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The Mammoth U n i v e r s i t y o fN E B R A S K A S T A T EM U S E U M

A Newsletter for the Friends of the University of Nebraska State MuseumAUGUST 2010

On July 3, the University of Nebraska State Museum opened an exhibit in Morrill Hall honoring the return to Nebraska of the historic Japanese friendship ambassador doll, Miss Mie, from her year-long journey overseas. In July 2009, the 83-year-old friendship doll was escorted to her original home in Mie Prefecture, Japan, by Museum Collections Assistant Susan Curtis to undergo expert conservation, followed by various homecoming celebrations and exhibitions in 10 cities across the region. Over 30,000 people attended the exhibitions before Miss Mie’s return to Nebraska in late May, where she will remain a part of the Museum’s permanent Anthropology collections. Members of the Japanese Miss Mie Homecoming Committee generously funded and arranged the various homecoming events, along with the doll’s assessment and repairs. The committee used Miss Mie’s return to Japan as a way to educate children about the history and purpose of the friendship doll exchange that took place between the children of the United States and Japan in 1927, as well as the craftsmanship that went into making the dolls. Miss Mie’s visit to Japan and this new exhibit serve to enhance the State Museum’s special relationship with the citizens of

Mie, which began generations ago. The exhibit “Miss Mie: A Japanese Friendship Ambassador Doll Returns to Nebraska” celebrates the doll’s return to the Museum and pays tribute to the peace, goodwill, and friendship that she continues to symbolize between our two countries. It will be shown on the third floor of Morrill Hall through October. Read more on pages 12-13.

Historic Japanese Friendship DollJuly 3 - October 31, 2010

Miss Mie

MISS MIE RETURNS

HIGHLIGHTSIN THIS ISSUE

Campaign for Nebraska 6Sunday with a Scientist 7Astronomy Day 8-9Colorful Creature Day 10-11 Miss Mie Exhibit 12-13Research Divisions 14-15Ashfall Fossil Beds 16-17

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Colorful Creature Day

T H E M A M M O T H Friends of the University of Nebraska State Museum

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Director: Priscilla C. GrewAssociate Director: Mark Harris

Informal Science Education: Judy Diamond Amy Spiegel

Education Coordinator: Kathy French Museum Associates: Ann Cusick Carrie Ford Cindy Loope Ina Van der Veen

Research Partnerships Coordinator: Brett Ratcliffe Scientific Illustrator: Angie Fox Research Collections Staff Secretary: Gail Littrell

Anthropology: Alan Osborn NAGPRA/Collections Assistant: Susan Curtis Nebraska Archaeological Survey: Alan Osborn

Botany: Robert Kaul Collection Manager: Thomas Labedz Collections Assistant: Linda Rader

Entomology: Brett Ratcliffe Collection Manager: M.J. Paulsen Geology: Samuel Treves

Invertebrate Paleontology: Roger Pabian

Parasitology: Scott Gardner Collection Manager: Gabor Racz

Vertebrate Paleontology: Ross Secord Collection Manager: R. George Corner Preparators: Gregory Brown Robert Skolnick Ellen Stepleton Highway Salvage Paleontologist: Shane Tucker Highway Salvage Preparator: Nicholas Famoso

Zoology: Patricia Freeman Collection Manager: Thomas Labedz

Affiliated Courtesy, Adjunct, and Emeritus Faculty: Anthropology: Thomas Myers Entomology: Mary Liz Jameson Geology: Robert Diffendal Invertebrate Paleontology: David Watkins Parasitology: John Janovy, Mary Lou Pritchard Vertebrate Paleontology: Michael Voorhies, Robert Hunt, Jr. Zoology: Hugh Genoways, Paul Johnsgard

Ashfall Fossil Beds Superintendent: Rick Otto Museum Specialist: Sandy Mosel

Trailside Museum Staff Assistant: Susan Veskerna

Accounting Clerk: Judy RayDiscovery Shop Manager: Leah CarpenterExhibit Design Specialist: Ron PikeGraphics Design Specialist: Joel NielsenMueller Planetarium Supervisor: Jack DunnPublic Service Associate: Linda ThompsonPublic Relations Coordinator, Friends Liaison, & Mammoth Newsletter Editor: Dana Ludvik

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CONTACT INFORMATION

Mark A. Brohman, PresidentDavid Rowe, Vice President Mel Thornton, TreasurerDiane Pratt, Secretary

Karen AmenMarcia HollestelleMichael LeiteCurtis MannLois MayoKeely Rennie-TuckerLynn SobotkaDiann SorensenMark Sorensen

FRIENDSBOARD OF DIRECTORS

EX-OFFICIOPriscilla C. GrewMike Madcharo ADVISORY COUNCILJudy DiamondConnie PejsarNorm SmithMike Zeleny

ASHFALL CHAPTERBrandon Essink, President

AUGUSTAug. 15, 1:30-4:30 p.m.Sunday with a Scientist“Beetle Mania”

Aug. 17, 6:30-8 p.m.Astronaut Clayton AndersonTalk and Autograph Signing

SEPTEMBERSept. 19, 1:30-4:30 p.m.Sunday with a Scientist“Archaeology”

Sept. 29, 5:30-7:30 p.m. 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Museum’s Highway Salvage Paleontology Program & Nebraska Dept. of Roads Partnership*RSVP Required. Friends invitations will be sent.

OCTOBEROct. 1 - Nov. 30“A Turning Point: Navajo Weaving in the Twentieth Century” ExhibitCooper Gallery, 3rd Floor

Oct. 1 - Dec. 1“Amateur Wildlife & Nature Photography Contest Exhibit3rd Floor

Oct. 2, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.Special Family Event in partnership with the UNL School of Natural ResourcesSee Web site for details soon!

Oct. 15, 6-8:30 p.m.World of Viruses Reception*RSVP Required. Friends invitations will be sent.

Oct. 17, 1:30-4:30 p.m.Sunday with a Scientist“Ancient People”

NOVEMBERNov. 21, 1:30-4:30 p.m.Sunday with a Scientist“Native Americans”

DECEMBERDec. 19, 1:30-4:30 p.m.Sunday with a Scientist“Nebraska Amphibians”

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F R O M T H E D I R E C T O R

The State Museum was very honored to help the campus host the visit of the Japanese delegation from Mie Prefecture in honor of our historic Japanese Friendship Doll, “Miss Mie.” Chancellor Perlman spoke at the reception, and the delegation events were planned in cooperation with the UNL Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, the Kawasaki Reading Room, and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. The visit has already sparked new friendships between Nebraska and Japan. Ron Pike and Joel Nielsen of our exhibits staff found that delegation members were very keen to learn more about Nebraska’s Fort Robinson and Western Americana. And three members of the delegation turned out to be members of Rotary Clubs in Japan! Mr. Suzuki and Mr. Miura gave me a Rotary exchange banner from their club, which I then presented to our Downtown Rotary Club #14 in Lincoln on July 6.

Speaking of Rotary Club #14, (celebrating our centennial in 2010), I wanted to let you know about a special opportunity. I recently was able to purchase, from a gentleman in Lincoln, one of the 100 limited-edition “Archie” sculptures (dated 1994) by Nebraska artist Fred Hoppe. Many of you will recall that the Friends of the University of Nebraska State Museum sold these 1/12-scale bronze mammoths in the 1990s to raise funds to pay for Hoppe’s life-size statue of “Archie” which was later installed in 1998 in front of Morrill Hall. The photo of the sculpture that was used in the Friends’ fundraising campaign is shown on this page; the sculpture is about 12 inches tall. I am donating the sculpture to the Rotary Club # 14 Community Service Live Auction at Lincoln Station on October 8 and hope it will attract some high bidders to help the Museum’s iconic “Archie” continue to benefit good causes in our community!

You never know what will really get kids interested in science, and this photo of Rob Skolnick shows one topic that we discovered on July 18 is very effective – a presentation on poop! Rob is a Preparator in our Vertebrate Paleontology Division and usually spends his time on the intricate extraction of delicate fossils from their stubbornly resistant rock matrix. But Rob learned that our Sunday with a Scientist was going to be on “Poop!” featuring an important, current DNA study of Nebraska river otters. Rob decided to volunteer a presentation on what scientists can learn from the study of fossil poop from the Museum collections that is thousands and even millions of years old. (Actually, paleontologists don’t talk about “poop rocks” in polite company—they speak proper scientific Greek instead and call them coprolites.) Rob made charts showing pictures of the “eaters” and the “eaten” that lived long ago in Nebraska. One of the most dramatic coprolites that he showed the kids contains the tiny side hoof of a three-toed horse that had been eaten and left in the scat of a greedy carnivore over 30 million years ago. And he let them sniff the still perceptible aroma of a 10,000-year-old “slothpie” –left by an extinct ground sloth in a cave in Texas. When we advertise “Come Explore With Us” in Morrill Hall, we mean it!

Priscilla C. Grew, Director

Miss Mie Homecoming Committee members Yoshihide Miura (left) and Hideaki Suzuki present Priscilla Grew with banner for Rotary Club of North Tsu City, Japan on July 4.

State Museum Vertebrate Paleontology Preparator Rob Skolnick shows fossil “poop” to fascinated kids at the July 18 Sunday with a Scientist program at Morrill Hall.

Limited edition “Archie” mammoth sculpture by artist Fred Hoppe.


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The State Museum has been busy this summer, and there

are still plenty of things to come before school starts up again.

On July 2, I and several Friends of the State Museum Board

members attended a lovely reception to celebrate the return

of Miss Mie, a historic friendship doll from Japan. There was

a delegation from Japan with many of the ladies dressed in

traditional kimonos along with several local dignitaries. This

delicate doll came to the U.S. in 1927 and recently took a one

year trip back to Japan to undergo a complete conservation and

now is on display with many accessories and other Japanese

artifacts at the Museum.

The Wildlife and Nature Photo contest is underway with a

deadline of September 1. I can’t wait to see all of the incredible

photos. Last year was very exciting. The Museum will continue

to offer free Thursday nights from 4:30 to 8 pm through August

26, so if you know some folks who never get down to visit us,

tell them there is no excuse not to try it out some Thursday

night, and maybe they will decide to join the Friends or at least

return to the Museum in the future. It is also a great night for

Friends members to grab some of the neighborhood kids and

bring them down.

The “Sunday with a Scientist” program continues to be

popular, and it will continue every third Sunday of the month

through December. Kids really love to meet a scientist and ask

questions.

On August 17 from 6:30 to 8 pm, the State Museum is

very fortunate to have astronaut Clay Anderson come and

give a talk and sign autographs. Last year I took my daughter

and a neighbor boy, and they were so excited to see a real live

astronaut and even get a picture taken with Clay. I was very

impressed with the way Clay took so much time talking with

each child that approached him and made each feel special.

He also had one heck of an inspirational talk. Having a real

astronaut from Nebraska is impressive, but being one of the

last shuttle members (April 5-20, 2010) and having spent five

months aboard the International Space Station in 2007 is

remarkable. This is an event you won’t want to miss.

Don’t forget to stop by the Trailside Museum of Natural

History at Fort Robinson near Crawford and Ashfall Fossil

Beds State Historical Park near Royal this summer as you travel

around the State.

Safe Travels,

Mark A. Brohman, Board President

Friends of the University of Nebraska State Museum

F R O M T H E P R E S I D E N T

Morrill Hall AppearanceTuesday, August 17 -- 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Opportunities for questions, photos, and autographs with Nebraska’s first astronaut!

Friends President Mark Brohman (right) working at a booth for his job as Director of the Nebraska Environmental Trust. Shown here with one of his Board members, Vince Kramper.

NASA Astronaut Clayton Anderson

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The 2009 Grand Prize

Winning Photo by amateur

photographer Jesse Koch.

Wildlife & Nature Photo Contest

Visit www.museum.unl.edu for official contest rules and entry form!

MammalsPlant LifeBirds

Other Wildlife Landscapes & SkyscapesNature & People

ALL PHOTO ENTRIES WILL GO ON EXHIBIT AT MORRILL HALL IN OCTOBER DEADLINE TO ENTER: SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Friends Members are invited to participate in the State Museum's

WEAPoNSThroughout Time

Morrill Hall Cooper Gallery

Exhibit ends September 19. Don’t miss it!

October 1 - December 1, 2010

Navajo Weaving in the Late Twentieth Century

A Turning Point:

Morrill Hall - Cooper Gallery


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C A M P A I G N F O R N E B R A S K A U P D A T E

From historic Morrill Hall – home to “Archie the Mammoth” on the University of Nebraska–Lincoln campus -- to Ashfall Fossil Beds near Royal and the Trailside Museum at Fort Robinson, the University of Nebraska State Museum enriches the lives of more than 100,000 visitors and students each year, creating lifelong memories and inspiring a love of science and learning.

The University of Nebraska is involved in a campaign to raise $1.2 billion to support students, faculty, research and programs. You can choose to help the museum by making a contribution to the Friends of the University of Nebraska State Museum Fund.

To learn more about the museum and the campaign, contact Connie Pejsar, [email protected], 402-458-1190 or 800-432-3216.

To give online, go to nufoundation.org/friendsofthestatemuseum

At the University of Nebraska State Museum

“Thank you all for giving up several hours of your time in the middle of a gorgeous spring day to participate in an enterprise vital to the long term health of a great institution, the University of Nebraska State Museum.

It strikes me that individually and as a group we are fundamentally ‘caretakers’ with a bent toward the logical and objective … really Curious Caretakers.

Our charge is the care and feeding of a state and national treasure – the State Museum complex. Not just bricks, mortar, bones and teeth, but a research infrastructure of faculty, staff, scientists and ‘Ologists’ of various stripers– anthro, paleo, ento, ornitho, geo, hydro.

Our task is a bit tougher because we don’t have a clearly defined product …we don’t produce architects or lawyers or engineers…but we do promote thinkers, delvers, diggers, and seekers of knowledge.

What we can do to help in this endeavor is to firm up the financial foundation of this institution and to this end, we are gathered today. With the aid of the University of Nebraska Foundation, represented by Connie Pejsar and the expert guidance provided by Priscilla Grew, Museum Director and Mark Harris, Associate Director, we can and will bring in the bucks to ‘conserve and protect’ this marvelous institution.”

-Mark Sorensen, Friends Board Member & Campaign Co-Chair for the University of Nebraska State Museum

Mark and Diann Sorensen.

INTRODUCING MUSEUM CAMPAIGN CO-CHAIRS MARK AND DIANN SORENSEN

The State Museum’s first Campaign for Nebraska meeting took place May 6 at the University of Nebraska Foundation. Below is a statement read aloud by Mark Sorensen to kick-start fundraising efforts.

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'Sunday with a Scientist' events are held the 3rd Sunday of each month from 1:30-4:30 p.m.

at Morrill Hall. Join us to interact with scientists and explore new topics each month!

Becky Puta, a natural resources graduate student at UNL, uses a mock-up of the Missouri River and the Gulf Coast to illustrate the effects of erosion at the May 16 “Climate” event.

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Amy Williams, graduate assistant in the UNl School of Natural Resource’s Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit educates museum visitors about what scientists can learn about Nebraska’s elusive otter population based on samples of their scat at the July 18 event.

Beetle Mania - Aug. 15

Archaeology - Sept. 19

Ancient People - Oct. 17

Native Americans - Nov. 21

Nebraska Amphibians - Dec. 19

UPCOMING ‘SUNDAY WITH A SCIENTIST’

EVENTS

For more information on these and previous programs, visit www.museum.unl.edu

Tadd Barrow, water quality extension educator for the UNL School of Natural Resources, magnifies live algae samples at the June 20 “Toxic Algae” event.

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Rob Skolnick (not visible) from the State Museum’s Division of Vertebrate Paleontology discusses what we can learn from fossilized poop dating back millions of years. Brave visitors discovered that some ancient poop still has an odor.


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A S T R O N O M Y D AY

Over 600 visitors celebrated space and science at Morrill Hall on April 24

Astronomy Day 2010 took place Saturday, April 24 at Morrill Hall. Over 600 visitors of all ages came out to experience hands-on stations about space, science, and astronomy. Activities and demonstrations covered robotics, rocketry, planets, space travel, microgravity, physics, telescopes, meteorites, optics, the Moon and more. The roots of National Astronomy Day go back to the 1979 in connection with The Astronomical League (AL). The Prairie Astronomy Club (PAC) had participated in outreach events going back to its beginning days in the 1960’s. As a member of the Mid-States Region of the AL, when the AL began a nationwide celebration of amateur astronomy, PAC was one of the early participants. The club put on public displays in shopping malls and in various locations in Lincoln area. These always got some foot traffic from shoppers who stopped to see what those strange tubes were that looked like cannons. This early history and much more is documented in Mark Dahmke’s book, Fifty Years of Amateur Astronomy, published just this year. To our best recollection and records, Astronomy Day was held over the years in such places as Gateway (now Westfield) Mall and East Park Place but it came to the Museum in 1990. The idea was that in an educational atmosphere, interests in astronomy and space could be maximized. For a few years in the late ‘90s it was also combined with “Space Day” through the Air Force Association. Astronomy Day always found the Prairie Astronomy Club as a solid base for displays of telescopes and activities. And for many years it was the Museum’s main annual public event.

When the Museum’s “Dinosaurs and Disasters Day” came on the scene, it was thought we might broaden the some of the activities. PAC always encouraged us to bring in new groups that might be allied in some way regarding science and aeronautics. This year we had several new groups participating to compliment all the Astronomy. Last fall the Planetarium and Nebraska Spacegrant sponsored the appearance of Nagin Cox of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Nagin was a speaker at Astronomy Day back in 2004. This time, as an engineer on several different planetary spacecraft, she highlighted her work on the 2011 Mars Science Laboratory. It brought us a new connection to the UNL Chapter of the Society of Women in Engineering (SWIE). Not only was SWIE at Astronomy Day 2010, one of its officers was a member of the UNL Microgravity University Team in the Engineering Department. This group designed an experiment and flew it on NASA’s special aircraft which creates short periods of microgravity. Their flights took place just 10 days before Astronomy Day and this was their first public appearance following the flights. Other new displays at this year’s Astronomy Day included a Theremin, a unique electronic instrument, and an Air Drum. These were demonstrated by the Lincoln Children’s Museum. Last winter the UNL nanotechnology group contacted the Planetarium and Museum Education about some ideas with regard to the Education and Public Outreach part of a grant they submitted. Earlier this year they were featured on the Museum’s “Sunday with a Scientist” program

From left: A member of the UNL Engineering chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics uses a model to demonstrate aircraft design engineering; Dana Tabor of the UNL Chapter of the Society for Women in Engineering; Jim Kvasnicka of the Prairie Astronomy Club discusses telescopes.

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so I was happy they brought some of their demonstrations to Astronomy Day. And to continue that engineering connection, the same member of the SWIE who brought us the Microgravity University group also put me in touch with the UNL chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. This is another group of engineering students doing aeronautical designs. They brought along one of these designs that was really popular with kids and adults alike. Astronomy Day is an event that appeals to the whole family, however, we know the average age of a young person who gets interested in Astronomy starts somewhere around the fifth or sixth grade. It is at that point they start to dream of having their own telescope. Again this year, the Astronomy Day at Morrill Hall was the only site in Nebraska recognized by Astronomy Magazine and Celestron Telescopes. The latter provided a Celestron “FirstScope” telescope as a giveaway for a lucky visitor. The Prairie Astronomy Club gave away an even more expensive Dobsonian telescope worth approximately $350 to a lucky visitor. One station at Astronomy Day demonstrated the construction of the “Galileoscope” simple telescope kits produced for the International Year of Astronomy. (Galileoscope kits are available in the Museum’s Discovery Shop). And there were several other demonstrations of optics principles to help our young visitors on their way to understanding telescopes. In late July, we found out that the winner of this year’s Astronomy magzine national telescope giveaway registered at Morrill Hall! One lucky Astronomy Day visitor will soon receive the grand prize Celestron 6-inch NexStar 6SE telescope (valued

at $799). This is the second time a winner has been selected from our Astronomy Day event in Lincoln! Astronomy Day 2010 was another success following in a tradition of now nearly 20 years in the Museum. Join us again in 2011 (date will be near to May 7th).

-Jack Dunn, Mueller Planetarium

Astronomy Day at Lincoln’s Gateway Mall in 1986.

(Photo courtesy of PAC)

Clockwise from left: A child experiments with an air drum at the Lincoln Children’s Museum station; Children prepare to ride a hovercraft; Steve Lloyd from the Prairie Astronomy Club talks about the solar system; Museum employee Maria Manning poses with “flat” Clay Anderson; UNL Microgravity Team members use a slinky to explain forces of motion. (Photos by Jack Dunn and Dana Ludvik)


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COLORFUL CREATURE DAY 2010 The Museum’s 2nd annual Colorful Creature Day took place Saturday, May 15 at Morrill Hall. Over 400 museum visitors took part in the fun-filled afternoon of music, art and animals. The event was held in conjunction with the opening of the Museum’s ‘Colorful Creature’ art exhibit, which is comprised of the more than 500 entries received from its statewide art contest this spring. (The exhibit will remain on display on

the third floor of Morrill Hall through Labor Day, Sept. 6.) Wide-eyed children and their parents roamed the first floor of Morrill Hall, enjoying the hands-on, educational activities provided by Museum scientists, local artists, and animal groups. Several naturalists and 4-H members were on hand to give children the opportunity to engage with live creatures, including alpacas, llamas, great-horned owl, eastern screech owl, female merlin, vulture, macaw, cockatoo, rabbits, turtles, amphibians, and more. Artists from UNL and the Guild of Natural Scientific Illustrators provided hands-on art activities, answered questions, and demonstrated their creative talents. (Special thanks to the Hixon-Lied Endowment for its support of many of the art activities!) Lincoln musician Mike Mennard provided two performances in Elephant Hall that afternoon, adding to the fun atmosphere of the event.

Some children brought colorful rocks and minerals to the Museum for a scientist to identify. Others took in a special showing of the Planetarium show “Enchanted Reef.” One family won an artistic rain barrel, provided by Lincoln’s Watershed Management. Overall, it was a fantastic event. We hope you will join us next May for more creature fun!

Special thanks to each of the volunteers from these participating organizations:

•PioneersParkNatureCenter •RaptorRecoveryNebraska •CapitalHumaneSociety •SpringCreekPrairieAudubon •NebraskaParrotRescue •NebraskaHerpetologicalSociety •StarCityLlama&Alpaca4-HClub •RabbitsRUs4-HClub •BeakNWings,Inc. •TheBeadPeople •GuildofNaturalScientificIllustrators •CityofLincolnWatershedManagementDivision •UNLEnvironmentalResourceCenter •UNLDepartmentofArtandArtHistory •UniversityofNebraskaStateMuseum

-Dana Ludvik, Public Relations Coordinator

C O L O R F U L C R E A T U R E D AY

2nd annual family event brings music, art, and live animals to Morrill Hall on May 15

FROM LEFT: Museum employee Marisa Kardell was fast friends with an alpaca from the Star City Llama & Alpaca 4-H Club; Naturalist Carri Honz shows off an eastern screech owl from Raptor Recovery Nebraska.

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FROM LEFT: Rick Simonson from the Great Plains Chapter of the Guild of Natural Scientific Illustrators demonstrates his artistic talents; Children paint a rain barrel with sea life (barrel donated by the City of Lincoln Watershed Management Division); Collections Manager George Corner of the Museum’s Division of Vertebrate Paleontology describes fossils from ancient creatures.

FROM LEFT: Naturalist Becky Witulski from Pioneers Park Nature Center talks about snakes; A parrot from Nebraska Parrot Rescue; Musician Mike Mennard performs in Elephant Hall.

FROM LEFT: Museum Scientific Illustrator Angie Fox helps a child experiment with digital illustration; A student from UNL’s Department of Art and Art History helps a child decorate animal origami.


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M I S S M I E E X H I B I T

The exhibit “Miss Mie: A Japanese Friendship Ambassador Doll Returns to Nebraska” opened to the public on July 3 on the third floor of Morrill Hall. A private reception in celebration of the exhibit was held July 2. A 20-person delegation from Japan, made up of members of the Miss Mie Homecoming Committee and other dignitaries, visited the Museum for the opening. The event was also attended by Friends members, Museum staff, various University Deans and Directors, and other special guests. Remarks were given by Director Priscilla Grew, Chancellor Harvey Perlman, and Miss Mie Homecoming Committee President Takekazu Takebayashi. Many thanks to Reiko Harpending, Director of UNL’s Kawasaki Reading Room, for providing Japanese translation throughout the event. Director Priscilla Grew expressed appreciation on behalf of the University for the generosity of the committee in making possible the expert conservation of the doll, and the related exhibitions in Japan over the past year. “During today’s time of economic turmoil and uncertainty, Miss Mie remains a symbol of enduring kindness and optimism in the hearts of our children,” she said. “It is a pleasure to know that she had such a wonderful impact during her homecoming visit and that she continues to spread a message

of peace and friendship among the children of Mie Prefecture and here in Nebraska. It is through the initiative and generosity of the Committee that the doll has now been preserved for future generations to enjoy in our Museum.” The Chancellor presented the delegation with a commemorative vase engraved with the Mie logo on behalf of the Museum. The Committee presented the Museum with numerous gifts throughout their visit, including a traditional Japanese kimono, an oil painting by artist Hiroshi Kiyosaki, a

miniature of Miss Mie, and more. During the delegation’s visit to Lincoln, Miss Mie celebrations were jointly hosted by the Museum, the UNL Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, the Kawasaki Reading Room, and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development. A highlight of their trip was

a visit to Prescott Elementary, arranged by Susan Curtis, to share the story of Miss Mie and teach origami to local schoolchildren. The group also enjoyed Nebraska sight-seeing, including visits to Memorial Stadium, Haymarket Farmers Market, and Lauritzen Gardens in Omaha. On July 4, the Kawasaki Reading Room also hosted a luncheon for the group. Additionally, Susan and her husband Reid hosted a private gathering at their home to celebrate the Independence Day holiday, complete with fireworks and American-style food. -Dana Ludvik, Public Relations Coord.

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Historic Japanese Friendship Doll

July 3 - October 31, 2010

Miss Mie

"Miss Mie remains a symbol of enduring kindness and optimism in the

hearts of our children."

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Miss Mie’s visit to Japan and return to Nebraska are part of an ongoing commitment by the Museum and the Miss Mie Homecoming Committee to continue an international friendship that began over 80 years ago. Miss Mie has been in the Museum’s Anthropology collections since 1928. The doll first arrived in the U.S. in 1927 when 58 friendship dolls were sent to the U.S. as gifts to American children from the children of Japan, intended as a gesture of goodwill. Japanese children received American Blue Eyed Dolls in exchange. Small groups of these “goodwill ambassadors” traveled to 479 cities throughout the country that year. After the tour, some of the dolls found homes in museums and other institutions throughout the U.S., including the State Museum. In Sept. 2008, the 80th anniversary of Miss Mie’s arrival in Nebraska, Japanese members of the Miss Mie Homecoming Committee visited Lincoln to see the doll, examine the letters written by the schoolchildren that accompanied the doll, and make arrangements for her visit to Japan the following year. In July 2009, Anthropology Collections Assistant Susan Curtis transported Miss Mie, along with her collection of accessories, to Mie Prefecture in south-central Japan. Mr. Masaru Aoki, expert doll conservator from the historic Yoshitoku Company in Tokyo, performed much-needed conservation work on the doll’s delicate complexion. Her face and body had developed cracks over the years which made the doll too fragile to study or exhibit. After the repairs were performed, Miss Mie was the center of several homecoming events in the region, including visits to the Governor of Mie Prefecture and various schools, as well as exhibitions in Mikimoto Pearl Museum and Tsu Matsubishi department store. Curtis also coordinated the loan of more than 150 friendship letters written by the Japanese schoolchildren who participated in the friendship doll exchange. Over the past year, the committee translated many of the letters into English and located 12 of the original authors or their family members.

Page12 photos, clockwise from left:Director Priscilla Grew and Anthropology Collections Assistant Susan Curtis hold up a traditional Japanese Kimono, a gift from the Committee; Chancellor Harvey Perlman accepts a miniature of Miss Mie on behalf of the Museum from Committee President Takekazu Takebayashi. The doll was a gift from the people of Mie Prefecture; Ladies from the Committee dressed in traditional kimonos; The 20-person Japanese delegation congregates for a group photo.

Page13 photos, clockwise from top left:Masaru Aoki, expert doll conservator from the historic Yoshitoku Company in Tokyo, poses with Miss Mie; Friends Board member Marcia Hollestelle and her husband Cliff Hollestelle look at story boards that explain Miss Mie’s journey; Committee Director Hideaki Suzuki with UNL Nisei alumnus Tom Miya and his wife Peggy Miya; Committee Vice President Sayo Noro teaches origami to a group of schoolchildren at Prescott Elementary; Director Priscilla Grew accepts a painting from artist Hiroshi Kiyosaki.

(Photos by Dana Ludvik, Maria Manning, and Susan Curtis)

MISS MIE’S JOURNEY

The exhibit features the newly restored doll and her intricate accessories, along with several Japanese cultural objects from the Museum’s Anthropology collections.The exhibit was curated by Anthropology Collections Assistant Susan Curtis and Intern Karen DeCristoforo, with assistance from Alan Osborn, Anthropology Research Associate Professor and Curator, and Exhibit Specialists Joel Nielsen and Ron Pike. Special thanks to Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing Corp., USA for its sponsorship of the exhibit.

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Recently, the Bessey Herbarium of the Botany Division surpassed a milestone of sorts with the 100,000th specimen being entered into the database. To those of us working closely with the collections, the individual specimen that became the 100,000th entry is no more (or less) important than all the others, it just happened. The specimen is Ribes odoratum more commonly known as a clove currant or buffalo currant and was collected by Steve Rolfsmeier on 27 May 1990 at Bohemia Prairie Wildlife Management Area in Knox County, Nebraska. By the way, this specimen was databased by our volunteer Veronica Basnayake on 15 July 2010. How did we get to the 100,000th specimen? The first database project in Botany began in 1998 with a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant being written by the then curator and collections manager, Dr. Margaret Bolick and Linda Rader. Linda is now a collections assistant and continues database work. Before the first specimen could be entered the collections needed a very large organizational overhaul headed by Linda resulting in specimens being sorted, nomenclature updated, folder labels produced and color coded to locality, and everything carefully organized in cases so retrieval for databasing and everyday work would be manageable. Linda’s organizational efforts continue to be admired by many visitors from other herbaria as well as her fellow staff. The database effort would never have gotten this far without her work. A view of the herbarium layout and list of angiosperm families is on the Botany Division Web site museum.unl.edu/research/botany/index.html. Numerous student workers, work study students, graduate students, volunteers, and regular staff have contributed to data entry over the years. The database has had two big pushes, the first being in the late 1990s and early 2000s with about 64,000 specimens being entered from Nebraska and other states. Data entry languished after the budget cuts of 2003. An Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant written by Dr. Kaul and Dr. Rachel Simpson in 2006 allowed continuation of data entry for about 20,000 specimens from Nebraska only. After the conclusion of the IMLS grant student workers and staff have continued to chip away at the backlog. Also, all newly cataloged specimens and outgoing loans are databased. A recent NSF grant to Black Hills State University in Spearfish, South Dakota is allowing Dr. Kaul and Linda Rader to concentrate database efforts on specimens from the Missouri Plateau region of the Dakotas, Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana. It was during this recent effort that the 100,000th mark was passed.

What does this milestone mean? The larger and more complete the database the easier it is to answer inquiries about the collections and conduct research. Questions arise from researchers, writers, and students from all corners of the globe, and we have questions ourselves. Having 100,000 records in the database means something else too. It means that we are only about 32 percent done. Based on the current numbering system we should have over 315,000 specimens in the herbarium. We’ll likely finish the flowering plants from Nebraska first, the red folders. That is where most interest and inquiries fall. But we still have enormous holdings from other states and around the world that need to be entered. Also needing work are the tens of thousands of specimens of algae, fungi, lichens, liverworts, mosses, etc. maintained in the Bessey Herbarium. Much, much work is yet to be done.

Where can we go with the database? Grab a computer with Internet access, we are going on an Internet trip. Point your browser to www.rmh.uwyo.edu, the Internet address of the Rocky Mountain Herbarium (RMH) at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. You can come back later and look at all the other links, but for now find the “Specimen Database” link under the “Quick Links” column on the right side of the screen. You should now see a search screen titled “RM Herbarium Specimen Database” with an inset map of the western United States under a traditional data search form. On that map click the zoom in button (+) about 3 times and move the map to where the northwestern part of Nebraska’s panhandle is visible. Click the “Create Polygon” button. Using the cursor click on the towns of Lusk, Wyoming, Chadron, Nebraska, Edgemont, South Dakota, and again on

BOTANY DIVISION REACHES DATABASE MILESTONE100,000th specimen cataloged in July.

FROM LEFT: Botany volunteer Veronica Basnayake, Collections Manager Thomas Labedz, and

Research Professor and Curator Dr. Robert Kaul with the 100,000th specimen catalogued.

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State Museum Entomology Curator Brett Ratcliffe and

University of Florida Associate Professor of Entomology Ronald

Cave traveled to Texas in June to identify specimens and capture

label data from Texas A&M University in College Station and

the private collections of Jim Wappes and Don Thomas in San

Antonio. -Brett Ratcliffe, Curator of Entomology

Lusk, creating a shaded triangle search area. Click “Search” below the map and see all the collection localities (red dots) and specimen list for that area recorded in the RM Herbarium. Okay, play with it. Zoom in the map, click the dots, see what it can do. This is where I envision the Bessey Herbarium database heading. How cool is this! Others can do this, can we?

Is it important to have the data on the Web? The primary medium of information transfer today is via the Internet. People look first to the Web for information. The specimens and their data are pertinent, valid, and useful in ways we might not even be imagining yet. Virtually every active division in the State Museum is databasing its holdings with whatever resources can be spared. What will that amount to? With just the currently cataloged material in the State Museum we could be looking at multiple millions of records, perhaps over ten million. How does that compare? The University of Nebraska Library system just a couple of years ago cataloged its 3 millionth book into the system. We can top that! I’d better get a move on the next 100,000 plant specimens. Thank you for your support, and visit the Botany Web site for updates. -Thomas Labedz, Collections Manager

(Botany continued.)

FROM LEFT: Texas A&M University Insect Collection Associate Curator Ed Riley, State Museum

Entomology Curator Brett Ratcliffe, and University of Florida Entomology Associate Professor

Ron Cave study the collections at Texas A&M University in June. (Photo Rob Williams.)

ENTOMOLOGY RESEARCH AND CURATION IN TEXAS

Check out the new “SCARABS FOR KIDS” Web page at:

http://www-museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/Scarabs-for-Kids/scarabs.html

On June 21, the Division of Parasitology’s expedition to study Mongolian vertebrate parasites entered the Gobi Desert. Water is the limiting factor for life, and this water trough near a shallow well is a lifeline for both research scientists and domestic animals alike. In this photo, the researchers refresh themselves with some cool water after the thirsty horses had their fill. For more information on this expedition, visit http://lamarck.unl.edu/mongolia/index.html. Also, look for full-length story in the next issue of The Mammoth! -Scott Gardner, Professor and Curator for Parasitology

PARASITOLOGY:A SLICE OF LIFE IN MONGOLIA

FROM LEFT: Jean-Pierre Hugot from the National Museum of Natural History in France, Gabor Racz, Collection Manager for the Museum’s Division of Parasitology, and Altangerel Tsogtsaikhan, a student from the National University in Mongolia.


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Construction of three cabins was completed in May to house Ashfall interns participating in paleontology research. The new cabins provide all the comforts of home within a short walk to the park worksite. Each unit features a common living area and kitchen, a bathroom and private bedrooms. The location affords students without vehicles the opportunity for employment, whereas housing off-site required them to have a reliable form of transportation to work each day. Prospective interns will now know what their living arrangements will be prior to application and park staff won’t have to spend precious time searching for adequate rental housing each spring. These wonderful new units are a great asset to Ashfall’s staffing needs. Funding for the project was generously provided by the Theodore F. and Claire M. Hubbard Family Foundation of Omaha.

ASHFALL FOSSIL BEDS CONTINUES TO GROW

A S H F A L L

To help Ashfall visitors better see the live work conducted in the fossil beds, a closed circuit TV system was installed in the Hubbard Rhino Barn in May to provide a close-up experience of the fossil dig. This project was made possible by funding from the Theodore F. and Claire M. Hubbard Family Foundation of Omaha.

-Rick Otto, Ashfall Fossil Beds Superintendent

Donation enables construction of on-site housing for guest scholars and installation of a video system to enhance the visitor experience

Ashfall Fossil Beds is fortunate to have six capable interns for the 2010 season. These six interns spend their days excavating in the Hubbard Rhino Barn, working in the prep lab, giving geology talks, and working in the Discovery Pavilion… all while interpreting what they are doing for site visitors. All of the internships have been sponsored by generous gifts from the David B. Jones Foundation, Allen and Virginia Overcash, and Explorology Paleo Expeditions.

Ashfall Fossil Beds interns for the 2010 season. Top row from left: Ben Miller, Bill Mausbach, and Stephanie Chorkawciw; Bottom row from left: Maria Brown, Amanda Millhouse, and Rachel Short.

Ashfall visitors view fossil dig activities on the new closed circuit TV system in the Hubbard Rhino Barn.

Ashfall’s new on-site cabins.

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A S H F A L LASHFALL SUMMER EXCAVATION STAFF AT WORK

(Photos by Rick Otto.)

Amanda Millhouse from Grand Blanc, Michigan, a current graduate student at University of Kansas, brushes ash from the skull of one of several new finds. Three new rhino skulls appeared in the ash by midsummer.

The pelvis of a rhino comes to light as Rachel Short scrapes away ash from what appears to be another intact skeleton. Rachel is a second-year intern. Originally from Creve Coeur, Illinois, Rachel is a student at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.

The delicate whisks of an artist brush reveals the details of a barrel-bodied rhino skull. Ben Miller is a native of Chevy Chase, Maryland and recent graduate of Grinnell College in Iowa.

Cautious and careful troweling in the fossil bed is essential. Stephanie Chorkawciw is a second-year intern at Ashfall. Steph is from Morton Grove, Illinois and currently attends Metropolitan State College in Denver.

Diligence and patience reward Bill Mausbach of Orchard, Nebraska, with two overlapping rhino skeletons. This is an interesting and complicated find in the new Hubbard Rhino Barn this summer. Bill is a student at Wayne State College.

Meticulous detail excavation by Maria Brown is another essential aspect of the Ashfall dig. Skeletons are left in-situ which allows visitors to view the fossil remains as found. Maria is from Pennsylvania, and attended Millersville University.


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