MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2002
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN - 7A
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mined the value of an object based on what it could tell them about the culture it came from and its rarity.
This funeral mask dates back to the early 20th century. It came from the Kuba tribe, located in Zaire.
Within the collection are pieces of Maria Martinez pottery, known for its signature blackware glaze. There are chief's thrones and other artifacts from the Chokwe, an African tribe. Its pieces are so rare that a Birmingham, Ala., museum putting together an exhibit on the Chokwe last year had to borrow pieces from Belgium, because it had no idea that a museum at the University of Kansas would have such rare items, said Kim Taylor, the museum's exhibition designer.
The collections of artifacts will still be available for anthropology classes. Anyone can look at a specific piece or collection by appointment. But with a smaller staff, not all requests will be met by a person's deadline.
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"The rules are going to have to change a little bit." Blackmar said. But the rule will be the
But the big change will be the elimination of public exhibits.
"We are still a museum in the sense that we still have collections and we still care for collections," Adair said. "But in terms of the norm of having exhibits, and those are going to be erratic and by somebody else, it's going to be hard for us to say that there is a museum of anthropology."
Taylor's position as the museum's exhibition designer will be eliminated. Also eliminated was her dual role as the ethnographic collection manager, which she said the administration never recognized.
"That position never existed," she said. "And without public programming and exhibits, this is nothing more than a repository of objects."
Last spring, the museum
Jeanette Blackmar, associate curator, cares for the anthropological collections. "I think there's a value in appreciating that human beings are amazingly adaptive and creative in survival."
"There's not a lot of anthropology museums on campuses. It's a big bonus. That's what brought us here. I think it's going to do a lot of harm to our program and the public part of the museum."
Alison Miller Chicago graduate student
bought thousands of dollars of shelving to create storage for Native-American blankets that date back as far as 1820. Taylor has wrapped them in storage paper and put many of them on the shelves. She just recently discovered a group of Navajo rugs in another area of the museum without any paperwork on where they came from. She said getting them stored was just one more item on a growing list of things to do before her job ends.
Alison Miller, Chicago gradu
"We're putting a lot of money into this University and we're not
getting that back," she said. "There's not a lot of anthropology museums on campuses. It's a big bonus. That's what brought us here. I think it's going to do a lot of harm to our program and the public part of the museum."
About 40,000 people visit the
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Kim Taylor is the museum's exhibition designer and the ethnographic collections manager. Without public programming and exhibits, this is nothing more than a repository of objects."
"We wanted to maintain the support of the collections so that they could support teaching and research at the University."
Jim Roberts
Jim Roberts Associate vice provost and research vice president for the Center for Research
museum each year, according to University records. The number includes elementary students, KU students and people interested in the collection on display. In comparison, the Museum of Natural History across the street in Dyche Hall has about 200,000 visitors each year.
Until its future is determined, the Museum of Anthropology will become just as much an artifact as the objects it houses. Its showroom floor doors will be shut and its collections stored away, only to be brought out by special appointment or request.
In the meantime, Miller and other students collected more than 800 signatures, to convince the University to offer a second-
ANTHROPOLOGY
MUSEUM CLOSING
BY THE NUMBERS
Number of artifacts housed in Spooner Hall: more than one million
more than one million
Year Spooner Hall was built:
1894
Total KU budget cut to-date $9.4 million
Money saved by cutting museum's public programming:
$132,000
Museum faculty positions eliminated:
6
Remaining museum faculty:
One full time faculty member
and one part-time faculty
member
ary option to the defunct public programming of the museum.
The University Administration is waiting to see what the future holds for the museum.
"We wanted to maintain the support of the collections so that they could support teaching and research at the University," said Jim Roberts, the associate vice provost and research vice president. "That could mean that the museum continues to exist as a museum without a public face. We've just got this constraint that we don't have any money to put into it right now."
Lynn Bretz, director of University Relations, said it would take about a $3 million endowment to fund its operating expenses and an additional $150,000 a year to keep the museum from closing and keep it maintained.
"It's been extremely difficult in this transitional period because you have resentment." Blackmar said. "And we'reall trying to move forward, but we don't really know what we're moving forward to."
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