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name of the tribe has never been known, Atchat meaning "on this 

 side" or "opposite," referring to location on the Gulf of Alaska and 

 opposite the islands. This language also proved to be closely related 

 to the Navaho, and, as might be expected, more closely related to 

 the languages of British Columbia and the Navaho than is the island 

 language. 



Dr. Harrington returned to Washington on June 29. 



At the beginning of the fiscal year, July 1, Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, 

 Jr., archeologist, was engaged in excavating at the Lindenmeier site 

 in northern Colorado. The investigations were continued through 

 July and August and were brought to a close for the season on 

 September 15. The area under examination was a portion of the Fol- 

 som camp site that has occupied a Bureau of American Ethnology- 

 Smithsonian Institution Expedition's attention for several seasons. 

 The 1939 excavations consisted of the removal of the overburden, 

 ranging from Si/o to 5I/2 feet in thickness, from some 1,540 square feet 

 of the old area of occupation, digging a series of 10 test trenches in 

 unsampled parts of the site, and prospecting in outcroppings of the 

 archeological layer in the banks of a deep ravine that traverses a 

 portion of the site. The excavations in the camp remains produced 

 more specimens than any previously made in areas of comparable size. 

 The collection of artifacts includes typically fluted Folsom points, 

 fluted knives, knives made from the flakes removed from the faces of 

 the points in producing the channels, other kinds of flake knives, a 

 variety of scrapers including several forms of the spokeshave type, 

 flakes with small points used for marking on bone and wood, hand- 

 hammer stones and large choppers, red and yellow ochers used for 

 pigments, bone punches and awls, pieces of decorated bone from ob- 

 jects of unknown form and function, and tubular bone beads. The 

 latter are the first to be found in the Folsom Complex. They were 

 made from shafts of long bones. Unfortunately, the criteria for 

 identification were removed in the process of manufacture, but they 

 seem to be rabbit and bird. One of these specimens was decorated 

 with a series of short parallel lines cut into its surface. 



Dr. Roberts returned to the office in Washington on October 1. 

 During the fall and winter months he read galley and page proofs 

 on the report Archeological Remains in the Whitewater District, 

 Eastern Arizona. Part II. Artifacts and Burials, which appeared 

 as Bulletin 126 of the Bureau of American Ethnology. He also 

 served as technical advisor for "The World is Yours" programs, 

 "Cortez, the Conquistador" and "Pompeii Lives Again," and wrote the 

 article for "The World is Yours" pamphlet on Pompeii. He also 

 prepared a manuscript on the subject Developments in the Problem 

 of the North American Paleo-Indian. Galley and page proofs were 



