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Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

3/1/1978 - 10/31/1980

Funding Totals

$150,000.00 (approved)
$150,000.00 (awarded)

Archaeological Exhibition: Image and Life: 50000 Years of Japanese Prehistory

FAIN: GM-11461-78

Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1015)
Richard K. Beardsley (Project Director: March 1978 to present)

To support a traveling exhibition on Japanese prehistory to the period of stable statehood. Story line traces adaptation and culture growth from Paleolithic through Jomon and Yayoi times to the Kofun period of statehood. Display mode adds graphics, texts, and study guides to reconstruct social aesthetic, and ritual aspects of each phase. Objects in exhibition will be original items on loan from Japan.