co-operation with other institutions 



In accordance with its custom, the Museum seized many oppor- 

 tunities to work with other institutions and with scholars from 

 other institutions in pursuit of our mutual objectives. 



The Museum continued its close co-operation with the Philippine 

 Studies Program at the University of Chicago (see Annual Report 

 1956, page 74). Evett D. Hester, who now is devoting his full time 

 to duties as Associate Director of the Philippine Studies Program, 

 was succeeded during the year as Thomas J. Dee Fellow in Anthro- 

 pology at the Museum by Alfredo Evangelista of the Philippine 

 National Museum in Manila (see pages 38 and 116). The exhibition 

 of Chinese rubbings arranged under the sponsorship of the Renais- 

 sance Society in its galleries at the University of Chicago by Dr. 

 Kenneth Starr, Curator of Asiatic Archaeology and Ethnology, was 

 the occasion of two talks by him on the subject of rubbings, one to 

 members of the Renaissance Society and the other to guests of 

 the Midwest Chinese Student and Alumni Services. Through the 

 co-operation of Dr. Hoshien Tchen, Consultant, East Asian Collec- 

 tion, and Curator Starr the Museum participated in a census of 

 library holdings in Asiatic languages in the United States, a survey 

 that was sponsored by the American Library Association. 



On the evening of April 8 the Society for Contemporary American 

 Art held a special dinner in the Museum (see page 109) and a program 

 that included a talk on primitive art by Phillip H. Lewis, Assistant 

 Curator of Primitive Art, and guided tours of selected art exhibits 

 in the Museum by Dr. Donald Collier, Curator of South American 

 Archaeology and Ethnology, George I. Quimby, Curator of North 

 American Archaeology and Ethnology, Curator Starr, and Assistant 

 Curator Lewis. During the summer Dr. Douglas Newton and 

 Myron O'Higgins, both of the new Museum of Primitive Art in 

 New York, visited this Museum to select photographs from our 

 many albums for the collection that Mr. O'Higgins, who is the 

 photograph archivist, is making for the Museum of Primitive Art. 

 Miss Grace Ramke, faculty member at Louisiana State University, 

 is working under a grant from the Ford Foundation to delineate the 

 aesthetic principles of African art, a project that is being carried 

 on at Northwestern University and this Museum. 



Conferences on the "Transition from Food Collecting to Food 

 Producing in the Old and New Worlds" were held at the Museum 

 in the fall in co-operation with the University of Chicago, North- 

 western University, Illinois State Museum, Southern Illinois Uni- 

 versity, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological 



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