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  seum's 
  projects, 
  so 
  that 
  much 
  good 
  may 
  be 
  accomplished 
  with 
  slight 
  

   outlay. 
  A 
  brief 
  account 
  of 
  field 
  activities 
  of 
  the 
  present 
  year 
  

   follows 
  : 
  

  

  During 
  the 
  spring 
  of 
  1929 
  Dr. 
  Walter 
  Hough 
  carried 
  on 
  archeo- 
  

   logical 
  studies 
  in 
  west 
  central 
  Texas 
  with 
  a 
  view 
  to 
  extending 
  the 
  

   known 
  Pueblo 
  or 
  pre-Pueblo 
  culture 
  areas. 
  In 
  the 
  same 
  region 
  

   he 
  uncovered 
  evidence 
  relative 
  to 
  aboriginal 
  man's 
  early 
  history. 
  

  

  From 
  January 
  to 
  May, 
  1929, 
  through 
  the 
  interest 
  of 
  Dr, 
  W, 
  L. 
  Ab- 
  

   bott, 
  Herbert 
  W. 
  Krieger 
  continued 
  archeological 
  investigations 
  in 
  

   the 
  northern 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  Dominican 
  Republic. 
  The 
  immediate 
  cul- 
  

   ture 
  problem 
  that 
  occupied 
  his 
  attention 
  was 
  to 
  determine 
  whether 
  

   the 
  area 
  anciently 
  occupied 
  by 
  the 
  Ciguayan 
  Indians 
  of 
  Samana 
  

   extended 
  as 
  far 
  west 
  as 
  the 
  valley 
  of 
  the 
  Rio 
  Yaque 
  del 
  Norte. 
  A 
  

   second 
  problem 
  was 
  the 
  attempt 
  to 
  extend 
  the 
  area 
  known 
  to 
  have 
  

   been 
  anciently 
  occupied 
  by 
  the 
  pre-Ciguayan 
  cave 
  dwellers 
  of 
  the 
  

   northern 
  Dominican 
  Republic, 
  Results 
  appear 
  to 
  indicate 
  that 
  the 
  

   pre-Ciguayans 
  had 
  occupied 
  the 
  entire 
  island, 
  but 
  that 
  the 
  Ciguayan 
  

   Indians 
  never 
  reached 
  as 
  far 
  west 
  as 
  the 
  Yaque 
  River. 
  The 
  work 
  

   included 
  further 
  reconnaissance 
  along 
  the 
  north 
  shore 
  of 
  the 
  Samana 
  

   Peninsula 
  and 
  the 
  collection 
  of 
  biological 
  material 
  from 
  former 
  

   Indian 
  village 
  sites 
  for 
  the 
  department 
  of 
  biology, 
  

  

  Henry 
  B, 
  Collins, 
  jr,, 
  was 
  in 
  the 
  field 
  from 
  July 
  to 
  October, 
  1928, 
  

   engaged 
  in 
  investigations 
  of 
  the 
  ancient 
  Bering 
  Sea 
  culture 
  on 
  the 
  

   islands 
  of 
  Punuk 
  and 
  St, 
  Lawrence, 
  with 
  the 
  aim 
  of 
  tracing 
  early 
  

   chapters 
  in 
  the 
  history 
  of 
  western 
  Eskimo 
  culture. 
  Material 
  collected 
  

   shows 
  that 
  there 
  are 
  three 
  stages 
  through 
  which 
  the 
  art 
  of 
  St, 
  Law- 
  

   rence 
  Island 
  may 
  be 
  traced. 
  An 
  earlier 
  stage, 
  found 
  only 
  on 
  the 
  

   northern 
  and 
  western 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  island 
  on 
  deeply 
  patinated 
  objects, 
  

   consists 
  of 
  gracefully 
  delineated 
  straight 
  and 
  curved 
  lines; 
  an 
  inter- 
  

   mediate 
  stage 
  is 
  simpler 
  in 
  design; 
  while 
  the 
  third, 
  the 
  well-known 
  

   modern 
  and 
  simplified 
  art, 
  is 
  found 
  at 
  all 
  recent 
  sites. 
  At 
  Cape 
  

   Prince 
  of 
  Wales 
  nothing 
  of 
  any 
  real 
  antiquity 
  was 
  found. 
  Results 
  

   generally 
  suggest 
  a 
  direct 
  Asiatic 
  source 
  rather 
  than 
  a 
  local 
  cultural 
  

   development 
  for 
  the 
  well-known 
  Eskimo 
  arts. 
  In 
  May, 
  1929, 
  Mr. 
  

   Collins 
  again 
  left 
  for 
  field 
  work 
  to 
  continue 
  through 
  the 
  summer 
  in 
  

   the 
  Bering 
  Sea 
  region. 
  Dr. 
  Ales 
  Hrdlicka 
  also 
  proceeded 
  to 
  Alaska 
  

   to 
  continue 
  his 
  studies 
  on 
  early 
  Eskimo 
  anthropology. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Neil 
  M. 
  Judd 
  was 
  in 
  Arizona 
  during 
  the 
  summer 
  of 
  1929, 
  

   engaged 
  in 
  preparation 
  of 
  reports 
  covering 
  the 
  1920-1927 
  Pueblo 
  

   Bonito 
  explorations 
  of 
  the 
  National 
  Geographic 
  Society, 
  and 
  super- 
  

   vising 
  the 
  society's 
  1929 
  beam 
  expedition. 
  This 
  latter 
  had 
  for 
  its 
  ob- 
  

   ject 
  the 
  collection 
  of 
  timbers 
  from 
  pre-Spanish 
  Pueblo 
  villages 
  that 
  

   will 
  aid 
  in 
  completing 
  a 
  tree-ring 
  chronology 
  by 
  means 
  of 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  

   believed 
  that 
  absolute 
  dates 
  may 
  be 
  determined 
  for 
  many 
  of 
  our 
  

   southwestern 
  ruins. 
  

  

  