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Fred Pleasance, of the Peabody Museum, will give a lecture on "Alaskan Indian Art" at the Institute of Geographical Exploration on May 19 instead of today as had been announced earlier...
...institutions as Manhattan's Museum of the American Indian and Museum of Natural History, Washington's Smithsonian and Chicago's Field Museum, the Museum of Modern Art's specimens were a mere shop window. But artistically they were the cream of what U. S. and Alaskan Indian craftsmen have produced, from the prehistoric Tennessee mound builders to the present-day Navaho rugmakers and sand-painters. Looking over the assortment, which included such highly skilled items of sculpture and mask work as those shown on the two preceding pages, gallery-goers were inclined to agree that...
...clarify and dramatize all this artistic tomahawkery, the exhibition's directors, René d'Harnoncourt, Frederic Douglas and Henry Klumb, had carpentered one of the trickiest jobs of installation in the museum's history. Towering South Alaskan Kwakiutl idols leered from dimly-lit corners; ceremonial masks hung like primitive waxworks in their showcases, their hollow eyes lit at shadowy angles by concealed spotlights...
...spite of Alaska's strategic position, the U. S. never wasted money on Alaskan defenses because until recently Alaska was never threatened. From gold rush days in 1898 until a few months ago, its military garrison never consisted of more than 400 infantry soldiers at Chilkoot Barracks not far from the Skagway. One of their main jobs was to increase the Army's knowledge of cold-weather living and maneuvering. Then the U. S. found out that the U. S. S. R. was extending its bases north along the Siberian coast, and that Japan had built a naval...
...Navy's Alaskan program is still greater, likely to cost more, for the Navy's job is to range far to sea and it needs bases for submarines, destroyers, capital ships as well as bases for aircraft. Its big establishment will be at Kodiak which Alaskans hope will eventually be made as strong as Hawaii, 2,600 miles directly south. Far west of Kodiak (and about 900 miles farther west than Hawaii) lies the Navy's outmost listening post, Kiska Island, which can be used as an advance base for air and submarine operations. Closer in toward...