5 Qh Fu5 Ne In the Field The Bulletin of the Field January/February 1994 he Field Museum = Lo mad 1 | cu nat Tt yet ALY Ae) i Bye In the Field The Bulletin of the Field Museum 1893-1993 The fossil bones of The Field Museum Brachiosaurus, dis- Exploring covered by Field The Earth And Its = Museum scientists in People 1900, go on display. 6-8 9 The Museum plans an international sci- entific conference on the biodiversity crisis. A complete schedule of events, including special programs on Korean and African cultures. January/February 1994 ‘AFRICA’ EXHIBIT ALBUM Many events marked the opening of the Museum's new permanent exhibit, “Africa.” Herewith a selection of photographs that capture some of the excitement and variety of those days in November. Pages 10 - 11 NATIVE AMERICAN COLLECTIONS AND THE NEW GRAVES AND REPATRIATION LAW By Jonathan Haas and Janice Klein Department of Anthropology 990 the Native American Graves Pro- ction and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) as passed by Congress and signed into by President Bush. This legislation is having a profound impact on the Field Museum in terms of both short-term requirements and long term consequences. In the short term, NAGPRA requires all museums in the United States with Native American collections to do two things: First, they must send to each Indian tribe a summary of all the artifacts and objects from that tribe which are held by the museum; second, muse- ums must provide each tribe with a detailed inventory of all human remains and associated funerary objects that may have come from that tribe originally. In the long term, the Act establishes guide- lines and standards for all the federally recog- nized Indian tribes in the United States to have returned or “repatriated” from museums: human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of “cultural patrimony.” (Cultural patrimony is defined by NAGPRA as being those objects of great cultural importance that are owned communally by the tribe as a whole and could not be sold or given away by a single individual. In our society, the Liberty Bell or the original copy of the Declaration of Independence would be considered cultural pat- rimony.) “Sacred objects” under the Act are defined so as to include only those items that are needed for the current practice of traditional Native American religions by their present-day adherents. The Field Museum is actively complying with both the letter and the spirit of this impor- tant new law. On November 16, under the direction of Janice Klein, the Museum’s anthro- pology registrar, we mailed out summaries of our Native American collection to 759 federally recognized tribes and native Alaskan and Hawaiian corporations. Only 175 individual summaries were actually written, as there are many tribes, such as the Apache or the Sioux, that have been divided into two or more differ- ent political groups. In Alaska alone, sum- maries of objects listed in the catalogue as “Eskimo” were sent to more than 400 different and distinct Native Alaskan corporations. These summaries were each one to three pages long and included a statement of the approximate number of objects identified in our records as coming from a particular tribe, a general description of the kinds of objects (clothing, baskets, pottery, etc.), and more detailed information on items we thought might be of specific concern to a group, such as medicine bundles, Ghost Dance clothing, or masks. We also sent information about material that came from a general region but for which we had no specific tribal identification. We might have something labeled as Northwest Coast, for example, with no specific tribal iden- tification, and such an item would be included in the summaries sent to all the tribes in the northwestern U.S. Further information was pro- vided about archaeological material from each tribe’s aboriginal territory. We will work with the tribes to find out more precisely what parts of the collection they are interested in and how we can best answer their questions. Because of limited staff, it is not possible for us to conduct the necessary in-depth research into every tribe’s collections immediately. We will, however, use all available resources to address as quick- ly and efficiently as possible the questions and needs of the tribes that contact the Museum. This kind of research includes physically checking the location and condition of each object in the collection, looking through notes and correspondence related to the acquisition of the objects, and reviewing photographic records and images. While this can be relatively easy for a collection of only ten or twenty artifacts, it is both labor intensive and time consuming for collections of 500 or even 10,000 objects. Therefore, we are trying to consult with the individual tribes to learn what is most impor- tant to them and to find ways to get them the information they want and need. We also hope to obtain financial assistance from the National Park Service through a new granting program established to help implement the NAGPRA legislation. ond the summaries of our collec- ons of objects, the NAGPRA legis- tion also requires museums to onduct inventories of all human remains and associated funerary objects that came from Native American groups in the United States. The Field Museum is fortunate in that an inventory of almost all of the human remains held by the Museum was conducted by Lyle Konigsberg, a physical anthropologist, in the mid-1980s. We will be able to use this inventory as a foundation for the required NAGPRA list, while we double-check Dr. Konigsberg’s counts and add the few remains that were not included in his original research. We are also conducting an inventory of the rel- atively small number of funerary objects that were directly associated with the remains in our collection. These are objects such as pottery vessels or jewelry that may have accompanied an individual at the time of burial or interment. The inventories of human remains and associat- ed funerary objects are due to be sent out to Indian tribes by November 16, 1995. Although there has been some concern that this repatriation legislation will lead to the wholesale loss of collections from the Field Museum, this seems to be a very remote possi- bility. First of all, NAGPRA applies only to human remains and only a few categories of very narrowly defined objects. Secondly, there are provisions in the Act that allow museums to retain objects for which they have a legal right of possession under state or federal property laws. To date, the Field Museum has repatriat- ed the remains of 34 individuals to the Black- feet Tribe of Montana and 27 individuals to the Hui Malama Native Hawaiian group in Hawaii. We have also returned a sacred Sun Dance Wheel to the Northern Arapaho Tribe on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. In each case these repatriations have resulted in greatly improved relations between the Museum and the Native group involved. We have every rea- son to expect that in the years to come the entire experience of repatriation will bring about positive and productive relationships between the Field Museum and the peoples rep- resented in our collections and exhibits. Many objects in the Museum’s Native American collections were acquired or created expressly for museum display by Indian groups who wanted their heritage to be better under- stood by the wider society. Perhaps the most spectacular example is Big Beaver, the 55-foot totem pole that stands at the Museum’s north entrance. It was carved in Vancouver, B.C. by Nishga artist Norman Tait of the Tsimshian group of Northwest Coast Indians, and was cer- emonially raised and dedicated on its pre- sent site on April 24, 1982, to commemo- rate the opening of the exhibit “Maritime Peoples of the Arctic and Northwest Coast.” a January/February 1994 Vol. 65, No.1 Editor: Ron Dorfman Art Director: Shi Yung Editorial Assistant: Steven Weingartner In the Field (ISSN #1051-4546) | Chicago IL 60605-2496, Copyrig) Museum membership includes In ‘THE GREATEST CHALLENGE IS CHANGE’ By Willard L. Boyd President, The Field Museum Oo w time flies. How time also changes. Not so long ago, in 1946, when the Museum was just over 50 years old, Robert Inger joined the Zoology staff. Soon he was in Borneo, studying frogs in a rain forest that he thought would last at least a millennium. Now he finds that envi- ronment in a state of rapid change. So also are the world’s cultures and their organizations in great flux. Henry Adams predicted in 1904, as William Manchester reminds us in a recent U.S. News & World Report essay, “that the greatest challenge to 20th Century Americans would be change — volcanic, tumultuous change, accel- erating with each decade, increasing by a sort of geometric progression.” And that is general- ly the current human perception of the present and the future. Today we have people writing about “the end of history,” “the end of politics,” “the end of environments,” and “the end of cul- tures” as we know them. Whether or not these apocalyptic comments overstate the current rate of change, the fact remains, as Manchester says, that “to keep . . . [our] footing in the accelerations of the 21st Century, we had better make certain that our response to change is sup- ple and malleable, cloaked not in righteousness but in resilience.” As an institution looking to our second century we need to heed the counsel of Martin Jacques who wrote recently in the London Sun- day Times: “The new era demands organiza- tions able to engage in permanent innovation and experiment, whose natural habitat is a steep learning curve.” And so in the 21st century the natural habitat of the Field Museum will entail a steep learning curve. Our steep learning curve must be grounded in our fundamental mission to engage in collec- tion-based research and public learning about the evolution of nature and cultures. Our increasingly diverse constituencies, whether the Environmental Protection Agency or a Chicago fifth-grader, must easily grasp our purpose. The reality of the Field Museum is that we are about nature and human nature, about cultural and environmental change, about diversity and interconnectedness, about the greatest and most controversial issues of our time. This is our his- toric purpose and it will be increasingly impor- tant in the years ahead as we apply new attitudes, new techniques, new approaches, new partnerships and new imperatives for achieving it. These new ways are many. First of all, our attitudes are changing. We 1893-1993 The Field Museum Exploring The Earth And Its People is published bimonthly by The Field Museum, Roosevelt Road at Lake Shore Drive, ht © 1994 The Field Museum. Subscriptions $6.00 annually, $3.00 for schools. the Field subscription. Opinions expressed by authors are their own and do not necessarily reflect policy of The Field Museum. Museum phone (312) 922-9410. Notification of address change should include address label and should be sent to Membership Department. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to In the Field, The Field Museum, Roosevelt Rd. at Lake Shore Dr., Chicago, IL 60605-2496. Second class postage paid at Chicago, Illinois, January/February 1994 can no longer consider non-Western cultures as “primitive” and as a threat to the ever evolving American culture. Nowadays, cultural anthro- pologists are trying to understand the similari- ties and differences in the ways people think and behave in the many cultures at home and abroad. Archaeologists in turn use the record of the past to determine the cultural principles that have relevance for contemporary and future societies, such as the relationship between peo- ple and their environment, the persistence of cultural patterns through the millennia, and the nature of intergroup hostility and bigotry. The more we study cultural diversity the more we discover cultural similarity. There is not much diversity in human nature. Second, our techniques are changing. This enables us to mine new data from old collec- tions. New technology also affects what we col- lect. In zoology, for example, we now collect frozen tissue as well as skin covering and skele- tons. We have established a biochemical labo- ratory where we can do DNA sequencing on frozen or dried plants and animal tissue. Simi- larly, new “dating” techniques and computeri- zation have revolutionized our analytical capacity. New educational techniques are also changing how we convey knowledge to the public. In sum, both scholars and visitors are learning more and they are learning faster. Third, our approach is changing. Increas- ingly, we are concerned about interrelationships and interconnectedness within nature, across cultures, and between people and their environ- ment. This requires an interdisciplinary approach within the Museum. To foster it, we have organized two centers: the Center for Evo- lutionary and Environmental Biology and the Center for Cultural Understanding and Change. — These centers will be the vehicles for a Muse- um-wide approach to basic environmental and cultural issues that confront both our local and worldwide communities now and in the years to come. e are not alone in interdisciplinary pursuits. Among our museum peers, the American Museum in New York and the National Museum of Natural History in Washington have established interdisciplinary processes comparable to our Center for Evolu- tionary and Environmental Biology. What is unusual in our case is the Center for Cultural Understanding and Change. This is particularly appropriate for the Field Museum since our founding curators literally invented anthropology through the World’s Columbian Exposition. Our anthropological collections are extraordinary, and we have a great tradition of anthropological research and exhibits. More than ever, we have a responsibility to work closely with the peoples whose environ- ments and cultures are represented in our col- lections, research, and exhibits. Our biologists are working with local people in the field and also bringing them to Chicago for training with the support of the National Science Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. Beginning 15 years ago with the Pawnee Earth Lodge, we have involved the people whose cultures are represented in the planning of our exhibits. inally, there are new imperatives that impact the Museum. Environmental diversity is infinitely greater than our forebears ever imagined. Our biologists and anthropologists understand more than anyone else that 100 years is insignificant in the span of evolution. So they take the long-term view in a world concerned mainly with the short term. Above all, they recognize the issues at stake in balancing economic development with conser- vation. They work side by side with impover- ished people who need a better standard of living. But they also recognize the conservation imperative and the interconnectedness of the Earth’s habitats and the global environment. They are conservationists and experts in global change as well as systematists. Based on sug- gestions by some of our curators, governments and private groups organize conservation pre- serves. On the human front, our anthropologists are concerned with ethnic conflict and how people relate to the physical environment. These are the great issues of our time, and we cannot stand apart from them. In a diverse world people have diverse points of view about the environment and about themselves. Yet diversity must not obscure our commonalities and the need to live together in a shrinking global environment. As a center of learning, the Field Museum deals with controversial matters. The hue of our work is vivid, not pastel. Never- theless, it is essential that we recognize and respect the views of each other regardless of cultural and philosophical differences. There is a universal human ethic which requires mutual respect and understanding. SENIOR STAFF APPOINTMENTS ield Museum President Willard L. Boyd has announced several staff changes. With the retirement of James VanStone, curator of North American archaeology and ethnology, curatorial responsibility for working with Native American groups on repatriation and other issues falls entirely to Jonathan Haas. At his request, Dr. Haas has been assigned full- time responsibilities as MacArthur Curator of North American Anthropology and Archaeolo- gy and in that capacity will work with his col- leagues in the Department of Anthropology to coordinate repatriation work. “Given the cen- trality of collections to our mission,” Boyd said, “I consider repatriation to be the most important issue of my time at the Museum.” Succeeding Haas as vice president for Museum affairs is Laura Gates, a Harvard M.B.A. who comes to the Museum after six- teen years with the management consulting firm McKinsey & Co. Boyd said Gates will spend her first year primarily focused on issues of Museum-wide strategic planning, with par- ticular emphasis on earned income. She also will have administrative responsibility for aux- iliary enterprises, which include the Museum stores, food services, and income from special- events rentals, and will work with other Muse- um executives in such areas as marketing, special exhibits, and finance. Peter Crane, the MacArthur Curator of Fossil Plants, continues as director of the Cen- ter for Evolutionary and Environmental Biolo- gy, and in addition has been named vice president for academic affairs, with direct responsibility for the four academic depart- ments as well as the library, the biochemical laboratory, the journal Fieldiana, and the departments of computing, scientific illustra- tion, and photography. “The term ‘academic affairs’ reflects Dr. Crane’s Museum-wide responsibility to provide leadership on clarifying and integrating our content mission,” Boyd said. President Boyd will serve as acting direc- tor of the Center for Cultural Understanding and Change. The Center will involve the departments of anthropology and education and other Museum staff as well as staff of the Univer- sity of Ilinois at Chicago in developing programs. KANSAS STONE GATHERS NEW MOSS zobryum ogalalense is the name given Q: a hitherto unknown genus and species of moss by GARY MERRILL, research associate in botany. The moss was found on the rocks of the Ogalala Formation in northwest Kansas and was sent for identifica- tion to Merrill by Vernan Wranosky of Colby Community College in Kansas. Merrill said the name was inspired by the rock formation and by Frank L. Baum’s fictional land of Oz. € Bruce PATTERSON, curator of mammals, has been appointed to the editorial board of Masio- zoologia Neotropical, a new international jour- nal specializing in neotropical mammals. The journal is published by the Sociedad Argentina para Estudio de los Mamiferos (SAREM). € James VANSTONE, curator of North American archaeology and ethnology, retired on October 31 and has been named curator emeritus. He has been associated with the Field Museum since 1966, and was curator of the monumental exhibit “Maritime Peoples of the Arctic and Northwest Coast.” VanStone is a leading stu- dent of the history and contemporary life of Arctic peoples, including Eskimos (both Inuit and Yupik), Canadian and Alaskan Indians, and native Siberians. His most recent publication, in Arctic Anthropology, is an account of the indigenous Ainu people brought from Hokkai- do in northern Japan to be displayed on the “anthropology reservation” at the St. Louis world’s fair in 1904. ou € A work by the late ALAN SoLem, a zoology curator who died in 1990, has been published as a Supplement to the Records of the Western Australian Museum. Titled “Camaenid Land Snails from Western and Central Australia Part VI, Taxa from the Red Centre,” this massive (476-page) study is based on field work by Solem and his associates in the years 1974- 1983. It is Solem’s ninth posthumous publica- tion, and will soon be followed by the publication of Part VII in the series, as well as by seven other articles (most of which appear as chapters in the Fauna of Australia series). <€. ALAN Resetar of the Division of Amphibians and Reptiles and Tom Anton of the Division of Fishes recently attended a meeting for the Cen- tral Division of the Declining Amphibian Popu- lation Task Force at the Reis Biological Station near Steeleville, Missouri. They joined 22 her- petologists from around the Midwest to discuss the status of amphibian populations in their respective states, and to coordinate future activ- ities. Resetar also presented a short talk entitled “Sources of Baseline Data for Assessing His- torical Trends in Amphibian Populations.” € In September PeTrer Crane, MacArthur Curator of Fossil Plants and Field Museum vice presi- dent, signed a letter of agreement between the Museum and Chile’s Museo Nacional de Histo- ria Natural (MNHN). The agreement will facili- tate a collaborative study of the small mammal faunas of the Altiplano, a high (13,000-foot) tableland in Chile’s northernmost province of Tarapaca on the border of Peru and Bolivia. More recently, Crane has returned to Chicago after a two-week trip to Europe and the Middle East. While on the trip he gave lectures at the University of Reading in England, the Univer- GN 86198.33A sity of Amman in Jordan, and at a NATO- sponsored workshop on Arctic vegetation and climates. Crane also did exploratory work in Lower Cretaceous strata of Jordan with col- leagues from the biology and geology depart- ments at the University of Amman. € In October the Department of Zoology’s DAN BALETE went to the Philippines to study the community ecology of small mammals on Mt. Isarog. The mountain (an extinct volcano), in southern Luzon, is home to several rare rodent types. Balete, who has undertaken the study for his master’s thesis, will return to Chicago in May to analyze and write up his findings. It is expected that his work will aid in efforts to pro- tect the mountain’s environment, which is threatened by deforestation, and provide essen- tial information on the habitat needs and man- agement of the indigenous fauna. € Barry CHERNOFF is the new chair of the Depart- ment of Zoology, succeeding Scott LANYoN. Since joining the Field Museum staff in 1987, Chernoff has served as head of the Division of Fishes, developed the fish storage and research areas, participated in the Research and Collec- tions strategic planning process, and helped develop the “Into the Wild” and “Messages from the Wilderness” exhibits. Chernoff was recently appointed to the Governing Council of the Society of Systematic Biology. At the end of September Chernoff and Lanyon returned from Venezuela, where they were filmed while conducting research in various locales. The film will be used in a short video produced by the Center for Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, due to be completed early this year. € The Department of Geology’s JoHN FLYNN and Jon Bott have been named secretary and trea- surer, respectively, of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. This international scientific soci- ety, which is the principal professional organi- zation for vertebrate paleontologists, will move its business office to Chicago, probably in the late spring or early summer. € OLIVIER RIEPPEL, curator of fossil amphibians and reptiles, recently returned from an eight- week tour of German museum collections. His research on Mesozoic marine reptiles from the German Triassic led him to collections in Lon- don, Berlin, Halle, Heidelberg, Ingelfinden, Miinich, Solnhofen, Stuttgart, and Tiibingen. During a stopover in London he attended a symposium on models in phylogeny recon- struction, where he read a paper on “Species and History,” and at a meeting on Mesozoic fishes in Eichstatt he presented preliminary data on the fish fauna from a newly discovered bonebed in Nevada. He also visited field sites in Germany that have yielded Triassic speci- mens; in particular, he spent time at the Crail- sheim quarries, where he found vertebrae and limb bones as well as shark teeth. € Grecory MUELLER, associate curator of botany, has been awarded a grant of $401,017 from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Agency for International Development for a three-year project to survey and inventory mushrooms and related plants in the montane forests of Costa Rica. Titled “Agaricales of Costa Rican Quercus Forests,” the project is a continuation and expansion of a study started by RotF SINGER, research associate in botany, and is the largest and most comprehensive study of neotropical mushrooms ever undertak- en. Collaborating with the Field Museum in the project are the New York Botanical Garden, the University of Costa Rica, and the Wilson Botanical Garden (in southern Costa Rica). € Everett C. OLson, research associate in fossil vertebrates, died November 27 in Los Angeles at the age of 83. He was the author of seven books and more than 170 articles dealing with the evolutionary history of fishes, amphibians, reptiles, and mammals, and with novel methods for the mathematical interpretation of their fos- sil remains. As a professor, associate dean, and chairman of the department of geology at the University of Chicago, Olson was instrumental in forging close links between that institution and the Field Museum that continue to this day, and he helped build the Museum’s collections in both vertebrate and invertebrate paleontolo- gy. In 1969 he became chairman of the depart- ment of biology at the University of California, Los Angeles, where in 1984 he helped establish the Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life. Olson was widely acclaimed for having surmounted political and bureaucratic difficulties to conduct important research on related geological strata in the U.S., the former Soviet Union, and South Africa. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, recipient of the Paleontological Medal of the Paleontological Society, editor of the journals Evolution and Journal of Geology, and presi- dent of the Society for the Study of Evolution, the Society of Systematic Zoology, and the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, which in 1987 awarded him its first Romer-Simpson Distinguished Service Medal. Everett Olson leads a University of Chicago class in vertebrate paleontology held at the Field Museum in 1946. The student at center right is William D. Turnbull, now curator emeritus of geology at the Field Museum, seated next to his future wife, Priscilla Freudenheim, who became research associate in mam- mals, At far left is Rainer Zangerl, now curator emeritus of geology. 3 January/February 1994 John Weinstein /GN 86995.28 Renee rr ania at CHICAGO CHILDREN’S MUSEUM UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS CENTENNIAL BALL CELEBRATES ‘AFRICA’ KIDS FREE AT CHILDREN’S MUSEUM uring the month of January, take the kids, grandchildren, nieces, and nephews to Chicago Children’s Muse- um and they’ll get in free with a paid adult’s admission! Simply show your Field Museum membership card when you pay for your own admission (adults, $3.50; seniors, $2.50) and every child under age 13 will get in for free. Chicago Children’s Museum offers two floors of activity-filled exhibits and four daily workshops providing hours of interactive and educational family fun for children ages 1-12 and adults of all ages. Broadcast the news in a state-of-the-art TV studio, build with more than 100,000 Lecos in the museum’s Leco Gallery and make your own recycled masterpieces to take home. The museum is located at 465 E, Illinois Street on the second floor of North Pier. Muse- um hours are Tuesday through Friday, 12:30 — 4:30 p.m. (pre-school exhibit opens at 10 a.m.); Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. — 4:30 p.m. Free Family Night is Thursday, 5 — 8 p.m. For more information, call (312) 527-1000. John Weinstein /GN 86987.33¢ John Weinstein /GN 86988,21c Brachiosaurus appears to rise out of the foliage in this view of the Heffer- nan-Morgan firm’s design for the Centen- nial Ball hosted by the Women’s Board on November 5 to commemorate the Museum’s 100th anniversary and the unveiling of the “Africa” exhibit. Pic- tured below, from left, are Joan McKen- na, co-chair of the ball; Heather Bilandic, Women’s Board president; Claire Siragusa, co- chair; and Etta Moten Barnett, honorary chair of the ball and one of the great ladies of Chicago history. Ms. Barnett celebrat- ed her 92d birthday at the ball. eventy persons participated in the first two Elderhostel programs hosted by the Field Museum in October and November. Elderhostel is a non-profit agency based in Boston that promotes educational travel for adults aged 60 and over. The course of study, focused on evolution, was designed and super- vised by John Wagner and Peter Laraba of the Museum’s education depart- ment, and involved many members of the scientific staff, who gave lectures and led tours of their laboratories and collections. The Elder- hostelers also toured behind-the-scenes of the “Africa” and “DNA to Dinosaurs” exhibits under construction. Participants were mainly Midwesterners, but some came from as far as New York, California, and Ontario. Dorothy Roder, the Museum’s manag- er of tours, served as hostess and supervised accommodations, meals, and extracurricular activities. Judith Ostrow and George Wolnak, Museum vol- unteers, provided valuable assistance. Pictured during a surprise meeting with Charles Darwin are Elder- hostelers Mary Jane and Henry Kahn. January/February 1994 John Weinstein My SUT? i4 FRANKLIN, DARWIN & CO. njamin Franklin with President Boyd in Stanley Field Hall. The revo- lutionary gentleman was in the Museum October 1 in conjunction with a national meeting of Friends of Franklin, an organization dedi- cated to explication of his life and work. The Friends made a gift to the Museum of an unusual plant specimen, consisting of two leafy twigs and a flowering stem of Franklinia altamaha Marshall. ; According to William Burger, curator of vascular plants, several things make the gift unusual. The genus Franklinia is a member of the tea family (Theaceae), which is mostly tropical with very few north-temperate repre- sentatives. Secondly, Franklinia has only one species, discovered by John and William Bartram in Georgia in 1765. Thirdly, this solitary species was last seen in the wild in 1803; it survives today only in gardens. And finally, what is really special about the specimen is that it comes from a tree in Bartram’s Philadelphia garden where the seeds were first planted in 1777. CALENDAR OF EVENTS BRACHIOSAURUS BONES DEBUT original bones of Brachiosaurus have een put on display alongside the fiber- lass skeleton of the 40-foot-tall dinosaur. The skeleton was fabricated in part from molds taken from the original bones. The exhibit contains eighteen bones: four ribs; ten vertebrae (seven dorsal, four sacral, two from the tail); a piece of the coracoid saurus bones in the Museum’s geology lab. (shoulder); part of the pelvis; and a humerus (upper foreleg) and femur (upper thigh). The bones are encased in sixteen “cradles” in two groupings. Each group is designed to resemble a fossil excavation site, complete with canvas tent coverings and flooring treated to simulate the appearance and texture of sandy ground. The tent coverings are fastened to transparent barriers, thus forming an enclosure which, while not air-tight, permits viewers to get close (but not too close!) while offering some protec- tion from the environment. The bones have come a long way in time and space before reaching what the Muse- um intends to be their final resting place. Long ago (approximately 135-150 million years) in a land far away (Colorado, to be exact) they com- prised about 20 percent of the skeleton of one of the largest creatures that ever lived. A denizen of the Late Jurassic Period, Brachio- saurus was a member of the plant-eating sauro- pod group that weighed upwards of eighty tons and had a head-height of forty-two feet. In the film Jurassic Park it was depicted as a docile animal that traveled in herds, sang in chorus, and was prone to nasty head colds and hurri- cane-force sneezing bouts. This portrayal of Brachiosaurus is pure conjecture, of course. Nature consigned the ani- mal to extinction sometime around the end of the Jurassic, and the secrets of its behavior van- ished along with the entire species. The fact that we even know that Brachiosaurus existed is attributable to Field Museum geologist Elmer S. Riggs, who unearthed the Museum’s speci- men on a fossil-hunting expedition to western Colorado in 1900. The specimen was the first of its kind to be discovered, and Riggs named it Brachio- saurus — “arm lizard” — because its front legs were longer than its back legs. Shipped back to the Museum for further study, the bones were collectively designated the “type specimen” for the Brachiosaurus species: in other words, it is the reference specimen first scientifically described and identified as a new dinosaur species, and thus the standard against which all John Weinstein /GN 86816.14 Elmer Riggs (in cap) and preparator H. W. Menke work on Brachio- subsequent Brachiosaurus specimens are mea- sured and compared. The bones are fragile, and this plus the fact that they represent a type specimen were factors in keeping them off public display for the better part of a century. For one thing, it is very easy to damage bones when preparing them for dis- play; and once on display, damage can occur through exposure to the environment, where dust, moisture, and fluctuating temperatures can do a great deal of harm. More- over, their scientific sta- tus as a type specimen obligates the Museum to make the bones readily available for study, which is not really an option in a display venue. Riggs, who regarded Brachiosaurus as his baby and wanted nothing more than to show it off to the public, was frus- trated by the display ban. In a fit of picque he deposited the bones in his own specially constructed display case erected in one of the Museum’s basement storerooms. No doubt he continued to be frustrated, howev- er, since the storeroom was off-limits to the public—the only people who could see the bones were Museum staff, visiting scientists, and Riggs himself. In 1946 Riggs, by then confined to a wheelchair, paid what would be one of his last visits to the Museum. The honor of showing the aged geologist around fell to William Turnbull, then a young preparator of vertebrate fossils. As he wheeled his guest through the halls, Turnbull (who recently retired from the Museum as cura- tor emeritus of fossil mammals) found Riggs disappointed by the Museum’s failure to exhibit the Brachiosaurus specimen. “He kept asking me,” Turnbull recalls, “where the Brachiosaurus bones were, and why they weren’t on public display.” The bones were in storage, where they seemed destined to remain. Then, in 1993, the project to renovate Stanley Field Hall went into high gear. Albertosaurus and Lambeosaurus, locked for decades in mortal combat in the mid- dle of Stanley Field Hall, were removed for reinstallation in a new exhibit, “DNA to Dinosaurs,” now under construction. At the same time, the old dinosaur hall on the second floor closed for the same reason. All of a sudden there were no dinosaurs to be seen, an unfortunate situation given that many people go to natural history museums to see dinosaurs and very little else. The situation was rectified in part by the July 1993 debut of the fabricated skeleton. But in the interest of bringing real dinosaur bones back to the hall it was decided that, despite all the problems and haz- ards involved, Riggs’s specimen would finally go on display. Designing the Bra- chiosaurus exhibit was no easy task. John Flynn, chairman of the Depart- ment of Geology and curator of fossil mam- ap Museum workers assem- ble the Brachiosaurus skeleton in Stanley Field Hall, July 1993. Elmer Riggs lies next to the massive femur of Brachiosaurus. The bone weighed 600 pounds, and was six feet, eight inches long. This photo was taken at Riggs’s exca- vation site in the Jurassic Morrison Formation in west- ern Colorado. THE SMART WAY TO HAVE FUN. mals, explains that “we had to come up with a design that would ensure the safety of the bones while maintaining their accessibility to both researchers and the public.” To do that, the cra- dles that hold the bones are set on wheels, which enable them to be moved to and from the geology labs for research purposes. The bones were prepared for display by the Museum’s Design and Production staff under the supervision of William Simpson, the collec- tions manager of fossil vertebrates. The first step in this process was one of restoration. Over the years the specimen had deteriorated; frag- ments of varying size had broken off some of the bones, and several of these pieces had been glued back on in the wrong places. Using draw- ings made by Riggs as their guide, Simpson and his staff removed the incorrectly attached frag- ments, and glued these as well as the loose frag- ments onto the proper bones. That done, Simpson worked with PAST, Inc. to make molds of the bones for the mount- ed Brachiosaurus. (PAST is the Canadian firm that constructed the mounted Brachiosaurus replica; its name is an acronym for “Prehistoric Animal Structures.”) Once the molds were completed, the bones were cleaned up and, where needed, daubed with plastic varnish to protect tender spots. The bones were then placed in their cradles. “Tt has always been a career goal of mine to help get the Brachiosaurus bones back into shape,” Simpson says, That goal achieved, Simpson can now turn to preparing new dinosaur specimens excavated during recent expeditions. — Steven Weingartner 5 January/February 1994 os 2202244222228 882909772 JANUARY/FEBRUARY EVENTS Saturday 1/1 New Year’s Day: Museum Is Closed A sae Collections Committee Join the Collectioris Committee for the first in a series of guided in-depth tours of the Museums anthropological holdings. This two-hour (1 p.m. — 3 p.m.) behind-the- scenes tour is led by Phillip Lewis, curator emeritus of primitive art and Melanesian ethnology. Open to Collections Committee members only. For membership informa- tion, call Julie Sass at (312) 322-8874. 29 see Family Overnight Hear the sounds of the surf while exploring an island in the Pacific, take a nature walk and see all kinds of birds and animals, ven- ture into an Egyptian mastaba when the lights go out—all of these adventures and more are waiting for you at our next Family Overnight. Adults and children grades 1-6, 5:45 p.m. Saturday, January 29 to 9 a.m. Sunday, January 30. $35 per person. Call (312) 322-8854. 2/5 Workshop: A Family Quilt To celebrate the opening of the Museum’s “Africa” exhibit, located in the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Wing, learn about the unique African-American quilting style inspired by traditional African textile arts . Adults and children grades 3 and up. Satur- day, February 5, 10 a.m.—noon. $9 per participant ($7 per member participant). Call (312) 322-8854. January/February 1994 [%§ Saturday 2 6 Sunday ‘Yemen: A Culture of Builders’ Closes Last chance to to see this exhibition of 50 color photographs of Yemeni architecture. The exhibition is located in the South Gallery, and is free with regular Museum admission. . ' 2/8-12 Five days of cultural presentations in honor of Black History Month. For details, see opposite page and “Visitor Programs,” over- leaf. 2 8 Tuesday Coffee: Culture and Cuisine Sample different brewed coffees from around the world, find out about the cul- tures that produced them, and learn recipes using coffee products. Adults only. 6 p.m. — 9 p.m. Admission $25 ($20 members). Call (312) 322-8854. 2/10, 24 Thursdays | Paleontology | Explored An introduction to pale- ontology, offering a close look at fossilized invertebrate animals from trilobites to grapo- lites, mollusks, and corals. The class includes a behind-the-scenes look at “DNA to Dinosaurs,” the Museum’s new perma- nent exhibit scheduled to open this sum- mer. Adults only. 6:30 — 8:30 p.m. Admission $35 ($30 members). Call (312) 322-8854. vs a Bet Honoring Norman Ross For 25 years, Chicago broadcaster, business executive, and civic leader Norman Ross has been instrumental in developing eco- nomic relations and goodwill between the United States and China. The Field Museum, in cooperation with First Chicago Corp., the Chicago Council on Foreign rs sj Relations, and the Northwest Indiana World Trade Council, honors his achievements with a public lecture — by Mr. Ross — and a gala reception. Linda Yu of WLS-TV is mistress of ceremonies; special guests include the Hon. Li Zhaoxin, Chinese ambassador to the United Nations. Lecture, 4 p.m. in the James Simpson Theatre. Reception at 5 p.m. in Stanley Field Hall. ¢ . | For information and reservations, call (31 322-8857. January-April Field Guide New evening courses for adults, weekend programs for children and families, evenings behind-the-scenes and family overnights are some of the programs featured in the January-April Field Guide: Programs for Adults & Children. Don't miss the featured lecture “Camping with the Prince and Other Tales of Science in Africa” with writer Thomas Bass. If you have not received a copy by early January, call the Museum's Department of Education at (312) 322-8854. FOCUS ON ASIA AND AFRICA n celebration of the Asia Society’s Festi- val of Korea, the Field Museum is hon- ored to host a group of three shamans and nine musicians from the island of Chindo in Korea for a ritual performance on Sunday, February 20 at 2:00 p.m. Korean shamans are ritual specialists who contact the gods and ancestors on behalf of human clients. In-ceremonies, or kut, the shaman, usually a woman, mediates between the temporal and spiritual worlds. On Chindo, the role of shaman is perpetuated through the family in a tradition that is passed down from mother to daughter-in-law. The Sikkim Kut is a funeral rite to “cleanse” the spirit of the deceased. An altar with offerings of food is prepared to satisfy the spirits, and objects symbolizing different ances- tral spirits are carefully set out as the shaman performs choreographed ritual actions. Then, accompanied by music and song, the shaman begins to dance an appeal to the spirits while singing. The performance steadily intensifies, coming to an end when a knotted white cloth is untied and unfolded to symbolize the “cleansed” spirit’s path to the afterworld. The Asia Society’s Festival of Korea is sponsored by Philip Morris Companies Inc. The Festival is also supported in part by grants from the Korea Foundation, the Federation of Korean Industries, the Korean Foreign Trade Association, and the Korea Chamber of Com- merce and Industry. Admission to the performance is $15 ($12 for members, students, and seniors). Call (312) 322-8854. n February the Museum will present a five-day African heritage celebration in honor of Black History Month. The cele- bration, which will be held in Stanley Field Hall February 8-12, will feature a variety of cultural activities and events. Featured are musical performances, and demonstrations of the Kwanzaa ceremony, the Nguzo Saba (seven principles) of Kwanzaa, adolescent rites of pas- sage, staff carving, doll making, and the West African art of weaving. Students from Suder Elementary School will discuss their recent trip to Africa, and there will be a display of impor- tant inventions by African-Americans, as well as special performances by African storyteller Dr. Kwasi Aduonum, the Roots Theater Group, Whatever Comes to Mind Puppet Theater, and dancer Victor Clottey. For information about the activities and peformance times, call the Museum’s Department of Education at (312) 322-8852. Complementing the activities in Stanley Field Hall are several programs that touch on African themes. On January 26 Deborah Mack, developer of the “Africa” exhibit, will lead a tour of the exhibit. From March 5-7, the Muse- um will host an in-depth look at the African diaspora through a symposium featuring experts from around the United States, a series of performances of Afro-Cuban music and dance by Orlando “Puntilla” Rios and his group Nueva Generacion, and field trips to communi- ties in Chicago. And on March 12 Thomas Bass, author of Camping with the Prince and Other Tales of Science in Africa, will present a slide-illustrated lecture based on his book. In addition, there will be adult courses on ancient weaving tech- niques, strip quilting, doll making, coffee, and ancient Egyptian history; family work- shops on quilt making and music from around the world; and a children’s workshop on African metal- work. In February the Museum will repeat its popular “Journey to Africa” themed Overnight. For a copy of the January- April issue of the Museum’s Field Guide: Programs for Adults and Children, call the Museum’s Department of Educa- tion at (312) 322- 8854. Chindo Sikkim Kut (Korean Shaman rit- ual). Photograph by Ichiro Shimizu cour- tesy of The Asia Society. Become a Member of The Field Museum and receive these benefits: Free admission Free coat checking and strollers Invitation to Members’ Night Priority invitations to special exhibits Free subscription to In the Field 13-month wall calendar featuring exhibit photographs Reduced subscription prices on selected magazines Opportunity to receive the Museum’s annual report 10% discount at all Museum stores Use of our 250,000-volume natural history 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 Privileges at Chicago’s largest furniture wholesaler Children’s “dinosaur” birthday card Ve aVe W¥Ve" YE VV CY VE VOR VRY.Y-Y, MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION New Members only. This is not a renewal form. Please enroll me as a Member of The Field Museum Name Address City State __ Zip Home phone Business phone GIFT APPLICATION FOR Name Address City State___ Zip Home phone Business phone GIFT FROM Name Address City State __ Zip Home phone Business phone MEMBERSHIP CATEGORIES e) Individual — one year $35 / two years $65 C) Family — one year $45 / two years $85 (Includes two adults, children and grand- children 18 and under.) Student/Senior — one year $25 (Individual only. Copy of 1.D. required.) eo) Field Contributor — $100 - $249 @) Field Adventurer — $250 - $499 () Field Naturalist — $500 - $999 () Field Explorer — $1,000 - $1,499 All benefits of a family membership — and more C) Founders’ Council — $1,500 Send form to: The Field Museum, Roosevelt Road at Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605 73 January/February 1994 Sunday, January 2 11am — 4pm Arthrocart Discov- er arachnids, bugs, and other arthropods during a visit to the Arthrocart. Tuesday, January 4 10am — 12 & 1 — 3pm Owl Pel- lets activity. Wednesday, January 5 10am — 3pm Native American Beadwork demonstration. 10am — 12 & 1 — 3pm-Arthro- cart Thursday, January 6 11am & 1pm Celebrating our Centennial Tour Take an excit- ing look at Field Museum's fas- cinating 100-year history, from our beginnings with objects from the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, to Field Museum's dynamic role in the world today. Friday, January 7 10 — 2 Pacific Pareu Wrap your- self in a traditional Pacific cloth. Saturday, January 8 11am — 4pm Arthrocart 1:30pm Tibet Today and Bhutan, Land of the Thunder Dragon A slide presentation takes you to Lhasa, Tibet and the small Himalayan country of Bhutan. Tuesday, January 11 10am — 12 & 1-3pm Owl Pellets Wednesday, January 12 10am —-12 & 1 -—3pm Arthrocart Sunday, January 9 11am — 4pm Arthrocart Saturday, January 15 11am — 4pm Arthrocart Sunday, January 16 11am — 4pm Arthrocart Tuesday, January 18 11am — 4pm Owl Pellets Wednesday, January 19 11am — 4pm Arthrocart Thursday, January 20 11am & 1pm Celebrating Our Centennial Tour Saturday, January 22 11am — 4pm Arthrocart Sunday, January 23 1am — 4pm Arthrocart January/February 1994 8 VISITOR PROGRAMS Tuesday, January 25 10am — 12 & 1-3pm Ow/l Pellets Wednesday, January 26 10am —12 & 1—3pm Arthrocart Thursday, January 27 11am & 1pm Celebrating Our Centennial Tour Saturday, January 29 11am — 4pm Arthrocart Sunday, January 30 11am — 4pm Arthrocart. Tuesday, February 2 10am —12 & 1-3pm Owl Pellets Wednesday, February 4 10am —12 & 1 —3pm Arthrocart Thursday, February 3 11am & 1pm Celebrating Our Centennial Tour Sunday, February 6 2pm The Soul of Mbira: Ephat Mujuru; Master Musician and Storyteller from Zimbabwe Tickets $4 payable at the door only. Virtuoso mbira player (thumb piano) and storyteller, Ephat Mujuru shares the music, stories and traditions of the Shona peo- ple of Zimbabwe. "Mbira dza vadzimu” or mbira of the ances- tor spirits has 22 metal keys which are plucked by the thumb and forefinger. Mbira music is sacred ritual music allowing Africans to call upon their ancestors to give thanks or seek assistance with the trials of life. Mbira music is also music for entertainment presenting his- tory, proverbs and songs about everyday life. Tuesday, February 8 African Heritage Celebration in Honor of Black History Month 10am — 1pm Hall Activities: Kwanzaa, Rites of Passage, Travels to Africa, Inventions, West African Weaving, African Staff Carving, Music of the Dias- pora, and Heritage Through Doll-Making. 10:45am Performance: Dr. Kwasi Aduonum “African Sto- rytelling & SongWritten pre- registration required to attend.. Call 312-922-9410 ext. 351 for more information. 10am — 12 & 1-3pm Ow/l Pellets Musa Mosley, February 12 Wednesday, Febru- ary 9 African Heritage Celebration in Honor of Black His- tory Month 10am — 1pm Hall Activities: Kwanzaa, Rites of Passage, Travels to Africa, Inventions, West African Weaving, African Staff Carving, Music of the Diaspo- ra, and Heritage Through Doll-Mak- ing. 10:15 & 11:30am Performance: The Travelling Hardigan Elementary Story- tellers “African Folk- tales" 10:45am Perfor- mance: The Roots Theater “Black Voic- es in American History rit- ten pre-registration required to attend. Please call 312-922- 9410 ext. 351 for more informa- tion. 10am —12 & 1 —3pm Arthrocart . Thursday, February 10 11am & 1pm Celebrating Our Centennial Tour Friday, February 11 African Heritage Celebration in Honor of Black History Month 10am — 1pm Hall Activities: Kwanzaa, Rites of Passage, Travels to Africa, Inventions, West African Weaving, African Staff Carving, Music of the Dias- pora, and Heritage Through Doll-Making. 10:45am Performance: What- ever Comes to Mind Puppet TheateWritten pre-registra- tion required to attend. Call 312-922-9410 ext. 351 for more information. Saturday, February 12 African Heritage Celebration in Honor of Black History Month 10am — 3pm Hall Activities: Kwanzaa, West African Weav- ing, African Staff Carving, Music of the Diaspora, and Heritage Through Doll-Making. 12noon Performance: Whatever Comes to Mind Pup- pet Theater 1pm ___ Roots Theater “Black Voices in American History" 2pm Musa Mosley “African American Drumming" Tuesday, February 15 10am — 12 & 1-3pm Owl Pellets Wednesday, February 16 10am —12 & 1 —3pm Arthrocart Tuesday, February 22 10am — 12 & 1-3pm Owl Pellets Wednesday, February 23 10am—12 &1-—3pm Arthrocart Thursday, February 24 11am & 1pm Celebrating Our Centennial Tour Ephat Mujuru, February 6 Daniel F. & Ada L. Rice Wildlife Research Station Videotapes, computer pro- grams, educator resources, books and activity boxes about the animal kingdom are avail- able. Daily 10am-4:30pm Webber Resource Center Native Cultures of the Americ- as Books, videotapes, educator resources, tribal newspapers and activity boxes about native peoples of the Americas are available. Daily 10am—4:30pm Harris Educational Loan Center Chicago area educators may borrow activity boxes and small dioramas from Harris Center. For more information call: (312) 322-8853. Open House Hours: Tuesdays 2:30-7pm Thursdays 2:30—5pm Saturdays 9am—5pm Place For Wonder A special room of touchable objects where you can discover daily life in Mexico, in addition to an array of fossils, shells, rocks, plants and live insects. Weekdays: 12:30-4:30pm 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 during the mid-19th century. Weekdays: 1:00 pm programs Saturdays: 10am—4:30pm; Free ticketed programs at 11, 12, 2 & 3. Sundays: 10am—4:3Gpm 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 10am-4:30pm Africa Today: Resource Center Books, periodicals, videotapes, educator resources and activity boxes to complement the new Africa exhibit. Open daily 10am — 4:30pm UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS MUSEUM CENTERS PREMIERE VIDEOS isitors will be able to learn about the V Museum’s two interdisciplinary research centers by watching a pair of video presentations in Stanley Field Hall. The presentation for the Center For Evolutionary and Evironmental Biology (CEEB) will be screened on video monitors at the elephant exhibit, and the video for the Center For Cul- tural Understanding and Change (CCUC) will be shown next to the totem pole. The CEEB presentation, which runs fifteen minutes, was shot in Venezuela by Museum curators. Using footage of scientists at work in the field, it provides viewers with an introduc- tion to CEEB’s activities and goals. In addition to the video, six interactive panels set on read- ing rails further explain CEEB’s purpose and what it does in relation to the Museum’s overall objectives as a research and educational institu- tion. The CCUC presentation has a three-minute running time, and is also complemented by interactive panels. The intent here is to explain what anthropology is, and to provide an overview of CCUC’s mission and purpose as a center for anthropological study. In doing so it addresses CCUC’s four guiding themes: cultur- al diversity and similarities; humans in the nat- ural evironment; culture, change, and evolution; and understanding human nature. The video explores these themes through still images and film of people from different races, ethnic groups, and cultural backgrounds. His- torical figures and cultural artifacts (both ancient and modern) are also featured. In keep- ing with CCUC’s objectives, the focus through- out is on the rich mosaic of human cultures, and how CCUC is promoting respect and apprecia- tion for the world’s cultural diversity. INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE ON BIODIVERSITY Members of the Women’s Board and the curatorial staff chat after the women’s quarterly meeting in November, at which botany research asso- ciate Doel Soejarto reported on efforts to find medicinal plants to combat AIDS in tropical rain forests. From left are Marion Ware, Virginia Menke, John Flynn (geology; rear), John Engel (botany), and Barry Chernoff (zoology). ‘DNA to Dinosaurs’ would not be complete without Triceratops ...and you. he Field Museum's Center for Evolu- tionary and Environmental Biology (CEEB) will host a two-day public conference and seminar in May titled “Dimensions of Biodiversity: Global, National and Local Perspectives.” The conference, held in celebration of the Museum’s centennnial, will feature scientists, public policy makers, and conservation professionals from around the world meeting with educators and students from the Chicago area to discuss a broad range of biodiversity issues and concerns. The conference will focus on three prob- lems that impair public understanding and con- tribute to inaction in the area of biodiversity. One is that professionals in the fields of biolo- gy, economics, and law are frequently ignorant of biodiversity problems that do not touch on their particular disciplines. As a result, biodi- versity issues are often dealt with in a piece- meal fashion, despite their manifestly inter- disciplinary nature. A second problem is that biodiversity issues are frequently framed in terms of tropi- cal environments, while local concerns receive little attention. Because no connection is made between global and local issues, the immediacy of the problem is lost; furthermore, the absence of personal experience also tends to obscure the inherent complexity of effective conserva- tion and management. These factors exacerbate the difficulties of environmental education at all levels, and contribute to the common view that the loss of biodiversity is “someone else’s problem.” The third concern is that these issues rarely form part of a school curriculum, and even where education materials are available they are often burdened with the difficulties outlined in the preceding paragraphs. The absence of interdisciplinary perspectives and the lack of connection between global and local issues conspire to blunt the effectiveness of most existing teaching materials as tools for education and catalysts for action. According to CEEB director Peter Crane, the conference will address these concerns through an educational program that deals with global and local issues through a blend of bio- logical, political, economic, and legal perspec- tives. The main part of the program will be a colloquium comprising panels of experts in the different dimensions of biodiversity. The collo- quium is aimed at professionals and students in biology, economics, and law, as well as high school teachers from the Chicago area. The colloquium’s first session, to be held on Saturday morning, May 21, will explore what biodiversity is and reasons for conserving it; the second session, on Sunday morning, May 22, will look at ways of assessing, con- serving, and managing biodiversity; and the third session on Sunday afternoon will examine biodiversity and economic development. In addition to the colloquium, conference participants will be able to go on guided field excursions to Chicago-area prairies. These excursions will occur on Saturday afternoon following the opening session. olunteers are needed for our new permanent exhibit, DNA to Dinosaurs. Opening in June 1994, this exhibit looks at the earth and its changes over time. Facilitators are needed to guide general visitors, schools and community groups through the exhibit. Facilitators will utilize hands-on activities, staff activity stations and answer visitor questions concerning prehistoric life. An earth science or education background is helpful, but not nec- essary. A $30 fee is required to cover the cost of training materi- als. Scholarships are available. “The Children’s Place” Etiquette Program Saturday, March 26, April 2, April 9 & April 16 1994 We are pleased to offer Field Museum members the first program to revital- ize social manners for children of all ages by Paula Person. Mrs. Person takes formality out of etiquette by making social manners educational and a happy experience. children will learn proper diction, table manners, telephone manners and proper courtesies for visting a museum. Classes for this four-week program are writtenfor each age group and hand- outs are provided for parent and child. Questions? Call (312) 922-9410. Age: 4-5 years - 11:00-12:00 p.m. Dress Code: Girls: skirt or dress 6-8 years - 1:00-2:00 p.m. Boys: collared shirt 9-14 years - 2:30-3:30 p.m. No Jeans, please If you enjoy working with people of all ages and are interested in learning about prehistoric life, please call the Coordinator of Museum volunteers at (312) 922-9410, ext. 360, or complete the form and mail to The Field Museum. DNA to Dinosaurs Name: Address: The Field Museum * Membership Department * Roosevelt Road at Lake Shore Drive « City, State, Zip: Parent or adult: Phone: (Day) (Evening) Address: Please mail to: Coordinator of Museum Volunteers, Field Museum, Roosevelt Rd. at Lake Shore Dr., Chicago, IL 60605 City/State/Zip: Daytime phone: pee TOTALS Child’s age: Number of Reservations: John Weinstein /GN 86997,6 On the cover: Dr. Njiasse Njoya Aboubakar of Bamum uses a cal- abash bow! decorat- ed with cowrie shells to perform a libation ceremony at the ded- ication of the “Africa” exhibit in the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Wing. ith a full cal- endar of pre- views and special events, the Museum’s new permanent exhibit “Africa,” in the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Wing, opened in November to enthu- siastic reviews and large crowds. Museum photogra- _ phers were on hand to capture the excitement. James Balodimas / GN 87002,35 At right, the Chicago Tribune’s Lawrence Bom- mer looks over musical instruments during a media preview of “Africa.” With a mural of the Serengeti Plain as backdrop, members of the Friends of Field Museum Library listen to their chairman, Worth Smith, introduce a program on how the Library’s collections were used in creating the exhibit. January/February 1994 James Balodimas / GN 87018.30 Formally opening the exhibit are, from left, Nick Rabkin of the MacArthur Foundation, with his children, Robin Tryloff of the Sara Lee Foundation, Prince Njoya of Bamum, exhibit developer Deborah Mack, Museum President Willard L. Boyd, and Vice President Michael Spock. At right and above, kids check out the inner workings of a camel. At left, at a preview for Museum donors, visitors learn how to use Adinkra symbols. Below, Taxi Day brought these Chicago drivers to inspect the bus that takes visitors on their introductory tour of Dakar, Senegal. Bus riders at the members’ preview are introduced to a Sene- galese kora player, while others visit with the women of our host family preparing for the Muslim celebration of Tabaski. Jamas Balodimas ‘GN 87005.4 James Balodimas / GN 87031.5 John Weinstein /GN 86997,24 James Balodimas / GN 87004.11 Diane Alexander White / GN87033.19 James Balodimas/ GN 87025 194, .19Ac John Weinstein /GN 87035.33 Left and right, mem- bers of the Calumet High School Dance Club entertain on opening day, James Balodimas / GN 87005.25A Fra} ee ao [=] Ss 5 o Zz oO a @ =? 3 2 = 3 a w ® i= o Ss George Chavez, assistant production supervisor, attended the opening with his son. John Weinstein /GN 87014.21c John Weinste Members of the Spir- its of the Ancestors dance troupe per- form on opening day. James Balodimas / GN 87022.30c At a preview for members of the Centennial Club of long-time Museum members, Hyde Parkers Ida DePenscier, left, and Charlotte Collier poise for the camera in Stanley Field Hall, Ms. DePenscier is also celebrating her centennial this year. John Weinstein /GN 87013.32c John Weinstein /GN 87013.9¢ i James ee LGN 87025.36Ac Left, a kora player demonstrates his art for teachers at an educators’ preview. A family gets some rest after a round of activities and enter- tainment during a special Family Overnight for the “Africa” exhibit. Above, some kids make music with gourds and rattles; at left a little girl makes Adinkra-cloth designs; and a boy (below) gets fierce in his African mask. January/February 1994 wii Zealand 312/322-8862 April 5 - 21, 1994 At Tokomaru Bay, we will have the honor of being welcomed Elsewhere in New Zealand, we'll visit geysers and onto the marae by descendants of Ruatepupuke, Field glaciers, sheep farms and literary landmarks, museums and Museum's treasured and sacred Maori meeting house. This mountains, churches and caves, all in the company of Maori family worked side by side with the Museum staff for knowledgeable Field Museum and local guides. more than a year to conserve and plan the reinstallation of The cost is $3,750 per person, double occupancy, the house in Chicago, The welcoming ceremony in Tokomaru including round-trip air fare from Chicago, An optional Bay will be very special, and we'll have the choice of extension to Australia (April 21-28) is also available for an overnighting on the marae or in a hotel. Our guide will be Dr. additional $1,055. The Australia extension features stopovers John Terrell, curator of Oceanic archaeology and ethnology, in Cairns and Sydney, a cruise to the Great Barrier Reef, a who has been intimately involved in the Ruatepupuke trip inland to an Aborigine village in the MacAllister Range, project from the beginning. and time on the beaches of Sydney. Eleven days in fe Caribbean sun, ih Wee sno sling, exploration of magnificent Mayan ruins, and wildlife obser forests of Belize and Guatemala. $2,598 per person, including More Fabulous 1994 Tours West Africa: Senegal and Mali ¢ February 16 - March 2 Cruising the Waterways of Old Russia July 5-18 Provence e October || -23 aboard the 5-star M.V. Cezanne Kenya and Madagascar ¢ November 5 ~ 22 Inquire abdut a’ Spité 18lahtSdifihs?A fourhey to Asmat April 22 - May 8