University of Illinois. This salvage project, necessitated by new 

 housing developments, has added greatly to our knowledge of Illinois 

 archaeology. Material found has given us information about burial 

 practices, decorative art, and the daily pattern of life of the aborig- 

 inal inhabitants in the Chicago area between 1400 a.d. and 1600 a.d. 

 Of special interest were the remains of a large structure, the first 

 found in the area. The material is still being studied for a published 

 report of the project. 



After the Ninth Pacific Science Congress held at Bangkok late 

 in 1957, Evett D. Hester, former Thomas J. Dee Fellow in Anthro- 

 pology, in company with Professor Fred Eggan of the University of 

 Chicago, made trips to the ruins of Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom 

 and to Chieng-Mai. On retiirning from Chieng-Mai they visited the 

 sites of Sukhotai and Sawankhalok where, with the permission and 

 assistance of officers and archaeologists of the Thailand National 

 Museum, they made collections of sherds of the rare 12th to 15th 

 century ceramic wares produced at Turiang and Kawtnoy kilns. 

 The sherd collections were divided between the Philippine National 

 Museum and Chicago Natural History Museum. 



Accessions— Anthropology 



The most outstanding accession of Oceanic materials in some years 

 is the famed PXiller Collection (see pages 21 and 46). This collection 

 (described in Chicago Natural History Museum Bulletin, September 

 1958), which numbers some 6,500 specimens that resulted from a 

 collecting interest of great discrimination, contains ethnological and 

 archaeological materials from virtually every part of Polynesia, 

 Melanesia, and Australia. Most of the specimens were collected 

 individually in the islands by early voyagers, missionaries, and 

 British administrative officials, and it remained for Captain and 

 Mrs. A. W. F. Fuller, of London, with the early collaboration of 

 Captain Fuller's father, the Reverend A. Fuller, to bring the mate- 

 rials together from diverse sources in Oceania, England, and the 

 Continent. Together with the Museum's already excellent and 

 comprehensive materials that emphasize Melanesia in particular, 

 the Fuller Collection provides a source for scientific study and exhi- 

 bition that ranks exceptionally high among museums the world over. 

 Among other materials of note from the Pacific area that were 

 added to the Museum's collection during the year are garments from 

 New Zealand, Samoa, Fiji, and Hawaii presented by Mr. and Mrs. 

 Paul Blackwelder of St. Louis in memory of Mrs. Blackwelder's 



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