 1999, Museum
botanist William Burger will take tour
participants on an exploration of sev-
eral different ecosystems in Costa Rica.
During the trip, participants will see a
dazzling array of diverse tropical plants
and animals like toucans (above).

Tanzania Migration Safari

Feb. 11, 1999, to Feb. 24, 1999

Duration: 14 days

Field Museum Leader: zoologist

William Stanley

Price: $5,890, including airfare

from Chicago.

Exploring the Yachtsman's
Caribbean

Feb. 20, 1999, to Feb. 27, 1999

Duration: 8 days

Field Museum leader: zoologist

Harold Voris

Price: Starts at $1,800; air fare

not included.

Next May, join Zoology Chair
RUdiger Bieler on an expedition to the
spectacular islands of Micronesia.
While snorkeling or diving in the
region's near-shore waters, you might
see the huge, but harmless, giant manta
ray (above).

Plans for Spring, Summer and Fall 1999

March

Family Adventure to Belize: Reefs, Rain
Forests and Ruins

May

Micronesia: Pohnpei to Guam

Turkey: Crossroads of Civilizations
British Columbia and Alaska

June

Remote Britain Expedition Voyage

July

The Best of Alaska

Arctic Circumnavigation by Icebreaker

Galapagos Islands Adventure

August

Natural History of Peru

France: Total Solar Eclipse
Northwest Passage to Greenland

September

Kenya: The Wildebeest Migration and
Lions of Tsavo

Wildlife of Botswana and Namibia

Iran: The Ancient Land of Persia

Archaeology and Landscapes of China

October

Natural History of Borneo

Please Note: Dates, prices and itineraries are subject to change. Prices are per person, double occupancy.

INTHEFIELD

November
December
1998

The Field Museum's M

Publication

f

The Art of the
Motorcycle

November 7 to March 21

The Maneless
Lions of Tsavo

From the President

Exploring the Culture
OF Motorcycles

Every Sunday morning during the
summer, the parking lot at the
Highland House restaurant on the
corner of Route 41 and Route 22
near Highland Park is transformed
into a sea of polished chrome and
cold, hard steel. Motorcyclists from
all over the North Shore come to
this diner to talk shop, to admire
each other's bikes and to feast on a
hearty ail-American breakfast. It is
an eclectic group represented by
people from all walks of life. Some
of the riders are clean-cut middle-
class executives; others are the
hard-core Harley types decked out
in well-worn black leathers and
adorned with tattoos on every inch
of exposed skin. Some are in their
early 20s; others are close to retire-
ment. On any other day, their
paths would never cross. But come
Sunday, a rider's social standing
takes a back seat. For a few hours,
they all become members of a
cohesive group that some anthro-
pologists might define as a
cultural community.

The reason I picked this sub-
ject for my column is not because I
am going through a midlife crisis
(that happened years ago), but
because on Nov. 7, 1998, the
Museum opens "The Art of the
Motorcycle," an exhibit created by
the Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum in New York that
consists of 72 motorcycles ranging
from the steam-powered bicycles
of the 19th century to the
retro-revolutionary bikes of today.
Like the Guggenheim, we will be
presenting each bike as a unique
work of art. However, we want to
take the exhibit a step further and
examine the variety of meanings
the motorcycle has had in 20th-
century society and the changing
role it plays for different people
and different environments. In
other words, we will explore the
motorcycle as a unique and reveal-
ing cultural artifact.

Many of you right now are
probably thinking, "How can a
motorcycle be a cultural artifact?"
For the answer, I will turn to
Alaka Wali, the Museum's John
Nuveen Company Curator
of Anthropology.

"Anthropologists study the
way human beings adapt to their
environment. That's what we mean
by culture. Culture isn't limited to
the ways of other people — people
we study as though they were
'exotic' or 'primitive' versions of
ourselves. That's how museums of
the 19th century viewed it. But
modern anthropology recognizes
that culture is also what we do
here, today."

This new understanding of
culture has opened the door for
natural history museums like ours
to take on a much broader range of
subject matter and has paved the

way for anthropologists to focus
their magnifying glasses on con-
temporary societies as they search
for a more complete understanding
of how cultures form and change.
As Alaka explains, "We're exploring
fundamental questions about why
people do what they do."

For Alaka, one of the most
interesting aspects of the motorcy-
cle is the seemingly contradictory
role it plays in reinforcing both
individuality and group identity.

In terms of individuality, many
riders express themselves creatively
by customizing their bikes. And
riders of every age, every profes-
sion, every social milieu speak of
the freedom, the power and the
sense of possibility that motorcy-
cles offer. In an interview in The
New York Times earlier this year,
Peter Fonda summed it up as fol-
lows: "Bikers ride as nomads, in
clubs and in gangs, but no matter
how you ride, if you're a biker
you're an individual; nobody has a
motorcycle quite like yours."

But as our friends who fre-
quent the Highland House
restaurant prove, motorcycles are
also about belonging to a commu-
nity. Unlike traditional
communities, however, these are
"communities of mind," mobile
communities not bound by place
or family relationships.

These two ideas are at the
heart of what we will be examining
in "The Art of the Motorcycle,"
which will be on display until
March 21, 1999.

I hope you can join us for this
interesting ride.

/k7i\ }pi^i%J^ —

John W. McCarter, Jr.

President & CEO

We would like to know what you
think about In the Field ....

Please send comments or questions to Robert Vosper,
publications department, The Field Museum,
Roosevelt Road at Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL
60605-9410, or via e-mail at <rvosper@fmnh.org>.

Inside

Two Museum scientists travel to
Kenya to solve the mystery of
Tsavo's maneless male lions.

Museum paleontologists anxiously
await the results of a CT scan on
Sue's skull.

The Women's Board of The Field
Museum gets ready to celebrate
the winter holidays.

11

Zoologist Bruce Patterson reviews
David Quammen's new paperback,
The Flight of the Iguana.

%ur Guide to the Field

A complete schedule of events for
November/December, including
programs for The Art of the
Motorcycle exhibit.

Six people looked into the eyes of
this lion when it was alive; none
survived to tell their stories.

This 1965 Kreidler Florett 49 cc
motorcycle from Germany's
Deutsches Zweirad-Museum will
be on display in "The Art of the
Motorcycle" exhibit. See the
Calendar Section for details.

The Chicago Humanities Festival
takes a look at the changing nature
of relations between the sexes. See
the Calendar Section for details.

INTHEFIELD

Nov/Dec 1998 Vol. 69, No. 6

Editor and Designer:
Robert Vosper

Design Consultants:
Hayward Blake & Company

In the Field (ISSN #1051-4546) is published
bimonthly by The Field Museum, Roosevelt Road
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Cover Photo by Randy Leffingwell of a 1957
Harley-Davidson Sportster, XL, USA.

useum

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Around Campus

Shedd Aquarium

On Dec. 31, 1998, avoid the 1 1:59 p.m.
rush and celebrate the arrival of 1999
with your family from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. at
Shedd Aquarium's Kiddie New Year. The
fun-filled afternoon will include a marine
mammal presentation, an opportunity to
visit "Seahorse Symphony," crafts,
games, music and Gino's East pizza. At
the agreeable hour of 5 p.m., you'll wel-
come in the new year with an
underwater countdown by a diver in the
coral reef exhibit. Ticket prices are $25

per child aged three to 1 1 and $30 per
adult. Children two and under attend
for free. The aquarium will close to the
general public at 2 p.m., so be sure to
make your reservations for this exclusive
and very popular party. Call
312.692.3333 for more information.

Adler Planetarium

The last time the Leonid Meteor Shower
became the Leonid Meteor Storm was in
1966. Since the storm recurs approxi-
mately every 33 years, could this be the

year the storm returns with not tens,
not hundreds, but thousands of mete-
ors visible per hour? To find out, join
the Adler as they watch the skies on
Nov 18, 1998, from 3 a.m. to 6 a.m.

Winter is here and that means it's time
for Winter Solstice Sunfest. On
Dec. 20, 1998, from 1 1 a.m. to 3 p.m.,
the Adler will teach visitors about the
Sun through fun activities like an art
contest, stories and demonstrations.

NOVEMBER • DECEMBER 1998 1

The Mystery of Tsavo's
Maneless Male Lions

Above: In the eastern section of Tsavo National Park in Kenya, an unknown
number of maneless male lions lurk in the region's unforgiving rocky terrain
that is choked with acacia trees and impenetrable ngoja kidogo (wait-a-bit)
thorn bushes.

2 IN THE FIELD

By Robert Vosper

Afternoon temperatures in the eastern section of
Kenya's 4,698-square-miIe Tsavo National Park rarely
drop below 100, riverbeds remain cracked and frac-
tured like sunbaked mud flats almost year round and a
dense mosaic of acacia trees, 9-foot-tall wait-a-bit
bushes, baobab trees and doum palms blanket the
landscape. The wait-a-bit bushes are so thick in some
areas that visibility is reduced to three feet. Anyone
foolish enough to push through these bushes —
which nature equipped with sharp, curved thorns —
is rewarded within minutes with shredded clothes and
lacerated flesh.

Welcome to the former playground of the infa-
mous man-eating lions of Tsavo, two adult African
lions {Panthera leo leo) that killed and ate more than
128 workers who were building the Uganda Railway
for the British Empire in 1898. So cunning were these
two lions that it took British army officer John Henry
Patterson a year to terminate their reign of terror.
Twenty-six years after shooting the lions, John
Patterson sold their skins and skulls to the Museum
for $5,000, where, after being mounted, they have been
on display ever since.

Other than their unsavory appetite for human
flesh, what makes these two adult male lions so fasci-
nating is that both were completely maneless. Across
most of Africa, male lions are adorned with thick
manes and spend their days, if they are lucky, basking
in the sun surrounded by a harem of females. Though
maned lions now inhabit sections of Tsavo, maneless
lions continue to prowl the park's arid scrub, part of a
3,000-mile patchwork of inhospitable brush that
snakes along the East African coast from Somalia to
the north and Botswana to the south. Though sight-
ings of maneless lions are common, nobody really
knows how many exist in Tsavo or how their behavior
differs from their more common maned brethren. And
nobody has any clue as to what causes manelessness.
But if everything goes according to plan, two Field
Museum scientists and their Kenya Wildlife Service
(KWS) colleagues will soon expunge maneless lions
from the long list of nature's mysteries.

In September, Bruce Patterson, MacArthur
Curator of Mammals, and Tom Gnoske, chief prepara-
tor and assistant collections manager of birds,
launched a 30-month research project in Tsavo to
determine how manelessness is related to the park's
environment. According to their theory, manelessness
may be an adaptation to the park's habitats or the
result of a less grandiose process like the wait-a bit
thorns tearing out the lions' manes.

"We are planning a three-phase investigation to
get at the question of whether manelessness in Tsavo
is a result of nature or nurture," says Patterson, whose
project is part of the Tsavo Initiative — a coordinated
program of research, exhibits and public education the
Museum and KWS recently developed around the
man-eating lions of Tsavo.

Above: In the southern section of Tsavo East, an adult male lion with a full mane
lounges in the shade of a tree. Because elephants have cleared the area of thick
brush, the terrain is much more open than the rest of Tsavo East. Consequently,
maned lions are more prevalent in this region.

"First, we will use field surveys to identify where
maneless lions live and the social groups they live in,
paying special attention to the park's varied habitats
and prey populations. Second, we will use genetic
analysis to examine whether maned and
maneless lions represent distinct lineages. Finally, we
hope to rear maneless lions outside the reach of
wait-a-bit bushes to see if they develop manes in a
neutral environment."

To really appreciate what Patterson and Gnoske
are trying to accomplish, one must first understand
the reason nature felt compelled to furnish lions with
manes in the first place.

What scientists know about manes is that male
lions use them to control prides, the basic unit of lion
society. Prides typically consist of a group of related
females living with their young cubs and the cubs'
father(s). The males, which are unrelated to the
females, are temporary members of this society and
serve as the pride's leaders. As the leaders, they are the
only males that can breed with the females, a right
which they are willing to defend with their lives.

"If males can control a large group of females, the
stakes are enormous," adds Patterson. "Under these cir-
cumstances, lions will give their all for a shot at
breeding rights. For males in control of a pride, the
problem with this monopoly is that there are dozens
of bachelors in the wings looking for a good time."

To access these females, however, these bachelors
first must battle it out with the incumbent male(s),
which can result in serious injury to both parties and
sometimes death for the loser. If the winner is the

NOVEMBER • DECEMBER 1998 3

bachelor, then his first order of business is to kill any
suckling cubs in the pride, which causes the nursing
mothers to go into heat within four days. Though this
may be disturbing to humans, this act of infanticide is
natures way of giving the new male lion a head start
on building his genetic legacy and, for females, ensures
that scarce resources are devoted to those cubs sired
by the fittest fathers.

One factor that may reduce the challenges pride
males face during their tenure, which only lasts a few
years, is a large mane. Because mane size correlates
with a lion's physical health and the level of testos-
terone in its blood, those with access to a plentiful
supply of food and females (a sexually active male lion
produces more testosterone that a celibate one)
develop large and imposing manes.

"A male lion with a full mane is in good shape,"
explains Patterson. "He obviously has access to the
resources needed to support this physiological extrava-
gance and probably hasn't lost a battle in a long time.
On the other hand, we all know what happens when
we are trodden on, beaten on and feeling rejected."

In other words, a mane becomes an accurate gauge
of a lion's ability to defend its pride. So, a young male
lion whose hormones are raging is probably going to
think twice before battling it out with a pride male
adorned with a large mane. If the young lion is not too
desperate, he may wait until he is strong enough to
wage his war or may target a different pride in which
the male is past his prime.

According to a recent study by Peyton West, a
Ph.D. student at the University of Minnesota, manes
also serve another purpose, attraction.

"West's experiments are revealing that, for female
lions, size matters," says Patterson. "The bigger the
mane, the more attracted a female becomes. In addi-

Avovc: A typical scene on the Ajncan plains where the
females and cubs of a pride in Zimbabwe devour a 1,000-
pound Cape buffalo. Even though males are proficient
hunters, it is usually the job of the females in prides to gather
the food.

tion, color matters too. In lion society, blonds do not
have more fun, and in northern Tanzania, where West
is conducting her research, female lions prefer
black-haired manes."

What all this means for Tsavo's maneless lions is
anyone's guess. Patterson's theory for genetic determi-
nation of manelessness in Tsavo rests on prey density
and its effect on lion group dynamics. Because prey
density is much lower in the arid scrub than on the
plains, lions can't live in large prides. This has two
important consequences:

First, females are not all clumped together where
they can be defended by one or a few males. And sec-
ond, males can't rely on females to do all the hunting,
which is the normal order of business on the plains.
The first consequence would reduce the strength of
sexual selection for manes, while the second would
heighten the strength of natural selection against manes.
The researchers will evaluate this theory alongside its
alternative, which is that the wait-a-bit bushes are rip-
ping out the manes of these lions.

To test this hypothesis, the team will collect DNA
samples this fall from deceased lions throughout
Kenya that KWS culled in animal control operations.
Working with Jean Dubach, manager of Brookfield
Zoo's Conservation Genetics Laboratory, the team will
analyze variation in two mitochondrial genes and
three microsatellites (small fragments of DNA distrib-
uted on chromosomes in the cell nucleus). As part of
her work at Brookfield, Dubach has assembled and
analyzed DNA gleaned from various South African
and Namibian lion populations. By comparing
Brookfield's South African samples with the new
Kenyan samples, Patterson should get the first detailed
glimpse of genetic variation in African lions. These
results will also serve as a useful yardstick for
Patterson to assess whether diff^erent lineages exist in
Tsavo's lion communities.

After completing this preliminary genetic work,
the team will be enlarged to include a Kenyan gradu-
ate student and Roland Kays, who just completed his
doctorate at the University of Tennessee. The new
members will help to identify where the different lion
populations are living in the park. They then will place
satellite collars on selected individuals to see how
these different populations are interacting and
whether they restrict their movements to certain
habitat types.

Once Kays and the student complete these distri-
butional maps, the team then will begin an in-depth,
targeted DNA program aimed at gathering tissue sam-
ples from Tsavo's maneless lions using harmless biopsy
darts. Technicians will process and analyze these sam-
ples in The Field Museum's Biochemical Laboratories.

When Patterson and Gnoske finish this project in
30 months, they hopefully will have solved the long-
standing mystery of Tsavo's maneless lions.
If genetic factors are causing manelessness then it
means these lions represent a distinct lineage within

4 IN THE FIELD

Above: A maned male lion courts a solitary female in Uganda's Queen Elizabeth National Park. About 20 yards from this cou-
ple, another male (not shown) waits patiently to make his introduction. Since none of these lions belong to a pride, the female
may have eventually mated with the lion with the largest and darkest mane.

Panthera leo leo — a related clan that probably lost
their manes to the evolutionary forces of natural
selection. If the study yields no genetic evidence for
manelessness and the team is unable to correlate
mane variation to habitat and prey, then maneless
lions should grow their manes back in a more
open environment.

To learn whether maneless lions inhabit other
areas of Africa, Gnoske and Patterson will comb
through the mammal collections of European muse-
ums, many of which contain maneless lions assembled
during colonial conquests. In addition, they also will
look for references to maneless lions in books written
by the 18th-century and 19th-century big-game
hunters and explorers of Africa. Gnoske has already
found a handful of references that suggest maneless
lions may have once inhabited the entire East African
scrub zone, which, besides extending from Somalia to
Botswana, also shadows the eastern wall of the Great
Rift Valley that cuts a vast channel down the backbone
of Africa.

For instance, Gnoske learned that a few days after
famed Scottish explorer David Livingstone discovered
Lake Ngami in northwest Botswana on July 5, 1849,
he and his associates shot two adult maneless lions —
one with worn teeth and blunt claws, the other in its
prime with perfect white teeth. In 1896, on the
Museum's first zoological expedition to Somalia, zool-
ogy curator Daniel Elliot brought down a maneless
lion and noted the following: "The Somali lion is a
degenerate descendant of the South African species,
much smaller in size as a rule, of a grayish hue, and
with little or no mane. Rarely are specimens obtained
with even a fairly long mane."

In talking to rangers working in East Africa,
Patterson and Gnoske also have determined that
maneless lions still might be inhabiting segments of

the East African scrub zone. For instance, in 1991
Wayne Hosek of California shot an adult maneless
lion in southeastern Zambia, which is about 1,000
miles south of Kenya and at the tail end of the
Great Rift Valley. On Sept. 2, 1998, Hosek donated
the specimen, fully mounted, to The Field Museum
(see page 6).

No matter what the team discovers about the cause
of manelessness and how widely distributed maneless
lions are in Africa, they believe that Tsavo, as Africa's
largest protected park and as a sanctuary for one of
the continent's most savage habitats, will probably be
the last refuge for the African lion. Not so long ago,
the lion (Panthera leo) was once the planet's most
broadly distributed terrestrial mammal. Its subspecies
ranged over most of non-Sahara Africa, the Middle
East and eastern Balkan Europe, as well as southwest
Asia into the western reaches of the Indian subconti-
nent. During the Pleistocene (1.8 million years ago),
the same or similar species inhabited most of northern
and western Eurasia.

Today, Panthera leo can only be found in two
places: the Gir Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park
in India, where they exist in a group of 200, and in
small habitat pockets in Africa. The reason for the
near-total range collapse of the lion is that ever-grow-
ing human populations have expanded into lion
territory, transforming it into agricultural and pastoral
land. As a result, most lions today are restricted to
protected parks, many of which are too small to sus-
tain viable populations. As Patterson explains, the arid
scrub in places like Tsavo, which is virtually untam-
able, may become the last stronghold of the once
mighty African lion.

"The habitat that robbed the lion of his majestic
rank, the mane, may give him something even more
precious, a future," he adds. ITF

NOVEMBER • DECEMBER 1998 5

Field Updates

Museum Receives Largest
Man-Eating Lion on Record

By Robert Vosper

The long-standing reign as one of the Museums most
popular attractions might be ending for the notorious
man-eating lions of Tsavo that killed and ate 128 rail-
road workers in 1898.

On Sept. 2, 1998, Wayne Hosek of West Hills,
Calif., donated a maneless male lion he shot in 1991
while on a two-week safari near the South Luangwa
National Park in Zambia. During a two-month
period, the lion, nicknamed the "man-eater of Mfiiwe,"
killed and ate at least six people in and around the vil-
lage of Mfuwe, just outside the park's borders. The
lion, whose ear tips are nearly 5 feet from the floor, is
the largest man-eater on record, measuring 10 feet 6
inches in length, surpassing all but the largest lions
and rivaling the large Bengal and Siberian tigers.

Hosek first learned about the lion when his safari
guide informed him that the night before he arrived
from California the lion had eaten its sixth victim —
an elderly woman from Ngozo, a small village not far
from Mfuwe. Initially, Hosek had no interest in going
after the lion.

"I was still trying to become acclimated and it was
quite a scary situation to walk into," explained Hosek.

A few days later, however, it became obvious to
him that local oflScials needed help after two profes-
sional hunters failed to find the lion.

"At the time, the park rangers and the hunters
didn't know it was a maneless male so they ended up

Left: Villagers carry away the "man-eater of Mfuwe" that ate
six people during a two-month killing spree in Zambia.

killing six lionesses thinking it was the man-eater," said
Hosek, an experienced hunter and expert marksman.
"You also had a situation where there was nobody else
that could do it."

The next day, after informing his safari guide that
he wanted to go after the lion, Hosek, the guide, and a
couple of trackers visited Ngozo where they learned
that the day after killing the woman, the lion returned
to the victim's home and removed a bag of clothes.
After walking through the village streets with the bag
hanging from its mouth, the lion dropped it on the
banks of the nearby Luangwa River, returning at night
to play with it. Though admittedly spooked by the
story, Hosek and his guide went ahead and built a
hunter's blind on the riverbank and waited for the
lion to return.

"He was very crafty and his tracks were showing
that he was aware of where we were and what we were
doing," said Hosek.

After an agonizing week of watching the bag and
then moving the blind to another area, Hosek sud-
denly spotted the lion skulking around a tree. He
picked up his rifle, trained his sights on the animal
and fired — all within a matter of seconds. His .375
caliber bullet entered just behind the lion's left shoul-
der, penetrating its heart.

A few weeks later, he returned to California and
had the Mfuwe lion mounted. He then began wonder-
ing whether his trophy had any value to a museum.

"I had this lion and thought that it should really
be on display," explained Hosek, who was born and
raised in Chicago."The Field Museum was where I
first became intrigued with Africa's wildlife and envi-
ronment. I knew that the Tsavo man-eaters where
there, but I wasn't sure if you guys would want mine."

A few months ago, he contacted Bruce Patterson,
MacArthur Curator of Mammals, on the phone and,
within minutes, got the answer he was hoping for.

Not only did the Museum accept the gift, but it
plans to place the man-eater of Mfuwe on exhibit in
1999. Meanwhile, Patterson and Tom Gnoske, chief
preparator and assistant collections manager of birds,
will study the lion as part of their research into the
cause of manelessness (see page 2).

"Looking back to when I was boy, it is really sur-
real to think that one day I would be giving The Field
Museum a man-eating lion," said Hosek. "To think
that this is going to be used as a resource and what it
means to you is an incredible blessing to me." ITF

6 IN THE FIELD

Sue's Skull Undergoes a CT Scan;
Preparators Find Missing Bones

By Robert Vosper

The Museum's research paleontology lab looked like a
scene from the X-Files on Aug. 13, 1998, as mysterious
figures clad in protective white suits and oxygen masks
sprayed a noxious yellow liquid over a 5-foot-long
object tightly wrapped in aluminum foil. Though it
would have made for a great story, the object in ques-
tion wasn't of extraterrestrial origins. It was Sue's
65-million-year-old skull that preparators were ready-
ing for a CT scan at Boeing's Rocketdyne Propulsion
8C Power Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Ventura
County, Calif.

To stabilize the 2,000-pound skull during trans-
portation and to protect it during the scanning,
Museum preparators covered the skull with a light-
weight polyurethane foam. Before adding the
polyurethane, however, they wrapped the skull in alu-
minum foil to shield the exposed bone from the foam,
which, incidentally, emits isocyanide gas as a liquid
(hence the protective suits).

The scan, which took place in September and
October and is the first ever performed on a T. rex
skull, produced a series of images in two-millimeter
slices that together will give scientists a complete pic-
ture of the skull's internal and external anatomy.

"It is likely to yield significant insight into the ani-
mal's physiology and behavior," explained Christopher
Brochu, the Museum's postdoctoral research scientist
who is currently writing a monograph on
Tyrannosaurus rex. "Results of the CT scan will help
reveal how T. rex was related to other dinosaurs and to
their living representatives — the birds."

Preparators also will use the scan to identify areas
of the skull still encased in matrix (the rock that cov-
ers a fossil). Though they have done very little
preparation work on the skull to date, preparators
have removed about 50 percent of the matrix from
Sue's 300 or so fossilized bones since starting the
process in February. Robert Masek, a Sue preparator,
estimates that his team should be finished "cleaning"
the bones by spring 1999, at which point they will
supervise the casting of replicas of the specimen for
McDonald's Corporation and Walt Disney World
Resort, both of which helped the Museum purchase
the $8.3-million fossil at Sotheby's in New York on
Oct. 4, 1997. After the replicas are constructed, out-
side contractors will then assemble Sue piece by piece
for its grand unveiling in the year 2000.

Although preparators haven't encountered any
unforeseen problems while cleaning Sue, they did
receive an unexpected surprise in August when they
opened a field jacket labeled "from back end of skull
block" by the Black Hills Institute, Inc. (BHI), the

company that unearthed Sue near Faith, S.D., in 1990.
Inside the plaster cast, which BHI used to transport
the fossil from the dig site, preparators found a scapu-
locoracoid (shoulder blade), the ends of both pubic
bones and additional rib material — all of which were
believed missing.

"Even prior to the discovery of these bones. Sue
was the most complete T. rex ever found, and this new
material is extremely significant," explained Brochu.
"Sue can now boast a complete pelvic girdle and a
complete pectoral girdle. The additional bones will
enable us to gain a better understanding of this 65-
million-year-old animal's movement and how it lived."

These newly discovered bones and many others
are on display in the Museum's McDonald's Fossil
Preparation Laboratory where visitors can watch
preparators work on Sue. Field Museum preparators
also are busy removing the last pieces of matrix from
Sue's tail and leg bones at a preparation lab at Walt
Disney's Animal Kingdom in Florida. ITF

Fielow: Museum preparators spray a lightweight polyurethane
foam over Sue's enormous skull. To scan the fossil, Boeing
technicians had to tip the skull on its base, nose up. However,
they didn't have to remove the specimen from its wooden
shipping crate because a CT scan can penetrate through
wood, aluminum and polyurethane.

NOVEMBER • DECEMBER 1998 7

Campaign Update

Kresge Challenge Propels
Field Museum Campaign

By Mark Schmeltzer
Campaign Writer

The Kresge Foundation of Troy, Mich., announced a
$2 million challenge grant to Connecting: The Campaign
for The Field Museum. A $70 million initiative.
Connecting is the largest fund drive in Museum history.
Launched in 1995, the campaign has already surpassed
the $63 million mark and will likely reach its $70 mil-
lion goal in June 1999, well ahead of schedule. To
qualify for the Kresge challenge, the Museum must
complete the campaign by that date.

"We've been fortunate to receive Kresge's support
in the past," commented Campaign Chair and
Museum President Emeritus Willard L. "Sandy" Boyd,
noting that this most recent award is among the
largest the foundation has ever announced. "We are
deeply honored by this prestigious new
commitment. A Kresge challenge provides incentive
for the Museum's friends to help complete this
historic campaign."

The Museum's Board of Trustees initiated
Connecting to fund new exhibits, public-learning pro-
grams and research conducted by Field Museum
scientists. The campaign will fund Underground
Adventure, a new major permanent exhibit and edu-
cational program on soil ecology. Another funding
objective of the campaign is Living Together, an
exhibit about cultural diversity that opened in
November 1997. Gifts to Connecting will also augment
the Museum's endowment and fund computer
cataloguing of artifacts and specimens, as well as
renovations to research laboratories (like the Pritzker
Biochemical Laboratory) that support Museum
scientists and educators.

Connecting began in 1995 as a $60 million initia-
tive. In March 1998, the Board raised the campaign

goal to $70 million due to an impressive early response
from the public. To date, support for Connecting has
come from Museum Trustees and corporate sponsors
of Underground Adventure — including $4 million
from Monsanto Company and $2 million from The
ConAgra Foundation. Other major gifts to the cam-
paign include a $1 million pledge from the Simpson
family that will enable the Museum to renovate the
77-year-old James Simpson Theatre, and a $700,000
commitment (also a challenge grant) from the
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
The NEH grant will support Museum efforts to con-
serve and store its priceless collection of 1.5 million
anthropological objects.

This fall, the Museum will invite all members to
participate in the campaign by asking them to make
multiyear pledges to the annual fund. For more infor-
mation about ways of supporting the Connecting
Campaign, please contact the campaign ofBce at
312.322.8885 or visit their Web page at
<www.finnh.org/new/campaign.htm>. ITF

Above: A grant from NEH 15 allowing the Museum to con-
serve its world-renowned collection of cultural artifacts like
these lacquer cases, popular costume accessories for Japanese
men in the 18th and 19th centuries. These items were gifts
from Carl A. andjeanette Kennelly Kroch.

Left: Museum mycologist Gregory MuUer inspects an
over-sized animated model of a June beetle grub that
will be installed in the Underground Adventure exhibit
next spring.

8 IN THE FIELD

Women's Board Programs

The Women's Board
Holiday Tea Celebration

Dec. 2, 1998; 4 - 6:30 p.m.

Every year the Women's Board of The Field Museum
hosts the annual Holiday Tea Celebration for Museum
members and their families. This year, the Women's
Board will treat guests to the Wonders of Winter, during
which participants can explore exhibits depicting win-
ter scenes, partake in hands-on activities and learn
how animals and humans adapt to Mother Nature's
harshest season.

The afternoon celebration also will include an
appearance by Santa Claus and a merry elf, holiday
music by the Stu Hirsh Orchestra and performances
by the Jessie White Tumblers; Mr. Imagination; Ballet
Chicago Youth Troupe; and stiltwalkers Andy Head
and Frank Birdsall. Throughout the celebration, guests
can feast on pizza, pretzels and a variety of holiday
treats and refreshments.

If you would like to attend, please complete the
form on the right and mail it to: Holiday Tea
Celebration, The Field Museum, Women's Board Office,
Roosevelt Road at Lake Shore Drive,
Chicago, IL 60605.

To receive your tickets by mail, please include a
self-addressed stamped envelope. Please make checks
payable to The Field Museum. Guests cannot pur-
chase tickets at the door. Reservations are limited and
will be accepted in the order received.

Please call the Women's Board Office at
312.322.8870 for more information.

Above: Thousands of lights will transform the Museum's facade and Museum
Campus into a glowing holiday spectacle from Nov, 1, 1998, through New Year's.

The Women's Board Holiday Tea Celebration

CITY/STATE/ZIP

No. of Tickets

Price

Adult members at $12 each

Adult nonmembers at $17 each

Children (13 and under) at $7 each

Total

The Bikers' Ball

Nov. 6, 1998, at 6:30 p.m.

Dust off your old black-leather jackets and pants and
celebrate the opening of "The Art of the Motorcycle"
exhibit at The Bikers' Ball — the Field Museum's
annual fund-raiser organized and hosted by the
Women's Board. At this creative black-tie event, the
Women's Board will not only make sure their guests
are among the first Chicagoans to see this fascinating
exhibit that for months was the talk of the town in
New York, but will beguile them with a night of
visual excitement and entertainment, including an
elegant dinner in Stanley Field Hall and dancing to
the sounds of Mickey & the Memories.

Please call Cindy Andresen at 312.322.8870 for more
information about this event. Ticket prices start at
$350. "The Art of the Motorcycle" exhibit is orga-
nized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New
York (see "Exhibits" page for details).

Above: (from left to right) Judy Block, chairman of The Field Museum Board
of Trustees; Donna La Pietra, the Bikers' Ball vice chair; Karen Gray,
the Bikers' Ball chair; Liz Martinez, the Bikers' Ball vice chair; Laura Front,
Women's Board president.

NOVEMBER • DECEMBER 1998 9

Your Guide to the Field

Inside

1 Exhibits

3 Calendar of Events

5 Get Smart

7 Free Visitor Programs

The Art of
THE Motorcycle

Above: A 1948 Indian Chief 1206 ccfrom the collection of Doug Strange. For more than 30
years, the Indian Chief was Harley-Davidson's main sales competition in the V-twin heavyweight
class. Throughout the decade, this bike continued to sell well, forcing companies like Harley-
Davidson to borrow some of its design features.

Endless curves open before you .... On
either side, the gleam of steel and chrome
— designs of beauty, power and speed.
Seductive contours whisper to your inner
rebel: Come on . . . taste the freedom of the
open road.

This is "The Art of the Motorcycle," roaring
into Chicago direct from New York's
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. From
Nov 7,1998, to March 21, 1999, visitors will
encounter a new kind of excitement at the
Field, the second U.S. stop on the acclaimed
exhibit's international tour.

"The Art of the Motorcycle" gives visitors an
up-close look at the sleek, the powerful and
the surreal. Installed along a swerving
course, artfully mounted and lighted, the 72
machines radiate their raw beauty. Each one
is displayed as a unique work of art, a sculp-
ture of extraordinary design and innovative
technology. Visitors can follow the progres-
sion of this art form through time, from the
steam-powered bicycles of the 19th century,
to the Easy Rider ethos of the 1 960s, to the
retro-revolutionary bikes of today.

The exhibit sheds light on the motorcycle
not only as an achievement in design and
technology but as a cultural icon, influenc-
ing and influenced by popular culture. In
keeping with the Field's mission to explore

the Earth and its people, the Museum's
installation supplements the Guggenheim's
with new material, focusing on the diverse
individuals and groups who have used the
motorcycle to shape their identities.

From its beginning, the motorcycle has been
far more than a means of transportation. A
slow walk around the 1965 Kreidler Florett
(see page 1), for example, makes this multi-
ple personality clear: depending on your
vantage point and your state of mind, the
bike can look like the sleek body of a
woman, a rampaging Cyclops, or the
embodiment of mechanics and technology.

"The Art of the Motorcycle" presents the
motorcycle as art from these viewpoints and
more. It considers motorcycles as art objects
with a practical bent — as Tom Wolfe put it,
"a piece of sculpture that the artist, or the
spectator, for that matter, can get up on
and ride."

As a cultural exhibit, "The Art of the
Motorcycle" explores the bike's important
role in defining community and identity.
The Field Museum has added special
elements to the exhibit, highlighting this
role throughout the motorcycle's history
and directly addressing its multiplicity
of meanings.

For example, in the Museum's exhibit, visi-
tors will see the extraordinary diversity of
individuals and groups who have adopted
the motorcycle as their own — from Hells
Angels and Japanese Bosozuku gangs to
Bikers for Christ and Women on Wheels.
The Field Museum hopes visitors will gain a
deeper understanding of how motorcycles
and other contemporary artifacts provide a
glimpse at the people and the cultures of
the world in which we live.

The exhibit has been organized by
the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York.

Depending on their membership category.
Field Museum members may receive up to
four free tickets to the exhibit. Admission to
the exhibit for nonmember adults is $5,
Monday, Tuesday and Thursday; and $6,
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
There is also a free members' viewing night
for this exhibit on Sunday, Nov. 15, 1998,
from 5:30 to 9 p.m. (see page 10 for
more information).

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Exhibits

China's Feathered
Dinosaurs

About 120 million years ago, volcanoes
erupted in northeastern China, spewing poi-
sonous ash and gas into the sky. Animals
and plants in the area died instantly in the
path of the destructive cloud, their bodies
sinking to the bottom of a large lake.
Today, scientists digging into the rocky lay-
ers of that ancient Chinese lake bed are
discovering many fossil animals unknown to
science, including dinosaur-like birds and
bird-like dinosaurs that offer new clues to
one of the oldest evolutionary puzzles: How
did birds evolve?

Four of these Chinese feathered fossil
animals and two models partially con-
structed of bird feathers will be featured in
the new traveling exhibit "China's
Feathered Dinosaurs," on display until Jan.
3, 1999. The fossil animals include
Sinosauropteryx prima, a small meat-eating
dinosaur with a ridge of tiny fibers running
from its back to its tail that may represent
the earliest example of bird feathers;
Confuciusornis sanctus, the earliest primitive
bird thought to be capable of flying any
real distance; Protarchaeopteryx robusta,
more primitive and larger than the oldest
known bird, Archaeopteryx; and
Caudipteryx zoui, similar to
Protarchaeopteryx but with long, sharp
teeth in the front of its upper jaw.

Above: At more than 120 million years old, Caudipteryx /a//$ on the evolutionary scale between
dinosaurs and birds. Scientists theorize that though Caudipteryx was covered in feathers and
was fast on its feet, it probably couldn't fly.

The last two animals have distinct feathers
sprouting from their dinosaur-like bodies.
They were first described in the June 25,
1998, issue of the scientific journal Nature,
and their discovery was reported in the July
1 998 issue of National Geographic.

"These are some of the most Important
dinosaur finds of the 20th century," explains
Olivier Rieppel, curator of fossil amphibians

and reptiles. "Two of the feathered animals,
Protarchaeopteryx and Caudipteryx, really
seal the lid on the theory that dinosaurs
gave rise to birds."

This exhibit is organized by the National
Geographic Society's Explorers Hall. The fos-
sils are on loan from the National
Geological Museum of China.

Swedish Folk Art
All Tradition is Change

Above: A hanging cupboard built in the 1850s
by Hdllars Matthias Hansson. Photograph by
Mats Landin.

The exhibit "Swedish Folk Art: All Tradition
is Change" features 300 objects that cele-
brate the richness and beauty of Sweden's
folk art. On display until Jan. 4, 1999, the
exhibit uses woodwork, textiles, furniture,
baskets and a variety of Swedish handicrafts
to explore the intricate connections
between 18th-century rural art and modern
Swedish design. It also examines the many
facets of Swedish style and culture, as well
as folk art and design.

One of the highlights of the exhibit is the
Lekstugan (playhouse). This interactive
reconstructed one-room farmhouse from
the 1800s features child-size furnishings,
clothing, books and music. The playhouse is
made to order for a child's imagination with
a kid's cupboard bed, large corner fireplace.

doll cradle, kitchen table and a wooden cow
that young visitors can milk. Children can
also stack firewood or plan a meal in
this fun, yet educational component of
the exhibit.

"Swedish Folk Art" is a joint international
project of the Kulturhuset Stockholm, the
Swedish Institute, the Museum of
International Folk Art and the TREX:
Traveling Exhibitions Program of the
Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, in collab-
oration with the Dalarnas Museum Falun,
Kulturen Lund, Leksands Kulturhus,
Nordiska Museet and the National
Association of Swedish Handicraft Societies.
Corporate sponsors for this exhibit include
American Airlines and IKEA North America.

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Calendar of Events

Lecture and Book Signing —
Shadows in the Sun: Travels to
Landscapes of Spirit and Desire

7 7/70, Tuesday, 6 p.m.

Author Wade Davis has been called "a rare
combination of scientist, scholar, poet and
passionate defender of all of life's diversity."
In his most recent book. Shadows in the
Sun, he brings all these gifts to bear in a
fascinating examination of indigenous cul-
tures and the interactions between human
societies and the natural world. Unearthing
stories in places like the wilderness of British
Columbia, the jungles of the Amazon and
the Arctic Circle, Davis has created a testa-
ment to a world where spirits still stalk the
land and seize the human heart. Copies of
Shadows in the Sun will be available for
purchase and signing. $12 ($10 members).
Call 312.322.8854 for more information or
to register.

Family Program — Book Reading:
How to Take Your Grandmother to
the Museum

7 7/7 7, Wednesday, 1 p.m.

Author Lois Wyse and her 10-year-old
granddaughter, Molly Rose Goldman, will
discuss their new book. How to Take Your
Grandmother to The Museum. This charm-
ing book chronicles the story of a young girl
and her eager grandmother's adventure
through New York's American Museum of
Natural History. During the lecture, the two
authors will share with the audience the
excitement of their joint publishing experi-
ence, from the initial steps of recording the
story to choosing the illustrations and
sending the finished product off to the
printer. Afterward, the audience can let
their own imaginations run wild as they
experience the sights and sounds that await
them in the halls of The Field Museum. Free
with regular Museum admission.
Preregistration is not required. Call
31 2.322.8854 for more information.

Panel Discussion — Native Voices
in a New Millennium:
A National Dialogue

7 7/72, Thursday, 6 p.m.

Throughout the century, Hollywood,
ill-informed policy makers, and an
omnipresent Western educational system
have all typecast the Native Americans and
their culture. Join distinguished members
from national Native American organiza-
tions to learn what hopes, dreams and
aspirations they hold for this nation's first
Americans, the challenges Native Americans
face and the opportunities they will
embrace on the eve of a new millennium.
Though this program is free, preregistration
is recommended. To register or for more
information, call The Field Museum at
312.322.8854 or NAES College at
773.761.5000.

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Santa Lucia Celebration

Saturday, Dec. 12 & Sunday, Dec. 13
10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

in Sweden, Lucia is celebrated every year
to mark the beginning of the holiday
season. The tradition holds that on the
morning of December 13, Lucia, the
bearer of light, comes dressed in a white
dress with a red ribbon around her waist
and a wreath of lingonberry sprigs and
candles on her head. Join the Museum as
we celebrate this Swedish custom and
Sweden's other cultural traditions.
Weekend festivities include a Lucia pro-
cession performed by children from the
Swedish School, folk dances performed
by the Nordic Folk Dancers and Swedish
fiddling by the Chicago Spelsmanslag.
The Santa Lucia Celebration is free with
regular Museum admission. Call
312.922.94W, ext. 497, for more infor-
mation. See the "Free Visitor Programs"
page for a complete schedule.

Above: A child gets ready to celebrate Santa
Lucia Day — a Swedish tradition that marks
the beginning of the Christmas season.

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Left: A Rhacophorus pardalis relaxes on a
leaf in Aurora National Park in Luzon, the
main island of the Philippines. Frogs are
remarkably diverse in the Philippines — 80 to
90 species are now known, about 20 of which
have been discovered in just the past five years.

Lecture — Frogs of the Philippines

11/28, Saturday, 2 p.m.

Join zoologist Rafe Brown from the
University of Texas to discover the diversity
of frog species inhabiting the Philippines
and learn about this amphibian's habitat
preferences and conservation needs. Brown
I also will discuss his current research and
i how it Is contributing to the understanding
I of biodiversity on this country's Island
ecosystem. Free with regular Museum
admission. Preregistration is not required.
Call 312.322.8854 for more information.

Lecture and Book Signing — Taking
Wing: Archaeopteryx and the
Evolution of Bird Flight

1 1115, Sunday, 2 p.m.

Acting as a scientific detective, author Pat
Shipman traces the age-old human desire to
soar above the Earth. Are birds actually liv-
ing dinosaurs? Where does the fossil record
really lead? Did flight originate from the
"ground up" or "trees down?" Shipman
deftly unpacks the complex questions that
have revolutionized paleontology, all the
while believing that Archaeopteryx Is the
key to solving these mysteries. Many scien-
tists have Identified Archaeopteryx — an
exquisitely preserved fossil with wings,
feathers, reptilian jaws and tail — as the
possible link between birds and dinosaurs,
making It the subject of heated debate. This
lecture portrays the compelling account of
how scientific thinking on the mysteries of
flight developed and the scientists who
have so painstakingly pieced it together.
Free with general Museum admission.

Lecture — Mexican Movie Posters:
How to Read Between the Lines

7 7/27, Saturday, 11 a.m.

To complement a visit to the "Poster Art
From the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema,
1936 - 1957" exhibit, join exhibit curator
and author Charles Ramirez Berg for a slide-
Illustrated lecture on the history of the
Mexican film industry during its golden age.
Professor Berg will discuss the creation and
production of the striking lithograph
posters displayed In the exhibit and how to
"read" the posters based on their graphic
design. Copies of his publication. Poster Art
from the Golden Age of Mexican
Cinema/Carteles de la Epoca de Oro del
Cinema Mexicano, will be available for pur-
chase at the Museum's new store. This
lecture is free with regular Museum admis-
sion. Call 312.322.8854 for more
Information. For details about the exhibit,
please turn to the "Get Smart" page.

Family Overnight

7 7/27, Friday, to 11/28, Saturday,
5:45 p.m. - 9 a.m.

What Is It like to be in a museum after the
crowds have gone home? Experience The
Field Museum in a unique way by spending
a night of discovery before falling asleep
among specially chosen exhibits. Overnights
are designed for families (adult accompa-
nied by children grades 1 to 6) and Include
workshops, an evening snack, a perfor-
mance and a continental breakfast. An
all-new, exciting booklet of overnight activi-
ties is now available! So bring a flashlight
and your sense of adventure and bump into
new friends as you explore the Museum
after hours. $45 per participant ($38 per
member participant). Call 312.322.8854 for
more information or to register.

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Get Smart

Motorcycle
Programs

In conjunction with its new exhibit "The Art
of the Motorcycle," the Museum is offering
visitors a series of events and programs
relating to motorcycles that promise to
entertain and excite audiences of all ages.
The "Art of the Motorcycle" exhibit has
been organized by the Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Motorcycles Film and Video Series

From Hollywood's earliest days, the beauty
and drama of motorcycles have mesmerized
filmmakers and provided potent images and
metaphors for the silver screen. Join us for a
series of films and videos dramatizing the
motorcycle's amazing impact on popular
culture. Screenings will run the gamut from
such timeless classics as The Wild One and
Easy Rider, to the biker cult films of the
1970s. Call 312.922.8854 for a complete list-
ing of titles and times.

Family Activity Days:
The Art of the Motorcycle

Saturday, Nov. 7 & 14, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Join Greenlight Performing Company in an
interactive piece and get down and dirty
with the sights and sounds of the motorcy-
cle by becoming part of the machine itself.
Visitors can design a sleek machine with
artists who will be on hand to help. Climb
aboard a real motorcycle and learn the
importance of bike safety. Free with general
Museum admission. Call 312.322.8854 for
more information.

Above: A 1922 Megola Sport 640 ccjrom the collection of the Deutsches Museum in Munich,
Germany. Designer Fritz Cokerell built this machine with both its five cylinders and engine
within the front wheel, the first of its kind.

An Evening with Film Critic Gene
Siskel: Vroom on Film

Friday, Nov.13, 6:30 p.m.

The Field Museum is honored to present
award-winning columnist Gene Siskel to
comment on the motorcycle's role in
movies. Using images from a series of films,
Siskel — who reviews movies for The
Chicago Tribune, TV Guide magazine, "CBS
This Morning," and TV's leading film-review
program "Siskel and Ebert" — will examine
how the motorcycle has been used in
movies over the years. This special evening,
which includes a cocktail reception, is the
first in a series of films, videos and presenta-
tions the Museum is offering to
demonstrate how Hollywood has helped
forge the motorcycle into a cultural icon.
$25 ($20 members). Call 312.322.8854 for
more information or to register.

Symposium: The Motorcycle as
a Cultural icon

Friday, Jan. 15, 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 16, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Fashion statement, fetish or basic trans-
portation? The many values attached to the
motorcycle during its first century of evolu-
tion comprise the focus of a special,
two-day symposium that explores the many
facets of public icons and their influence on
popular culture. $100 ($85 members).
Call 312.322.8854 for more information
or to register.

Thanksgiving Festivities

Nov. 26, 1998, to Nov. 29, 1998,
11 a.m. - 3 p.m.

This year. The Field Museum will be open
on Thanksgiving Day. Come to the
Museum and enjoy some family fun.
Beginning Thanksgiving Day and contin-
uing through Sunday, performances and
hands-on activities will engage visitors of
all ages. During the day, visitors can
explore the Museum through activity
stations, create holiday gifts and decora-
tions and watch a unique paper-making
demonstration. Also, don't miss Joe
Pintor, "The Filipino Yo-Yo Man, " and his
extraordinary yo-yo tricks and tech-
niques. All activities are free with
general Museum admission.
Call 312.922.9410, ext. 497, for more
information. See the "Free Visitor
Programs" page for a complete schedule.

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Chicago Humanities Festival IX: He/She

The Changing Concepts of Gender

Above: "Venus and Neptune" by Jim Dine, 1990, oil on canvas.

Does society have the right to legislate our
future friendships, loves and relationships?
Is the femme fatale a figure of the past?
Can men and women be friends? These are
some of the questions that the ninth-annual
Chicago Humanities Festival (CHF) will be
examining between Nov. 5, 1998, and
Nov. 8, 1998. Through 94 programs, which
take place at 16 sites in downtown Chicago,
the festival will probe the mystery of He/She
and the changing nature of relations
between the sexes in the midst of the cen-
tury's third sexual revolution.

Tickets for CHF programs can be purchased
in advance for $3 ($5 at the door) at the
Symphony Center Box Office at 220 S.
Michigan Ave. or by calling 312.294.3000.
For more information about the festival, call
312.661.1028, visit their Website at
<www.chfestival.org> or send them an
e-mail at <chf@chfestival.org>.

CHF Programs at The Field:

Wild Swans

Saturday, Nov. 7, 1 - 2 p.m.

Author Jung Chang tells a tragic yet uplift-
ing personal story about three generations
of women from her family who, against all
odds, lived through the turbulent upheavals
of 20th-century China.

Unveiling Gender: Three Middle
East Dialogues

Saturday. Nov. 7, 2:30 - 3:30 p.m.

Anthropologists Daniel Martin Varisco and
Najwa Adra review the varied roles of men
and women in traditional Arab and
Islamic cultures.

Is Darwinism Sexist?

Sunday, Nov. 8, 1 -2:30 p.m.

A panel discussion about Darwin's views of
male and female differences. Are his theo-
ries of natural and sexual selection
politically incorrect?

Contrasting Religious Proscriptions
on Gender

Sunday, Nov. 8, 3 -4 p.m.

A panel of theologians and lay religious
leaders discuss male and female roles in
world religions.

Cyberculture Panel

Sunday Nov 8, 4:30 - 5:30 p.m.

He/She in cyberspace: Why are there so
few women in the forefront of
computer technology?

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During Mexican cinema's two-decade long
Golden Age (La Epoca de Oro), the Mexican
film industry released more than 1,500 films
drawing record crowds. For Mexican cin-
ema, the Golden Age was their most
commercially successful and artistically
vibrant period in the country's long film his-
tory. The "Poster Art From the Golden Age
of Mexican Cinema, 1936 - 1957" exhibit,
which is on display until Nov. 29, 1998, pre-
sents more than 25 promotional posters
from movies produced in this period.
The exhibit is organized by the
Archivo Filmico Agrasanchez, Universidad
de Guadalajara/lnstituto Mexicano
de Cinematografia.

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Free Visitor Programs

Every Saturday and Sunday

1 p.m. Story Time: Facts, Fables and Fiction.

Learn new songs and stories and have fun
creating artworl< all in a 15-minutes pro-
gram for preschoolers in the Crown Family
Place for Wonder. One adult for every three
children, please.

Interpretive Stations activities. Visit dynamic
hands-on stations located throughout the
Museum. At these stations, a facilitator
invites visitors to touch objects and take
part in activities. Please check the daily
activities sheet on the informational
directories located throughout the Museum
for specific times and locations.

Nov. 7 — Saturday

1 1 a.m. - 3 p.m. Opening Day Activities for
"The Art of the Motorcycle." Activities
include an interactive theater piece and a
"ride" on a stationary motorcycle.

Nov. 14 — Saturday

10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Dinosaurs and More: Read
More About It. Celebrate National
Children's Book Week (Nov. 16 - Nov. 20).
Bring books on prehistoric life to trade at
our Book Trading Post and at 1:30 p.m.
enjoy a magical reading show by Ronald
McDonald and Stoogie the Bookworm.

1 1 a.m. - 3 p.m. Family Activity Day for
"The Art of the Motorcycle." Visitors can tap
into their creative energy by joining an
interactive theater program, designing a
miniature motorcycle from recycled materi-
als or taking an imaginary motorcycle
journey. The Museum also will present the
film The Mouse and the Motorcycle.

Nov. 1S — Sunday

10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Dinosaurs and More: Read
More About It (see Nov. 14). Join a dinosaur
sing-along by the Green Light Performing
Company at 11:30 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. and
meet "Bookwoman" at noon.

2 p.m. Lecture and Book Signing — Taking
Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of
Bird Flight by Pat Shipman. Hear compelling
accounts on how birds evolved. See

the "Calendar of Events" page for
more information.

Nov. 16 — Monday

10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Dinosaurs and More: Read
More About It (see Nov. 14). Don't miss the
dinosaur sing-along at 11 a.m. and a chance
to meet "Bookwoman" at noon.

Above: Sue's 5-Joot-long, 2,000-pound skull. To study the skull's internal and external anatomy,
Museum paleontologists recently commissioned Boeing Co. to perform a CT scan on the skull.

Nov. 21 — Saturday

1 1 a.m. Lecture and Book Signing —
Mexican Movie Posters: How to Read
Between the Lines. Charles Berg, curator of
"Poster Art From the Golden Age of
Mexican Cinema, 1936 - 1957" exhibit, will
discuss the creation and production of these
rare movie posters and how to "read" the
posters based on their design. See the
"Calendar of Events" page for details.

2 p.m. Lecture: The Philippines. Take an
"armchair journey" to the Philippines with
Marina Villanueva, regional director of the
Philippine Department of Tourism. Discover
the rich history, art and culture of the
Philippines through a slide-Illustrated lec-
ture and tour of the exhibit "Voyage of a
Nation: The Philippines."

Nov. 26 — Thursday

11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Thanksgiving Festivities.
Visit Interpretive Station activities placed
throughout the Museum and learn about
Egyptian hieroglyphs, owl pellets and
ancient fossils.

Nov. 27 — Friday

1 1 a.m. - 3 p.m. Thanksgiving Festivities.
Family fun continues through the weekend.

1 1 a.m. - 3 p.m. Create It With Paper. Learn
from artists Maria Uribe and Beth Welbel
how to make beautiful holiday gifts and
decorations from recycled materials. And
from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. make your own paper
project and watch a unique demonstration
by staff from the Paper Source.

1 1 a.m. - 3 p.m. The Filipino Yo-Yo Man. Joe
PIntor, an expert at using a yo-yo, will show
off his skills and demonstrate some tricks.

Nov. 28 — Saturday

1 1 a.m. Lecture: Blowing Its Top: The
Pinatubo Eruption and the Lingering
Aftermath. Kelvin Rodolfo, professor emeri-
tus at the University of Illinois, presents a
lecture and video presentation about the
1991 eruption of Mt. Pinatubo on the island
of Luzon in the Philippines.

1 1 a.m. - 3 p.m. Thanksgiving Festivities
and Create it with Paper (see Nov. 27).

1 1 a.m. - 3 p.m. Pappel Picato. Make tradi-
tional Latin American decorations with
artist Teri Cortes.

12 p.m. The Filipino Yo-Yo Man
Performance. Join expert yo-yo player Joe
Pintor as he demonstrates his skills and dis-
cusses the history of the yo-yo.

Please note that programs are subject to change. Check the informational directories located throughout the Museum for daily program listings.

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1 p.m. The Naperville Chinese School Yo-Yo
Group Performance. Watch the finely
developed techniques of these young
yo-yo players.

2 p.m. Lecture: Frogs of the Philippines.

Rafe Brown, doctoral candidate at the
University of Texas, introduces visitors to
the diversity of frog species living in the
Philippines, as well as their unique
characteristics and conservation needs.
See the "Calendar of Events" page for
more information.

Nov. 29 — Sunday

11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Thanksgiving Festivities,
Create It with Paper and The Filipino Yo-Yo

Man (see Nov. 27).

1 1 a.m. - 3 p.m. Paper Making. Artist Phyllis
Nelson will show visitors how to make
paper at home.

1 1 a.m. - 3 p.m. Pappel PIcato (see Nov. 28).

Dec. 5 — Saturday

10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Dinosaurs and More: Sue.

Meet Museum scientist Dan Summers for a
demonstration of "Trapped in Amber."
Scientists from the birds division will com-
pare dinosaurs to birds and demonstrate
bird preparation techniques. Activities
include creating a T. rex kite.

Dec. 6 — Sunday

10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Dinosaurs and More: Sue
(see Dec. 5). Join a dinosaur sing-along by
Green Light Performing Company at
11:30 a.m. & 1:30 p.m.

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Dec. 7 — Monday

10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Dinosaurs and More: Sue
(See Dec. 5). Join a dinosaur sing-along
by Green Light Performing Company
at 11 a.m.

Dec. 12 — Saturday

10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Santa Lucia Festival. Santa
Lucia Day is one of Sweden's most beautiful
traditions that marks the beginning of the
Christmas season. Watch traditional dances
and enjoy demonstrations of wheat weav-
ing, felting, wreath making and folk art.

10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. Santa
Lucia Festival. Swedish Folk Tales, an inter-
active puppet performance.

11 a.m. Santa Lucia Festival: A performance
by the Nordic Folk Dancers.

Noon. Santa Lucia Festival: A performance
by the Chicago Spelmanslag and the
Scandinavian Turning Dancers.

Dec. 13 — Sunday

10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Santa Lucia Festival
(see Dec. 12).

10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. Santa
Lucia Festival: Swedish Folk Tales, an inter-
active puppet performance.

12:30 p.m. Santa Lucia Festival: Santa Lucia
procession by the Swedish School.

2 p.m. Santa Lucia Festival: A performance
by the Varblomman Children's Group.

Dec. 26 — 31

1 1 a.m. - 4 p.m. Peaceable Kingdom
Festival. Enjoy the wonders of winter dur-
ing special programming for the holiday
week. A Choral Festival of Peace will fill the
air and children are invited to make pine-
cone bird feeders or decorate a square to
add to a "Wishes for Peace" quilt.
Additional performances and activities will
add to the celebration.

Left: On Nov. 15, 1998, author Pat Shipman
will attempt to answer one of the great
mysteries of science: Are birds actually
living dinosaurs?

Africa Resource Center

Learn about the cultures of Africa and
African-American peoples through books
and audio/visual tapes.
Daily, 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Daniel F. & Ada L. Rice
Wildlife Research Station

Learn about the animal kingdom through
videos, computer programs, books and
activity boxes.
Daily, 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Webber Resource Center,
Native Cultures of the Americas

Find out about the native peoples of the
Americas, past and present, through a vari-
ety of resources.
Daily, 10 a.m. -4:30 p.m.

Pawnee Earth Lodge

Visit a traditional home of the Pawnee
Indians and learn about their life on the
Great Plains.

Ruatepupuke:

The Maori Meeting House

Discover the world of the Maori people of
New Zealand at the treasured and sacred
Maori House.

McDonald's Fossil
Preparation Laboratory

Watch Field Museum preparators work on
Sue, the largest and most complete T. rex
ever found.
Daily, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

The Crown Family Place For Wonder

A hands-on area for children.
Weekends, 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Weekdays, 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Daily Highlight Tours

Visit the exhibits that make this Museum
one of the world's finest. Find out about
the stories behind the exhibits. Tours are
offered Monday through Friday at 1 1
a.m. & 2 p.m. Check the informational
directories located throughout the
Museum for a daily listing.

Please note that programs are subject to change. Check the informational directories located throughout the Museum for daily program listings.

THE FIELD MUSEUM

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

NOVEMBER • DECEMBER 1998 8

Membership News

Field Associates Honor
Sue at Dino-Mite Nite

Sue received a belated welcome on Aug. 14, 1998, when
the Field Associates, a new Museum membership organi-
zation of young adults, hosted Dino-Mite Nite, a cocktail
party to celebrate the Museum's purchase last year of the
65-million-year-old T. rex. More than 1,300 guests turned
up for the event, which included a performance by the
Gentleman of Leisure band and a dinner catered by some
of Chicago's most prominent restaurants. The moneys
raised from the event benefitted the Parental
Involvement Project — an award-winning program
designed to give parents the resources they need to assist
in their children's educations. The Museum established
the Field Associates to help promote The Field Museum's
collections, research and public programs. Call
312.322.8870 for information about joining this group.

Above: Field Associates members {from left to right) Jim and
Julie O'Connor; Tim and Beth Eachus; Doug and Stafford
Meyer; and Reinhold Llerena.

Right: Actress Joan Cusack, honorary event chair; and
Mellody Hobson, event cochair.

Holiday Members' Sale
Double Your Discount

Dec. 4, 1998, to Dec. 6, 1998
Daily, 10 a.m - 5 p.m.

For three days, Field
Museum members can
receive a 20 percent dis-
count on all merchandise
in the Museum's three
stores (discount doesn't
apply to books or
catalogues). In the newly
renovated, 6,000-square-foot Main Store in Stanley
Field Hall, for example, you can find a multitude of
unique items gathered from around the v\/orld,
including handcrafted jewelry from the Philippines,
drums from New Guinea and pottery and crafts
designed by Native American artists. Members looking
for gifts for the youngsters can stop by the Dino Store
and The Kid's Market and pick up educational and
fun items unavailable in local stores.

Members' Viewing Night for
"The Art of the Motorcycle"

Sunday, Nov. 15, 1998
5:30-9 p.m.

When the crowds have gone home. Field Museum
members are invited to explore "The Art of the
Motorcycle" exhibit, which opens Nov. 7, 1998, and is
organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York. Included in this night of artistic and cul-
tural discovery is a host of family activities like a
theatrical "motorcycle" performance by the Green
Light Performing Company. In addition, the Corner
Bakery restaurant and the new Dinosaur McDonald's
will be open throughout the evening. Call
312.922.9410, ext. 453, for more information.

10 IN THE FIELD

Book Review

Author David Quammen
Offers a Sidelong View
OF Science and Nature

By Bruce Patterson

Mac Arthur Curator of Mammals

The Lebanese philosopher and poet Kahlil Gibran
once said, "Your friend is your needs answered." Any
student of natural history who reads The Flight of the
Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, a collec-
tion of essays written by David Quammen, will come
away longing for the author's company. To the bud-
ding naturalist, Quammen brings rich understanding
and deep insights. To the accomplished scientist, he
lends his curiosity, wonder and wit. Though the col-
lection was released first as a hardback a decade ago,
Quammen's stories age well in this affordable $13
Touchstone paperback reprint.

There is something for everyone in the 29 short
chapters in Quammen's book, which compares favor-
ably with the very best in natural history writing.
Stephan Gould's "This View of Life" essays in Natural
History provide a useful and instructive bench mark.
Both focus on the "big stories" in natural history,
though Gould's selections are drawn generally from
his lectures in the history of sciences, while
Quammen's seem more eclectic, gathered from late
20th-century life in America. Gould's writing typically
bears allusion to metaphors involving baseball,
Shakespeare and/or opera (or operetta), injecting art
and drama into what otherwise might be dry and aca-
demic. Quammen has the luxury of selecting
inherently more dramatic subjects, and his literary
embellishments emphasize tone or mood. As a scien-
tist, Gould strives to maintain a professional
detachment, while the journalist Quammen is free to
become involved and take sides. Though Quammen
does justice to complex issues like animal rights and
illegal aliens, there is no mistaking his own position by
the conclusion of a chapter. And the conclusions come
quickly. I found it easy to knock off a chapter or two
in the 15-minute gaps in my everyday schedule. I find
it liberating and invigorating to walk into the bath-
room and then emerge minutes later full of
information and interest in arcane subjects.

Readers of Outside magazine have long enjoyed
Quammen's work. His style is easy and conversational,
full of appreciative wit. Writing about the discovery in
the 1920s that sex in spoon worms is determined by
environment, not genes, he remarks: "But environmen-
tal sex determination seemed then just an oddity, an
aberration, the kind of garish and mildly repugnant

THE

Flight

OF THE

Iguana

A SIDELONG

VIEW OF
CIENCE AND
NATURE

/

"One of the nation's most eloquent spokesmen for nature.
— S*ui FranciKO Chronicle

DAVID QUAMMEN

trick that one would expect from an obscure group of
marine invertebrates like the spoon worms. Today, we
know better."

But he is also sentimental. In an essay on
monogamy in geese, he writes: "Wild geese, not angels,
are the images of humanity's own highest self. They
show us the apogee of our own potential. They live by
the same principles that we, too often, only espouse.
They embody liberty, grace, and devotion, combining
those three contradictory virtues with a seamless ele-
gance that leaves us shamed and inspired. When they
pass overhead, honking so musically, we are treated to
(and accused by) a glimpse of the same sort of sublime
creaturehood that we badly want to see in ourselves."

Quammen named his book The Flight of the Iguana
after an incident in the life of Charles Darwin, then a
young naturalist aboard the H.M.S. Beagle, who,
standing on the rocky shore of an island, pitched an
oversized lizard into the sea. The lizard (a marine
iguana) swam gracefully through the surf back to
shore, only to be cornered, caught and catapulted into
the sea again. This episode is vintage Quammen —
the perfection of exquisite adaptation through natural
selection, the guileless naivete of insular animals and
the unrelenting curiosity of a scientist in the act of dis-
covery — offering easily accessible lessons to anyone
poring over his pages. He is, quite simply, the finest
natural historian writing today and an outstanding
companion, even in two dimensions. IJF

NOVEMBER. DECEMBER 1998 11

The Archives

From the Photo Archives

After spending eight grueling months in East Africa in
1906 collecting fauna for an upcoming Field Museum
exhibit, Delia Akeley Howe (left) of Beaver Dam,
Wis., and Carl Akeley, her husband and the Museum's
former taxidermist, decided to travel to Kenya to hunt
elephants. Within two weeks of arriving, Carl shot a
large elephant, narrowly escaping death in the process
when a buffalo and a stampeding herd of elephants
charged him. Though the elephant was missing a tusk,
the couple reluctantly kept the specimen and shipped
it back to the Museum.

A few weeks later, while in the foothills of Mt.
Kenya, they spotted another large exhibit-quality ele-
phant. This time, Delia took charge.

"Scarcely breathing, and with legs trembling so I
could hardly stand, I waited for the elephant to move
forward," she wrote in her book All True!" Dimly
through the mist the dark shape came slowly from
behind the bush, exposing a splendid pair of tusks and
a great flapping ear which was my target. With nerves
keyed to the point of action I fired, and the first
elephant I shot at fell lifeless among the dew-wet
ferns .... He was a splendid elephant, standing ten
feet ten inches tall at the shoulders and carrying 180
pounds of ivory. In his back was a great festering
wound caused by a poisonous spear. The iron blade
had worked its way into his flesh to his rib and he
must have suffered agonies."

In 1909 the two elephants (lower left) went on
display in the Museum's former home in Jackson Park.
Today, they can be found in the middle of Stanley
Field Hall (Delia's elephant is the one with two tusks).

Not long after this trip, Carl took a job at the
American Museum of Natural History and in 1923
the couple divorced ^ though it is not clear if the two
episodes are related. A year later, she accepted a posi-
tion with the Brooklyn Museum of Arts and Sciences
(known today as the Brooklyn Museum of Art).
During various expeditions with the museum, she dis-
covered a new species of antelope and bird, crossed the
then unexplored desert country between Kenya's Tana
River and Ethiopia by camel caravan, explored the
Tana River from the Indian Ocean in a dugout canoe
and lived for many months with the pygmies in the
Ituri Forest in northeastern Zaire.

"I like the natives of Africa; I am really pronative"
she once said. "I found them friendly, intelligent and
much more understanding than we are."

Before she died in 1970 at the age of 95 in
Daytona, Fla., Delia published several books about her
African adventures, including Jun^/e Portraits and All
True!, as well as a book about her pet monkey and con-
stant companion, J.T Jr. ITF

12 IN THE FIELD

,/

From the Field Archives

November 1941

The Museum exhibited a group of
tel<tites that Filipino gold miners
placed next to their gold in a darl<
room, hoping the glassy stones
would magically double their riches.
Some scientists believe tel<tite, which
is a collective term applied to
certain objects of natural glass found
in isolated locations, originated
as meteorites.

The Field Museum Archaeological
Expedition to the Southwest
returned to Chicago with pottery
shards and bone tools collected
from a buried New Mexico village
occupied 2,400 years ago by a
prehistoric culture l<nown as the
Mogollon. At one time, Mogollon vil-
lages extended from southern
Arizona and New Mexico to the
Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts of

Mexico. The Zuni of Arizona are
their modern descendants.

Visitors had to pay an extra three
cents to enter the Museum thanks to
Uncle Sam and the Revenue Act of
1941. Before Congress passed the act
— which increased admission to 28
cents — religious, educational and
charitable organizations were
exempt from charging a tax on
admission fees.

December 1941

The Museum displayed 62 mounted
specimens from its ornithological col-
lections to teach visitors about the
morphological variations among
birds. One of the most interesting
birds on display was a kea (above), a
large olive-green parrot native to
southern New Zealand that inhabits
the region's alpine forests and

mountain scrub lands. Though nor-
mally quite content eating fruit,
leaves and insects, they have been
known to kill and eat sick or
weakened sheep.

Museum scientists launched their
fourth botanical expedition to
Guatemala with the objective of col-
lecting plants that only flower
during the country's rainy season.

Representatives from Sun Oil
Company visited the Field to study
the effects of centuries of corrosion
on buried metals that Museum
anthropologists collected in Egypt
and Kish (ancient Sumerian city on
the Euphrates in what is now central
Iraq). They also wanted
to study the techniques used
by Museum staff to restore
valuable metal artifacts damaged
by corrosion.

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NOVEMBER • DECEMBER 1998 13

Field Museum Tours at a Glance

Join Field Museum zoologist Dave Willard next May on an
11-day expedition voyage through British Columbia and
Alaska's Inside Passage. On this tour, participants will see
Native American settlements, lush evergreen forests, massive
glaciers and wonderful wildlife like puffins (shown above).

The Antarctic Expedition in January
has one cabin available. The Egyptian
Odyssey in January is full; however,
there is room available on a waiting
list. Call today for an update on
space availability.

Costa Rica: Wildlife
and Ecology

Jan. 29, 1999, to Feb. 7, 1999

Duration: 10 days

Museum Leader, botanist

William Burger

Price: $3,125, including air fare

from Chicago.

Africa and the Indian Ocean
by Private Jet

Feb. 7, 1999, to March 3, 1999

Duration: 25 days

Museum Leader, zoologist

Bruce Patterson

Price: $27,950, including air fare on

private, first-class jet from London.

For more information and
free brochures, please call Kelly
or Christine at 800.811.7244,
or send them an e-mail at
<fmtours@sover.net>.

The Virgin Islands:

The Yachtsman's Caribbean

Feb. 20, 1999, to Feb. 27, 1999

Duration: 8 days

Museum Leader zoologist

Harold Voris

Price: Starts at $1,800; not including

air fare of $710 from Chicago.

Family Adventure to Belize:
Reefs, Rain Forests and Ruins

March 7, 1999, to March 13, 1999
Duration: 1 days
Museum Leader: zoologist
Mark Westneat

Price: $2,195 adults; $495 for kids
under 12; $645 for kids ages 12 to
17; not including air fare of
$620 ($520 for kids under 12)
from Chicago.

Travel with University of Chicago
professor Richard Chambers in
May and explore Turkey's magnifi-
cent archaeological sites.

Enjoy a variety of swimming and snor-
keling excursions in spectacular tropical
locales with Field Museum zoologists
Harold Voris in the Virgin Islands;
Mark Westneat in Belize (shown
above); and Riidiger Bieler
in Micronesia.

Micronesia: Pohnpei to Guam

May 11, 1999, to March 22, 1999

Duration: 12 days

Museum Leader, zoologist

Riidiger Bieler

Price: Starts at $5,390; not including

air fare of $1,788 from Chicago.

British Columbia and Alaska

May 19, 1999, to May 29, 1999

Duration: 1 1 days

Museum Leader: zoologist

David Willard

Prices: Start at $2,380; not including

air fare of $430 from Chicago.

Turkey: Crossroads
of Civilizations

May 21, 1999, to June 6, 1999
Duration: 17 days

Guest Leader University of Chicago
professor Richard Chambers
Price: $5,280, including air fare
from Chicago.

Tanzania Migration Safari

Feb. 11, 1999, to Feb. 24, 1999

Duration: 14 days

Museum Leader: zoologist

William Stanley

Price: $4,195; not including air fare

of $1,695 from Chicago.

In the Planning Stages

Galapagos Islands

Remote Britain

Alaska's Inside Passage
and Gulf Coast

Remote Alaska

Circumnavigation by Icebreaker

Natural History of Peru

France: Total Solar Eclipse

Kenya Safari

Southern Africa Safari

China: Archaeology and Landscapes

Iran: Ancient Persia

Arabia: Aqaba to Dubai

Please Note: Dates, prices and itineraries are subject to change. Prices are per person, double occupancy.