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Bureau of American Ethnology.— K. W. Stirling, Chief, continued 

 his archeological excavations in southeastern Mexico in cooperation 

 with the National Geographic Society. At Tres Zapotes the chron- 

 ology of the site was satisfactorily determined ; at Cerro de Mesa 20 

 carved stone monuments were located, including one with an initial 

 series date in the Maya calendar ; and at La Vent a 20 monuments were 

 unearthed, including 5 colossal heads, several beautifully carved 

 altars, and some stelae. Dr. J. R. Swanton devoted most of the year 

 to assembling material on the ethnology and early history of the 

 Caddo Indians of Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma. Dr. 

 John P. Harrington conducted linguistic and ethnological studies of 

 the Kiowa Apache at Anadarko and Apache, Okla., the Navaho at 

 Window Rock, Ariz., the Chipewyan of eastern Alberta, Canada, the 

 Sarcee of southern Alberta, the Carrier, Chilcotin, and Nicola on the 

 upper Fraser River, the Tlinkit of southeastern Alaska, and the 

 Atchat, or Eyak, of the Gulf of Alaska. Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, 

 Jr., continued excavations at the Lindenmeier site in northern Colo- 

 rado, where much additional evidence of the presence of Folsom man 

 was obtained. Dr. Julian H. Steward, as editor of the proposed 

 Handbook of South American Indians, drew up a working outline 

 for this project. Toward the end of the year he went to British 

 Columbia to study the Carrier Indians. Henry B. Collins, Jr., con- 

 tinued working over the prehistoric Eskimo material that he ex- 

 cavated around Bering Strait in 1936. Dr. WiUiam N. Fenton 

 conducted ethnobotanical studies among the Iroquois Indians of New 

 York and Canada. Miss Frances Densmore, a collaborator of the 

 Bureau, completed for publication several manuscripts on Indian 

 music. The Bureau published an annual report and three bulletins. 

 The library received 364 accessions, and a large amount of material 

 was reclassified and reshelved. 



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 during the year 639,344 packages of such publications, weighing 

 527,545 pounds. These figures show a considerable decrease from 

 the previous year, owing to the enforced curtailment of shipments 

 to many foreign countries because of war conditions. At the close 

 of the year, the exchange of publications was suspended between the 

 United States and all European countries except Great Britain, Fin- 

 land, and the Soviet Republic. Sets of United States governmental 

 documents are now sent through the Exchange Service to 104 foreign 

 depositories, and 104 copies of the Congressional Record and the 

 Federal Register are sent to foreign countries in exchange for their 

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