What In The World 3 (ca. 1952)

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PRODUCER: WCAU TV (CBS, Philadelphia)

HOST: Dr. Froelich Rainey

PANELISTS:
-Dr. Carleton Coon
-Dr. Ralph Linton - winner of Viking Medal; author of text books; Yale University professor of Anthropology
-Dr. Alfred Kidder - UPenn; authority of people and cultures of the New World

SHOTLIST:
Item #1
Iron bird (black feathered diver); represent deities; made in Siberia; hung on shaman (priest) robes; dates to the last cent (19th).;Tungus people of Siberia

Item#2
Bering Sea off St. Lawrence Island (Punuk Island); ivory carving of two (2) winged figures; beginning of Christian Era 100 AD; Ofik(?) culture

Item#3
Columbia (near the Magdalena River on the coast); lid of a pottery jar; found in a tomb; 12th-15th centuries; eyes suggests Americas;

Item#4
Arm band made of shell; Indonesia; late 19th or early 20th cent.;clam shell; Island of Nias occupied by pagan people famous for their sculptures and metal work

Item#5
Woman clay figurine; Brazil; Amazonian; Shindu River made about ten years ago-1940s;

Item#6
Ancient times; Palestine; Byzantine Era; 4th-6th cent AD; used as on a doorknob; found in Baysan, Palestine; famous for Egyptian deposit; Post-Roman

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Penn Museum
• What In The World

[chaddvanzanten]

18:20 -- the guy on the left gives the camera a look like, "this guy's just making it up."

[WBEmirgen]

From "What In The World" to "The Weakest Link" in only 5 decades,

As far as Television Programming is concerned Darwin was surley wrong.

[ledzepln243]

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