REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 5 



sian painting, Chinese porcelain, and Chinese and Persian pottery. 

 The work of the curatorial staff was devoted to the study and record- 

 ing of these new acquisitions and other art objects and manuscripts 

 already in the collection. In addition 693 objects and 180 photo- 

 graphs were brought or sent to the Director for information con- 

 cerning them, and reports upon all these were made to the owners. 

 Changes in exhibition involved 84 individual objects. Visitors to 

 the Gallery totaled 111,784 for the year. Six illustrated lectures 

 were given in the auditorium, six study groups were held in a study 

 room and ten groups were given docent service in exhibition galler- 

 ies. A. G. Wenley of the Gallery staff gave a 6 weeks' lecture course 

 in Chinese and Japanese art in the Far Eastern Institute at the 

 1940 Harvard University Summer School. William E. B. Acker, also 

 of the staff, returned from Holland, having taken his Ph.D. cum, 

 laude in Chinese at the University of Leyden. 



Bureau of American Ethnology. — The Chief of the Bureau, M. W. 

 Stirling, continued his archeological excavations in southern Mexico 

 in cooperation with the National Geographic Society. At Cerro de 

 las Mesas 20 carved stone monuments were unearthed, and 2 initial 

 series dates were deciphered. At Izapa, a link between the west 

 coast of Guatemala and the istlmiian region of southern Mexico, a 

 large number of stelae were excavated. The collections made were 

 brought to Mexico City, where they were studied by Dr. Philip 

 Drucker, assistant archeologist of the expedition. Dr. J. R. Swan- 

 ton brought to completion his extensive report on the Indians of 

 the Southeast, comprising 1,500 typewritten pages, which the Bureau 

 plans to publish shortly. Three other ethnological papers by Dr. 

 Swanton were in process of publication. Dr. J. P. Harrington con- 

 tinued his comparative study of the Navalio and Tlingit languages. 

 His work on the Navaho was completed during the year, forming a 

 manuscript of more than 1,200 pages. Dr. F. H. H. Roberts, Jr., 

 brought to completion the sixth and final season of archeological in- 

 vestigations at the Lindenmeier site in northern Colorado, wherein 

 much new and valuable information on the subject of Folsom man 

 and the early occupation of North America has been obtained. To- 

 ward the close of the year he went to San Jon, N. Mex., to start 

 excavations at a promising site suggestive of another phase of early 

 man in North America, the so-called Yuma. Dr. J, H. Steward 

 completed his researches on the Carrier Indians of British Columbia 

 and investigated a burial site on an island off the coast of Alaska. 

 He devoted the rest of the year to editorial and organizational work 

 on the proposed Handbook of South American Indians. Dr. H. B. 

 Collins, Jr., continued his study of collections from Eskimo sites in 

 the vicinity of Bering Strait. Dr. W. N. Fenton conducted field 



