20 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1957 



linburg by Dorothea, Duchess of Saxony, and a ducat, dated 1688, 

 struck by August Friedrich of Holstein-Gottorp. 



A newcomer to the list of donors of philatelic material is Harry 

 L. Lindquist, publisher of Stamps magazine, who presented his col- 

 lections of Danish and Swedish booklet panes, including many of 

 great rarity. Former Postmaster General James A. Farley converted 

 one section of his valuable philatelic holdings from loan to gift dur- 

 ing the year. 



Philip H. Ward, Jr., of Philadelphia, donated a considerable num- 

 ber of United States and foreign stamps — to continue his ranking 

 as the "oldest" continuing donor, having first evidenced his support 

 of the national postage stamp collection as long ago as 1915. B. H. 

 Homan, Jr., of New York donated 18 original drawings for Ecua- 

 dorean stamps, and 114 French pre-stamp covers. 



EXPLORATION, FIELDWORK, AND RELATED TRAVEL 



Near the close of the past fiscal year Dr. T. Dale Stewart, curator 

 of physical anthropology, investigated the burial site of an adult 

 male Indian on the bank of York River opposite West Point, Va. 

 Portions of the skeleton were unearthed. Trephined skulls from 

 Bolivia in the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, 

 and from the central highlands of Peru in the Peabody Museum, 

 Cambridge, were examined by Dr. Stewart April 2-7, 1957, to ad- 

 vance completion of a research project. 



Frank M. Setzler, head curator of anthropology, and Dr. Clifford 

 Evans, associate curator of archeology, attended during September 

 1956 the Fifth International Congress of Ethnological and Anthro- 

 pological Sciences at Philadelphia. During April 1957 Mr. Setzler 

 visited New Martinsville, W. Va., to survey and discuss a cooperative 

 arrangement for the excavation of a prehistoric Indian mound on 

 the property of the Columbia-Southern Chemical Corp. Plans are 

 now being formulated to proceed with this project during the next 

 fiscal year. 



Dr. Clifford Evans, associate curator of archeology, and Dr. Betty 

 J. Meggers, research associate, with support from a grant from the 

 American Philosophical Society, excavated 12 archeological sites 

 on the Rio Napo and its tributaries on the eastern slope of the 

 Ecuadorian Andes from October through December 1956. The 

 results of this work indicate that the Rio Napo culture is ancestral 

 to the Mar a j oar a culture at the mouth of the Amazon, although the 

 ultimate origin of the Napo culture is still unknown. During Janu- 

 ary and February 1957, under a cooperative arrangement with 

 Sr. Emilio Estrada, Director of the Museo Arqueologico "Victor 

 Emilio Estrada" of Guayaquil, they continued research begun in 



