14 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



Mr. Hewitt represents the Bureau of American Ethnology, 

 Smithsonian Institution, on the United States Geographic 

 Board, and is a member of its executive committee. In 

 connection with the forthcoming issue of the sixth report of 

 this board much extra work had to be done by members of 

 the executive committee. Mr. Hewitt prepared a memo- 

 randum for a portion of the introduction. Mr. Hewitt also 

 devoted much time and study to the collection and prepara- 

 tion of data for official replies to correspondents of the 

 bureau, some demanding long research. Miss Mae W. 

 Tucker has assisted Mr. Hewitt in the care of the manuscript 

 and phonograph and photograph records of the archives. 



On May 10, 1931, Mr. Hewitt left Washington, D. C, on 

 field duty and returned to the bureau July 2, 1931. During 

 this trip he visited the Grand River grant of the Six Nations 

 of Iroquois Indians dwelHng near Brantford, Canada, and 

 also the Tuscarora Reservation near Niagara Falls, N. Y. 



Winslow M. Walker was appointed to the staff of the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology as associate anthropologist in 

 March, 1931. He resumed his research in Hawaiian arche- 

 ology, begun during a year's stay in the Hawaiian Islands in 

 1929, in preparation for a paper on Hawaiian sculpture. 



In preparation for work in the field Mr. Walker undertook 

 research in the early narratives of exploration in Louisiana 

 and Arkansas. He left Washington May 29 to investigate 

 some caves in the vicinity of Gilbert, Ark., in the Ozark 

 Mountains, with the hope of being able to throw new light on 

 the Ozark bluff dwellers and other early inhabitants of the 

 caves. Sixteen caves were explored and excavations were 

 made in several of the most promising. A large cave at 

 Cedar Grove yielded several skeletons and a considerable 

 number of stone, flint, and bone artifacts. As the fiscal year 

 closed Mr. Walker was still engaged in excavating this 

 cavern. He intends to make a brief survey of certain 

 mounds and village sites along the Red River Valley in the 

 northern part of Louisiana on the completion of his work in 

 Arkansas. 



