• Ani Shreati, the Big Drink: Art, Song, and Dance in Shipibo Initiation Ceremony. Proposal in preparation, 2004. (with C. Philipp and R. Weber)
• Centre d'Aceuil, Doli Lodge, Dzanga/Sangha Park, Bayanga, Central African Republic. 1999 (consultant to the exhibition for park visitors)
• "Prehistory of Amazonia, the Northern Andes, and the Caribbean", 1989-present. South American Hall, American Museum of Natural History (guest curator)
• "Star Gods of the Ancient Americas", 1982-84. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Adler Planetarium, Chicago. Museum of Natural Science, Houston. National Endowment for the Humanities (project director)
• "Where the Jaguars are Exalted: Animals in the Art of Ancient Central America", 1980-present. Museum of the American Indian, New York (project director)
• "The Ancestors: Native Artisans of the Americas", 1979-82. U.S. Customs House, New York. California Academy of Sciences, Museum of Chinese History and Shanghai Museum. National Endowment for the Humanities (project director, co-curator with J.G.E. Smith)
• "Echoes of the Drums", 1978. U.S. Custom House, New York. American Indian cultures. National Endowment for the Arts (co-curator with James G.E. Smith)