PEABODY MUSEUM GOES CORNY, SHOWS MAIZE'S GRASS ROOTS

If you like your Anthropology on the cob, you can go to the Peabody Museum to see a special Thanksgiving week exhibit of "the origins and spread of Indian corn and its effect on the social and religious life of the American natives."

Prepared under the direction of Paul C. Mangelsdorf, professor of Botony, the exhibit traces the development of modern corn from a coarse wild grass.

According to the designers of the exhibit, "Corn affected the life of the Indians because it was easy to cultivate and led to a greater dependence of the Indians on agriculture, and a more settled life, in which architecture, pottery, and other peaceful arts could flourish."