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read and corrected for this paper, which appeared in the Essays in 

 Historical Anthropology of North America, volume 100, Smithsonian 

 Miscellaneous Collections. Special papers on archeological subjects 

 were prepared and presented before the Pennsylvania State Archeo- 

 logical Society, the American Anthropological Association, and the 

 Eighth American Scientific Congress. 



Dr. Roberts left Washington, May 2G, for Colorado and resumed 

 investigations at the Lindenmeier site. While the preliminary exca- 

 vations were under way, a number of places in that vicinity were 

 visited for the purpose of checking purported finds of Folsom ma- 

 terial. Work at the Lindenmeier site was in full progress at the 

 close of the fiscal year. 



As editor of the Handbook of South American Indians, Dr. Ju- 

 lian H. Steward, anthropologist, in consultation with leading au- 

 thorities on South American anthropology, drew up a working 

 outline for this project. A two- volume, 2,000-page work to be pub- 

 lished in 5 years, the Handbook will contain articles by specialists 

 on the various subjects. The volume of essays in honor of Dr. 

 Swanton, for which Dr. Steward served as technical editor, was 

 pushed through to a successful conclusion and published on May 25, 

 1940. Several studies of Shoshonean archeology and ethnology 

 were written and published. 



May 26 to July 1 was spent by Dr. Steward among the Carrier 

 Indians of British Columbia. Records of land tenure, subsistence 

 activities, and sociopolitical changes during five generations were 

 procured from the Stuart Lake and neighboring Carrier. It was 

 found that within the framework of aboriginal land utilization, the 

 sociopolitical structure had shifted from a band organization to a 

 matrilineal clan and potlatch system derived from the coast. In 

 historic times, the latter had given way before a patrilineal family 

 system. Records of general ethnography, 100 specimens of native 

 artifacts, and over 50 specimens of plants used in aboriginal times 

 were also obtained. 



In July 1939 a Latin-American bibliographic conference at Ann 

 Arbor, Mich., was attended. In December 1939 two papers were 

 read before the American Anthropological Association in Chicago. 

 In May 1940 Dr. Steward served as secretary of the Anthropologi- 

 cal Section of the Eighth American Scientific Congress, meeting in 

 Washington. 



Henry B. Collins, Jr., ethnologist, continued working over the mate- 

 rial which he excavated in 1936 at prehistoric Eskimo village sites 

 around Bering Strait. The collection from one of the sites — Kurigi- 

 tavik, at Cape Prince of Wales — consists of several thousand artifacts 

 of ivory, bone, stone, clay, wood, and baleen and provides a detailed 



