APPENDIX 5 



REPORT ON THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report on the field 

 researches, office work, and other operations of the Bureau of Ameri- 

 can Ethnology during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1950, conducted 

 in accordance with the Act of Congress of April 10, 1928, as amended 

 August 22, 1949, which provides for continuing "independently or in 

 cooperation anthropological researches among the American Indians 

 and the natives of lands under the jiu-isdiction or protection of the 

 United States and the excavation and preservation of archeologic 

 remains." 



SYSTEMATIC RESEARCHES 



Dr. M. W. Stirling, Director of the Bureau, devoted most of his 

 time during the fiscal year to administrative affairs of the Bureau. 

 He also continued studies on the archeological collections made in 

 Panamd during the winter of 1948-49, particularly on the ceramic 

 collection from the site of Utive in the Province of Panamd. With 

 the exception of a few brief trips for the purpose of attending scientific 

 meetings or giving lectures, the entire year was spent in Washington. 



Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., Associate Director of the Bureau 

 and Director of the River Basin Surveys, spent most of the fiscal year 

 in administering and directing the River Basin Surveys. In Septem- 

 ber he attended the Twenty-ninth International Congress of Ameri- 

 canists where he gave an illustrated talk on the program and work 

 of the River Basin Surveys. Early in October he participated in the 

 annual meeting of the National Council for Historic Sites and Build- 

 ings at Williamsburg, Va. From Williamsburg he went to the Joshua 

 S. and John E. Williamson farm near Dinwiddle to examine an archeo- 

 logical site where considerable material attributable to the eastern 

 variant of the Folsom culture had been found. That particular site 

 is one of the most extensive of its kind thus far noted in the East, and, 

 if excavated, should provide valuable information. 



Later in October Dr. Roberts visited the Missouri Basin head- 

 quarters at Lincoln, Nebr., and, accompanied by Paul L. Cooper, 

 proceeded to the Angostura Reservoir in South Dakota where a 

 series of excavations was under way. After spending several days 

 with the field party, they went to Wyoming to examine the site for 

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