22 ANNUAL EEPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1932 



Through the financial assistance of Dr. W. L. Abbott, long a friend 

 of the Smithsonian Institution, Herbert W. Krieger, curator of eth- 

 nology, carried on archeological investigations in Cuba in continua- 

 tion of work of a similar nature that he has pursued for several years 

 in Haiti and the Dominican Eepublic. His investigations covered a 

 variety of sites between Camaguey and the extreme western end of 

 the island, with additional studies on the Isle of Pines. The collec- 

 tions from these investigations have been considerable ; they indicate 

 important evidence in the correlation and distribution of the pre- 

 historic human cultures of the West Indian area, 



Mr. Krieger was also occupied at various times in exploring 

 Indian village sites in the lower Potomac area not far from Wash- 

 ington. In the course of this work he has prepared a map showing 

 the location of known sites and has attempted to correlate data re- 

 covered with descriptions of such sites in the works of Captain John 

 Smith and others. The work, when completed, will result in im- 

 portant information, as except for the writings of Smith and 

 Raleigh we have practically nothing in the nature of a historical 

 description of the Indians of tidewater Virginia and of the Carolinas. 



Archeological work in northern Alaska was carried on during the 

 summer hj James A. Ford and ]\Ioreau B. Chambers under the 

 general direction of H. B. Collins, jr., who has been working in this 

 area for several years. Mr. Chambers excavated for three months 

 at Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, where during the summer of 1980 

 Mr. Collins had found an unbroken sequence of Eskimo occupation 

 extending from an early phase of the old Bering Sea culture to the 

 present time. Mr. Chambers's work added to the completeness of 

 this chronological record, bringing especially further evidence of the 

 transitional phase between the old Bering Sea and the Punuk periods, 



Mr. Ford proceeded to Point Barrow, but ice conditions in the 

 Arctic were the worst in many years, so that he did not arrive until 

 late in August, when the ground was beginning to freeze. Arrange- 

 ments were therefore made for him to stay at Barrow over the winter 

 in order to get in a full season of excavation in 1932. During the 

 winter he was occupied in various studies pertaining to the modern 

 Eskimo. 



Neil M. Judd, curator of archeology, was engaged in an archeologi- 

 cal reconnaissance on the San Carlos Indian Reservation, Ariz., on 

 behalf of the Bureau of American Ethnology. Several caves near 

 Arsenic Spring, on the southwest slopes of the Nantac Plateau, shel- 

 tered small pueblo ruins whose associated pottery fragments suggest 

 occupancy in the thirteenth century or later. 



F. M. Setzler, assistant curator of archeology, continued work in 

 the Big Bend region of southern Texas, an area heretofore unlmown 

 archeologically that is thought to conceal important information 



