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of his generation. Dedicated to his 
work, to the Museum, and to science, 
he believed that extreme measures to 
further scientific goals were necessary 
for the good of humanity. The con- 
cepts of tact, compromise, and diplo- 
macy were foreign to his philosophy, 
but if it were not for his aggressive- 
ness, invaluable research and priceless 
collections would have been lost. 
Andrews cheerfully risked his life, 
taking excessive risks for the benefit 
of the expedition. On one occasion, 
when he had been holed up in Peking 
for some time and was impatient to 
pick up supplies at Tientsin on the 
coast, he attempted to drive his car 
from Peking to Tientsin across the 
front lines of two armies battling for 
the imperial capital. The following ac- 
count of Andrews’s trip is taken from 
one of his reports: 
“On April 13 there was heavy gun- 
fire just outside of Peking, and after 
a dinner at the American Minister’s, 
we adjourned to the roof of the Peking 
Hotel. The machine guns showed in 
a steady stream of light along the 
southern horizon punctuated by the 
wide flashes of heavy guns. 
“I wanted to get through to Tientsin 
and made a try for it the next day 
with three members of the Expedi- 
tion — Shackelford, Hill, and Beck- 
with. We thought that a large Ameri- 
can flag on the car would protect us 
as it had done in former years. The 
gates of Peking were heavily guarded, 
but the soldiers let us pass. Carts were 
already coming into the city loaded 
with grain, camp gear and soldiers. 
Cavalry streamed by and then thou- 
sands upon thousands of infantry. An 
officer told me that Chang Tso-lin’s 
troops had taken Tungchow, fourteen 
miles from Peking, and were looting 
Hopi Spirit 
The Hopi have the distinction of being 
America’s oldest, continuously surviving 
culture. The pueblo of Oraibi in Ar- 
izona, for example, has been in existence 
since pre-Columbian times. The Hopi 
survived the expansion of the United 
States into the West and the turbulent 
Indian Wars by dealing with, and learn- 
ing from, European culture, while re- 
taining their basic values and traditions. 
Hopi Kachina: Spirit of Life, a trav- 
eling exhibition designed and organized 
by the California Academy of Sciences, 
is now on display in Gallery 3, marking 
the first time the Hopi have cooperated 
fully with a museum project. The core 
of the exhibition is 150 kachina figurines 
donated by Nathaniel Owings; these are 
carved by the Hopi to represent spirits 
known as kachinas. According to tra- 
dition, the kachinas come down every 
year from the San Francisco Peaks in 
Arizona to the dry mesas below, where 
they participate in the seasonal cycle 
of dances. Included in the exhibition 
are models of Hopi villages and kachina 
ceremonies (where the figures are used 
to represent human dancers), original 
murals, music, artifacts, and slide pres- 
entations, giving the visitor the sense 
of being in a Hopi village in northern 
Arizona during the ceremonies. The ex- 
hibition will close May 8. 
Hopi Films 
On Saturday and Sunday, March 7 
and 8, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m., several 
archival and one recent documentary 
on the Hopi will be shown in the Audi- 
torium. Elizabeth Weatherford, director 
of the film project at the Museum of 
the American Indian, will introduce the 
films, among which are The Snake 
Dance at Walpi (1901), one of the first 
films ever made, and Hopi (1981), dem- 
onstrating the strength of the Hopi “tra- 
ditionalist” way of life. The programs 
are free. 
Hopi Symbols 
A new exhibit, Bird, Cloud, and 
Snake: Hopi Symbols, will open March 
10 in the Akeley Gallery. The rich fer- 
tility symbolism of Hopi art is revealed 
through tapestries, woodcarvings, pot- 
tery, paintings, and more. Visitors are 
advised to visit Bird, Cloud, and Snake 
before seeing the major exhibition in 
Gallery 3, Hopi Kachina: Spirit of Life. 
The Rise of Icarus 
A new exhibition, Gossamer Alba- 
tross: The Challenge, opens in the 
Roosevelt Rotunda on March 1. The 
Gossamer Albatross, piloted by Bryan 
Allen, was the first human-powered air- 
craft to cross the English Channel. Its 
designer, Paul MacCready, won the 
Kremer Prize of $200,000 for this feat. 
Two years earlier, Allen became the first 
person to achieve sustained human- 
powered flight when he flew a figure- 
eight course of more than a mile in 
the Gossamer Condor. On June 12, 
1979, Allen pedaled the seventy-pound 
Albatross across the Channel in just 
under three hours at an average speed 
of eleven miles per hour. The center- 
piece of the exhibit is the Gossamer 
Albatross itself. A short film depicting 
the historic crossing will be shown con- 
tinuously. The exhibit is sponsored by 
Du Pont, which provided MacCready 
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