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...Peabody Museum Saturday placed on special exhibit on important collection of early Peruvian pottery, textiles and figurines recently acquired by the Museum through the generosity of an anonymous donor. The pieces date mostly from the Nazca period of around 1000 A.D., but there are also objects from other periods, including a polychrome vessel from the Parcas culture of 500 A.D. and a much later wool bag coming from the Inca culture and dating from about...
...early Nazca bags in rich reds and greens, one with a rythmic pattern of liamas, and a splendidly designed polychrome vessel with a painting of lima bean shoots on it. Another vessel is ornamented with a serpent pattern. A large female figures from Chancay shows the sophistication of Peruvian coastal art about 1200 A.D. Four smaller figurines showing costume types complete the collection. Also on exhibit is another object of great rarity at present on loan in the Museum. It is the figure of a Jaguar carved in green turquoise in the Chavin style of about...
...From Callao, Peru, two German ships sailed in the night without clearance papers. Next day the Peruvian cruiser Almirante Grau found them burning 200 miles offshore. Two larger ships which tried to sail were halted by five shots from the cruiser Coronel Bolognesi. Their crews fired them in the harbor. At Paita another German ship was burned. Peru retaliated by seizing the hangars and workshops and two Junkers planes of the Lufthansa airline, by taking possession of the assets of Lufthansa and German shipping companies...
...total investment of scarcely more than $50,000. But it pegged the German luftweb on the West Coast, connected with a route reaching straight across South America from Rio de Janeiro, thus was important out of all proportion to its size. When two German freighters were scuttled in the Peruvian harbor of Callao last week (see p. 41), troops rushed to the L.P. airport at Limatambo. There they found Ernest Eilers, L.P. manager, and Ernest Krefft, manager of Kosmos-Hapag Steamship Agency, preparing to flee from Peru in the L.P. Junkers. The troops took over...
Victor Andres Belaunde, famous Peruvian diplomat, will speak on "Nationalistic Differences in South America" in Winthrop House Junior Common Room at 8 o'clock this evening. Belaunde's lecture will be the first of a series on Latin American problems sponsored by the Government and History Departments...