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...Contemporary Native Creativity," that the museum's full originality becomes clear. A walk-through, multimedia collaboration by 15 contemporary Indian artists, it is irreverent, sometimes heavy-handed and very of-the-moment. It ends with a meditation on the fate of the earth titled Worldview, dominated by a traditional burial scaffolding embedded with a parking meter permanently stuck on time expired and set up next to a video monitor screening images of war. Previous Indian museums, says director Richard West, "felt they were doing civilization and humanity a favor by saving material of people who everybody assumed were headed...
...funeral service was held Sunday. The burial yesterday was private...
...lawyer with no professional training in archaeology. His 34-year obsession with the Mongol leader has made him probably the best-informed amateur Genghis scholar in the world. About eight years ago, he found (he won't say where) what he thinks is a crucial reference to the burial site...
...Qidan produced exquisite ceramics, which were commissioned from skilled artisans in conquered Chinese states. They also developed elaborate funerary trappings, including yurt-shape urns, gold burial masks, painted wooden coffins and tomb guardians, that seem to indicate a melding of the region's major religions: Taoism, Buddhism and shamanism...
...dances naked down the highway, cursing at the listless crowds and at the corpses lying on mats by the roadside. A man at the edge of a mass grave laughs in delight when he manages to toss the lifeless body of a child squarely into the middle of the burial pit. A team of laborers is moving bodies from a field to the trucks nearby, when a young man lying among the corpses rolls over. "Get up! Get out of there!" yells the gravedigger. But the man wants to stay. He figures he will end up in the improvised graveyard...