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work the Museum is in possession of maps, diagrams, and descriptive 

 notes of ancient burial grounds, house sites, fishing grounds, and caves, 

 and has added to its collections some 2,000 specimens, including mortars, 

 lamps, adzes, knives and much skeletal material. In the collection is a 

 burial monument with capital weighing about two and a quarter tons. 



In carrying on his work Mr. Hornbostel has had the experienced 

 advice of Commander Thompson, and the generous co-operation of the 

 Navy officials who assisted in excavations and in making collections, and 

 assumed the responsibility of transporting the material to Honolulu. 



It is planned to extend field work in this region to include the south- 

 ern islands of the A'larianas group and parts of the Carolines. 



Bayard Dominick Expedition 



At the end of the year the work of the Bayard Dominick Expedition 

 had reached the following stage : the field work had been completed ; most 

 of the collections, maps, manuscripts, photographs, and field notes had 

 been arranged for study ; three papers had been published ; two papers 

 were in press, four papers had been submitted for publication and sub- 

 stantial progress had been made in the preparation of six other papers. 



The systematic investigation of the origin, migration, and culture of 

 the Polynesian peoples, which constitutes the program of the Bayard 

 Dominick Expedition, was made possible by a generous gift of Bayard 

 Dominick, Jr., of New York — funds given to Yale University and placed 

 by the University at the disposal of Bishop Museum. During the summer 

 of 1920 four field parties began their work- — the first in Tonga, the second 

 in the Marquesas, the third in Rurutu, Raivavai, Tubuai and Rapa of 

 the Austral Islands, the fourth in islands of the Hawaiian group. Through 

 co-operative arrangements with scientists of New Zealand, physical 

 measurements of the Maori and a complete survey of the Moriori of 

 Chatham Islands form part of the program. 



In formulating the plans for the expedition, it was recognized that 

 the origin and migrations of a people constitute a problem made up of many 

 diverse elements — a problem which involves contributions not only from 

 physical anthropology, material culture, archaeology, philology and legends, 

 but also from economic botany, geography and zoology. A profit- 

 able search for Polynesian origins obviously involves fundamental re- 

 search in two distinct fields: (i) the source of the physical racial 

 characteristics which have combined to make the different Polynesian 

 types; (2) the source of the original elements in the customs, habits and 

 beliefs — in a word, the culture of the Polynesians. The problem of origin 



