22 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1962 



lier long career, that of transporting tlie Smithsonian Institution's 

 visitors vividly and intimately to that precise moment in the nation's 

 history when this shattered warship, having fired her last shot in our 

 struggle for independence, slid quietly beneath the waters of Lake 

 Champlain. 



Notable among early 19tli-century naval accessions is an oil painting 

 by Michele Felice Corne, depicting the engagement in 1812 between 

 the Constitution and the Java^ donated by Mrs. Mabel P. Garvan. 

 The Department of the Navy provided two early boarding pikes and 

 a pair of mid-century gangway headboards, on indefinite loan. Valu- 

 able light on the emergence of the steam Navy and its Corps of En- 

 gineers is provided in the professional correspondence (1847-67) of 

 Chief Engmeer James M. Adams, USN, donated by his great grand- 

 son, James Adams Knowles. Submarine operations during the Civil 

 War are represented by a superb model of the Confederate submers- 

 ible H. L. Hunley^ constructed and presented by Floyd D. Houston, of 

 New Suffolk, N. Y. 



EXPLORATION AND FIELDWORK 



Dr. T. Dale Stewart, head curator of anthropology, participated in 

 a conference on "Anthropology and the Conditions of Individual and 

 Social Freedom," held at Glognitz, Austria, in August, and also 

 studied specimens of particular interest to him at the Paleontological- 

 Geological Musemn at Zagreb, Yugoslavia. 



A late Pleistocene bone bed with possible human associations, near 

 Littleton, Colo., was under study last year by Dr. Waldo R. Wedel, 

 curator of archeology, and Dr. C. Lewis Gazin, curator of vertebrate 

 paleontology. This study was resumed in the summer of 1962. Arti- 

 facts have been f omid to a depth of about 40 inches, in association with 

 bison bones. None has yet been found in the lower level where bones 

 of camel and mammoth are more plentiful, indicating that these 

 species may have been the characteristic fauna. The hints of strati- 

 fication in the faunal remains raised the hope that some sort of cul- 

 tural stratification will eventually turn up as well. The field party, 

 in charge of George S. Metcalf, museum aide, will continue its work 

 through the summer of 1962. 



En route to a site for field work in Ecuador, Dr. Clifford Evans, 

 associate curator of archeology, and his wife, Dr. Betty J. Meggers, 

 honorary research associate, attended a training conference in arche- 

 ological techniques at Barranquilla, Colombia, in June and early July 

 1961. The conference had been planned and organized in cooperation 

 with the Pan American Union and was conducted at the Universidad 

 del Atlantico. Young, qualified archeologists came from Argentina, 

 Brazil, Chile, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Uruguay, and Vene- 



