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Indian. M. W. Stirling, Chief of the Bureau, spent 2 months in 

 Mexico in continuation of the Smithsonian Institution-National 

 Geoo;raphic Society archeologicnl project in that country. Dr. John 

 E. Swanton continued work on a study of the language of the 

 Timucua Indians of Florida and on the revision of a large general 

 paper on the Indians of North America. Dr. John P. Harrington 

 carried forward work on two problems involving linguistic studies 

 of Aleut, the language of the islands between Asia and America, and 

 of Athapascan, the language of the northern Rockies, of a large 

 part of the Pacific coast, and of the southern deserts. Dr. Frank H. 

 H. Roberts, Jr., conducted archeological excavations at a site near 

 San Jon, N. Mex., uncovering an interesting sequence of projectile 

 points and other artifact types and obtaining new information on 

 aboriginal occupation of that area. Just before the close of the 

 year Dr. Roberts went to Newcastle, Wyo., to inspect a promising 

 archeological site. Dr. Julian H. Steward continued his work as 

 editor of the Handbook of South American Indians, in the course 

 of which he visited Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Chile for con- 

 ferences with Latin-American anthropologists. Dr. Henry B. Col- 

 lins, Jr., continued the study of archeological materials from pre- 

 historic Eskimo village sites around Bering Strait. Dr. W. N. Fen- 

 ton carried on several investigations relating to the Iroquois Indians. 

 Dr. Philip Drucker made an analysis of the pottery collections made 

 in Mexico in 1941 by the Smithsonian Institution-National Geo- 

 graphic Society expedition. In continuation of the work of this ex- 

 pedition he went in January 1942 to a site at La Venta, in north- 

 west Tabasco, where excavations resulted in a number of interesting 

 discoveries. Miss Frances Densmore, a collaborator of the Bureau, 

 recorded Omaha songs at Macy, Nebr. The Bureau published its 

 Annual Report and three Bulletins. The library accessioned 350 

 items; the reclassification of the library was practically completed 

 during the year. 



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