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SPRING 2017 VOL. 18 NO.1
28 INDIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM of the AMERI CAN SPRING 2017
SOUTHERN JOURNEYS
AN ECO-TOURIST IN ECUADOR
LESSONS FROM TIBES GUARANI DONATION
THE BOSTON MARATHON: AN INDIAN TRADITION
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HEYE’S VISION AT ONE HUNDRED
2 AMERICAN INDIAN SPRING 2017 ON THE COVER
Museum-sponsored digs unearthed some of the early treasures of George Gustav Heyes’s Museum of the American Indian (MAI), the predecessor of our collection. This seat from the Manteno culture of Ecuador, circa A.D. 500 to 1500, was excavated by Marshall H. Saville between 1906 and 1908, with the support of the Heye Foundation. Although no one is certain, it might have been used by spiritual leaders for astronomy, weather predictions or public ceremonies for agriculture. Other highlights from these excavations are now on display at the National Museum of the American Indian – New York in the exhibition Ceramica de los Ancestros: Central America’s Past Revealed, through December. This tradition continues in the centenary year of the MAI with the work of L. Antonio Curet, the Museum’s Curator of Archaeology, at the Tibes ceremonial site in Puerto Rico.
Manteno seat, A.D. 500–1500. Cerro Jaboncillo, on the coast of Mantas, Ecuador. Stone; 15.7" x 26.8" x 29.5". Collected by George H. Pepper. 1/6380.
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“THE VISION AND THE DREAM” A symposium marking the 100th
anniversary of the
founding of the Museum of the American Indian brings reflections on the achievements of the predecessor of our Museum and its founder George Gustav Heye, as well as recollections of the transition to a Smithsonian institution.
12 100 YEARS AND COUNTING by John Haworth
18 THE VISION AND THE DREAM By Patricia Zell
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THE GUARANI ALTAR The Pai Tavytera, a group of Paraguay’s Guarani Indians, carved a ceremonial altar for donation to the National Museum of the American Indian as a way of preserving their culture. Deceptively simple, it tells a deep story about their place in the cosmos.
UNEARTHING THE STORY OF TIBES When Hurricane Eloise brushed southern Puerto Rico in 1975, it uncovered an ancient ceremonial complex buried for more than seven centuries. L. Antonio Curet, the Museum’s Curator of Archaeology, reports on the changing interpretations of its picture of indigenous social structure.
CONFESSIONS OF AN ECO-TOURIST A traveler from our Museum agonizes over the morality of a package tour to a Kichwa village on the Ecuadoran headwaters of the Amazon. He goes, anyway.
PHOTO BY ERNEST AMOROSO
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