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The party proceeded up the Chucunaque River with great difficulty 

 owing to barriers of drift logs, at last reaching the Cunas Bravos, 

 who were regarded as hostile. The Cunas Bravos are agriculturists 

 and exhibit a lower degree of culture than the Cunas of the lower river. 

 The chief of the Cunas Bravos spoke good English, having as a 

 young man shipped at Colon on an English vessel and in 12 years 

 had sailed over half the world. It was at this point that John L. Baer 

 became sick. 



Activities were next transferred to the San Bias Indians, who 

 inhabit a long stretch of the north coast of Panama. These Indians, 

 who number approximately 40,000, have always kept aloof from the 

 white man, realizing that contact with other races would work their 

 undoing. Amicable relations were established with them and many 

 interesting specimens of their arts and industries were collected for 

 the National Museum. The San Bias Indians have an advanced 

 social organization, with a ruler who could perhaps be properly classed 

 as a king. Through the San Bias. Mr. Marsh came in contact with 

 hundreds of " white Indians " whose presence in Panama has been 

 known for a long time, but who have not been examined by scientific 

 observers. Individuals brought by Mr. Marsh to the United States 

 have been carefully examined and tentatively stated, before field 

 studies go more fully into the matter, to present a form of albinism. 

 Mr. Marsh states that light brown Indians having one white parent 

 reproduce white, light brown, and dark brown children. The San Bias 

 segregate the white children at the age of puberty, and from such 

 information as was furnished it is estimated that one thousand 

 individuals exist in the San Bias region. Mr. Marsh states that the 

 San Bias Indians are capable of assimilating the essentials of modern 

 civilization, and believes that these Indians should be given the 

 chance to develop without contact with alien blood. 



ARCHEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS AT PUEBLO BONITO, 



NEW MEXICO 



Throughout the summer months of 1924, Mr. Neil M. Judd, curator 

 of American archeology, U. S. National Museum, continued his 

 investigation ^ of Pueblo Bonito, a prehistoric Indian village in north- 

 western New Mexico, under the auspices of the National Geographic 

 Society. In these researches there were employed ten white men, 

 six of whom were technical assistants to Mr. Judd, and thirty-seven 



* Smithsonian Misc. Coll., Vol. ^2, Nos. 6 and 15; Vol. 74, No. 5; Vol. "jd, 

 No. 10. 



