Mr Apodaca:
 
If all curators agreed on the subject, why are so many replying with
technical suggestions about how to display the remains in these
micro-climates? While I may agree with you on this issue, it seems that your
colleagues don't all hold the same view. Why aren't the remains of an
ancient Egyptian treated in the same manner as the remains of a Native
American by all professionals in your field?
 
Wendy Botting
Cornell University
 
 
 
 
In message Wed, 17 Aug 1994 16:48:38 -0800,
  Paul Apodaca <[log in to unmask]>  writes:
 
> Wendy Botting writes:
>
>
>> Any comments from curators at the Smithsonian or from U. Penn's
>>  archaeology museum? I'm sure this issue is not as cut-and-dried (bad
>> metaphor) as Mr. Prouty suggests.
>>
>
> I have been a principal consultant for NMAI and do not know of any
> exhibition plans that would contradict Mr. Prouty. As a curator with 15
> years service, I know of no need to exhibit the type of material in
> question. As a Navajo, I can find numerous religious reasons for
> respecting the dead. If this issue is not cut-and-dried, it should be. I
> believe Mr. Prouty is speaking from the best stance one can take on this
> issue.
> Paul Apodaca
> Curator of Native American Art
> Bowers Museum
> Santa Ana, CA
> Paul Apodaca
>