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...Sweeney has been a success. But the lengths to which he will go to make the museum the liveliest in the real South west were most strikingly demonstrated when he started working on his next exhibit, pre-Columbian...
...Mexican Tourist Bureau into agreeing to lend the head to Houston. All he knew about finding the head was that it lay somewhere on the island of San Lorenzo be tween two rivers, about 40 miles from the town of Minatitlan in southern Mexico. The Mexican government lent Sweeney a helicopter, and with it he flew from village to village scrutinizing the terrain for any big heads, and occasionally landing to inquire if the villagers had seen one. The helicopter pilot eventually spotted the head, buried in a ten-foot hole and surrounded by such dense jungle that...
Rain & Restlessness. The Mexicans agreed to build Sweeney a road so that the head could be taken out. But the rainy season came and then Christmas; it was not until after Easter this year that Sweeney got back to Mexico. Sure enough, the Ministry of Marine had almost finished the road, clearing away giant trees and building bridges over streams. But now the people in nearby San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan were growing restless. In return for losing their head, they demanded a new schoolhouse. The governor of the state wholeheartedly agreed to give them...
...upper left, Sweeney. * And photographed in color for TIME...