30 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1961 



John F. Kennedy donated an ancient Greek amphora recovered from 

 the Mediterranean Sea. 



Outstanding among the objects received during the year in the 

 division of naval history were collections of German and Japanese 

 ordnance and electronic equipment of World War II, Japanese uni- 

 forms, and uniform items of Fleet Admiral Nimitz and Vice Admiral 

 Lockwood. Two items associated with Pearl Harbor were received. 

 A unique monogrammed dish for the Confederate Navy was added to 

 the Civil War collections. 



EXPLORATION AND HELDWORK 



Dr. T. Dale Stewart, head curator of anthropology, continued his 

 research in Iraq and during the summer participated in the 1960 

 Shanidar Expedition sponsored jointly by the Smithsonian Institution 

 and Columbia University. This research extends the collaboration 

 between Dr. Stewart and Dr. Ealph S. Solecki, formerly on the staff 

 of the Smithsonian Institution. Dr. Stewart's participation in this 

 fourth Shanidar expedition was based on the consideration that the 

 skull of No. 2 had been recovered last season but that the rest of the 

 skeleton had been left in situ. After working 6 weeks on this skull in 

 Baghdad, Dr. Stewart went to Shanidar to join Dr. and Mrs. Solecki. 

 They spent 2 weeks uncovering the skeleton of No. 2, which unfortu- 

 nately proved to be incomplete, consisting only of a few vertebrae and 

 two leg bones. However, at the end of this period more parts of No. 3 

 were found and almost immediately three new skeletons. Wlien Dr. 

 Stewart left Shanidar in mid- August he was able to take back to 

 Baghdad parts of five Neanderthal skeletons. This continuing ex- 

 ploration, therefore, is turning out to be extremely profitable and 

 future studies of this Neanderthal material may be expected to be of 

 considerable significance. 



In the summer of 1960 an interesting discovery was made near 

 Littleton, Colo., of a late Pleistocene bone bed with possible human 

 associations. Because this discovery was of interest both to vertebrate 

 paleontologists and to archeologists. Dr. Waldo E. Wedel, curator of 

 archeology, and Dr. C. Lewis Gazin, curator of vertebrate paleontol- 

 ogy, collaborated in outlining a project to the National Science 

 Foundation which has resulted in a grant to make possible a thorough 

 exploration of the Colorado site. To begin this work, in June 1961, Dr. 

 Wedel spent about 2 weeks at the site together with George S. Metcalf , 

 museum aide. The first stages of this digging uncovered some human 

 artifacts and indicated that the subsequent work might be of unusual 

 interest. 



Dr. ClifTord Evans, associate curator of archeology, and his wife, 

 Dr. Betty J. Meggers, honorary research associate, during the summer 

 of 1960 made a comparative study of certain south American collec- 



