60 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1939 



In Marcli the Honorable Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, 

 appointed Dr. Roberts to represent the United States on the 

 International Commission for Historic Monuments. 



On June 9, 1939, Dr. Roberts left Washington for Colorado, where 

 he resumed excavations at the Lindenmeier site. By the end of the 

 fiscal year he had opened up another portion of the site and was 

 obtaining further data on the Folsom problem. 



Dr. Julian H. Steward, anthropologist, spent the months of July 

 and August 1938 in continuing an archeological and etlinological 

 reconnaissance in western South America which was begun during 

 the preceding fiscal year. During this period several Indian vil- 

 lages of the highlands were visited, and a number of archeological 

 sites were examined in both the highland and coastal regions. These 

 researches were undertaken as a preliminary to the editing of the 

 projected Handbook of South American Indians, and on his return 

 to Washington Dr. Steward began preparation of the final plans for 

 the Handbook. These plans were completed during the remainder 

 of the fiscal year, and the project has now been initiated, various 

 contributors having been invited to participate. 



Scientific papers prepared by Dr. Steward during the past year 

 are : Anthropological Reconnaissance of Southern Utah, for a Bureau 

 of American Etlinology Bulletin ; Anthropological Reconnaissance in 

 South America, for Explorations and Field- Work of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution in 1938; Some Observations on Shoshonean Dis- 

 tributions, for the American Anthropologist; The Economic Basis 

 of Changes in the Shoshonean Indian Culture, for the Scientific 

 Monthly; Notes on Hillers' Photographs of the Paiute and Ute 

 Indians taken on the Powell Expedition of 1873, for the Smith- 

 sonian Miscellaneous Collections. 



Henry B. Collins, Jr., was appointed ethnologist in the Bureau, 

 effective February 1, 1939, by transfer from the Division of Eth- 

 nology, United States National Museum. From February 1 to the 

 end of the fiscal year Mr. Collins spent the greater part of his time 

 working over the large and varied collection of artifacts, numbering 

 several thousand specimens, which he excavated in 1936 at Cape 

 Prince of Wales and other prehistoric Eskimo sites in the immediate 

 vicinity of Bering Strait. A statement of the activities of Mr. 

 Collins during the preceding part of the fiscal year is included in 

 the report of the Department of Anthropology of the United States 

 National Museum. 



Dr. William N. P^enton, ethnologist, joined the staff of the Bureau 

 of American Ethnology on February 6, 1939, coming to the Bureau 

 from St. Lawrence University. He will continue etlinological 

 studies among the Iroquois groups in New York and Canada with 

 the aim of cleaning up some of the ethnological problems in the 



