Word: exhibition
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME covers were chosen because they were the only form in which so many pictures of world personalities were available. Czechs see very few pictures of world personalities these days. All they see are behind-the-Iron-Curtain personalities. The exhibit drew more crowds than ever before. We're not going to protest because this is the kind of minor day-to-day trouble you have running an American library in this part of the world. I'd have to be making protests every other...
...Another exhibit shows bark cloth (tapa). The Pacific islanders made it by pounding the fibrous inner bark of certain trees. So did Indians in Nicaragua and Mexico. The cloth of both hemispheres is the same papery stuff, and the wood and stone pounding tools the two peoples used (shown in the exhibit) are so similar that they might have been made by the same...
Last week the 29th International Congress of Americanists, meeting in New York's American Museum of Natural History, was confronted by a striking exhibit of New World cultural elements which look as if they came from Asia. Assembled by Dr. Gordon F. Ekholm of the Museum's staff, they were intended as a challenge to the convening Americanists. Said he: "I just wanted to see if they could explain the stuff...
Hooks & Cloths. The stuff ranged from fishhooks to architecture, and each New World exhibit has its Asiatic counterpart. In most of Oceania, for instance, the natives used two kinds of fishhook: a barbed, composite gadget made of shell and stone lashed together and a nearly circular barbless hook carved out of bone or shell in one piece. Almost identical hooks of both types have been found together on the northern coast of Chile. Dr. Ekholm believes that patterns so characteristic and so similar could not have been developed independently...
...President Coolidge sent his regrets to the Paris Exposition of Decorative Arts: the U.S. had "nothing to contribute" in furniture design. Last week a big, glossy exhibit, "For Modern Living," was showing visitors to the Detroit Institute of Arts how the U.S. has caught up in a quarter-century...