A Living Exhibition: The Smithsonian and the Transformation of the Universal Museum

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283 Index Page numbers in italics signify illustrations. Abbot, Charles G., 46, 47 Abrahams, Roger, 96 Abshire, Nathan, 192 Adams, Robert McCormick, 223–24 Affirmative Discrimination (Glazer), 165–66 AFL-CIO, 181–83, 190–91, 195 African American history and culture, 60; After the Revolution on, 218–19; at Festival of American Folklife, 106–7, 182, 184–85, 187, 193–94; Field to Factory, 219; Growth of the United States on, 83–84; Hall of Everyday Life in the American Past on, 71–72; Museum of History and Technology on, 60, 126–28; Museum of Natural History on, 126–27; A Nation of Nations on, 171; Smithsonian’s change in stance toward, 126–28. See also National Museum of African American History and Culture African American Museums Association (AAMA), 219, 226 Afro-American Bicentennial Corporation (ABC), 158–59 After the Revolution: Everyday Life in America, 1780-1800, 216–19 Agassiz, Louis, 17 Ahlborn, Richard E., 170, 173 Alaska Native land claims, 143–44 Alcatraz Island takeover (1969), 121, 129, 201 American Adam (Lewis), 74 American Anthropological Association, 202 American Association of Museums, 88, 123–24, 126 American Folklife Center, 113 American history, 41–42; National Museum of, 215–16, 220 American Indian Awareness Program, 142, 147–48, 150 American Indian Movement (AIM), 133, 147–49, 160–61 American Indian programs at Festival of American Folklife, 119; conception of, 131– 32, 150; counteracting stereotypes at, 132, 138–39; craftspeople and performances at, 139–40; experimental nature of, 131, 152; interaction with audience at, 140–41; and Native American activism, 147–49; debut in 1970 of, 130, 138–39; political discussions and tensions at, 107–8, 141, 143–47, 149–50; prior to 1970, 135–37, 260n42; and tribal representatives, 150–52 Americanization, 105, 178–79 American Museum of Natural History (New York), 34, 37, 58, 238n95 American Revolution Bicentennial Commission (ARBC), 156, 159–60, 182–83, 266n29 American Studies movement, 74–75 Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, 7, 91, 128, 197, 212; attendance at, 126, 128; as community museum, 126; name changes, 129; opening of, 121, 233n15; as pathbreaking project, 119, 152 Anacostia Neighborhood Museum exhibitions: “Afro-American History and Culture,” 125; “Black Patriots of the American Revolution,” 126; “The Evolution of a Community,” 126; “The Rat—Man’s Invited Affliction,” 126; “The Sage of Anacostia, 1817-1895,” 125–26; “This Is Africa,” 125; “Toward Freedom,” 126 Anglim, John, 63 Anthology of American Folk Music (Smith), 96 284 INDEX anthropology, 30, 63, 104, 113, 200, 211; cultural relativism in, 28, 50; Growth of the United States and, 83–84; and history, 6, 41, 55–56, 59, 68, 71; Museum of Man and, 197, 202–3, 209–10; A Nation of Nations and, 173; National Museum of the American Indian and, 222–25; and natural history, 37–38, 54; and Natural History Building and, 49–50; and racial assumptions, 39–40; as science of mankind, 24; segregation of collections of, 6, 39–40, 54, 67; and technology, 40 Apostle Islands controversy, 141–42 “Appeal for Cultural Equity” (Lomax), 97–98 Applebaum, Ralph, 222 applied folklore, 111–12 Archambault, JoAllyn, 221–22 archeology, 68–69 Arensberg, Conrad, 188 Armory Building, 18 Arnold, General “Hap,” 48 Around the Mall, 229 Arts and Manufactures, 60–61 Ashley, Clarence (a.k.a. Tom), 96–97 Ault, Richard, 206–7 Bache, Alexander Dallas, 15 Bacon, Francis, 66 Baez, Joan, 95, 134 Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 17–20, 34; background of, 21–22; and Smithsonian history, 21, 44, 48 Baker, Ella, 214 Balfa, Dewey, 97, 114, 192, 193 Baltimore Sun, 143 Barzun, Jacques, 89–90 Bastian, Adolf, 27 Bedini, Silvio A., 111, 170 Belafonte, Harry, 95 Belmont Report, 88 Belone, Harry, 101, 103, 108 Belote, Theodore, 42 Bennett, Mary Jane, 192 Bennett, Tony, 3, 250n1 Beyond the Melting Pot (Glazer and Moynihan), 165 Bhagat, Usha, 189 Bicentennial: discussion on plans for, 153, 155–57, 159–60; and diversity, 153–54, 159– 60; minority groups and, 158–60, 266nn28– 29; Native Americans and, 160–62, 267n36; public attitudes toward, 157–58 Bicentennial Festival of American Folklife, 100, 183; “African Diaspora” program area, 182, 184–85, 187, 193–94; as celebration of diversity, 185, 191, 193–95; “Children’s Folklore” program area, 182–83; creation of, 154–55; events and programs at, 191–93; “Family Folklore” program area, 182, 185; fieldwork for, 184, 188–91; invitations to countries for, 185–87, 272n118; “Old Ways in the New World” program area, 182, 184–88, 192, 195; opening of, 184–85; planning for, 181–82...