10 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1960 



silk brocade with subdued designs were donated by Lt. Col. and Mrs. 

 G. W. Kelley of Alexandria, Va. 



A special effort was made by the division of physical antliropology 

 to incorporate in the collections the backlog of River Basin Surveys 

 materials transferred from the Bureau of American Etlmology. The 

 most outstanding transfer consists of 148 skeletons from the Sully 

 site in the Oahe Reservoir, S. Dak., occupied in prehistoric times by 

 the Arikara tribe. An important collection of 167 plaster-of-paris 

 face masks of various peoples, mainly from Africa, acquired from Dr. 

 Lidio Cipriani of Florence, Italy, help to fill in the ethnic gaps in the 

 division's large group of face masks and busts. The Cipriani col- 

 lection will also provide masks for display units in the exliibits mod- 

 ernization program. A new cast of the skull and lower jaw of the 

 Skhiil V, one of the Palestine Neanderthal specimens, was received 

 as an exchange from the Peabody Museum, Harvard University. The 

 Wenner-Gren Fomidation for Anthropological Research presented 

 a cast of the upper jaw of Zinjanthropus hoisei, a lower Pleistocene 

 australopithecine from Tanganyika. A bust of Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, 

 late curator of the division of physical anthropology, sculptured by 

 Milan Knobloch, was received as a gift from the National Museum 

 Society in Prague, Czechoslovakia. 



A total of 56,271 specimens was added to the collections of the 

 division of archeology during the year. Objects from a prehistoric 

 Oklahoma mound consisting of rare textiles, engraved conch shells, 

 pottery vessels, native copper artifacts, pearls, stone pipes, and chipped 

 stone comprised the outstanding acquisition. Other items came from 

 the Spiro Mound site in Le Flore County, dating probably from the 

 13th or 14th centuries of the Christian Era and representing a high 

 point in the ceremonial art of the Southeastern United States. 



Zoology. — The division of mammals received 4,242 specimens com- 

 prising 50 accessions. Nearly half of this number came from Panama 

 and the Canal Zone under a collecting program being carried out by 

 Associate Curator Charles O. Plandley in cooperation with the Gorgas 

 Memorial Laboratory, units of the Department of Defense, and also 

 individuals. Through Dr. Robert E. Kuntz, of the U.S. Naval Medi- 

 cal Research Unit No. 2, more than 300 mammals were received from 

 Formosa. Dr. Robert Traub, of the Army Research and Development 

 Command, contributed important collections from Malaya, Borneo, 

 and western Mexico. The division also received specimens obtained 

 in Indiana by Russell E. Mumford, Dwight M. Lindsay, and Ralph 

 D. Kirkpatrick; in Lancaster County, Va., by C. O. Handley, Louis 

 T. Dymond, and D. I. Rhymer ; in Maryland by C. P. Lingebach ; and 

 in New Hampshire by Bernard Feinstein. 



Two lots of Panamanian birds, comprising 1,313 bird skins, 93 

 skeletons, and 1 carcass, all collected by Dr. A. Wetmore, were ac- 



