Archaeology Magazine - November/December 1981 - 4

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Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, WI:
"From the Far West:Carpets and Textilesof
Morocco" (through December 13, 1981),
shows approximately 100 carpets and textiles from the Textile Museumin Washington, DC, including domesticweavings and
tribal rugs from the mountains,plains, and
desert as well as examplesof famousRabat
and Mediounacarpets.Catalogueavailable.
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL: "In the Shadowof the Pyramid"
(opensNovember21, 1981),a major permanent installation featuring Egyptian funerary chapels, tomb offeringsand a nakht, or
funerary chapel,on loan fromthe Metropolitan Museumof Art in NewYork.
Kelsey Museum of Ancient and Mediaeval Archaeology, Ann Arbor, MI:
"Judaism and Christianity in the Catacombs
of Rome" (through December6, 1981),exhibits rare photographsdocumentingJewish
and Christian catacombsaccompaniedby art
and artifacts fromthe KelseyMuseum'scollections illustrating aspects of Jewish and
Christian iconography.Catalogueavailable.

exhibition area featuring 250 art objects
spanning 3,000years fromthe first civilizations in the New Worldto the Spanishconquest in the 16thcentury.
Monticello, Charlottesville, VA:"Thomas
Jefferson and Archaeology"(indefinite),features artifacts uncoveredduringexcavations
at Monticello,includingcolonialcoins,porcelain and the tools and productsof early
Monticelloartisans.
Museum of Florida History, Tallahassee,
FL: "Etruscan Mirrors"(throughNovember
30, 1981),exhibitsexamplesofEtruscangrip
and coveredmirrors,photographsofrestored
examples, and replicas of Etruscan costumes. (SeeArchaeology, September/October 1981,pages54-8.)
Museum of Science and Industry,
Tampa, FL: "TreasureTroveofthe Concepción" (through December15, 1981),exhibits
Ming vases, silver plates, thousandsofcoins
as well as a bronze astrolabe and cannonballs recoveredin 1978fromthe Spanishgalleon Concepciónwhich sank offthe coastof
Haiti in 1641.

Midland Center for the Arts, Midland,
MN:"Generationsin Clay:PuebloPotteryof
the American Southwest"(November1-29,
1981), exhibits about 125 examples spanning 1,300years of native AmericanIndian
ceramics illustrating the range and variety
of styles of Southwestpottery. Circulatedby
the AmericanFederationofArts, NewYork.
Catalogueavailable.
Oriental Institute Museum, University of
Chicago, Chicago, IL: "Institute's Excavations" (permanent),displaysover 10,000artifacts dating as far back as 7000 B.c.from
excavations in Egypt, Iran, Iraq, ancient
Palestine, Syria and Turkey.

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St. Louis Museum of Science and Natural History, St. Louis, MO: "Prehistoric
North America" (permanent),concentrates
on Indians who once inhabited the presentday St. Louis area, with pottery, flintwork,
four examples of Arkansas head pots, and
effigypottery ofthe Mississippianculture.

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Virginia Museum, Richmond, VA: "The
Etherington Collection"(permanent), displays artifacts from the major Andeancultures
Chavin,Chimuand TiahuaCollege of William and Mary, Williams- naco, including
as well as objectsfrom the Virginia
burg, VA: "Foraging, Feasting and Fast Museum's collection
from Peru, Colombia
Foods:The Archaeologyof Virginia's FoodAmerica
and
Central
including a recently
ways" (permanent),an exhibit sponsoredby
the Virginia ResearchCenter for Archaeol- acquiredOlmecterracotta figurinedatingto
the 5th century b.c.
ogy, Wren Building Kitchen on the college
campus.
Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg,
VA: "Governor'sPalace" (permanent),presents the newlyreappointedmansionofVirginia's royal governors,the most carefully
researched and authentically furnished
building of the American Colonial period.
Specialarchaeologicaltours at ColonialWilliamsburg visit restored Carter's Groveand
17th-centuryWolstenholmeTowne.
Loch Haven Art Center, Orlando, FL:
"PrecolumbianGallery"(permanent),a new

archaeology

RecentlyacquiredOlmec"baby"figure
believedto havebeenmadein the5th century
b.c. on viewat the VirginiaMuseum.Height,
about 30 centimeters.

WEST
Archer M. Huntington Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, TX: "Caesarsand
Citizens" (through December6, 1981),exhibits 75 examples of official Roman portraits ofemperorsand citizensin marbleand
bronze from the collectionof the J. Paul
Getty Museum in Malibu, CA. Catalogue
available, $16.95.

Archaeology Magazine - November/December 1981

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