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1954 on the coast of Ecuador. Additional sites were investigated 

 in the Guayas Province to expand knowledge of the Formative 

 Period cultures and establish links with cultures of this period in 

 Middle America and Peru. En route to Venezuela, 2 weeks were 

 spent in Colombia examining collections in Bogota, Barranquilla, 

 and Cartagena and consulting with Colombian anthropologists. 



On arrival at Caracas, Venezuela, these two investigators were in- 

 vited by Dr. Jose M. Cruxent, Director, Museo de Ciencias Naturales, 

 to accompany an expedition sponsored by that museum and the Uni- 

 versidad Central de Venezuela to the Rio Ventuari, a headwaters 

 tributary of the Rio Orinoco. Some five weeks were devoted to stra- 

 tigraphic excavations of 30 or 40 former sites of human occupation 

 in this region. The materials obtained will permit a more adequate 

 interpretation of the cultural level relationships of the former in- 

 habitants of Brazil, the Guianas, Colombia, and Ecuador. Drs. Evans 

 and Meggers returned to Washington on April 5, 1957. 



Dr. Waldo R. Wedel, curator of archeology, participated, May 2-4, 

 1957, in a symposium held at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, 

 which dealt with the identity and historical implications of an arche- 

 ological cultural horizon known as Oneota, ancestral to certain Siouan 

 groups of Indians. 



Dr. Marshall T. Newman, associate curator of physical anthro- 

 pology, under a research project financed by a grant from the Na- 

 tional Science Foundation, conducted studies in physical anthro- 

 pology, nutrition, dietary habits, blood analyses, bone density and 

 maturation, and cultural anthropology on the Quechua-speaking 

 Indian community of some 1,750 individuals at Hacienda Vicos in 

 the Callejon de Huaylas, North Central Sierra, Peru. Blood samples 

 obtained during this investigation have since been studied by the 

 Blood Grouping Laboratory, Boston, and the U. S. Public Health 

 Service Laboratory at Framingham, Mass. Bone-density analyses 

 and skeletal-maturation studies are being made at Pennsylvania State 

 University from X-ray photographs of the hands of Indian school 

 boys. Dr. Newman returned to Washington on July 27, 1957. Dur- 

 ing April 1957 Dr. Newman consulted with specialists of the Fels 

 Research Institute staff at Yellow Springs, Ohio, relative to age 

 assessments from carpal X-rays, tooth eruption data, and metric 

 growth data obtained at Hacienda Vicos. 



C. Malcolm Watkins, associate curator of ethnology, in the interval 

 between October 1 and 8, 1956, arranged for the shipping of cultural- 

 history materials from Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood's home in Marl- 

 boro, Mass., sorted the woodwork from the Thomas Hancock 

 house in Worcester, and packed and shipped tiles given by E. Stanley 

 Wires of Wellesley Hills. 



