Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-25
ARIZONA TO OPEN
/ ARTS LABORATORY
AnthropologlcaI Building Unit
10 Have Special Exhibits
Of Relics and History.
epeeiaI Dispatch 10 The star.

Special Dispatch to The star.
SANTA Re, N. Mex, August IS
(N.AN.A.) Especial exhibits are being
arranged for the formal opening TO the
public of the first unit of the new
anthropological laboratory here. The
opening will be September /.
Jesse l.. Nusbauia, director Of the
laboratory, who is oneof the foremost
Psychologists in the United States, and
WAC for many years was superintendent
of Mesa Verde National Park, will pre-
side at the ceremony marking the open
ing, .
include United States Senator Cutting.
Gov. Seliaman and Or. A. v. Kidder OF
Andover, Mass, chairman of the board
OF the Laboratory and chairman of the
division Of historical research Of the
Carnegie Institution of Washington.
win Preserve Native Art.
The first unit consists Of two large
exhibition halls and an auditorium, IN
which the opening ceremony will be
held. The laboratory, which fills a
1ong-felt want in American anthre-
pology. was made possible through the
generosity OF John ID. Rockefeller, jr.,
who donated 100000 for its building
and a. diminishing income to maintain
1t Tor flye years. During that time he
promises to match the income received
through outside donations
The laboratory is primarily q service
institution whose object is to preserve
In New Mexico the fine examples of
native art which were rapidly being
taken out Of the State to add to the
collections Of great museums all over
the country. With the Indian arts
fund, under direction of Kenneth Chap
man, IT has already amassed q unique
and priceless collection of pottery.
hasketry, Navajo blankets and silver
ware, beads paintings and textiles Of
the Pueblo Indians. both ancient and
modern.
!. This material is to be made avail
able to native artists, either at the
LABORATORY or by lending to the Indian
schools tof copying sketches Of fne old
blanket and pottery designs.
ID. c. Savans At Work Nov.
The laboratory. also will provide
working quarters and storage and field
facilities for visiting scientists occu-
pied with problems relating to the
study Of man, whether it be the effect
OF q corn diet on the teeth Of living
Indians. or the dating Of their great
community houses, puebIos and cave
dwellings fr0m beams found in their
ancient hahisations. by the tree ring
method worried out by DR.. A. =. Doug
lass, University of Arizona.
Finallye the laboratory win conduct
such original researches as its funds
and STAN permit. Already q dozen on
its subordinate laboratories are hniahed
and occupied BY scientists working
along various lines, one being the
workshop 81 DR. Sylvanus q. Morley Of
the Carnegie institution Of Washing
ton, leading authority on the written
language 81 the Maya Indians Of Gua-
tema1a and Yucatan.
Scholarships are provided for grad
i1ate students in anthropoloay, with OBJ
portunities 10 study under field workers.
This Summer there have been ~ such
students In tbs field Four, with DIR.
Ruth Benedict. Columbia University.
studied the ethnology Of the Apaches
at Mesc7Aero. n. Mex. Others studied
physical anthropolcgy under DR.. Harry
!. Shapiro. IN Quebec. and the re-
nnainder learned field methods in
archaeology sc xuni under Or. Prank
Fl. H. Roberts, jf.. Smithsonian Tnstt-
tuition. These scholarships are admin-
istered BY tias laboratory from . fund
provided by the Hockefelisr Founda-
ticn.
Capital Nan Finds Relisa.
The two sxhibiticn halls already an.
tshed are not large enough to display
the entire collection annassed II s
planned, however, to change the sx-
hibits frequently, % that within the
year the cemplste collection win have
been on view.
For the opening there win be TIVE
special exhibits; one, 9 demonstration
Of dating Of ancient habltati0ns BY Dr..
Douglass tree ring methed. the ether
q collection Of relics dating presumably
from only q few centuries A. D., ex-
cavated this Summer from q cave In
the Lukachukai Mountains OF Arizona
By Earl III Norris OF the Carnegie In-
stttution Of washington.
The public opening win precede .
reception ct the directors residence,
and On the fallpwfng days the fore
most scientists Of the Southwest win
logical problems and to consider the
policy Of the new institution.
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