Word: bawden
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Garth L. Bawden, assistant director at the Peabody Museum, the artifacts helped anthropologists recreate the lifestyle of the nomadic Indians. The site also provided evidence of a trading economy...
...Bawden said a security guard, whose name he did not know, saw two people running out of the building after they apparently attempted to break into another exhibit containing gold artifacts from Central America, this one located on the third floor. The theft on the first floor was not discovered until after the persons had fled, he added...
Though other more valuable items--like those in the third-floor exhibit--are insured, the ones stolen are not, Bawden said...
Chafin did say that police would study what further measures could be taken to improve security at the Peabody. The alleged thieves did not penetrate far enough into the third-floor exhibit to set off an internal alarm, Bawden said, adding that the museum had since removed these items and placed them in a safe...
...Bawden said the museum would "improve security as fast as we can," but admitted that because of financial difficulties, "all we can do now is take the most valuable pieces off display and lock them away...