See the exhibit 'Afghanistan Lost' See the exhibit 'Afghanistan Lost'

The University Libraries, the Lowell D. Holmes Museum of Anthropology and the Department of Anthropology are presenting the exhibit "Afghanistan Lost" in the main corridor of Ablah Library now through Monday, May 2. An opening reception will be held at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 5, on the first floor of Ablah Library. Jerry Martin, director of the Holmes Museum, will speak, and refreshments will be served.

The exhibit features photographs of Afghanistan and its people taken in the 1950s and '60s by Schuyler Jones, a Wichita native and former head of the Department of Anthropology at Kabul University and director of the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. Cultural objects on loan from Jones will also be on display.

The film "Afghanistan Unveiled: Obstacles & Opportunities for Afghan Women," by Shaista Wahab, will be presented at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 21, in 209 Hubbard Hall. Currently the curator of the Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection at the University of Nebraska at Omaha Library, Wahab served as the oral history researcher for the film. A reception, with refreshments, will be held on the first floor of Ablah Library following the presentation.