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Activities to accompany Indian art
University Daily Kansan
An original play and a demonstration of Indian weaving and basketry are part of a program of special events been sponsored this weekend by the Spooner Art Museum.
The events are in conjunction with a display of North American Indian baskets that have been on exhibition at the museum since Aug. 24.
This is the first time that the museum has sponsored a program of cultural events with a display, according to Dolo Brooking, curator of museum education.
The events, which begin Saturday and end Oct. 5, will take place in the museum. Martha Kreipe and Nancy Bowman, Haskell students, will begin the program with a demonstration of Indian weaving and basketry at 9:30 SATURDAY morning.
At 8 p.m. Saturday, Haskell's Thunderbird Theatre will present "The Mountain," an original play by Calvin Thunderhawk. a Haskell student.
Two films will also be shown at 3 p.m. Sunday. The first film, "Emergence: A Grass Roots Account of Indian Activism," was written by Norman Forer, associate professor of social welfare. Two graduates from the University of Kansas Rinandahsa and Walt Vernieu directed the film which won second prize at the Mid-American Film Festival.
The weaving demonstration will be repeated at 2 p.m. Sunday. At 3 p.m., a presentation for young people on the theme of nature by students from the Thunderbird Theatre.
"The Invaders," a 1912 silent film, will also be shown.
Brooking said the exhibit was a splendid opportunity for the campus community to become more aware of Indian life and culture.
There are many firsts connected with this exhibition. Brooking said.
"The display itself is one of the most imaginative that the museum has ever done," she said. "It is very dramatically installed with interesting lighting effects."
Brooking said that using lighting effects to enhance exhibitions was a growing trend in museum displays. The recent Chinese exhibitions utilized special lighting effects, she said.
Hopi Indian music is also played in
baskets and in a basket collection,
and this also appears on the show.
"Playing music in the gallery makes people feel more comfortable," she said. "Sometimes the stillness of a museum makes people feel uncomfortable."
The Hopi music is a story in itself, she said. She came upon it by accident this summer while visiting San Francisco. The kids were fascinated by the fashioned cylinders which dated to the
1890s, she said, but she has the music on tapes.
"Charles Adams, instructor of anthropology, heard the Hopi recordings and detected a certain 'whishing' sound in the background," she said. "That sound is characteristic of music recorded on cylinders during the 1800s, he told me."
The exhibit can be seen through a self-guided tour, another first for the museum, she said.
The exhibit itself contains 66 Indian baskets from 12 museums, all of which were selected by Caro Fallon, a former member of the museum staff. The baskets and masks, all the baskets assembled in the exhibition are containers of some sort. The baskets are bowls, baby cradles, trunks, traps, trays, jars and pots for a variety of everyday and ceremonial uses.
Basket craft display
Staff Photos by GEORGE MILLENER lighting techniques, consists of baskets borrowed from 12 museums. The display is part of a cultural program sponsored by the museum.
Both Brooking and Fallen said that several years ago Indian baskets wouldn't be made in the museum because they were considered crafts rather than art. Because of that distinction, they would have been found only in the museum of anthropology or of natural history.
A wide variety of North American Indian baskets are on display at the Spooner Art Museum. The display, which uses special
"Social movements of the last 15 years have helped eliminate artificial distinctions between high art and low art." Brooking said.
"How do you separate art from life?" she said. "Basket weaving was a necessity for life these people, but that doesn't mean it couldn't be beautiful."
TV lists events
The events board, which announces daily activities at the Kanada location as become known to the public, holds a meeting on Tuesday.
Beginning today, a television receiver in the main lobby will project the daily listing of lunches, films, lectures and special events. The new schedule according to Frank Burce, Union director.
"The old posting board technique is as outdated as a one-track railroad station," he said.
Burge said the system received a favorable reaction from Union patrons in the spring. Eventually, additional receivers will be installed in other entrances, he said.
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