Word: mayan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...transfixed by a terra cotta nobleman. His soft, Prufrockian sensibility struggles briefly to understand the figurine's power. "Does he remind me of myself?" Muhlbach wonders incongruously. No matter. He pays $30 for it and takes the piece to an expert in Albuquerque. The verdict is quick: authentic Mayan, a dark survivor from pre-Columbian burial rites. By the time his plane touches down in New York, Muhlbach is possessed by his possession...
...Library, on Divinity Avenue north of the Yard. The new library will house 100,000 books on anthropology and ethnography. It will serve as an addition to the severely overcrowded Peabody Museum Library. The $1.6 million library is named after one of its donors, Alfred M. Tozzer '00, a Mayan scholar and former professor of Anthropology...
...Ground-breaking ceremonies were held May 10 for a $1.6-million addition to the Peabody Museum library, which houses books on anthropology and ethnography. The three-story addition, which will house over 100,000 books, will be named the Tozzer Library after its donor, Alfred M. Tozzer '00, a Mayan scholar and former professor of Anthropology. The library will have, on Bok's orders, a brick facade so that it will preserve the style of the surrounding buildings...
...Tozzer Library--named for Alfred M. Tozzer '00, a Mayan scholar--will rise three stories next to the Museum on Divinity Ave., and is designed to alleviate crowding in the current facilities...
...Tozzer Library will be situated adjacent to the Museum on Divinity Ave. and is being named after the later Alfred M. Tozzer '00. Tozzer, a Mayan scholar who taught at Harvard until his retirement...