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just indicated permits of the dovetailing as subcultures for Arawak I 

 (early Arawak) and for Arawak II (late Arawak) of the material 

 from certain sites in the Dominican Republic and Haiti excavated by 

 former Smithsonian expeditions from 1928 to 1931. It is quite clear 

 that the shell middens of the caves of the south shore of Samana Bay 

 (Smithsonian expedition, 1928) and of the lie a Vache shell midden 

 (Smithsonian expedition, 1931) are culturally related to the Anegada 

 shell midden. The expedition to the Virgin Islands thus has crystal- 

 lized tentative conclusions with regard to the classification of West 

 Indian culture sequences based on numerous investigated sites. 



Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, curator of physical anthropology, assisted by 

 six students, spent the greater part of June, July, and August, 

 1937, in archeological investigations on the Aleutian Islands. After 

 reaching the Aleutian Islands the party received permission to work 

 in the Commander Islands in Soviet territory, but because of un- 

 foreseen circumstances the visit had to be very short. Although 

 there was little time for scientific work, enough information was 

 gained to encourage the arrangement for another visit. The Insti- 

 tution in its northern work is once more deeply indebted to the 

 United States Coast Guard for its excellent cooperation, which made 

 possible the work not only in the Aleutian Islands but in the Com- 

 mander group. In 1938, again through the cooperation of the United 

 States Coast Guard, archeological work was continued in the 

 Aleutian Chain and was well under way at the close of the fiscal 

 year. 



From the beginning of the fiscal year until September 13, 1937, 

 Dr. Waldo R. Wedel, assistant curator of archeology, was occupied 

 in an archeological survey in Kansas, beginning a long-term program 

 that is planned to cover a complete survey of the entire State in 

 an attempt to establish the outlines of the aboriginal Indian cultures 

 throughout that region. It should also reveal answers to some of 

 the puzzling problems relating to prehistoric cultures in the Missis- 

 sippi Valley and in the Western Plains. By using early documentary 

 accounts some of the historic Indian sites can be definitely identified, 

 and thereby they may reveal a complex of material culture traits that 

 can be identified with their prehistoric antecedents. Dr. Wedel 's 

 investigations of 1937 included excavations at three village sites 

 along the bluffs of the Missouri River and above Kansas City, and 

 two in the Kansas River Valley near Manhattan. In the prolific site 

 on Line Creek, northwest of Kansas City, evidences were found of 

 an extended occupation of prehistoric origin containing two di- 

 agnostic types of earthenware vessels. One type has a general cord- 

 roughened decoration, while directly associated with it was a superior 

 ware bearing decorations closely comparable to the Hopewellian type 



