Report on the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology 



Sm: I have the honor to submit the following report on the field 

 researches, office work, and other operations of the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1963, conducted in 

 accordance with the act of Congress of April 10, 1928, as amended 

 August 22, 1949, which directs the Bureau "to continue independently 

 or in cooperation anthropological researches among the American 

 Indians and the natives of lands under the jurisdiction or protection of 

 the United States and the excavation and preservation of archeologic 

 remains." 



SYSTEMATIC RESEARCHES 



Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., director of the Bureau, devoted most 

 of the fiscal year to office duties and to general supervision of the 

 activities of the Bureau and the River Basin Surveys. 



Early in August, at the invitation of the Czechoslovak Academy of 

 Sciences, Dr. Henry B. Collins, anthropologist, attended a meeting of 

 the Permanent Council of the International Congress of Anthropo- 

 logical and Etlinological Sciences in Prague. Following the meetings 

 the delegates were taken on a week's tour to visit ethnographic mu- 

 seums and inspect paleolithic and neolithic sites being excavated by 

 Czech archeologists in Bohemia, Moravia, and Slovakia. 



On November 9-10 Dr. Collins participated in a symposium on Pre- 

 historic Man in the New World held at Rice University, Houston, Tex., 

 in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the university. His paper, 

 discussing the present status and problems of archeological research in 

 the American Arctic and subarctic, together with those of the 16 other 

 participants in the symposium, will appear in a volume to be pub- 

 lished by the University of Chicago Press. Dr. Collins's paper "Bering 

 Strait to Greenland," evaluating the results of recent archeological 

 discoveries in the American Arctic and their bearing on the problem 

 of the origin and relationships of Eskimo culture, was published in 

 December 1962 in Technical Paper No. 11, Arctic Institute of North 

 America. Another paper, "Stefansson as an Anthropologist," was 

 published in the Stefansson memorial issue of Polar Notes, No. 4- 



In December Dr. Collins was reelected to a 3-year term on the board 

 of governors of the Arctic Institute of North America. He continued 

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