Through the kindness of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Bissell, of 

 Grand Rapids, Michigan, who provided transportation on their 

 boat, Curator Quimby was able to visit an important site on an 

 island off the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, where he made test 

 excavations and obtained surface collections. He also made a pre- 

 liminary archaeological survey of the north shore of Lake Michigan 

 from Waugoshance Point to Mackinaw City and from St. Ignace 

 to a few miles west of Manistique. Near Grand Marais, Michigan, 

 Curator Quimby examined the locus of an Old Copper find partly 

 covered by shifting sand-dunes in a fossil cedar-swamp high above 

 Lake Superior. On Grand Traverse Bay at an Archaic site where 

 surface collections were obtained he ran elevations and made test 

 trenches in an attempt to determine the relationship of this site 

 to the Nipissing stage of the Upper Great Lakes. The most re- 

 warding part of his field work this year was the rediscovery of a 

 protohistoric Woodland site in western Michigan. The Museum 

 had acquired a large and comprehensive collection from this site, 

 but it was without documentation and thus not scientifically use- 

 ful. After six months of persistent inquiry that involved question- 

 ing various people and studying old letters and newspaper files, 

 Curator Quimby was able to learn the approximate location of this 

 site, which had been excavated thirty-five years earlier. Then he 

 searched the area until he found a locus containing some of the 

 identical forms of artifacts that were in the Museum's collection, 

 thereby obtaining the specific location of the site. The Museum's 

 collection, thus documented, will provide the basis for a forthcom- 

 ing study of Late Woodland Indians. 



During the year Curator Quimby completed a manuscript for a 

 book on the archaelogy, ethnology, and geography of the Upper 

 Great Lakes region from 11,000 B.C. to a.d. 1800, which will be 

 published by the University of Chicago Press as a contribution of 

 Chicago Natural History Museum. 



Dr. Roland W. Force, Curator of Oceanic Archaeology and 

 Ethnology, carried on his research interests in Palauan social or- 

 ganization and political change, completing one phase relating to 

 figures of speech in kin-group terminology. 



Phillip H. Lewis, Assistant Curator of Primitive Art, continued 

 research into variability of Melanesian and African art and into 

 meaning of primitive art. Exhibition for the Division of Primitive 

 Art was given great impetus by the decision to make Hall 2, which 

 housed Roman and Etruscan antiquities, a hall of primitive art in 

 which will be brought together outstanding art-objects from vari- 

 ous primitive cultures of the world. 



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