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appear in the Twenty-eighth Annual Report of the bureau, and in 

 completing the draft of a memoir devoted to the Symbolic Designs 

 on Hopi Pottery, which it is designed to publish with numerous illus- 

 trations. The remainder of the autumn was occupied by Dr. Fewkes 

 in gathering material for an eventual memoir on the Culture History 

 of the Aborigines of the Lesser Antilles, these data being derived 

 chiefly from a study of the early literature of the subject and of the 

 rich West Indian collections from the island of St. Vincent in the 

 Heye Museum of New York City. Preparatory to the publication of 

 the final results, Dr. Fewkes, with the generous permission of George 

 G. Heye, Esq., selected with entire freedom the necessary objects for 

 illustration, and before the close of the fiscal year about 200 drawings 

 of the archeological objects in this important collection had been 

 finished. 



In October, 1912, Dr. Fewkes sailed for the West Indies under the 

 joint auspices of the bureau and the Heye Museum, the special object 

 in view being the gathering of new archeological data through the 

 excavation of village sites and refuse-heaps and the examination of 

 local collections in the islands. Dr. Fewkes visited Trinidad, Bar- 

 bados, St. Vincent, Balliceaux, Grenada, Dominica, St. Kitts, Santa 

 Cruz, and other islands, excavating shell-heaps in Trinidad and Bal- 

 liceaux, and making archeological studies in other isles. The results 

 of the investigations in Trinidad proved to be especially important, 

 owing to the light which they shed on the material culture of the 

 former aborigines of the coast adjacent to South America. 



Extensive excavations were made in a large shell-heap, known as 

 Tchip-Tchip Hill, on the shore of Erin Bay in the Cedros district. 

 This midden is historic, for it was in Erin Bay that Columbus 

 anchored on his third voyage, sending men ashore to fill their casks 

 at the spring or stream near this Indian mound. Tchip-Tchip Hill 

 is now covered with buildings to so great an extent that it was pos- 

 sible to conduct excavations only at its periphery; nevertheless the 

 diggings yielded a rich and unique collection that well illustrates the 

 culture of the natives of this part of Trinidad. The collection con- 

 sists of several fine unbroken pottery vessels with painted decoration, 

 and more than a hundred well-made effigy heads of clay, in addition 

 to effigy jars and many broken decorated bowls. There were also 

 obtained from the Erin Bay midden several stone hatchets charac- 

 teristic of Trinidad and the adjacent coast of South America, a few 

 shell and bone gorgets, and other artifacts illustrating the activities 

 of the former inhabitants. It is an interesting fact that as a whole 

 the objects here found resemble those that have been taken from shell- 

 heaps on the Venezuela coast and from the Pomeroon district of 

 British Guiana more closely than they resemble related specimens 

 from the other islands of the Lesser Antilles. Several other middens 

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