Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

7/1/1986 - 3/31/1987

Funding Totals

$22,855.00 (approved)
$22,855.00 (awarded)


Histoire Naturelle des Indes: The Drake Manuscript

FAIN: GM-23126-86

Morgan Library and Museum (New York, NY 10016-3405)
Herbert Cahoon (Project Director: December 1985 to October 1990)

To support planning for a temporary exhibition, publication, and interpretive programs on HISTOIRE NATURELLE DES INDES, a 16th-century manuscript illustrating Sir Francis Drake's voyages in the New World, that depicts native Americanlifestyles, Spanish colonial settlements, and native flora and fauna.