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The Field Museum Anthropological Expedition to the Near East, 

 1934, sponsored by Trustee Marshall Field, began work in Iraq on 

 April 2. Assistant Curator Henry Field, leader, was accompanied 

 by Mr. Richard A. Martin, who was in charge of photography and 

 zoological collecting. The expedition continued the somatological 

 study of peoples of the Near East, begun by Mr. Field in 1925, 

 and also collected ethnological, zoological, botanical, and geological 

 specimens. 



The anthropological work included measuring and photographing 

 representative series of important racial elements of the Iraq popula- 

 tion. During four months approximately 2,500 individuals were 

 observed anthropometrically. These included 300 Marsh Arabs, 

 750 Kurds, 475 Shammar Beduins, 250 Assyrians, 175 Dulaim, 150 

 Jews, 100 Mandaeans, 300 Yezidis, 50 Sleyb, and 80 Turcomans. 

 Forty standard observations and measurements were taken on each 

 individual. Frontal and profile photographs, and hair and blood 

 samples were obtained wherever possible. Dr. Carl Rassam, of 

 the Royal Hospital, Bagdad, contributed records of his measurements 

 on 500 men, women, and children. 



Miss Winifred Smeaton, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, accompanied 

 the expedition on its work in Iraq, joining the party at Bagdad about 

 the middle of April and returning to Bagdad about July 15. Her 

 work was the study of the women of each group. Her results 

 should prove of scientific im.portance, as statistics on women have 

 not been available from this area. 



In Iraq several specialists collected data for the expedition. 

 Mrs. E. M. Drower, of Bagdad, made ethnological and linguistic 

 studies of the Marsh Arabs; Mrs. Donald Clawson, of Beirut, made 

 a special study of the teeth of the Kurds and Shammar Beduins; 

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

 collected blood samples; Mr. Albert Meymourian, entomologist of 

 the Rustam Agricultural Experimental Farm, collected insects in 

 the Amara marshes; Mr. S. Y. Showket, of Basra, acted as inter- 

 preter and general assistant; Mr. Khedoory Muallim, whose services 

 were lent by the Royal Hospital, Bagdad, collected birds in the 

 Amara marshes; Mr. Yusuf Lazar, of Bagdad, collected plants in 

 Iraq and Persia. 



The expedition received unusual cooperation from Iraq officials, 

 as well as from many private individuals. Outstanding among the 

 many persons who rendered valuable assistance are the Prime 

 Minister, Ali Jaudet Beg; the Minister of the Interior, Sir Kinahan 



