16 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1946 
Assistant Director, retired June 30, after 26 years of service with the 
Gallery, and was given the honorary title of Freer Gallery of Art 
research associate. John A. Pope, associate in research, and William 
R. B. Acker, associate in languages, returned to the Gallery from 
absence on war duty. 
Bureau of American Ethnology.——The Smithsonian Institution- 
National Geographic Society archeological project in southern México 
was carried forward by Dr. M. W. Stirling, Chief of the Bureau, 
assisted by Dr. Philip Drucker of the Bureau staff. Twenty-four 
stone monuments were located, including altars, statues, and mono- 
lithic heads of Olmec and La Venta type. Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, 
Jr., Assistant Chief of the Bureau, was designated director of the 
archeological surveys and excavations of Indian sites to be flooded by 
proposed dam construction in various river basins, to be conducted 
under Smithsonian administration in cooperation with the National 
Park Service, the Corps of Engineers, and the Bureau of Reclamation. 
A large part of his time during the year was devoted to this extensive 
project. Dr. John P. Harrington continued his study of Indian 
languages, producing a Kiowa grammar of 405 manuscript pages. 
Later in the year he pursued linguistic studies in New Mexico and 
California. Dr. Henry B. Collins, Jr., directed the closing operations 
of the ethnogeographic board for 6 months after its dissolution on 
December 31, 1945, and then resumed his research on Eskimo arche- 
ology. He attended several meetings of the board of governors of 
the Arctic Institute of North America in Montreal. Dr. William N. 
Fenton continued his study of the place names of the Cornplanter 
Senecas and collected material relative to the Condolence Council for 
installing chiefs in the Iroquois League. In connection with his 
Troquois studies, Dr. Fenton attended the First Conference on Iroquois 
Research at Allegany State Park, N. Y., October 26-28. Dr. Gordon 
Willey completed a 50,000-word manuscript on “Excavations in South- 
east Florida” and a 25,000-word article on South American ceramics 
for inclusion in the Handbook of South American Indians. He also 
assisted Dr. Roberts in preparing preliminary plans for the Federal 
Valley Authority archeological program. At. the end of the fiscal 
year he was engaged in archeological work in the Virti Valley in 
northern Peri. The Institute of Social Anthropology, an autonomous 
unit of the Bureau under the directorship of Dr. Julian H. Steward, 
continued its program of cultural and scientific cooperation with the 
other American republics by a transfer of funds from the Department 
of State. University courses and field researches were conducted in 
México, Pert, and Brasil in cooperation with cultural organizations 
of those countries, and several publications resulting from the field 
