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summer of 1925. The present investigation was made possible by 

 an appropriation from the American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science. Seventy-two adult Choctaws of both sexes were measured, 

 which number, together with those obtained in 1925, affords an ade- 

 quate idea of the physical type of the modern Choctaw. The number 

 of Choctaw still remaining in Mississippi is around 1,000. Unlike 

 some other Indian tribes they are not mixing to any great extent with 

 whites, nor have they done so for some years past. However, they 

 are far from being full blooded as a group, due to infiltration of 

 white and negro blood at an early date. 



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Fig. 204. — Group of Choctaw Indians of the Conehatta district, Newton 

 County, Miss. Mr. T. J. Scott of the Choctaw Agency, in back row. 



Among those whose interest and co-operation aided the work in 

 Louisiana and Mississippi, particular thanks are due to Senator E. S. 

 Broussard ; Father Girault, of Pointe a la Hache, La. ; J\L\ R. A. Bazet 

 and Dr. Marmande, Houma ; Mr. J. A. Pharr and Mr. W. B. Reed, 

 Morgan City ; Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Bradford and Miss Sarah 

 Mcllhenny, Avery Island ; Prof. C. S. Brown, University, Miss. ; Mr. 

 T. J. Scott, Philadelphia, Miss. ; and Mr. Rufus Terral, Quitman, 

 Miss. 



ARCHEOLOGICAL FIELD-WORK IN ARIZONA 



During the suinmer of 1926, from the closing days of May to the 

 end of August, Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, Chief of the Bureau of Ameri- 

 can Ethnology, excavated and repaired a little known ruin about six 



