06 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1959 
in the area. During the early part of November he went to Austin, 
Tex., where he attended the Second International Congress of His- 
torians which was being held at the University of Texas. He served 
as one of the commentators at the session on Pre-Hispanic peoples in 
the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Following his 
return to Washington he took part in the sessions of the American 
Anthropological Association, and toward the end of the month went 
to Lincoln, Nebr., to discuss various problems in Plains archeology 
with members of the Missouri Basin project staff and to attend the 
sessions of the Annual Plains Conference for Archeology. During 
December Dr. Roberts was a member of a panel at one of the sessions 
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, where 
the subject of “Anthropology in the Federal Service” was presented. 
In January Dr. Roberts attended the meetings of the Committee 
for the Recovery of Archeological Remains held at the Department 
of the Interior in Washington, D.C., and presented a summary of the 
results of the preceding year’s activities of the River Basin Surveys. 
He also took part in discussions pertaining to future plans for the 
Inter-Agency Archeological Salvage Program. At the end of Jan- 
uary he went again to Georgia where he met with representatives from 
the National Park Service, various State and local institutions, and 
assisted in the preparation of plans for a salvage program along the 
Chattahoochee River in Alabama and Georgia. Early in June he 
went to Colorado where he examined collections pertaining to early 
inhabitants of the Western Plains area at the Denver Museum of Nat- 
ural History and in the University Museum at Boulder. Returning 
to Nebraska he spent several days at the field headquarters and lab- 
oratory of the Missouri Basin project at Lincoln where plans were 
being completed for the summer’s investigations in reservoir areas 
along the Missouri River in South Dakota. From Nebraska Dr. Rob- 
erts returned to Washington. 
During the fal] and winter months Dr. Roberts reviewed several 
draft manuscripts of technical reports and returned them to their 
authors with suggestions for correction and revision. In addition, 
he did the technical editing on a series of six reports on historic sites 
archeology in the Missouri Basin which will appear as Bulletin 176 
of the Bureau of American Ethnology. 
Dr. Henry B. Collins, anthropologist, continued his Arctic re- 
search and activities. Material was assembled for an analysis of the 
“Tunnit” legends of the Canadian Eskimos, which describe in some 
detail the aboriginal inhabitants of the Canadian Arctic. On the 
basis of recent archeological investigations, particularly those by 
Dr. Collins in the Hudson Bay region, it appears that the mysterious 
Tunnits were in fact the prehistoric Dorset Eskimos rather than the 
