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meeting of the American Anthropological Association (Chicago, No- 

 vember 15-18), and the annual meeting of the Central States 

 Anthropological Society (Detroit, May 16-18). At the last he 

 participated in a symposium on primitive art. 



Dr. Sturtevant's time in Washington was devoted to continuing 

 research on the Iroquois and Seminole, to preparation of a paper 

 titled "Studies in Ethnoscience" which he presented at the Social 

 Science Kesearch Comicil's Conference on Transcultural Studies of 

 Cognitive Systems (Merida, Yucatan, April 17-20), and to his duties 

 as book-review editor of the American Anthropologist. Papers by 

 him were published in the Florida Anthropologist and in Ethnohlstory. 



In July Dr. Sturtevant spent about 2 weeks continuing etlino- 

 graphic fieldwork among the Seneca-Cayuga of Oklahoma, which he 

 had begun the previous summer. This research, supported by a grant 

 from the American Philosophical Society, is providing data on the 

 most extreme variant of Iroquois culture, particularly on religion and 

 ceremonial aspects, which casts a new light on the relatively well- 

 known culture of the modern Iroquois communities in New York and 

 Ontario. In October Dr. Sturtevant spent a few days on the Six 

 Nations Reserve in Ontario, observing an important Iroquois religious 

 ceremony and making inquiries for comparison with his Oklahoma 

 data. In addition to this fieldwork. Dr. Sturtevant conducted archival 

 research on the Oklahoma Seneca-Cayuga in the Indian Archives 

 Division of the Oklahoma Historical Society in Oklahoma City 

 (July 23-24) and museum research on Florida Seminole and other 

 eastern Indian material in the Milwaukee Public Museum (Novem- 

 ber 19-21 ) and in the College Museum of Hampton Institute, Hamp- 

 ton, Va. (June 8-9). 



In November Dr. Robert M. Laughlin, ethnologist, began fieldwork 

 in Chiapas, Mexico, where he collected and recorded ethnographic 

 and linguistic materials, particularly myths and dreams, as well as 

 numerous prayers, from the Tzotzil Indians of Zinacantan, Chiapas, 

 and surrounding areas. A vocabulary of 2,200 items of the dialect 

 of Zinacantan collected by Lore M. Colby in 1960 has been expanded 

 to 4,000 by Dr. Laughlin. He recorded a series of 26 dreams in Tzotil 

 from a Zinacantan informant. Because specific dream experiences 

 determine the selection of shamans from the community and also pro- 

 voke new religious feasts, it is expected that dreams will illuminate 

 many aspects of Zinacantan world view. This material is being pre- 

 pared for publication. 



Dr. Laughlin utilized the results of a week of ethnographic re- 

 search in the Huastec area of the States of San Luis Potosi and 

 Veracruz, Mexico, in January 1963, to supplement library research 

 for the preparation of the chapter "Huastec" for the Handbook of 



