Thanks for the message about Jim VanStone's death. If you have a chance to pass the following along for the memorial service, it would be much appreciated:

The staff of the Arctic Studies Center in the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is greatly saddened by the passing of one of the greatest figures in museum anthropology of the arctic and subarctic region. Each of us has had a special interest in Jim's museum work and field research. Aron Crowell and I were proud to have worked with and learned so much from Jim during nearly a decade of on-and-off work on the "Crossroads of Continents" exhibition. More recently Stephen Loring and Igor Krupnik have worked with Jim on various projects, including a biographical interview on Jim's career that Igor taped a year ago.

For many of us, Jim was a model curator and researcher. His voluminous and wide-ranging published works, his unstinting support of colleagues and students, and his infectious enthusiasm for all things northern have helped us define our own careers and our obligations to our colleagues and Native constituents. Jim will be remembered fondly by all who had the priviledge of working with him. For me, personally, my unforgetable image of Jim is the photograph I took of him smiling impishly as he demonstrated, in true Boasian fashion, the proper way to wear a Tlingit battle helmet we were inspecting in the collections of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography in St. Petersburg.

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It is with great sadness that I pass on the news of the death of Dr.James
W.VanStone, Curator Emeritus of the Field Museum of Natural History.   Jim
died on Wednesday and a memorial service will be held at the Field Museum on
Thursday, March 8 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Jim was a wonderful curator who truly loved working with the Museum's North
American collections.  His expertise was in Arctic archaeology, but he
published monographs on a great variety of the Field's Native American
collections, including the Cree, Naskapi and Mesquaki.   He worked on the
Field's monumental Northwest Coast and Arctic Gallery as well as the
Smithsonian's traveling exhibition, Crossroad of Continents.

IHe will be missed.

Janice Klein
Director
MItchell Museum of the American Indian, Kendall College

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