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potsherds, stone knives and spearheads, jade ornaments, two mirrors, 

 one pearl, and a monohthic ax of obsidian. 



The Fourth Field Museum Archaeological Expedition to the 

 Southwest, under the leadership of Assistant Curator Paul S. Martin, 

 obtained more than 3,600 archaeological objects from the Lowry 

 ruin, near Ackmen, Colorado. This collection comprises pottery, 

 potsherds, human skeletons, arrowheads, bone awls, and butts of 

 roof beams, from which it is hoped dates may be obtained. One 

 hundred and twenty-eight negatives were exposed. 



Some of the roof logs obtained from Lowry ruin in 1932 and 

 1933 were sent for examination and possible dating to Dr. Emil 

 W. Haury, Assistant Director, Gila Pueblo museum. Globe, Arizona. 

 Dr. Haury assigned approximate cutting dates of A. D. 950 to two 

 roof logs, and exact cutting dates of a.d. 1106 to two others. 

 The figure a.d. 950 is only approximate because the outer rings 

 from the logs in question are missing. Other roof beams were 

 forwarded for study to Mr. W. S. Stallings, Jr., Dendrologist, 

 Laboratory of Anthropology, Santa Fe, New Mexico, who reports 

 that he has ascertained seven dates. Five of these were obtained 

 from roof beams of one room and indicate that these logs were 

 cut in A.D. 1090. Two other logs which served as door lintels are 

 dated a.d. 1103. 



Grateful acknowledgment is hereby made to Dr. Haury and Mr. 

 Stallings for dating these log samples from Lowry ruin; and to 

 Mr. Harold S. Gladwin, Director of Gila Pueblo museum, and Mr. 

 Jesse L. Nusbaum, Director of the Laboratory of Anthropology, for 

 placing the facilities of their respective institutions at the disposal 

 of Field Museum. 



The Field Museum Near East Expedition, 1934, sponsored by 

 Trustee Marshall Field, and led by Assistant Curator Henry Field, 

 brought back for the Department of Anthropology anthropometric 

 data on 2,500 individuals; 5,000 photographs of racial types; 300 

 specimens of blood; 300 teeth smears; 800 hair samples; 500 flint 

 implements of paleolithic and neolithic types from the North Arabian 

 desert, Kurdistan, and Persia; Himyaritic inscriptions on ten basalt 

 blocks from Transjordania; and two fragments of twelfth century 

 Mohammedan vessels with unusual decorations. For other Depart- 

 ments this expedition collected 1,000 animals preserved in formalin, 

 750 insects, 40 birds and mammals, and 1,500 plants. 



By exchange with Gila Pueblo museum. Globe, Arizona, Field 

 Museum acquired thirty pieces of pottery from various ruins in New 



