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ried on at this strategic point, and the material obtained throws 

 light on the relationships between the Tliiile, Punuk, and Old Bering 

 Sea cultures. Mr. Collins also devoted some time to research on 

 southeastern archeology, and participated in the conference on 

 southern prehistory held by the National Research Council at 

 Birmingham, Ala., in December. 



Phases of Arawakan occupation of the Greater Antilles have 

 become known through five seasons of active field work by Smith- 

 sonian expeditions sponsored by Dr. W. L. Abbott in the Dominican 

 Republic, Haiti, and Cuba. Problems involved concern the inter- 

 relationships among Ciboney, Arawak, Carib, and perhaps other 

 tribal cultures in central and western Cuba. H. W. Krieger during 

 the year studied material assembled on these expeditions and belong- 

 ing to these tribal cultures. The greater problem of northern and 

 southern affiliation of the prehistoric Antillean cultures is much 

 nearer a solution, but much work remains to be done in Venezuela, 

 Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, and perhaps Florida. The 1932 season's 

 work, during which Mr. Krieger investigated mounds, earthworks, 

 and kitchenmiddens in central and western Cuba, has confirmed 

 the belief of students that Ma3^an influence did not reach western 

 Cuba. It was also found that pre-Arawak cultures of the Ciboney 

 type are much more extensive than had previously been known. 

 The principal evidence for this is the large number of village sites 

 yielding no pottery. 



Art design areas of North America and of Oceania and certain 

 problems connected with the distribution of aboriginal application 

 of design were other topics of research by Mr. Krieger. The quilled 

 and painted designs on the George Catlin collection of Indian cos- 

 tumes from unidentified northern Plains tribes, and the costumes 

 displaj^ed in the Indian portraits by George Catlin, also received 

 his attention. The culture of the historic tidewater Indians of 

 Virginia, Maryland, and the Carolinas continues of major interest. 

 The strictly prehistoric cultures and the physical anthropology of 

 this area are receiving the attention, respectively, of Frank M. 

 wSetzler and Dr. T. Dale Stewart. 



The curator of archeology, Neil M. Judd, continued work on his 

 report on the Pueblo Bonito explorations of the National Geographic 

 Society. Assistant Curator Setzler studied archeological material 

 he had previously collected in the Big Bend region of Texas and 

 published a description of certain fragmentary vessels from east- 

 central Louisiana collected in 192G by the late Gerard Fowke. The 

 importance of these fragments lies in their definite resemblance to 

 a type of pottery generally designated bj^ archeologists as "Hopewell" 

 and heretofore reported only from the northern Mississippi Valley. 



