Field Museum 



of Natural History 



Bulletin 



Published since 1930 by 



Field Museum of Natural History 



Founded 1893 



Editor/Designer: David M. Walsten 



Board OF Trustees 



Robert A. Pritzker 



Chairman 

 Mrs. T. Stanton Armour 

 Robert O. Bass 

 Gordon Bent 

 Mrs. Philip D. BIcKklll 

 Willard L.Boyd. 



President 

 Robert D. Cadieux 

 Worley H.Clark 

 James W. Compton 

 Frank W. Considme 

 Thomas E. Donnelley II 

 Thomas J. Eyerman 

 Marshall Field 

 Ronald J. Gidwit: 

 Wayne E. Hedien 

 Clarence E. Johnson 

 Richard M. Jones 

 John James Kinsella 

 Robert D. Kolar 

 William Kunkler III 

 HugoJ. Melvoin 

 Leo F. Mullin 

 James J. O'Connor 



Mrs. James J. O'Connor 

 James H. Ransom 

 John S. Runnells 

 Patrick G. Ryan 

 William L. Searle 

 Mrs. Theodore D. Tieken 

 E. Leland Webber 

 Blaine J. Yarrington 



Life Trustees 



Harry O. Bercher 

 Btiwen Blair 



Stanton R. Qnik 

 Mrs. Edwin J. DeCosta 

 Mrs. David W Grainger 

 Clifford C. Gregg 

 Mrs. Robert S. Hartman 

 Edward Byron Smith 

 Robert H. Strotz 

 John W. Sullivan 



CONTENTS 



September/October 1989 

 Volume 60, Number 8 



SEPTEMBER AND OaOBER EVENTS AT FIELD MUSEUM 3 



FIELD BRIEFS 5 



QRAMIC CRICKET JARS IN THE FIELD MUSEUM 



by Ho Chiii?nei, Lisa Adkr, and Beiinct Bronson 6 



EGYPTIAN MUMMIES: MHHS, MAGIC, AND REALITY 



by Frank J. Yurco 16 



HELD MUSEUM TOURS 31 



COVER 



Charles Carpenter: 

 Native American Portraits 



Through March 17, 1990 



C^ronimo, famed Apache Indian chief, as recorded through 

 the camera lens of Charles Henry Carpenter in 1904. The photo 

 session took place at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. 

 Lx)uis, at which time Carpenter ( 1 859- 1949) was Field Museum's 

 chief photographer, a post he held from 1899 until 1947. This 

 photo is among 35 f)ortraits by Carpenter that will be on view 

 through March 17 in the Webber Resource Center for Native 

 Cultures of the Americas. The center's hours (slightly shorter 

 than regular Museum hours) are noon to 5:00pm on weekdays 

 and I0:00am to 5pm on weekends. The exhibit was funded by 

 the Union League Club of Chicago's Civic and Arts Foundation. 



Ncg. 1 5793 



Sports Feelings 



Sept. 14 -Nov. 26 



Tliis major exhibition of American and Soviet spiorts pho- 

 tography speaks to the universality and humanity of sport. 

 The first joint exhibition of its kind, "Sports Feelings," fea- 

 tures more than 100 action photographs taken by photo- 

 graphs from Sporrts Illustrated magazine and by photographers 

 of the Soviet Union. The exhibition toured five cities in the 

 Soviet Union before beginning its United States tour in 

 1988. 



SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 



Attention Members and Subscribers 



This issue of the Bulletin is for the period of September and 

 October. All subscriptions will be extended by one month 

 beyond the anticipated termination date. 



Field Mustum of Natural History Bulletin iVSPS 898-9401 is published moMhly. CKCcfH August and October, by Field Museum of Natural Histon . Roosevelt Road at Lake Shote Dnve. Chicago. IL 60605-2496. Copyright C 1989 Field Museum of 

 Natural History Subscripliotis: $6.(X) aniuully S3 DO for schools Museum tnctntiership includes flu/fehn subscnptwn Optmons expressed by authors arc their own and do not necessarily teflect the policy of Field Museum. Unsolicited manuscnpts 

 art welcome Museum f4ione: 1312)922-94 10. Nodficaticn of address change should inchidc adtiiess label and be sent to Membership Depatlmcnl . i\>stmaster: Please send ftinn 3579 to Field Museum of Natural History. Roosevelt Road at Lake Shore 

 Onve Chicago.1! 60605-2496. ISSN: 0015-0703. Second class postage pud at Cbtcago. Uluiois. 



