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Two Nigerian Shrine Figures" exploring the meaning of 

 identity within two societies of southeastern Nigeria. 



September 26 



■ Robbery Friends of the National Zoo business office is 

 robbed. 



September 27-January 



■ Traveling exhibition! Affiliation loan "Notable Women from 

 the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Collection" became 

 one of the inaugural exhibitions at The Women's Museum: An 

 Institute for the Future in Dallas, Texas. For this innovative 

 museum dedicated to the history and promotion of women, 

 the NPG compiled 50 paintings and sculptures to illustrate 

 the import of such notable American figures as Leontyne 

 Price, Amelia Earhart, and Susan B. Anthony. 



September 29 



■ Exhibition, special event The Women's Museum: An Insti- 

 tute for the Future opened as an affiliate in Dallas, Texas. 

 Under Secretary Sheila Burke attended the opening festivi- 

 ties. Exhibitions developed for the new facility featured 152 

 artifacts on loan from the National Portrait Gallery — which 

 developed an exhibition of Notable American Women 



specifically for the museum — the National Air and Space 

 Museum, the National Museum of American History, and 

 the National Postal Museum. 



September 30 



■ Eleventh digital edition published The Smithsonian Libraries 

 nth digital edition was launched on the Web. F. N. Marti- 

 net's Ornithologie (1773—92) is the sixth natural history rare 

 book that the Libraries has published on the Web. Three 

 works in the history of science and technology and two 

 works on Native American Studies from the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology are also available on the Libraries' Web 

 site at www.sil.si.edu. 



September 30 



■ Exhibition The SITES exhibition "American Garden 

 Legacy: Exploring Garden Transformations, 1900—2000" 

 premiered at the Smithsonian's Arts and Industries Build- 

 ing, Washington, D.C. The exhibition, produced with the 

 Smithsonian Horticulture Services Division, celebrates the 

 rebirth and preservation of five grand American gardens: 

 Thornewood in Tacoma, Washington; Beacon Hill in New- 

 port, Rhode Island; Grosse Pointe War Memorial in 

 Michigan; Shirley Plantation on the James River in Virginia; 

 and Weld in Brookline, Massachusetts. 



