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Stymied more by the political turmoil of Mali than the disastrous four-year drought that continues relentlessly in North Africa, the six-man Guggenheim expedition, including Harden N. Wiedemann '75, returned to Cambridge this week...
...expedition, which left January 5 for a planned two-month mission, was organized last fall by Hans Guggenheim, professor of architecture at MIT. Wiedemann and two other Harvard students, who later could not get visas for the trip, joined MIT graduate students in planning ways to convert granaries of the Dogon tribe into water storage tanks...
...Guggenheim, who has studied the Dogon for over ten years, secured funds from several foundations to finance the mission. The Wunderman Art Foundation agreed to sponsor three Harvard students. whom Guggenheim and Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science, selected this fall...
...mission was originally to include ten students. The Mali government decided to grant only five student visas, fearing the impact of a larger number on the Dogon. Guggenheim was forced to eliminate two other Harvard students John Newmark '74 and Marlene Price...
Weidemann said the team has also studied cultural problems they may encounter. "I understand these granaries have some religious significance. Guggenheim knows the chief well, and he has given us permission, but I imagine there'll be some kind of hassle," he said...