SECRETARY'S REPORT 25 



EXPLORATION AND FIELDWORK 



To acquaint the exhibits staff engaged in preparing the displays 

 which will be shown in the Cultural History Hall (No. 26) with the 

 relationship of styles of furniture to types of architecture and the use 

 of materials in the craftsmanship of the Colonial period, C. Malcolm 

 Watkins, associate curator of ethnology, John E. Anglim, chief 

 exhibits specialist, and Holland O. Hower, exhibits specialist, in Sep- 

 tember 1955 visited a number of museums and historic houses in 

 Massachusetts. Mr. Watkins devoted the last three days in December 

 1955 and the first four days in January 1956 to a search for docu- 

 mentary data on the history of the seventeenth-century "Bookhouse" 

 installed in the Cultural History Hall (No. 26) . He also selected and 

 packed the Wires collection of tiles at Wellesley Hills for transporta- 

 tion to the U. S. National Museum. Before returning to Washington, 

 Mr. Watkins examined the furniture, including Pennsylvania Dutch 

 material, and paintings which Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood is prepared 

 to present for installation in the Cultural History Hall. 



Dr. Clifford Evans, associate curator of archeology, studied the 

 archeological collections of the University of Florida at Gainesville 

 and collaborated with Dr. John M. Goggin on the analysis of speci- 

 mens from Trinidad which have an important bearing on Dr. Evans's 

 British Guiana excavations. 



During November 1955 Dr. T. Dale Stewart, curator of physical 

 anthropology, studied portions of the Todd Skeletal Collection at 

 Western Eeserve University, Cleveland. 



Dr. Marshall T. Newman, associate curator of physical anthro- 

 pology, conferred at Boston during November 1955 with members of 

 the staffs of the Blood Grouping Laboratory of the Children's Hos- 

 pital, the Climatic Research Laboratory, and the Nutritional Bio- 

 chemical Laboratories of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 relative to suitable procedures to be followed in conducting physical 

 and other studies on the Indians at Hacienda Vicos and elsewhere in 

 the Callejon de Huaylas, Peru. On March 16, 1956, Dr. Newman 

 departed for Lima, Peru, to inaugurate a research project financed by 

 a grant from the National Science Foundation. 



Following several preliminary survey visits in March 1956, Frank 

 M. Setzler, head curator of anthropology, began excavations on April 

 2 at the site of Marlborough, Va., which was established as a port and 

 county seat for Stafford County by acts of the Virginia As- 

 sembly dated 1691 and 1705 and which was abandoned sometime in the 

 eighteenth century. Marlborough was located at Marlboro Point on 

 the southern tip of Potomac Neck, a peninsula formed by Accokeek 

 Creek on the west, Potomac Creek on the south, Potomac River on the 

 east, and Aquia Creek on the north ; the site is about 13 miles east of 



