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study. Eight special exhibitions were held, as follows: A selection 

 of paintings from the William T. Evans collection of American paint- 

 ings; group of portraits by Enit Kaufman, called "The American 

 Century" ; the Seventh Metropolitan State Art Contest ; miniatures by 

 the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters ; water colors of Latin 

 America by Carl Folke Sahlin; paintings by modern Cuban painters; 

 paintings and sculpture by members of the Society of Washington 

 Artists ; and drawings presented to the United States by the French 

 Republic in 1915. 



Freer Gallery of Art. — Additions to the collections included 

 Egypto-Arabic bookbinding, Chinese bronze, Arabic and East Per- 

 sian calligraphy, Chinese and Persian ceramics, Persian manuscript, 

 Persian and Veneto-Islamic metalwork, Chinese, Indian, and Persian 

 painting, Chinese sculpture, and Chinese silver. Curatorial work of 

 the staff was devoted to the study of new acquisitions and to general 

 research work within the collections, as well as to the preparation 

 of material for publication. Reports were made on more than 2,000 

 objects submitted for examination by other institutions and by indi- 

 viduals. Work connected with the war included assistance given the 

 Office of War Information by a staff member 4 days a week for 6 months, 

 and the revision of official Government publications on China and 

 J apan. The Gallery has heretofore been open to the public every day 

 except Monday, but beginning January 29, 1945, it was open 7 days 

 a week. The year's visitors totaled 72,186. Staff members gave 12 

 lectures during the year before various organizations. Among the 

 changes in personnel were the appointment of Richard Ettinghausen 

 as associate in Near Eastern art, and the detachment from the Gallery 

 of John A. Pope, associate in research, for active duty as Captain, 

 United States Marine Corps Reserve. 



Bureau of American Ethnology. — Dr. M. W. Stirling, Chief of the 

 Bureau, devoted 5 months to continuing the work of the Smithsonian 

 Institution-National Geographic Society archeological project in 

 southern Mexico. Reconnaissance work located a number of archeo- 

 logical sites, and excavations were conducted on a large earth mound 

 covering a complex stone-masonry structure in Chiapas near the town 

 of Ocozocoautla. A new large site of the La Venta culture was dis- 

 covered on the Rio Chiquito in southern Veracruz. It contained two 

 large mound groups and a number of carved monuments, including 

 the two largest La Venta colossal heads yet found. Dr. John P. Har- 

 rington spent a large part of his time in translating letters and docu- 

 ments in obscure languages for the Office of Censorship. In addition, 

 he prepared 12 articles on American Indian linguistic subjects. Dr. 

 Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., continued his studies of the Folsom material 

 obtained from the Lindenmeier site in northern Colorado, including 

 comparisons with artifacts from other early sites in the New World. 



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