Fourth notice of transfer of specimens figured by Rousseau H. Flower

1991 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 337-337
Author(s):  
Donald L. Wolberg
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
National Museum

This is the fourth in a series of notices recording the transfer of fossils described by Rousseau H. Flower (1913-1988) (Wolberg, 1990a, 1990b, 1990c). It was Rousseau's expressed wish that this material be reposited in the Smithsonian Institution/U.S. National Museum. Similarly, the New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources is concerned that the fossils be adequately cared for and readily available to those scientists with an interest in the material.

Third notice of transfer of cephalopods described and figured by Rousseau H. Flower

1990 ◽  
Vol 64 (6) ◽  
pp. 1042-1043 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald L. Wolberg
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Small Proportion ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Professional Community ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
National Museum ◽  
The World ◽  
To Receive

Rousseau H. Flower (1913-1988) described and figured more than hundreds of fossil taxa, collected throughout the world, during his long and colorful career (Wolberg, 1988). Most of the fossils Flower worked with remain at the New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources (NMBM&MR). Not surprisingly, given his interests in worldwide distributions of cephalopods and other groups, a rather small proportion of the fossils Rousseau worked with throughout his career were collected in New Mexico; a large proportion of the fossils actually belong to other institutions. The NMBM&MR continues to receive requests for published specimens and is making every effort to return loan material. The NMBM&MR also believes that the professional community would be best served by maintenance of the Flower/NMBM&MR fossils in a national repository. It was Rousseau's wish that the Smithsonian Institution/U. S. National Museum serve as one of the repositories of the NMBM&MR collections.

Fifth notice of transfer of specimens figured by Rousseau H. Flower

1991 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 338-339
Author(s):  
Donald L. Wolberg
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
The U.S

This notice is the fifth in a series recording the transfer of fossils described by Rousseau H. Flower (1913-1988) to the Smithsonian Institution and the U.S. National Museum. During a long, productive, and colorful career, Rousseau described more than 400 new fossil taxa (Wolberg, 1988). Most of Rousseau's fossils have been maintained in the collections of the New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources. The fossils in this transfer were sent to Rousseau in 1952 by William J. Sando, then a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, who collected them during his research on the Beekmantown Group of Maryland (Sando, 1957). In 1955, Rousseau submitted a manuscript to theJournal of Paleontologyand this was published in 1956. Some controversy seems to have surrounded the publication of the paper; we have found a file of correspondence related to that publication and it is very “Roweresque” in content. In addition, Rousseau cataloged the Sando fossils into the NMBM&MR's collection, but from the associated correspondence there seems to be little doubt but that the collection was intended to be reposited in the Smithsonian.

Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange Across Medieval Saharan Africa, ed. Kathleen Bickford Berzock. Evanston, IL: Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University; Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019, 312 pp., many colored ill. and maps.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 266-267
Author(s):  
Albrecht Classen
Keyword(s):  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
National Museum ◽  
African Art ◽  
Major Task ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Northwestern University ◽  
Associate Director

This catalog accompanies a fascinating and innovative exhibition documenting the art in medieval Saharan Africa, first shown at the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, from Jan. 26 to July 21, 2019, then at The Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, from Sept. 21 2019 to Feb. 23, 2020, and finally at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, April 8 to Nov. 29, 2020. To bring all those very valuable objects together and to organize this exhibit, represents a major task involving many people. Here I want to concentrate only on the catalog itself, magisterially edited by Kathleen Bickford Berzock, Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs, Block Museum of Art.

The Environs of Tres Zapotes as the Find-Spot of the Tuxtla Statuette

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 747-764
Author(s):  
John Justeson ◽  
Christopher A. Pool ◽  
Ponciano Ortiz Ceballos ◽  
María del Carmen Rodríguez Martínez ◽  
Jane MacLaren Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Regional Center ◽  
San Andres

The famous greenstone figure known as the Tuxtla Statuette is one of only 12 objects known to bear an epi-Olmec inscription and was the first to become known to scholarship. For more than a century its original find-spot was imprecisely and erroneously identified as lying in the township of San Andrés Tuxtla or, more generally, in the Tuxtla Mountains. Correspondence in the National Anthropology Archives of the Smithsonian Institution documents that the figure was found on the Hacienda de Hueyapan de Mimendi, near the colossal head of Tres Zapotes. Archival research in Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology and the Archivo General del Estado de Veracruz, as well as interviews with descendants of owners of the Hacienda de Hueyapan and the statuette, allow us to confirm several features of the Smithsonian correspondence. The data indicate that the statuette was found within or very near the epi-Olmec regional center of Tres Zapotes and within the township of Santiago Tuxtla.

The Teodoro Vidal Collection: Creating Space for Latinos at the National Museum of American History

2001 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 113-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Stephen Velasquez
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
American History ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Large Collection

During 1997 and 1998 the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History began a series of programs design to augment the Latino presence at the museum through the acquisition and presentation of a large collection from Puerto Rico, The Vidal Collection. This paper looks at the politics of creating a Latino presence at NMAH through the acquisition and presentation of a large Latino collection. Some of the issues to be explored are: how can a (national) Latino space and identity be created in a museum context, how is it contextualized (or re-contextualized) and represented, and what are the institutional ramifications of such initiatives?

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