Exhibits— Anthropology 



Nine new exhibits were prepared for Hall 8 (Ancient and Modern 

 Indians of Mexico and Central America), completing the section 

 devoted to ethnology of Mexico and Guatemala, four for Hall 7 

 (Ancient and Modern Indians of the Southwestern United States), 

 and one for Hall C (Stone Age of the Old World). Dioramist Alfred 

 Lee Rowell finished a diorama for Hall 8 of a Maya eighth-century 

 ceremony that was performed to dedicate a newly erected stela with 

 calendrical inscriptions (this diorama is not yet installed) and also 

 began work on a diorama showing an Aztec market. 



Hester, assisted by Liss, completed renovation and reinstallation 

 of all Melanesian (Hall A), Australian (Hall Al), and Polynesian 

 and Micronesian (Hall F) exhibits and added a new Indonesian 

 (Hall G) exhibit, a task involving indexing withdrawn artifacts and 

 storing them in the Pacific Research Laboratory. As in renovation 

 in 1955 of the Philippine (Hall A) and Indonesian (Hall G) exhibits, 

 all exhibition cases were cleaned, repainted, and top-lighted. The 

 Melanesian exhibition cases in Hall A were placed in a new floor-plan 

 that eliminates the traditional long-corridor arrangement, a change 

 that gives at nearly every turn a view of the broad fronts of the 

 cases rather than, as formerly, their narrow ends and increases the 

 viewing distance. Four new built-in cases were installed in which 

 are displayed exceptional specimens from Melanesia. In Hall F 

 the traditional floor-plan was kept to allow a long vista of the Maori 

 house at the end of the hall, but the distance between exhibits was 

 doubled and a patio of 150 square feet was cleared immediately in 

 front of the house where were installed two monumental replicas of 

 the gigantic Easter Island stone heads modeled for us by Walter 

 Boyer, Ceramic Restorer. Two new exhibits were installed in Hall F, 

 one of woodcarving from the Austral and Cook islands in Polynesia 

 and the other of weapons from Fiji. All the new exhibits were 

 prepared by Artist Gustaf Dalstrom and Preparator Walter C. 

 Reese. This whole program of renovation and reinstallation could 

 not have been accomplished without the full co-operation of James 

 R. Shouba, Superintendent, and William E. Lake, Chief Engineer, 

 and their respective crews, who made every effort to fulfill their 

 assignments promptly and efficiently. 



A new exhibit in Hall E (Africa and Madagascar), the Cameroons 

 King's House, was completed for Members' Night (see page 26). 

 The exhibit is an outgrowth of collaboration with Mrs. Webster 

 Plass and William B. Fagg, both of the British Museum (London), 

 whose admiration for our Cameroons collections and their interest in 



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