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Title: Explorations and field-work of the Smithsonian Institution in ..
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution
Subjects: Scientific expeditions
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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fishing villages in Cuba. Theirculture was crude and they made no pottery. It has been suggestedthat they were merely country Arawak. Recent Smithsonian expedi-tions have discovered their shell middens, stone tools, and ossuariesat lie a Vache on the Haitian and at Samana on the Dominical littoral.Similar deposits were found by the writer in the Bahamas on BerryIslands and on Andros. The cultural relationship of the coastal tribesof Florida to the Ciboney remains undetermined. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION EXHIBIT AT THE TEXASCENTENNIAL EXPOSITION, DALLAS, TEXAS By carl W. MITMAN Head Curator, Department of Arts and Industries, U. S. National Museum As the representative of the Smithsonian Institntion, under the titleof contact officer, the writer has. since 1932, devoted a considerahleportion of his time both in Washington and in the field to the design,preparation, installation, and maintenance of Smithsonian exhibits atthe major expositions, including the Century of Progress Exposition,
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Fir,. 97.—Norman H. Boss getting fossil bones of Camarasaurns out of theirrock matrix, the feature of the Smithsonian exhibit at the Texas CentennialExposition. Dallas, Tex. Chicago. 111.; the California Pacific International Exijosition. SanDiego, Calif.; and the Texas Centennial Exposition, Dallas, Tex. Theexhil)it at this latter exposition in 1936 proved to be of greater popularappeal and interest than any of the Institutions recent eftorts in thisspecialized field and merits a brief description here. In a rectangular bay in one end of the Federal Building there wasliterally trans))lanted part of the vertebrate paleontology laboratoryof the United States National Museuiu. Here daily during the courseof the exposition, Norman H. Boss, chief preparator of the Division of Vertebrate Paleontology, and an assistant, Gilbert Stucker, ofChicago, carried on the intricate and varied tasks involved in workingup in relief parts of the Jurassic dinosaur Caiiiarosaiinis (fig. 97). 99 100 SMIT

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