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Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

4/1/1974 - 8/31/1975

Funding Totals

$50,000.00 (approved)
$50,000.00 (awarded)

Ancient Ecuador: Culture, Clay and Creativity, 3000 B.C.

FAIN: GM-10345-74

Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago, IL 60605-2827)
Donald Collier (Project Director: April 1974 to present)

To present in an exhibit archeological material from ancient Ecuador relating to the origins of agriculture and ceramics in South America as well as to the roots of the two earliest great cultures and art styles, Chavin in Peru and Olmec in Mexico.