Ammcan Society of Plant Taxonomists Newsletter, a check- 

 list of plants of the Guianas, and the Checklist of the 

 Mammal Species of the World. Available information 

 on these and other topics is roughly equivalent to 

 50,000 pages of printed text. 



October 2J 



■ Repatriation In ceremonies in New York City, the 

 National Museum of the American Indian returned 86 

 ceremonial objects to the people of the Pueblo of Jemez, 

 New Mexico. Research had determined that the objects 

 had been removed illegally from the pueblo and eventu- 

 ally had been sold to the museum. 



October 29 



■ Award Acting Director Spencer Crew and Nancy 

 McCoy of the Education Division of the National Mu- 

 seum of American History were named winners of the 

 first annual Smithsonian Exhibition Awards, Crew as cu- 

 rator of "Field to Factory: Afro-American Migration, 

 1915— 1940," named the Best Exhibition, and McCoy for 

 Outstanding Individual Effort in her role in opening 

 the Hands On History Room. 



October 30 



ture was sponsored by Dr. Marvin and Elayne Mordes of 

 Baltimore. 



October 57 



■ Seminar Washington, D.C.-area high school juniors 

 were invited to explore artist Willem de Kooning's 

 work and cultural context in a half-day seminar of dis- 

 cussions, gallery visits, film clips, and slides at the 

 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. 



November— Ma rch 



■ Fellowship Project "Lifelong Learning and Museums: 

 In Pursuit of Andragogy," an Office of Museum Pro- 

 grams Fellowships in Museum Practice research project, 

 was conducted at the Smithsonian and in museums in 

 New York, St. Paul, and Chicago by Andrew Svedlow, 

 director, Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences, 

 Manchester, New Hampshire. 



November 



■ Seminar The Office of Printing and Photographic 

 Services hosted and cosponsored with the White House 

 News Photographers Association the nation's only free 

 high school seminar in still and video news photography. 



■ Planetarium Show Universe of Illusions, a 30-minute 

 planetarium show about the role of perception and 

 illusion in our quest to understand the universe, 

 opened at the National Air and Space Museum's Ein- 

 stein Planetarium. 



October 30 



■ Special Event At the Friends of the National Zoos 

 first annual Menagerie Masquerade, 300 costumed 

 guests danced to live music and consumed hors 

 d'oeuvres, "treats," and drinks supplied by Washington, 

 D.C.-area restaurants. This successful new fund raiser 

 benefited Zoo conservation education programs. 



November 



■ Acquisition The National Museum of African Art ac- 

 quired a carved object called an "elek" from the Baga 

 peoples of Guinea and Guinea Bissau. Figures such as 

 this one— a composite of a human face, a bird beak, and 

 the jaws of a crocodile— were used in agricultural rites 

 and funeral celebrations. 



November 



■ Gift The National Museum of African Art received 

 a gift of a figure, carved ca. 1948, by the artist Lahore of 

 Nigeria. 



October 3/ 



November 



■ Lecture Series The Mordes Lecture in Contemporary 

 Art was inaugurated at the Hirshhorn Museum and 

 Sculpture Garden as an annual series with the lecture 

 "War of the Body: Contemporary Art 1960S/1980S," by 

 the Italian critic and curator Germano Celant. The lec- 



■ Collection Preservation The Office of Printing and 

 Photographic Services completed the second expansion 

 of its environmental cold storage unit to provide archi- 

 val storage conditions for its negative and transparency 

 collections. 



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