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decorative panels, representing African scenes, have been 

 painted by Mr. Albert Operti. In this hall the arrangement 

 will be geographical. 



The scientific staff of the department has been augmented 

 by the appointment of Dr. Pliny E. Goddard as an Associate 

 Curator and of Dr. Herbert J. Spinden as an Assistant Curator. 

 Dr. Goddard comes from the University of California and is 

 unusually well equipped to take up ethnological work. 



The department has been well represented in the field, 

 nine parties having been actively at work for longer or shorter 

 periods. 



Under the special patronage of Mr. Archer M. Hunting- 

 ton and with the advice of the Committee on Primitive 

 Peoples of the Southwest, of which Mr. Huntington is Chair- 

 man, the Museum is carrying on extensive exploration and 

 investigation among the Indians of the Southwestern States. 

 This work is being done by Doctors Goddard and Spinden. 

 Dr. Goddard is devoting himself to the nomadic tribes of the 

 area, a work for which he is especially well equipped, and 

 Dr. Spinden is at work among the Pueblo Indians. The 

 culture of these people is extremely complex and in con- 

 sequence offers an inviting field. Both Dr. Goddard and 

 Dr. Spinden have secured collections which make valuable 

 additions to our exhibition series. 



In June Mr. Harlan I. Smith left for the North Pacific 

 coast of America, returning in September. He resumed his 

 archaeological reconnaissance, carrying it northward from the 

 northern end of Vancouver Island as far as Skagway, Alaska. 

 He located ancient village sites, shell-heaps and petroglyphs, 

 and secured many photographs. Mr. Smith was accompanied 

 by Mr. Will S. Taylor, a mural artist, who made color studies 

 in oil of the Indians and their environment, which will be the 

 basis of the mural decorations that Mr. Taylor has been com- 

 missioned to paint for the Northwest Coast Hall. 



During the summer months Mr. Alanson Skinner visited 

 the Northern Ojibway and Eastern Cree of the region south 

 of Hudson Bay where he obtained many notes and specimens. 

 Mr. Skinner also visited the Stockbridge, Oneida, Menominee 

 and Winnebago of Wisconsin, obtaining from the latter an 



