Word: museumful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gordon R. Willey, Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology, will direct the work, which is financed by a National Science Foundation grant. His chief assistant will be A. Ledyard Smith, Assistant Curator of Middle American Archaeology at the Peabody Museum. Two students, John A. Graham 1G and Albert H. Norweb '59 will complete the group...
...site of the diggings, the Altar de Sacrificios, is near the meeting of the Rio Pasion and the Rio Choxy, in the Department of Peten. Although a Peabody Museum expedition discovered the center in 1895, Professor Willey made the preliminary explorations only last year...
Willey, director of the Maya program at the Peabody Museum since 1949, and Norweb also plan to spend some time on an archaeological survey in Nicaragua...
...traditionally performed in church to celebrate the New Year, but it is really a thinly disguised popular musical play. Its richly colored music was transcribed for the scholarly New York Pro Musica group (which first revived the play last year) from a 13th century manuscript unearthed in the British Museum. With costumes derived from medieval illustrations and dialogue in the original medieval Latin and French, the current production makes one concession to modern audiences in the form of a skillful English verse narration by Poet W. H. Auden that outlines the action...
Some time, somehow, a highly ingenious thief had manufactured copper copies, embarrassed museum officials admitted last week, and substituted them for the gold originals, which presumably he sold for a tidy profit. And for months or years, the museum's expert had been lecturing learnedly over the copper fakes without ever noticing the change...