May 20-25 



Conference: The International Council for Archaeozoology Sixth International 

 Conference was sponsored at the Smithsonian by the Archaeobiology Program and the 

 Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History. The conference was 

 coordinated by the Office of Conference Services. 



May 21-30 



Festival: Five traditional performance groups from across the United States traveled to 

 the Soviet Union under the auspices of the Office of Folklife Programs to participate in 

 the Second International Folklore Festival, held in Kiev. 



May 22 



Acquisition: The National Portrait Gallery Commission approved the acquisition of 

 G.P.A. Healy's portrait of John C. Calhoun. 



May 24 



Exhibition: Indian portraits by Charles Bird King were hung in the Smithsonian 

 Institution Building. 



May 27 



Exhibition: The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery presented its first major exhibition of 

 Japanese art since the museum opened to the public. Yokohama: Prints from 

 Nineteenth-Century Japan was made possible by the Sackler Gallery's first corporate 

 exhibition sponsor, Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., of Tokyo. Prints in the 

 exhibition were loaned from the collection of William and Florence Leonhart of 

 Washington, D.C., with the participation of the Daval Foundation. 



June 



Space Flight: The joint German-American-British ROSAT satellite was launched by the 

 National Aeronautics and Space Administration from Cape Canaveral. Representing the 

 largest x-ray telescope ever flown, ROSAT carries a High Resolution Imager built by the 

 Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory to produce focused images of cosmic x-ray 

 sources. The first test observations in July produced images of a supernova remnant, a 

 cluster of galaxies, a compact x-ray binary, and the Moon. 



June 



Award: Symbolic Immortality, by Sergei Kan, published by the Smithsonian Institution 

 Press, recceived the 1990 American Book Award of the Before Columbus Foundation. 



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