"What in the World?" #5 (1952 circa)
Category: Produced Film
Length: 18:38
| Film ID | F16-4004 |
| Film Description | Film Print of CBS-broadcasted television program, filmed at WCAU TV Studios. "What in the World was the Museum's popular weekly half-hour television program which was first seen in 1951 and which ran for 14 years." Item#1 Wooden half man mask; (lower Yukon Valley) Alaska; used at ceremonial dances; collected in 1935 and said not to be much older than that; painted white with blue around the eyes (represent ghost) Item#2 Marble sculpture; found in Besan, Palestine; [current day Gaza]. Hellenistic Period; Item#3 Head piece made of reindeer antler and ivory of a mammoth; Siberia; mid 19th Century Item#4 Wooden object; taboo sign; New Caledonia (island of Australia); late 19th century Item#5 Goddess head; southern Iraq; 6th cent. BC; Neo-Babylonian Period Item#6 Representations of a head (Aztec god) made of volcanic rock; Mexico, 15th century AD; |
| Video Category | Produced Film |
| Topics | Game shows, Archaeology, Artifacts, Artifact identification, Rainey, Froelich, Cammann, Schuyler, Lipschitz, Jacques, Coon, Carleton |