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LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 
INSTITUTE OF SocIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 
Washington 25, D. C., June 25, 1946. 
Str: I have the honor to transmit herewith a manuscript entitled “Highland 
Communities of Central Peru: a Regional Survey,” by Harry Tschopik, Jr., 
and to recommend that it be published as Publication Number 5 of the Institute 
of Social Anthropology, which has been established by the Smithsonian Insti- 
tution as an autonomous unit of the Bureau of American Ethnology to carry 
out cooperative work in social anthropology with the American Republics as 
part of the program of the Interdepartmental Committee on Scientific and 
Cultural Cooperation. 
Very respectfully yours, 
JuLtian H. Srewarp, Director. 
Dr. ALEXANDER WETMORE, 
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 
