SECRETARY’S REPORT 19 
ered, brocade wedding dress, worn by Sarah Pierpont who married 
Jonathan Edwards in 1727. The military and naval collections were 
enhanced by a number of interesting objects, one lot of special im- 
portance being a collection of 72 Teacher Type ship models of the 
sort used by the Navy for training during World War II and 10 
wooden display cases for them. 
EXPLORATION AND FIELD WORK 
Field work by members of the staff of the departments of an- 
thropology, zoology, botany, and geology was continued during the 
year as opportunities offered. 
In January four Museum staff members—Frank M. Setzler, head 
curator of anthropology, and biologists David H. Johnson, Herbert 
G. Deignan, and Robert R. Miller—left for Australia to participate 
in an anthropological and biological survey of little-known Arnhem 
Land sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution, the Australian Com- 
monwealth, and the National Geographic Society. This expedition 
was still in the field at the close of the fiscal year, but had already 
reported good progress in its studies and collections. 
Early in the year the associate curator of ethnology, John C. Ewers, 
spent nearly 3 months on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana and 
the Blood Reserve in Alberta interviewing aged Indians on traditional 
arts and crafts and on the role of the horse in Blackfoot culture. 
Briefer periods were spent on the Flathead Reservation in 
Montana and the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota obtaining 
comparative materials on Flathead and Oglala Sioux horse culture. 
Dr. Waldo R. Wedel, associate curator of archeology, was detailed 
during most of the year to the River Basin Surveys under the Bureau 
of American Ethnology and spent considerable time in the field, 
particularly in the Missouri River Basin. (See appendix 5 for 
details.) 
The Smithsonian took part in the Navy’s Second (1948) Antarctic 
Development Project, and Commander David C. Nutt was employed 
as biologist on a temporary basis to represent the Museum. The re- 
sult was the collecting of one of the best representations of Antarctic 
marine life, particularly invertebrates, ever to accrue to the national 
collections. Charles O. Handley, Jr., likewise temporarily employed, 
accompanied a naval expedition to the American Arctic Archipelago, 
where he secured a fine lot of Arctic birds and mammals for the 
Museum. 
During the first 2 months of the year Dr. Leonard P. Schultz, 
curator of fishes, Dr. J. P. E. Morrison, associate curator of mollusks, 
and Frederick M. Bayer, assistant curator of marine invertebrates, 
participated in the Bikini Scientific Resurvey organized by the De- 
partment of the Navy, the United States Armed Forces Special Weap- 
