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end of the fiscal year an area covering 375 square feet had been 

 uncovered. Numerous implements and considerable additional in- 

 formation were obtained from this work. These data serve to round 

 out more fully the story of the customs and habits of Folsom man. 



During the winter months Dr. Eoberts also prepared several 

 manuscripts on the subject of the work at the Lindenmeier site and 

 on Southwestern archeology in general. 



Upon his return from Spanish Honduras early in the fiscal year, 

 Dr. W. D. Strong, anthropologist, spent his entire time in working 

 over the archeological collections from the Ulua River. With the 

 assistance of Alfred Kidder II, and Drexel A. Paul, Jr., Dr. Strong 

 completed the report on this work which is to be published in the 

 Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections under the title "Preliminary 

 Report on the Smithsonian Institution-Harvard University Archeo- 

 logical Expedition to Northwestern Honduras, 1936." 



From July 1 until late October 1936, Dr. Julian H. Steward, asso- 

 ciate anthropologist, continued his work of the previous year among 

 Shoshonean tribes in the Great Basin and Plateau areas. He had 

 two objectives: First, to stud}'' the ecological basis of the social and 

 political organization of the bands of horse Shoshoni in Utah and 

 Idaho to supplement his previous study of the foot Shoshoni of 

 Nevada; second, to continue his ethnographic survey by means of an 

 element list. An element list and satisfactory ecological material 

 were procured from the following: Bannock, Fort Hall Shoshoni, 

 Lemhi Shoshoni, and Grouse Creek (northwestern Utah) Shoshoni 

 at Fort Hall, Idaho ; Promontory Point (Great Salt Lake) Shoshoni 

 at Washakie, Utah; Pahvant Ute (now almost extinct) at Kanosh, 

 Utah; Gosiute (determined to be actually Shoshoni) at Skull Valley 

 and at Deep Creek, Utah. Before returning to Washington, Dr. 

 Steward drove to Fallon, Nev., to examine guano caves said to hold 

 promise, but found little of interest. He returned by way of south- 

 ern Nevada and southern Utah, making brief visits to several South- 

 ern Paiute reservations. The remainder of the year was devoted to 

 preparation of research material for publication, and eight manu- 

 scripts have been completed. 



The beginning of the fiscal year found J. N. B. Hewitt, etluiolo* 

 gist, on the Tuscarora Reservation near Lewiston, N. Y., where he 

 went to continue his researches on the League of the Five Iroquois 

 Tribes. From Lewiston Mr. Hewitt proceeded to the Grand River 

 Grant to the Six Nations in Ontario. Here he had the good fortune 

 to obtain a complete Mohawk text embodying the so-called Hand- 

 some Lake religious teaching, this document consisting of more than 

 5,700 Mohawk terms. Considerable additional information was ob- 

 tained concerning the interesting dual nature of the tribal organiza- 



