In the Field

The Bulle : 1993

The Field Museum

Exploring
The Earth Ang

In the Field

1893-1993
The Field Museum The deaths of two
Exploring researchers set back
The Earth And Its efforts to preserve
People biodiversity in tropi-

cal rain forests.

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September/October 1993

SERENO LEADS
DINOSAUR EXPEDITION

Famed dinosaur hunter Paul Sereno is lead-
ing an expedition to the Sahara where he
expects to find many previously unknown
dinosaur species. Fossils from the expedi-
tion will be on display at the Field Museum.

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CENTENNIAL KICKOFF

IMAGES IN MOTION

By Steven Weingartner

he first of four Images in Motion light

shows on the Museum’s north facade

begins the night of September 14.

Titled “Treasures of the World,” this
show will launch the Field Museum’s gala
Centennial Celebration, which will last for ten
months and culminate in a public Centennial
Festival Week in June 1994.

Produced by Technique Mirage, Inc. of
Atlanta, Images in Motion will offer a unique
and breathtaking look at the Field Museum’s
many treasures. Through the use of specially
designed “mega-image” projectors, dozens of
artifacts, objects, and photographs from the
Museum’s vast collections will adorn the build-
ing’s exterior, appearing there as brightly col-
ored pictures of immense size. Visible for
several hundred yards along the lakefront, these
bright forms will be in constant motion, danc-
ing across the Museum’s face and behind the
classical columns even as the columns them-
selves appear to rotate in a swirl of color.

The multiple images will be projected
from slides mounted on a continuous loop,
which will cycle all the way through every ten
minutes. Each show will run from dusk to mid-
night, seven nights a week, for two weeks at a
time. Of course, admission is free: You can
watch the show on the Museum grounds, from
a boat on Lake Michigan or a picnic blanket on
the grass in Grant Park — any spot that gives
you an unobstructed view of the Museum’s
north fagade!

“Treasures of the World,’ sponsored by
Helene Curtis Industries, Inc., can be seen from
September 14-28. The show will provide a
visual history of the earth, from the dinosaur
age to the world of ancient Egypt and the island
realms of the Pacific. Among the images fea-
tured in the show are a hollowed skull from the
Solomon islands; Egyptian mummy twins; a
statue of Bastet, the ancient Egyptian cat god-
dess; a mummy sarcophagus; a figure of Osiris,
Egyptian god of the underworld; the wooden
funerary boat of Senworset; a Fijian war club; a
Maori feather box; a giant Polynesian fish
hook; a coconut-fiber dance mask from the
New Hebrides; and monumental structures
such as the pyramids, the Sphinx, and the tomb
of Unis Ankh. Also on the program are images
of modern Egyptians and Pacific islanders at
work and play, as well as images of landscapes
and wildlife indigenous to Egypt and the Pacific.

“Africa,” the next show in the series, will
be presented from November 5-19. The presen-
tation will coincide with the November 13
opening of the Museum’s new exhibit on
Africa. Sponsored by the Sara Lee Corporation,
this show will display images of African arti-
facts, such as ritual masks, beaded work from
Cameroon, bronze work from Nigeria, gold
jewelry, and various weapons and wood carv-
ings. Of particular note is the image of the
Kongo nail fetish known as nkisi nkondi a
strikingly beautiful figurine, held to be one of
the Museum’s greatest masterpieces. Also to be
shown are scenes of African landscapes,

wildlife in natural habitats, flora and vegeta-
tion, and fossils.

“The Living World” (May 19-28, 1994)
will address environmental themes with color-
ful images from the natural world. Sponsored
by Michael Reese Hospital, the show will both
complement and highlight a Museum-hosted
scientific conference on the environment. The
conference, which will be open to the public, is
intended to be the intellectual heart of the cen-
tennial-year celebrations.

The final program, “Faces of America”
(June 2-16, 1994), will celebrate the diversity
of American cultures and traditions. This show,
which will emphasize the Museum’s role in
promoting cultural understanding, will close
out the Museum’s 100th birthday celebration.

COMING TO
STANLEY FIELD HALL

he Museum's central Stanley Field Hall

) is undergoing a number of major

changes. The first of these changes was

the installation of the Brachiosaurus exhibit,

which opened in July 1993 as the largest

mounted dinosaur skeleton in the world. Bra-

chiosaurus will soon be joined by a rotating

globe six feet in diameter, with the surface of
the earth presented in topographical relief.

In the coming months, original banners
created by Canadian artist Norman LaLiberté
will be displayed on the mezzanine level of the
main hall. These huge pennants, measuring 20
feet long and 6 feet wide, will be composed of
colorful, whimsically executed images
appliqued onto wool and felt. The images will
address the themes and subject matter of the
Museum's major exhibits. There will also be
an enhanced fountain display and attractive
new furniture for the information booth and
admission desk.

The Museum also plans to use Stanley
Field Hall for ethnic markets during the winter
holiday season. African, Native-American,
Hispanic-American, and Asian markets are
among those that are currently contemplated.
Additional plans are in the works to stage an
increasing number of live performances
(music, dance, theater, and related activities) in
Stanley Field Hall.

NEW EXHIBITS ON
AFRICA, EVOLUTION

uring its centennial year the Museum
D will open new permanent exhibits —

“Africa” in November 1993 and two
exhibits on evolution in 1994 — that are exem-
plary of its new tag line, “Exploring the Earth
and its People.”

“Africa” will be unique for its multidisci-
plinary presentation of Africa’s human and eco-
logical diversity, and of the role people of
African descent have played in the Americas. It
draws on the Museum’s extensive collection of
African artifacts and natural-history specimens,
widely regarded as among the world’s finest.

“Africa”
will utilize
several pre-
sentational
strategies,
all empha-
sizing the
perspective
of Africans
and African-Americans. Visitors will be drawn
into a lively “you are there” setting, moving
through sections covering subjects such as
contemporary urban life, art, animals, environ-
ments, commerce, and the African diaspora.
Each section will recreate a different tactile
and visual experience, such as a bustling street
in the city of Dakar in Senegal, the unusual
topography and life forms of East Africa’s
Great Rift, and a slave auction in the Americas.

Dinosaurs and Such

The first evolution exhibit, scheduled to
open in June 1994, will cover the time from
the beginning of life on earth to the rise of the
dinosaurs. The second, covering the time since
the dinosaurs, will open in November 1994.

The exhibits’ approach, which alternates
the processes of evolution with their results at
selected evolutionary landmarks, will under-
score the connections between past and present.

ERRATA

The name of Robert
Gowland was omit-
ted from the list of
Museum volunteers
logging the most
hours of service in
1992 (in the Field,
July/August 1993,
page 2). Mr. Gow-
land ranked fifth,
with 722 hours.

EDITOR’S NOTE:

In the article “Dino-
saur Summer,” on
page one of the
July/August issue,
Stegosaurus was
mistakenly listed
among the creatures
inhabiting the new
Dinosaur Hall. We
were actually think-
ing of Triceratops,
but it’s been a while
since we were 12.

SEIZING THE VISION

By Willard L. Boyd
President, Field Museum

ne hundred years ago now, Edward
Ayer led a group of Chicagoans in
the middle of the great financial
debacle of 1893 to seize the vision
articulated by Frederick Ward Putnam. In an
address to the Commercial Club of Chicago on
November 28, 1891, Putnam, the chief ethnolo-
gist of the World Columbian Exposition, had
challenged the City to establish a museum of
natural history with the collections that had
been gathered for the Exposition. He said, “It is
well to remember that the National Museum in
Washington owes its existence largely to the
Centennial Exposition [at Philadelphia in
1876], at which time so much was secured for
the government. An opportunity . . . a hundred
times greater will be offered to Chicago if it is
known that there is to be a permanent museum
where everything will be properly arranged and
cared for.”
As the World Columbian Exposition drew
to a close incorporators on September 4, 1893,
filed with the Illinois Secretary of State articles
of incorporation for the Columbian Museum of
Chicago. According to the articles “The object
for which the Museum is formed is for the
accumulation and dissemination of knowledge
and the preservation and exhibition of objects
illustrating Art, Archeology, Science and Histo-
ry.” Funds were needed to purchase and house
the Exposition collections. Spearheaded by
Edward Ayer, the embryonic Museum conduct-
ed its first “Capital Campaign.” A major gift
was required, so large that only Marshall Field,
in those days, could give it. In Ayer’s own words:
“The consensus of opinion was that it
would be impossible to raise an amount of
money large enough to found a museum and
the committee was trying to raise $200,000 or
$300,000 for the purchase of different collec-
tions so they could box them up and store them.
I told them as a collector that the scheme would
not work, that everything except the stone and
wood in such a collection had many enemies in
the insect world, that it must be kept where it
could be looked after.

“A letter from the committee asked me if I
would at least try Mr. Field once more. I wrote
back that I would do so, but that I did not
believe it would do an atom of good.” Ayer
persisted and finally Mr. Field said to him,
“You want to talk to me again about that
darned museum.” Ayer replied, “If I cannot talk
you out of a million dollars in fifteen minutes, I
am no good nor you either.” Ayer’s narrative
continues:

“He [Marshall Field] got up, closed the
door, came back and said, “Fire ahead.”

“T talked fast and steady. Finally, he took
out his watch and said, ‘You have been here 45
minutes. You get out of here.’ I replied, ‘You
have been better to me than you ever have been
before. I want you to promise me that you will
not say no until you go through this World’s
Fair with me.’

“Well, Ed,” he replied, ‘I will be very glad
to do it. George Pullman told me he went
through with you and he was very much
pleased. My brother Joe is here, and I should
like to have you go with us. We will do it
tomorrow morning at ten o'clock.’

“We went through the whole exhibition.
When we came out a little before one o’clock, I
said, “Can Norman Ream and I come to your
office tomorrow morning at half-past nine and
see you about this matter?’

“*Yes,’ he answered.

“We were there promptly, and he gave the
million dollars with which to start the museum.”

Among the other major contributors to
launch the Museum were: George Pullman,
who gave $100,000; Mary Sturges, $50,000;
D.K. Pearsons, $5,000; Mrs. F.E. Ogden,
$2,000; and Tiffany & Co., $10,000. The
Museum also received a dividend on the Expo-
sition’s stock in the amount of $132,304.

The Exposition is most frequently remem-
bered for its architecture. However, Edward
Ayer and Marshall Field went to the Fair to
look inside the buildings. Ethnologist Putnam
and nearly 100 assistants had spent two years
assembling artifacts and data about cultures
throughout the world. They literally invented
anthropology as we know it today.

Marshall Field also saw gums, resins,

Tiffany & Co. is underwriting the September 14 Centennial

Celebration Dinner in Stanley Field Hall for the Board of
Trustees, Founders’ Council, and Women’s Board. On July
14, the company’s Michigan Avenue store hosted the
Museum’s Centennial Celebration Committee at a preview
of Tiffany’s public exhibition saluting the World’s
Columbian Exposition and the designs of Louis Comfort
Tiffany. From lefgt are Ellen O’Connor, Centennial Celebra-
tion Dinner chairman; Wally Steiner, vice president of
Tiffany & Co.; Muriel Smith, co-chairman of the Trustee
Centennial Committee; and Armand deMaigret,
representing Moét & Chandon, which is donating
champagne for the September 14 dinner.

September/October 1993

Editor:
Ron Dorfman

Art Director:
Shi Yung

Editorial Assistant:
Steven Weingartner

fibers, waxes, tannins, dyes, starches, cereals,
sugars, spices, medicinal plants, timber, and
cabinet woods from more than twenty coun-
tries. Dr. Charles F. Millspaugh, a homeopathic
physician who was an avid amateur botanist
and naturalist, served as superintendent of the
West Virginia exhibits at the Exposition.
Millspaugh was appointed curator of the botany

‘department in the new museum, a field that had

not been previously considered a major divi-
sion of a museum.

Zoological collections consisted mostly of
mounted animals prepared by Ward’s Natural
Science Establishment of Rochester, New
York, where Carl Akeley began his career.

Paleontology and minerals were also repre-
sented at the Fair. The Mine and Mining Build-
ing impressed visitors as one of the “best,
cleanest, and most organized collections” at the
Fair. According to Ayer: “We thought that any
man that could keep a collection in that condi-
tion would make a great director.” And so
Frederick J.V. Skiff was chosen to head the
new museum.

This Centennial year we are the beneficia-
ries of a group of people who seized a great
vision for Chicago in the midst of financial
despair. Many exciting Centennial activities are
planned for this year to salute their accomplish-
ments. At the same time a centennial obser-
vance demands much more of us.

An institution is only as strong as its vision
of the future. We must have as challenging a
vision of the Field Museum’s future in 1993 as
our founders did in 1893. Currently the Muse-
um is addressing its future through a strategic
planning and implementation process. We are
adopting new approaches to our traditional mis-
sion of “exploring the earth and its people.”
Our focus will be on the interrelationships and
interconnectedness within nature, across cultures,
and between people and their environment.

How people treat the environment and
each other will be among the foremost issues of
the next hundred years. In its second century,
the Field Museum stands ready to contribute
significantly to greater public understanding
about environmental and cultural change.

In the Field

September/October 1993
Vol. 64, No.5

1893-1993

The Field Museum

Exploring
The Earth And Its
People

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TWO DEATHS SET BACK
TROPICAL CONSERVATION EFFORT

By Ron Dorfman
Editor, In the Field

he deaths of two of the four core

members of Conservation Internation-

al’s Rapid Assessment Program in a

plane crash in Ecuador has devastated
the rather small and close-knit community of
conservation biologists. Colleagues at the Field
Museum said there are few if any scientists in
the world who possess their depth and breadth
of knowledge of tropical birds and plants.

Theodore A. Parker III, an ornithologist,
and Alwyn Gentry, a botanist, were killed
August 3 when the light plane in which they
were making a tree-top survey of an Ecua-
dorean cloud forest crashed into a mountain-
side. Also killed in the crash were Eduardo
Aspiazu, head of the Guayaquil chapter of the
Nature Foundation, and two other persons.

“They were the gods in their field,” said
Field Museum Research Associate Robin Fos-
ter, a third member of the team. “No one even
came close to them.” Parker, 40, knew the calls

‘and songs of nearly half of the 9,000 species of
birds in the world. Gentry, at 48, had collected
an estimated 70,000 plant specimens, more
than any living botanist and probably more
than anyone ever. The Field Museum’s
Michael O. Dillon, a protégé of Gentry, put that
in perspective by noting that his own total, over
twenty-odd years of collecting, is about 7,000
specimens.

Parker, who never bothered to get a Ph.D.
and made his living as a bird-watching guide,
devised the Rapid Assessment Program in 1990
during a field trip with the Nobel Prize-winning
Caltech physicist Murray Gell-Mann, an ama-
teur birder, according to Parker’s friend and
colleague Tom Schulenberg, a Field Museum
zoologist. “It was a late-night conversation in
which Ted was grousing about conservation
organizations that sat in their offices and never
got out into the field,’ Schulenberg said. Gell-
Mann just happened to be a board member and
scientific adviser to the MacArthur Foundation,
which then funded the Washington-based Con-
servation International to support what became
known as the RAP Team.

The idea was that traditional systematic
surveys, while scientifically necessary and use-
ful, could not possibly keep ahead of the chain
saws. Something like battlefield triage would
be needed to distinguish the most important
tropical ecosystems from the less important,
saving the former and leaving the latter to
development in what are, after all, generally
poor countries whose growing populations
have a legitimate claim to their own natural
resources. The RAP Team — with Parker,
Gentry, Foster, and Smithsonian mammalogist
Louise Emmons at its core — would survey an
area in a month and publish its ecological
assessment within three months, being careful
always to include local scientists and conserva-
tionists, like Aspiazu, in their work and to
maintain good relations with the government
agencies responsible for creating national parks
and reserves.

The team has published five reports so far,
and four more were in progress when the fatal
accident occurred. Foster said the remaining
members would have to find Parker’s and Gen-
try’s notes and try to reconstitute these studies.

Both Parker and Gentry, who was a senior
staff member of the Missouri Botanical Gar-
dens in St. Louis, were involved with research
projects at the Field Museum. Debra K.
Moskovitz and Douglas Stotz, Museum
research associates in zoology, were working
with Parker on a two-volume work consisting

B. Bailey

of a database on the ecology of neotropical
birds and an interpretive discussion of conser-
vation possibilities. The compendium is to be
published by the University of Chicago Press.

Gentry contributed to the Museum’s mam-
moth Flora of Peru project, and in fact was
responsible for ensuring its continuation after
the retirement of curator J. Francis Macbride,
according to Dillon. “Al thought the Field
Museum was the right place to continue this
work,” he said, “so he wrote a grant proposal
and included a soft-money position for some-
one to work at the Museum on it. I was a post-
doc in St. Louis at the time and he approached
me to take up this position.”

As described by their colleagues, the two
men were legendarily idiosyncratic, but in
opposite ways. Parker, the freelance who could
not countenance the thought of staying indoors
long enough to take the classes and write the
dissertation required for a doctorate, provided
others with offhand observations about birds
that his listeners turned into their own disserta-
tions. Parker was gregarious and charming. “He

loved to live and live well,” said Moskovitz,
“enjoying the plush side of life and then being
out in the field for months, He could live both
extremes.”

Gentry, by contrast, though he was a certi-
fied academic of very high standing, was
almost anti-social, a driven man who cared lit-
tle for anything but discovery. “He was still
climbing trees at the age of 48, he was bitten by
poisonous snakes, and we all thought he was
invincible,” said Foster.

Despite Gentry’s prodigious record of
data-gathering, Dillon said, his best years —
“the synthesis years” — were ahead of him.
Parker too was destined for even greater
accomplishment: “He was just hitting his

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stride,” Schulenberg said.

Both men inspired many others. Speaking
particularly of Parker, Schulenberg said:

“One of his legacies was working with
Latin American countries to establish biosphere
reserves. He had done enough
to make a difference. His
other major legacy is the
immense number of people he
interacted with in his field
work. He taught dozens of
people new ways of looking
at birds. . . . Everywhere he
went he encouraged other
people to do the best work
they could, to find excitement
in the possibilities of what
they were doing. And that’s
no small legacy.”

Alwyn Gentry, left, and Theodore A. Parker II
photographed in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, October
1991.

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ESTATE PLANNING SAFEGUARDS COLLECTION

obert E. Gregg and his wife Ella Vir-
Re Gregg devoted a significant por-

tion of their professional and personal
lives to the study of ants, spiders, and other
arthropods. Over the years, the Greggs assem-
bled the largest and most complete private col-
lection of ants in North America. Their
collection included 8,429 pinned insect speci-
mens of all orders and 18,105 vials containing
600,000 specimens of ants representing an esti-
mated 1,000 species or subspecies. The collec-
tion also included an associated library of ant
literature, card catalogues, and maps that make
it even more valuable to researchers.

Both Dr. and Mrs. Gregg felt strongly
that the tremendous value and research poten-
tial of their collection, assembled over 40 years
of painstaking work, should not be lost with
their passing. In the late 1960s, they arranged
to donate the collection to the Field Museum.

Although Dr. Gregg was preceded in death by
his wife, he arranged a planned gift to the
Museum to prevent this important scientific
resource from being neglected. The Greggs
willed the remainder of their estate to endow
the Robert E. and Ella Virginia Gregg Fund to
support the interdisciplinary research activities
of the Museum’s Center for Environmental and
Evolutionary Biology.

With Dr. Gregg’s death in January
1993, the Field Museum lost a valued friend,
but through the Greggs’ thoughtful and far-
sighted planning, their collection will be pre-
served and studied and their endowment will
support advanced research for years to come.

Two Field Museum
research associates
from Peru, Dr. Abun-
dio Sagastegui Alva
of the Universidad
Antenor Orrego, at
Trujillo (third from
left) and Dr. Isidoro
Sanchez Vega of the
Universidad
Nacional de Caja-
marca (third from
right) spent six
weeks at the Muse-
um working with
Michael O. Dillon
(left), curator of vas-
cular plants, on
floristic inventory
projects centered on
northern Peru, The
occasion for the pho-
tograph was the joint
purchase.by the
Museum and Ohio
State University of
duplicate collections
of Peruvian botanical
specimens from Dr.
Sanchez. Others pic-
tured are Prof.
Daniel Crawford, an
OSU botanist (sec-
ond from left); James
Lane of Columbus,
Ohio, an OSU donor
(center); Tod F.
Stuessy, director of
OSU’s Museum of
Biological Diversity
(second from right);
and Peter Crane,
Field Museum vice
president for evolu-
tionary and environ-
mental biology.

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UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS

LATIN-AMERICAN CULTURES
IN CELEBRACION ’93

n October, join the Field Museum in cel-

ebrating the rich heritage and diversity

of Latin American cultures at Cele-

bracion Festival *93. The festival will

take place Tuesday and Wednesday,
October 5 and 6; Friday, October 8; and Sun-
day, October 10.

The first three days of the festival will be
devoted to school and community groups.
From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on each of these days,
Field Museum staff members will conduct
hands-on activities and demonstrations in Stan-
ley Field Hall and throughout the exhibit areas.
These events will focus on such topics as the
volcanoes of Latin America, insects from the
tropics, Maya math, games from Peru, pottery
from the ancient civilizations of the Americas,
and much more.

The Museum will host two music pro-
grams in the Native America® halls. On
Wednesday and Friday, Tito Rodriguez will
demonstrate the use of conga drums in the
music of Puerto Rico, and explain African
influences on that music. On Tuesday, Wednes-
day, and Friday, Brazilian musician Venicio de
Toledo will entertain visitors with Afro-Brazil-
ian rhythms and melodies on a variety of
Brazilian instruments. Both programs are free,
and will be repeated several times during festi-
val hours.

Three music programs will be presented in
the James Simpson Theater. On Tuesday,
Grupo Yuba will perform Puerto Rican music
and dances; on Wednesday, the music and
dance of the Dominican Republic will be
showcased when Grupo Rumba takes the stage;
and on Friday, Cantores Guaranies will per-
form the music of the Guarani, people indige-
nous to Paraguay. The group will introduce
audience members to the Guarani language and
talk about their unique instruments. Pefor-
mance times are 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Admis-
sion is free; however, since theater seating is
limited, those wishing to attend the programs
must pre-register. Call (312) 322-8852 for a school
programs brochure with a registration form.

NEW FOUNDERS’ COUNCIL OFFICERS

Doug and Pam Walter (left), newly appointed co-chairs of the Founders’
Council, with Laura and Marshall Front, who concluded their three-year
term as co-chairs on June 29. The 350 members of the Council include
individual donors who annually contribute $1,500 or more in unrestricted
support to The Field Museum; give a single or accumulated gift of $25,000
or more for permanent membership; make a deferred gift of $50,000 or
more; or make a gift of a major collection.

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Sunday, October 10, is “family day” at the
festival. From 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., the Muse-
um will present many of the same hands-on
activities and demonstrations of the preceding
days, as well as several music and dance pro-
grams. From 11:15-11:45 a.m. in Stanley Field
Hall, the children’s dance troupe Viva Panama
will illustrate the cultural diversity of Panama;
from noon to 12:30 p.m., a children’s dance
troupe, Renacer Boliviano, will perform the
dances of Bolivia; from 12:45-1:30 p.m.,
Raices del Ande will perform music from
Bolivia and the Andes; from 2:00-2:30 p.m.,
Oxib Kajau Marimba Ensemble will play
Guatemalan marimba music; and from 3:00-
3:30 p.m. the Mexican Folkloric Company of
Chicago will perform the dances of Mexico.
These programs are all free with regular Muse-
um admission.

In cooperation with Galleria Prospectus,
the Celebracion Festival °93 will also showcase
the works of Latin American artists residing in
the Chicago area. These works will appear
alongside “Samana”—a photographic exhibi-
tion by Kenn Greene Velez, a Dominican-
American artist whose images explore the
African presence in Latin America.

Complementing Celebracion Festival ’93
is the Museum-sponsored seminar “Nahua Liy-
ing Traditions of Central Mexico,” scheduled
for Saturday, October 30, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The
seminar will feature guest speakers and per-
forming artists, who will shed light on the
strong cultural links between the Nahua people

of central Mexico and their Aztec ancestors.
Participants will learn about Nahua spiritual
traditions such as the Day of the Dead, Nahua
music and art, and the use of Nahua words in
Mexican Spanish and English. The seminar is
$45 for non-members, $38 for members.

Finally, in October and November the
Museum will offer adult courses and family
workshops on the archaeology of ancient Mexi-
co, ancient weaving techniques, Day of the
Dead observances, and the use of cacao
(chocolate) and chiles in cooking.

Pre-registration is required for the seminar,
the adult courses, and the family workshops.
To find out more, call the Museum at (312)
322-8854 and ask for the Field Guide—Pro-
grams for Adults and Children brochure, which
lists complete program descriptions, fees, and
registration information.

FIRST WEDDING IN

MAORI MEETING HOUSE

Houpeke Piripi and Leah Pearsall were married July 10 in Ruatepupuke II,
the Field Museum’s Maori meeting house. The couple, who now live in

Charleston, Illinois, are both Maori; Houpeke is a descendant of the family
that built Ruatepupuke in Tokomaru Bay, New Zealand. Officiating at the
Mormon ceremony was Bishop Allen Hagland of Chicago. Guests included
many American friends of the bride and groom, as well as local represen-
tatives of the Native American community and Field Museum staff, volun-
teers, and visitors. Houpeke said his wedding was a “bringing together of
two cultures — American and Maori; just like back home, the meeting
house brings together different tribes.”

Ruatepupuke I! is the only fully-carved Maori meeting house in the
Western hemisphere. Acquired by the Museum in 1905, it was refurbished
in cooperation with the Maori community of Tokomaru Bay and reconse-
crated last March. The house is open to the public during regular Museum
hours, and is used on ceremonial occasions and for events with cross-cul-
tural import.

he Field Museum presents “Yemen: A

Culture of Builders,” a collection of 50

color prints by New York photographer
Peggy Crawford. The exhibition opens Satur-
day, September 25, and continues through
Monday, January 3, 1994.

Located on the southwestern tip of the
Arabian Peninsula, Yemen is an arid land of
geographic extremes, with harsh coastal plains,
rugged mountains, and austere plateaus. Some
5,000 years ago the region was settled by
humans, who subsequently created a culture
rich in artistic traditions, producing literature,
music, handicrafts, and, above all, an architec-
ture of singular and incomparable beauty.

Crawford's photographs explore this archi-
tecture in the context of the severe Yemeni
landscape, showing how the works of man
derive their inspiration and aesthetic from
nature even as they reflect the timeless quality
of their surroundings. Her images depict a wide
range of building types and topographies,
including mountain villages with distinctive
boxlike dwellings, the gentle mountainside ter-
racing that provides arable land for those vil-
lages, cylindrical and rectangular tower houses,
brilliantly colored doors and windows, and
domed mosques with intricate tracery decorat-

SKULLS

he strange and startling beauty of ani-

mal skulls is the subject of “Skulls,” a

photographic exhibit on display at the
Museum through November 14. The exhibit
features 35 black-and-white prints by Francois
Robert, a Swiss photographer who lives and
works in Chicago.

Robert’s photo-
graphic study was under-
taken jointly with the
, Field Museum,
_ vhich provided the
P .kulls portrayed in
ey the prints. All of the

“skulls belong to verte-

F brates, and cover a wide
range of animal sizes and
~ species, including the tiger,
giraffe, dolphin, turtle, hornbill macaque,
chimpanzee, grouper, and wild boar, to name
but a few.

Along with the photographs in “Skulls,”
the Field Museum displays actual skulls from
its own collections. Fascinating in their own
right, these skulls enhance the enjoyment of
the photographs by providing a three-dimen-
sional look at the kind of objects that Robert
captured so compellingly on film. The exhibi-
tion is on display in the South Gallery, and is
free with Museum admission.

ing the windows,
doors, and upper lev-
els.

Peggy Crawford
has a longstanding
involvement with the
art world. In 1939 she
helped found the
Cincinnati Modern
Art Society (now the
Contemporary Arts
Center), where she
served as director
until 1942. In that
capacity she mounted
exhibitions of modern
European art, as well
as the works of many
highly regarded
American artists. She
first took up a camera
in 1938, and began
exhibiting her work
professionally in 1982.

“Yemen: A Culture of Builders” is orga-
nized by the American Architectural Founda-
tion, and is touring the United States through
1994 under the auspices of the University of

Arizona College of Architecture. The exhibit
will be on display in the Field Museum's South
Gallery.

TREASURES OF THE WORLD

From September 14 to 28, the north face of the Field Museum will become a giant screen of moving
images and bright lights, illuminating the city’s lakefront. The first of four Images in Motion shows,
“Treasures of the World,” will feature pictures that provide a visual history of the earth, from the
dinosaur age to the world of ancient Egypt and the island realms of the Pacific. The shows will run
from dusk to midnight, and will be visible to all who pass the Museum.

with Museum admission.

SAND MANDALA

Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Drepung
Loseling Monastery create a sand mandala
called “Sengyey Medlha,” dedicated to the
medicine or healing Buddhas, in the Field Muse-
um’s North Lounge between August 28 and
September 4. Created as a meditative exercise to
achieve enlightenment, the mandala is not pre-
served once completed, but is swept up and dis-
mantled. The closing ceremony will take place
September 4 at 10 a.m. The demonstration is free

GOLDEN ARTS FAIR

The Field Museum's West Lobby is the site
of the 19th Annual Golden Arts Festival,
September 15 through November 1. Spon-
sored by the Catholic Charities of the Arch-
diocese of Chicago, the fair will display
more than 180 award-winning works by
artists and artisans who reside in 14
Catholic nursing and residential retirement
homes in the Chicago area. Featured works
include quilts, ceramics, needlecraft, paint-
ings, jewelry, and woodworking — all
designed and executed by artists ranging in
age from 57 to 100 (the average age is 84).

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SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER HIGHLIGHTS

9/10 six

Field’s Fashion Show

Marshall Field’s Fashion Show at 11:30
a.m. in Simpson Theatre, followed by lun-
cheon in Stanley Field Hall at 12:30 p.m.
Sponsored by the Women’s Board. Tickets
$50. Call (312) 322-8870.

SFTP 25

“At the Field” Lecture

“Expedition to the Great Barrier Reef and
Coral Sea: Fish Stories and Research
Results.” Dr. Mark Westneat, assistant cura-
tor of fishes, discusses a recent research trip,
with slides and videotape of the feeding and
swimming behaviors of coral reef fishes.

$3 members, $5 guests. Call (312) 922-
9410, ext. 453.

9/14-28

“Treasures of the World” light show on the
Museum’s north fagade, sponsored by
Helene Curtis Industries in honor of the
Museums centennial. Dusk to midnight.

9/18 sss

Wayang Kulit:
Seminar & Play

10 a.m. A seminar, “Shadows and Moon-
light: Wayang Kulit, Java Village at the 1893
World’s Columbian Exposition and Field
Museum,” provides an introduction to
wayang kulit (Indonesian shadow puppet)
plays and the Museum’s collection of cos-
tumes, masks, puppets, and gamelan instru-
ments from the 1893 Exposition. The
seminar will be followed at 1 p.m. by a
wayang kulit performance, accompanied by
a full Central Javanesse gamelan orchestra.
Both the seminar and the performance are
free with regular Museum admission. Call
922-9410, ext. 288 for more information.

9/25

PowWow

9/25

Saturday

“Yemen: A
Culture
of Builders”

Don't miss this exhibition of 50

color photographs of Yemeni architecture,
on display in the South Gallery through
January 3.

All Museum members
now receive a

10% discount
at “Picnic in the Field”!

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Wines from Spain

Members’ tasting of wines from the regions
of Rioja, Catalonia, and Penedef. The wines
from Spain consistently represent the high-
est quality and value of any wine-producing
nation. Mary Ross, president of Mary Ross
and Associates and a nationally recognized
authority on food and wine, will conduct
the tasting. This seminar is suitable for those
learning about wines, as well as those more
familiar with them. You must be 21 years of
age to attend. 6:30-8:00 p.m. in the Rice
Wildlife Research Station. Tickets are $20
for members, $25 for guests. Reservations
must be received by September 22; no tele-
phone reservations will be accepted. Please
call (312) 922-9410, ext. 453 for more
information.

Saturday

September/October 1993 6

11 a.m. —3 p.m. Sponsored by the Native
American Church of Illinois PowWow Com-
mittee. In the Grand Entry, dancers enter the
circle according to specific protocol. Native
American dancers and drummers from the
Midwest will join for this PowWow. The
program is a preview of the October
N.A.C.-sponsored PowWow to be held at
the UIC Pavilion. Call (312) 922-9410, ext.
288 for more information.

Friday &
Saturday

10/1-2

Friends of Franklin

Friends of Franklin, an organization
dedicated to explication of the life
and works of Benjamin Franklin, is
sponsoring two lectures at the
Museum that will be open to
Museum members. Friday’s pro-
gram, at 9:30 a.m. in the Mont-
gomery Ward Theater, features
Prof. Gregory Dowd of Notre
Dame on “Nature’s Nobleman
and the American Indians.” Satur-
day’s speaker is Prof. Andrew Clay-
ton of Miami University (Ohio),
whose topic is “Benjamin Franklin and
the Expansion of the American Empire.”
Admission is $6 to each lecture or $10 for
both; call (312) 322-8857 for reservations.

1 0/ / Thursday

Jared Diamond Lecture

A frequent lecturer, contributor to Discover
and Natural History magazines, and a mem-
ber of the National Academy of Sciences,
Dr. Diamond will discuss his first book, The
Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and
Future of the Human Animal. He will auto-
graph books after the lecture. $5 for mem-
bers; $7 for non-members. Call (312)
322-8854 for reservations.

10/10 «0,

“At the Field” Lecture

“Archaeology in the Clouds: The Ancient
Peoples of the Titicaca Basin.” Dr. Charles
Stanish, associate curator of South American
archaeology and ethnology, gives a slide-
illustrated lecture on the antecedents of the
high Andean civilizations. $3 members, $5
guests. Call (312) 922-9410, ext. 453.

10/24 ss

Lecture on Wolves

1 p.m. “A Society of Wolves: National
Parks and the Battle over the Wolf.” Author
and naturalist Rick McIntyre offers the lat-
est information on wolves and issues sur-
rounding them in this special presen-
tation. The recolonization of wolves in
Glacier National Park and their proposed
reintroduction at Yellowstone National
Park will be dis-
cussed in addition to
the history of human
attitudes towards the
wolf. McIntyre’s book
will be available for
purchase and signing
following the lecture.
$2 payable at the lec-
ture only. Call (312)
922-9410, ext. 288.

FALL COURSES FOR ADULTS

ou can expand your knowledge of
Egypt, acquire new culinary skills
with chocolate, or learn how to relax
your mind and body at the Field
Museum this fall with a variety of adult courses
beginning in September. Among the offerings:

* Phyllis Nelson teaches a course in paper-
making techniques. Participants will tour the
Museum’s collection of hand-made papers
from many cultures, and will make their own.

¢ “Archaeology of Ancient Mexico: The
Zapotec’”’ is the topic of a lecture by Jennifer
Blitz. She’ll trace the Zapotec influence in the
development of other Mesoamerican cultures.

* Teri Cortes will teach the natural history
of cocoa and how to create some fabulous dish-
es in “Cocoa: Fruit of Wisdom, Passion, and
Knowledge.”

¢ “Personal Adornments of Africa” is a
new workshop offered by the popular instructor
Tina Fung Holder. She'll highlight the symbol-
ic nature of the designs and materials.

* Holder will also teach cardweaving, fin-
gerweaving, and cord braiding in a workshop
course, “Ancient Weaving Techniques.”

e Phil Parillo, curatorial assistant in the
Division of Insects, returns with his very popu-
lar evening course on insect evolution. There
will be hands-on lab work as well as a tour
behind the scenes in the Museum’s collection
of ten million insects.

e “Meteorites and the Origin of the Earth”
is a new offering by Ignacio Casanova, interim
curator of meteorites and mineralogy. Examin-
ing specimens from the Museum’s renowned
meteorite collection, participants will focus on
what these objects tell us about the early plane-
tary system and the evolution of the Earth.

Teeth-$5

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Jawbone-$150 Neck Vertebrae-$400

Scapula-$500

Humerus—-$1,000

Back Vertebrae-$250

e Yoga Master Syamalan Nair will teach
techniques of stress reduction, body toning, and
flexibility. For the first time, participants will
have the opportunity to practice yoga in the
serene environment of Ruatepupuke II, the
Museum’s Maori meeting house.

¢ “The American Indian Experience in
Contemporary Fiction” will explore the world
view, values, and experiences of seven contem-
porary American Indian writers. The instructor
is Carol LaChapelle.

e Bruce Williams, author of the Oriental
Institute’s Nubian Expeditions series, Vols. III-
IX, will focus on cultural history in “Introduc-
tion to Nubia: Crossroad to Africa.”

¢ “Pyramids and Mummies” is a six-week
course taught by Kitty Picken, using the exhibit
“Inside Ancient Egypt” to study the develop-
ment of pyramid architecture and the process of
mummification.

Full descriptions of these and other adult
classes are in the September-November issue of
Field Guide, which also lists field trips for
adults, lectures, family overnights, and work-
shops for children and families. To request a
copy, call (312) 322-8854.

CELEBRACION ’93

Gino the heritage and diversity of the many Latin American cul-
tures, Join us for on-going interactive demonstrations and games in
the exhibits, listen to a variety of traditional dance and music perfor-
mances, and meet Field Museum scientists who are doing research in
Latin America. For a schedule of events, check the Visitor Programs

page overleaf.

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mounting of the awesome Brachiosaurus.

Amaze your friends and family as you point out the bone which your contribution helped put
into place. Choose from a scapula, a femur, a tail vertebrae, or the skull, which housed a
brain smaller than a human fist. Donate a bone in someone else's name;

a great gift for dinosaur enthusiasts that will last for generations to come!

Field Museum will send you a personalized certificate for each of the bones you sponsor
along with a receipt for your tax-deductible contribution. Names of the sponsors will appear on
the permanent donor plaque for the Brachiosaurus exhibit, to be installed January 1994.

For more information, call the Field Museum Development Office at (312) 922-9410, ext. 639

Your name.

(To list more sponsor names, please attach a separate sheet of paper)

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three extra months free! Fifteen months of membership

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Your Field Museum membership guarantees you
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before the public opening, to preview the Museum’s
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Complete the form below and drop it in the mail,
or call the Membership Department at (312) 922-9410,
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(Offer valid through June 30, 1994, for new and
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Free admission

Free coat checking and strollers

Invitation to Members’ Night

Exhibit preview parties

Free subscription to In the Field

13-month wall calendar featuring exhibit
photographs

Reduced prices on selected magazines

10% discount at all Museum stores

Use of our 250,000-volume library

Discount on classes, field trips, and seminars
for adults and children

Members-only tour program

Opportunity to attend the annual
children’s Holiday Tea

Children’s “dinosaur” birthday card

10% discount at Picnic in the Field

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VISITOR PROGRAMS

Indonesian shadow
puppets, Sept. 18

Wednesday, September 1
10am-1pm & 2-4pm Medicine
Buddha Sand Mandala demonstra-
tion by Drepung Loseling Monks

Thursday, September 2
10am-1pm Medicine Buddha
Sand Mandala demonstration by
Drepung Loseling Monks

itam & 1pm “Celebrating Our
Centennial” Highlight Tour

Friday, September 3
9am-1pm Rock & Mineral Match
activity

Saturday, September 4

10am Closing Ceremony of
Medicine Buddha Sand Mandala by
Drepung Loseling Monks

11am Stories From Around the
World

11am & 1pm “Celebrating Our
Centennial” Highlight Tour

1pm World Music presents Ari
Brown on saxophone.
11am-3pm Egyptian Hieroglyphs
activity

Sunday, September 5
1-3pm Geology In Action activity

Thursday, September 9
11am & 1pm Celebrating Our Cen-
tennial Tour

Friday, September 10
9am-1pm Pacific Pareus activity

Saturday, September 11

10, 11am, 12 & 1 pm “Celebrating
Our Centennial” Highlight Tour
10am-12 Interchange activity

1pm World Music presents Mwata
Bowden on wind instruments.

1:30 Tibet Today & A Faith In Exile
slide program

2-4pm Egyptian Hieroglyphs activity

Sunday, September 12
11am-4pm Arthrocart
1-3pm Geology In Action activity

Tuesday, September 14
11am & 1pm “Celebrating Our
Centennial” Highlight Tour

Thursday, September 16
11am & 1pm “Celebrating Our
Centennial” Highlight Tour

Friday, September 17
9am - 1pm Horns & Antlers activity

Saturday, September 18

10am Shadows & Moonlight:
Wayang Kulit, the Java Village at
the 1893 World's Fair, and the
Field Museum Seminar by Profes-
sor Sumarsam,Wesleyan University,
Dr. Bennet Bronson, Field Museum
& Carolyn Johnson, University of
Chicago.

10am, noon & 1pm “Celebrating
Our Centennial” Highlight Tour
11am Stories From Around the
World

11am-3pm Egyptian Hieroglyphs
1pm Kresna Gugah (Krishna Awak-
ens) Indonesian Shadow Puppet &
Gamelan Orchestra Performance
co-sponsored by the Consulate
General of the Republic of Indone-
sia in Chicago, Field Museum, the
University of Chicago, and Friends
of the Gamelan, Inc.

Sunday, September 19

11am “Celebrating Our Centenni-
al” Highlight Tour

2pm Inside Ancient Egypt High-
light Tour

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Tuesday, September 21
9am-2pm Owl Pellets activity
Thursday, September 23

11am & 1pm “Celebrating Our
Centennial” Highlight Tour

Friday, September 24
9am-1pm Lava activity

Saturday, September 25

10am & 12 “Celebrating Our Cen-
tennial” Highlight Tour

11am-3pm PowWow sponsored by
the Native American Church of IIli-
nois PowWow Committee

1pm World Music presents Raices
Del Ande performance of music of
the Andes. 1

2 - 4pm Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Monday, September 27
11am & 1pm “Celebrating Our
Centennial” Highlight Tour

Tuesday, September 28
9am-2 Owl Pellets activity

Thursday, September 30

12 Sadko Russian Folk Dance
Ensemble Performance

11am & 1pm “Celebrating Our
Centennial” Highlight Tour

Friday, October 1
9am-1pm Terrific Teeth activity

Saturday, October 2

11am & 1pm “Celebrating Our
Centennial” Highlight Tour
11am Stories From Around the
World

11am-3pm Egyptian Hieroglyphs
1:30pm Bone Wars! The Cope &
Marsh Debate slide program

Sunday, October 3
1-3pm Geology In Action activity

Arthrocart, Saturdays and Sundays, 11am - 4pm

Monday, October 4
11am & 1pm “Celebrating Our
Centennial” Highlight Tour

Tuesday, October 5

Celebraci6n - Celebrating Latin-
American Heritage

10am-1pm Activities including:
Paper Flowers, Cassava Bread
10:30am Grupo Yuba performance
of music & dance from Puerto Rico.
9am - 12 Owl Pellets activity

11am & 1pm “Celebrating Our
Centennial” Highlight Tour

Wednesday, October 6
Celebraci6n - Celebrating Latin-
American Heritage

10am - 1pm Activities including:
Amazing Maize, Maya Math
10:30am Grupo Rumba perfor-
mance of music and dance from
the Dominican Republic.

Friday, October 8

Celebraci6n - Celebrating Latin
American Heritage

10am-1pm Activities including:
What Does Pottery Tell Us, Earth-
quakes & Volcanoes

10:30am Cantores Guarani perfor-
mance of music from Paraguay.
9am-1pm Rock & Mineral Match
activity.

Saturday, October 9

1pm World Music presents Inka
Dance Company performance of
Southwest Native American story-
telling, music, and dance.

1-3pm Geology In Action activity
2-4pm Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Sunday, October 10

Celebracion - Celebrating Latin-
American Heritage

11am-3pm Activities including:
Maya Math, Earthquakes & Volca-
noes. Display of crafts from
Dominican Republic by La Casa
Dominicano

Performances:

11am Viva Panama

12 Renacer Boliviano

12:45 Raices del Ande

2pm Oxib Kajau Marimba
Ensemble

3pm Mexican Folkloric Company
of Chicago

Monday, October 11
11am & 1pm “Celebrating Our
Centennial” Highlight Tour

Tuesday, October 12

9am-12 Owl Pellets activity
11am & 1pm “Celebrating Our
Centennial” Highlight Tour

_Friday, October 15

9am-1pm Adzes & Awls activity

Saturday, Octo-
ber 16

liam & 1pm
“Celebrating
Our Centennial”
Highlight Tour
11am Stories
From Around
the World
11am-3pm Egyp-
tian Hieroglyphs

Sunday, October
17

1pm World
Music presents
African-American Music & Dance
with Gideon Foli Alorwoyie

2pm “Celebrating Our Centennial”
Highlight Tour

Monday, October 18
11am & 1pm “Celebrating Our
Centennial” Highlight Tour

Tuesday, October 19
9am-12 Owl Pellets activity

Friday, October 22
9am-1pm Lava activity

Saturday, October 23
2-4pm Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Sunday, October 24

11am “Celebrating Our Centenni-

al” Highlight Tour

1pm Lecture by author Rick Mcin-

tyre A Society of Wolves: National

Parks and the Battle over the Wolf.
$2 at the door.

2pm Around the Field Tour

Monday, October 25
11am & 1pm “Celebrating Our
Centennial” Highlight Tour

Tuesday, October 26

9am-12 Owl Pellets activity
11am & 1pm “Celebrating Our
Centennial” Highlight Tour

Friday, October 29
9am-1pm Pacific Pareus activity

Saturday, October 30

11am Stories From Around the
World

11am-3pm Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Sunday, October 31

1pm World Music presents folk
dance & music of the Balkans with
Balkanske Igre.

Daniel F. & Ada L. Rice Wildlife
Research Station

Videotapes, books, and activity
boxes about zoology & ecology are
available.

Daily 9am-5pm

Webber Resource Center

Native Cultures of the Americas
Books, videotapes, tribal newspa-
pers are available.

Daily 10am—4:30pm

Harris Educational Loan Center
Chicago area educators may bor-
row activity boxes and small diora-
mas from Harris Center.

Open House Hours:

Tuesdays 2:30-7pm

Thursdays 2:30-5pm

Saturdays 9am—5pm

Place For Wonder

A special room of touchable
objects.

Weekdays: 14:30pm
Weekends: 10am—4:30pm

Pawnee Earth Lodge

Walk into a traditional home of the
Pawnee Indians of the Great Plains
and learn about their daily life dur-
ing the mid-19th century.
Weekdays: 1:00 program
Saturdays: 10am—4:30pm with free
ticketed programs at 11, 12, 2 & 3.
Sundays: 10am—4:30pm

Ruatepupuke:

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

Open daily 9am-5pm

Gamelan Orchestra Performance,
September 18

UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS

FREE CONCERT BY JAPANESE
CROSS-OVER GROUP

he Consulate General of Japan in Chicago has invited Field Muse-

um members and staff to an October 26 concert at the Museum by

Chikurin Shoja, a seven-member ensemble that blends the sounds

of traditional Japanese instruments with contemporary percussion and
keyboards.

Since its first public appearance in Japan in 1988, the group has per-
formed in a variety of settings including a “fusion” concert entitled “Spir-
itual Road” in 1989 and a concert in Carnegie Hall last year.

Chikurin Shoja (which means “bamboo forest’) resists assignment to
any particular style of music. Each member of the group has mastered at
least one Western instrument as well as several traditional Japanese

instruments.
; “ - : The concert, spon-
Dolores the Apatosaurus spreads the word about the arrival of big sister sored by the consulate
Brachiosaurus during Taste of Chicago. The Brach candy company’s Fami- and the Japan Founda-
ly Oasis hosted Field Museum educators doing hands-on activities with tion, is scheduled for 7
minerals and fossils. p.m. in Simpson The-

ater. For more informa-
tion, call the Japan
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Columbian Exposition “Grand Illusions,” by Bus

Sunday, September 26 and Sunday October 17, 11:30 a.m.—4 p.m.
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This spectacular bus tour for members, led by a Chicago Architecture Foundation docent, will travel from the

Field Museum to the Chicago Historical society to see the exhibit, “Grand Illusions: Chicago’s World’s Fair

of 1893,” continue on to visit the fair site in Jackson Park, and then return to the Field Museum for a special
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FROM THE FIELD

BRACHIOSAURUS GOES UP...
AND UP...AND YOU ARE THERE

hree thousand five hundred twenty-four sponsors of the Museum’s “Own a
Bone” campaign to support the mounting of Brachiosaurus in Stanley Field
Hall attended the July 2 Hard Hat Party at which the enormous beast was capi-
tated. By the end of July, “Own a Bone” had brought in more than $94,000
from 4,698 sponsors, whose names will be recorded on a plaque after the campaign ends
in December. In the photo immediately below, Willard E. White, vice president for
development and external affairs, joins Dolores the Apatosaurus in congratulating
winners of the sweepstakes drawing. The polka-dotted dino was unidentified. Pos-
ing with the skull is Michael Paha, the Museum’s production supervisor; the guy
with the beard is William Simpson, chief preparator of fossil vertebrates, demon-
strating how he fought off an attacking raptor.

John Weinstein / GN86816.14

James Balodimas / GN86857.15

James Balodimas / GN86856.24A

James Balodimas / GN86857.4

John Weinstein / GN86824.18

This is Spinal Tap

James Balodimas / GN86853.25A

“My, what big toes you have. . .” “Is this guy in the union?”

September/October 1993 W[f)

James Balodimas / GN86855.12A

FROM THE FIELD

DINOSAUR EXPEDITION
TO THE SAHARA DESERT

major dinosaur-hunting expedition

to the Sahara Desert is under way,

led by Field Museum research asso-

ciate Paul Sereno. The four-month
foray is expected to unearth many dinosaur fos-
sils of previously unknown species, as well as
other mid-Cretaceous plants and animals.

At a news conference August 11 in the
Museum’s still-unfinished new dinosaur hall,
Sereno explained that 100 million years ago
Africa was virtually an island continent, sepa-
rated from South America but not yet attached
to Europe or Asia, so that African dinosaurs
would likely have evolved differently than
those in the Americas or Eurasia. Along with
the Trans-Antarctic Range, Sereno said, the
Sahara is “a frontier for dinosaur exploration,”
a place where it is known that extensive fossil
beds exist that have not yet been excavated.

Sereno, who is associate professor of
organismal biology and anatomy at the Univer-
sity of Chicago, is a leading figure in dinosaur
systematics, the effort to construct a reliable
family tree out of the welter of species that
have been described since Sir Richard Owen
first labeled the Dinosauria in 1841.

As the pace of discovery accelerates —
half of all the dinosaur specimens we have
were found within the past two decades — a
picture is beginning to emerge of how the
dinosaurs evolved over 160 million years into a
diverse array of creatures dominating every
ecological niche, and perhaps into the modern
birds. In recent years, Sereno has found the two
most primitive dinosaurs known, the 230-mil-
lion-year-old Eoraptor and Herrerasaurus,
both in Argentina.

On a scouting trip to the Sahara in 1990,
Sereno retrieved a six-foot-long thighbone of a
Brontosaurus-like beast that would have been
50 feet from head to tail. At the news confer-
ence, Sereno also displayed a photograph of
bones in the ground that he did not remove.
“The vertebrae are connected,” he observed,
“which indicates that it’s a whole animal and
that we may be looking at a dinosaur grave-
yard, of a new species of dinosaur.”

Planning the expedition involved complex
logistics. The party of 24, including a film crew
for Museum trustee Bill Kurtis’s public-televi-
sion series The New Explorers, will be travel-
ing in remote stretches of desert for two
months. Five hundred of the 2,500 miles they

Herrerasaurus

will cross are without roads. Their six vehicles
will each carry “five person-years of supplies,”
Sereno said, adding, ““We’ll have to be efficient
or we will rapidly become additional skeletons
in the desert.”

Asked what excited him most about the
adventure, Sereno listed three things: the
“romantic voyage” aspect; the indications that
the region is “scientifically a gold mine —
[that] anything we pull out of the ground will
be something new”; and the youthfulness of the

explorers. (Sereno him-
self is only 35.) The
average age of the team
is 27, including two
undergraduates and
several graduate stu-
dents. One of the
undergraduates is
Gabrielle Lyon, a
fourth-year student of
medieval history at the
University of Chicago,
who will write a chron-
icle of the expedition.

At least some of
the fossils will be on
display in the Field
Museum after the team
returns to Chicago at
the end of December.
Sereno said he had “no
prior agreement” with
the governments in the
region about which
specimens may and
which may not be taken
back to" the US:
though he pointed out
that “This is not the
first time we’ ve worked
in the area, and we
hope not the last.” He
said he had developed
contacts with universi-
ties in the area “and
there will be contacts
and participation while
we’re there.”

The fossil preparation laboratories and per-
sonnel at the Field Museum, directed by
William Simpson, are among the finest in the
world, and Sereno and Simpson have collabo-
rated frequently. It is likely that even if the new
finds must remain in their countries of origin,
they will be brought to Chicago for preparation
and study. This was the case with both Eorap-
tor (from Argentina) and Sinornis santensis
(from China).

Major funding for the expedition is being
provided by Ronald McDonald Children’s
Charities (RMCC), which is also supporting
Kurtis’s documentary film project. The pro-
gram will air as the 1994 fall season premiere
of The New Explorers.

Additional sponsorship
has come from the David
and Lucile Packard Founda-
tion, the National Geograph-
ic Society, American Air-
lines, the Women’s Board of
the University of Chicago,
and the Eppley Foundation
for Research, Inc.

Ken Barun, vice presi-
dent of RMCC, appearing at
the news conference with
Sereno and Peter Crane,
Field Museum vice president for evolutionary
and environmental biology, said his organiza-
tion is funding the project because Sereno is “a
role model for kids,” and “we plan to share
these discoveries with as many children as pos-
sible.” Barun said the foundation hoped “to
spark their imagination and interest in history
and science.”

11 September/October 1993

Paul Sereno in his office at
the University of Chicago

November 12 — 19, 1993

A three-day cruise aboard the Mississippi Queen —

Riverboat and four nights at a deluxe hotel in
New Orleans — plus breakfast at Brennan’s,
dinner at Arnaud’s, and coffee and beignets at
Café du Monde! And more: visits to Houmas
House and Baton Rouge, a guided tour of New
Orleans, the Aquarium, and Global Wildlife
Center, one day at Avery Island or Jefferson -
Island, and one day in the Jean Lafitte National
Acadian Wetlands. Your guide is Dr. Thomas G.
Lammers, assistant curator of vascular plants, an
affable botanist with a wide knowledge of the
vegetation of the Misissippi River floodplain.
Don’t miss this fabulous fun week exploring the
mainstream of America. $2,000 per person,
double occupancy including round-trip air fare
Chicago—New Orleans. Single cabin/room —
supplement $810.

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1994 TOURS
West Africa: Senegal and Mali
February 2-16

The Field Museum will soon open its spectacular new
Africa exhibit. Share the excitement as we explore the
diverse traditions that are the exhibit’s very heart. Visit the
Wolof traders of Senegal, the Bozo fishermen of the
Niger’s inland delta, the cliff-dwelling Dogons of Mali,
the Fulani herdsmen, the nomadic Tuaregs of the southern
Sahara, and the Songhai, descendants of the last and
mightiest of the West African empires. Here is a vast
kaleidoscope of ancient culture powerfully expressed in
rich and varied art and architecture.

Egypt and the Nile by Yacht
Jan. 30-Feb. 19

Belize / Tikal / Barrier Reef
Feb. 24-March 6

Bali and Beyond
March 16-28

New Zealand
April 5-21

DON'T MISS THESE ADDITIONAL 1994 TOURS

Cruising through Provence
aboard the 5-star MS Cezanne
June 23-July 3, 1994

And a special tour in partnership with
Brookfield Zoo to Kenya and Madagascar
November 5-22, 1994

(Watch for mention of this tour in the Chicago Tribune)