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Prepared under the direction of Paul C. Mangelsdorf, professor of Botony, the exhibit traces the development of modern corn from a coarse wild grass...
According to the designers of the exhibit, "Corn affected the life of the Indians because it was easy to cultivate and led to a greater dependence of the Indians on agriculture, and a more settled life, in which architecture, pottery, and other peaceful arts could flourish...
...like your Anthropology on the cob, you can go to the Peabody Museum to see a special Thanksgiving week exhibit of "the origins and spread of Indian corn and its effect on the social and religious life of the American natives...
...steer, one medium steer, one scrub steer, three dairy cattle, one big black Poland-China sow, eight pigs. Except for the scrub steer (brought along as a horrible example), all were sleek, handsome, groomed within an inch of their lives. Sharing their train were exhibits of various grasses, seed corn, peanuts, fencing methods ("Keep Ferdinand a Sissy with a Strong Fence"), poultry charts, pine seedlings, pruning tools, turpentining operations. While a sound truck played hillbilly music near the tracks, thousands of Florida farmers, black & white, marched through the train...
...exhibit halls on the ground floor of the Museum will be remodeled to provide space for special exhibits. In the meantime small exhibits are to be arranged in the front entrance hall. The next one opens before Thanksgiving and will deal with the origins and spread of Indian corn and its effect on the life of the peoples of the American before the coming of the Whites...