Jan. 1935 Annual Report of the Director 175 



Comwallis; Mr. C. Grice, of the Ministry of the Interior; Major 

 W. C. F. Wilson, adviser to the Iraq government at Mosul; the 

 Air Vice-Marshal; the American Minister, Mr. Paul S. Knabenshue; 

 Squadron Leader A. R. M. Rickards, of the Royal Air Force; Dr. 

 Walter P. Kennedy, of the Royal College of Medicine, Bagdad; 

 Dr. T. H. McLeod, of the Royal Hospital, Mosul; and the Mutte- 

 sarifs of the Mosul, Kirkuk, Erbil, and Amara Liwas. 



Through the courtesy of Professor James H. Breasted, Dr. H. 

 Frankfort, director of the Oriental Institute Expeditions of the 

 University of Chicago, very kindly lent the expedition a motor- 

 wagon for general use in Iraq; and Mr. Gabriel Malek also gave 

 generous assistance to the expedition. 



A search was made for archaeological sites in the North Arabian 

 desert, lying in Iraq, Transjordania and Syria. Flint implements 

 collected on the surface prove the former existence of paleolithic 

 and neolithic man in that region. The Iraq Petroleum Company 

 invited the members of the expedition to use their pipe-line stations 

 and cooperated in every possible way. 



In Kurdistan flint implements of upper paleolithic types were 

 found in the gorges of Zakho, Aqra, Rowandiz, and Sulaimaniya, 

 thus welding together a chain of evidence which proves that ancient 

 man once roamed the territory between Kurdistan and the 

 Mediterranean. 



Kish was visited in order to ship to Chicago the antiquities left 

 there by Mr. Louis Charles Watelin, late field director of the Field 

 Museum-Oxford University Joint Expedition to Mesopotamia. The 

 objects, contained in twenty-one cases, included many fine specimens 

 belonging to the Sumerian, Babylonian, and Sasanian periods. 

 There was also a series of human skulls. 



At the end of July, Messrs. Field and Martin, accompanied by 

 Dr. Walter P. Kennedy and Mr. Yusuf Lazar, proceeded to Persia. 

 The members of the expedition were guests of Dr. and Mrs. Erich 

 Schmidt for four weeks at Rayy, near Teheran, during work in that 

 vicinity. At Isfahan Mr. and Mrs. Myron B. Smith cooperated 

 with the expedition, and accompanied it to Persepolis, where Pro- 

 fessor Ernst Herzfeld, field director of the Oriental Institute Expedi- 

 tion to Persia, cordially received the party. Anthropometric data 

 were obtained on 50 Persians in the village of Kinareh, near Perse- 

 polis; 100 Jews in Isfahan; 50 Persians in Yezd-i-Khast; and 35 

 Persians at Rayy. Zoological, botanical, and geological specimens 

 were also collected. Cordial cooperation was received from the Prime 



