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By C. V. Harrman. 
PREFATORY NOTE. 
In the beginning of the year 1903 I had the good fortune to be called to assume 
the Curatorship of the Section of Ethnology and Archeology at the Carnegie 
Museum in Pittsburgh, and shortly afterwards I laid before the Director of the 
institution, Dr. W. J. Holland, a plan to resume the archeological investigations I 
had previously started in Costa Rica. My proposal was approved and a liberal 
appropriation was made for the work. 
My former investigations in Central America were carried out under the auspices 
of the Swedish Anthropological Society and embraced archeological and ethnological 
work in the Republics of Costa Rica, Salvador, and Guatemala during three years, 
1896-1899. ‘The collections made during this exploration were afterwards presented 
to the Royal Ethnographical Museum by my countryman, Mr. Ake Sjogren, who 
had supplied the funds for the field-work and for a publication, which I in the year 
1901 issued at that Museum under the title ‘‘ Archzeological Researches in Costa 
Rica.” In this volume are embodied the main results of the archeological investi- 
gations on the Atlantic coast and the upland districts of Costa Rica. 
At the time of my departure from Puntarenas, however, I made up my mind to 
return some day in the future in order to more thoroughly follow up the promising 
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