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NCAR Staff NotesNational Center forAtmospheric Research

September 8, 1967 No. 64

Visitors to the NCAR Laboratoryoften ask whether or not the big sand-painting in the lobby has any rele-vance to the atmosphere. Accordingto the Denver Art Museum, the answeris a qualified yes.

The painting depicts earth andsky. It is a Navaho design which wasnot originally intended for permanentdisplay. Such paintings normally aremade on the ground, and survive onlyfor the duration of a ceremony in whichthey are an element. The one in ourlobby was made permanent by being laidout on a wooden backing, using an ad-hesive to hold the sand in place.

This design is used in a ceremon-ial known as the Men's Night ShootingChant. The two figures in the paintingrepresent the earth and the sky, incar-nated in Navaho mythology as NhosdzanEsdza, the Earth Mother, and YadilzilHastig, the Sky Father. According tothe Navaho myth, Yadilzil Hastig and

Thosdzan Esdza were the parents of mankind. They built the seven mountains>f the Navaho Land, with one mountain at each cardinal point of the compassand three in the center. Through the eastern mountain Tsinadzini (PeladoPeak, in New Mexico), they ran a bolt of lightning to fasten the Navaho landto the earth. Then they pushed the sky up to make room for man to live onthe earth.

The Sky Father is the figure on the left, with the black body, and theEarth Mother is the blue figure on the right. For the ceremonial, the topof our painting would be to the east. The red and blue stripe that enclosesthree sides of the picture is a rainbow, and the small objects near the topare two guardians of the east, a brown bat to the right and a medicine bagto the left.

The black body of the Sky Father bears the constellations: the MilkyWay zigzagging across the chest and arms from hand to hand, the Morning Star,the Hunter (Orion), Old Man Straddling, the Seven Sisters (Pleiades), GreatBear, Little Bear, and the Pole Star. The blue body of the Earth Motherbears the four sacred plants: corn at the top, beans at the right, squash

h at the bottom, and tobacco at the left.

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The Denver Art Museum has generously made the painting available toNCAR on extended loan. If the Navahos know what they're talking about,this arrangement should bring us peace, prosperity, good hunting, and well-being.

The group that has been gathering in the NCAR Laboratory seminar roomevery day this week is attending a TROMEX (Tropical Meteorological Experi-ment) planning meeting. This group, which totals about 60 people, includesscientists from universities, government research agencies, and other organ-izations, as well as a number of NCAR staff members. The Line Islands Ex-periment was one direct result of a similar meeting held here a little overa year ago. Among the subjects under discussion this week is another trop-ical field expedition, to be made next summer to Barbados, an island repub-lic at the southeast end of the Caribbean. The Barbados Experiment willbe directed by Florida State University, and NCAR's principal role will beto furnish support through the Facilities Laboratory.

Technical Note NCAR-TN-29, Proceedings of the Atmospheric ResearchAircraft Instrumentation Workshop and Symposium (held November 17-18, 1966,in Oklahoma City), is now available. If you want a copy, send a note toKay Redman in the Publications Department.

If you've wondered about the backhoe and bulldozer work that's goingon below the mesa, along the east boundary of the NCAR site, you may beinterested in hearing that it's not our project. Gary Johnson says thatthe excavation is for a water main that the city is putting in to helpsupply the fast-growing southwest part of Boulder.

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September 11 thru 15, 1967

MONDAY, September 11

* Luncheon meeting of the Russian Language Series conducted by Dr. K.Spurny. Contact: Doyne Sartor.

NoonNCAR Laboratory, Damon Room South

TUESDAY, September 12

* Dynamics and Synoptics Seminar -- On the Structure of Hurricanes inthe Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere, Dr. P. Kateswaram,visiting scientist.

1:30 pmNCAR Laboratory, Boettcher Room

WEDNESDAY, September 13

Open

* THURSDAY, September 14

* Russian Language Series luncheon.

NoonNCAR Laboratory, Damon Room South

* Noon Movie -- Island of Pleasure. A Caribbean cruise on film. Color.28 minutes.

12:20 pmNCAR Laboratory, Seminar Room

* Field Observing Facility Advisory Panel, two day meeting.

1:00 - 5:00 pm Thursday9:00 am - 5:00 pm FridayNCAR Laboratory, Boettcher Room

SChemistry and Physics Seminar -- Aerosol Analysis byFiltrationMethods, Dr. K. Spurny, visiting scientist.

1:30 pmNCAR Laboratory, Seminar Room

FRIDAY, September 15

O * Field Observing Facility Advisory Panel meeting.

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

NCAR Laboratory, Boettcher Room

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FRIDAY, September 15 (cont'd)

* Special Seminar -- Stability of Prandtl's Mountain Wind, Dr. AdrianGill, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of Cali-fornia, La Jolla.

11:00 amNCAR Laboratory, Seminar Room

* Noon Movie -- Island of Pleasure. Color. 28 minutes.

12:10 pmHAO/AG Classroom 138

* Mesa Chowder and Molecule Society Luncheon meeting.

NoonNCAR Laboratory, Damon Room South

* Hollow Square -- Analysis of Southern Hemisphere GHOST Observations,Samuel B. Solot.

3:45 pm Refreshments; 4:00 pm TalkNCAR Laboratory, Seminar Room

Visitors

Here: Gill, Dr. Adrian, Scripps Institution of Oceanography,University of California, La Jolla, September 15.--D. K. Lilly

Panchev, Dr. Stoycho, Department of Meteorology, Uni-versity of Sofia, Bulgaria, September 18 for six months.--W. O. Roberts

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