Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. Featured were color photographs of the 

 brilliantly colorful ceremonial costumes, personal adornment, and dances of the 

 people of Papua New Guinea by photographer Jordan Wright. 



January 13-14 



Workshop: The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center sponsored a workshop in 

 which 15 experts discussed landscape ecology with the goal of developing a better 

 theoretical basis for this field of ecology. 



January 26 



Announcem ent : A campaign to save more than 800,000 feet of historic aviation 

 newsreel footage was launched by the National Air and Space Museum and the 

 University of South Carolina. The footage covers almost every major event and 

 personality in aviation history. 



January 27 



Course: The Office of Museum Program's Native American Museums Program convened 

 a 10-month course entitled "Design and Production of Exhibitions," consisting of 

 a workshop and practical and technical assistance for mid-career staff of 10 

 tribal museums. 



January 29 



Lecture: In one of a series of programs at the National Museum of American Art's 

 Barney studio House, artist Grace Hartigan, whose work is in the museum's 

 collections, discussed her early years as a member of the New York School of 

 painting. 



February 



Black History Month: Films, concerts, lectures and storytelling programs were 

 scheduled throughout the Smithsonian museums. "Black American Popular Music: 

 Rhythm & Blues, 1945-1955" combined a symposium, concerts and an exhibition at 

 the National Museum of American History to explore the development and influence 

 of rhythm and blues music during the postwar period. Other highlights included a 

 Resident Associate Progr a m series on early black cinema and performance by jazz 

 legend Billy Taylor. 



February 



Gift: Hans Panofsky, Curator of the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African 

 Studies, Northwestern University, transferred 90 original black-and-white 

 negatives donated by anthropologist Eva L. R. Meyercwitz to the National Museum 

 of African Art. Included are photographs taken in Abamey, Dahomey, 1937. 



February 



Collection Management: A new dry-nitrogen storage facility for Antarctic 

 meteorites was installed at the Museum Support Center, making it possible for 



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