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the Red Deer River in Alberta, Canada, where complete 

 skeletons of each type of these dinosaurs have been found, 

 Palceoscincus, the very latest representative, which long eluded 

 our explorer, having been discovered last summer. 



Following the very important work of Professor Putnam 

 and Professor Boas in the development of the anthropological 



TT . r department, the present Curator, Dr. 



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North and South America Clark Wissler, projected a series of 

 systematic explorations beginning in 

 the year 1905, when he was called to the head of the depart- 

 ment. The staff has grown from three in number to its 

 present strength. Curator Wissler leads in the general direc- 

 tion of the work; Curator Goddard in North American 

 ethnology; Associate Curator Lowie in American, African 

 and Asiatic ethnology; Assistant Curator Herbert J. Spinden 

 in the archaeology of Mexico and Central America; 

 Mr. Nels C. Nelson in the Indian archaeology of North 

 America; Mr. Charles W. Mead in Peruvian archaeology, 

 and Mr. Alanson Skinner in the archaeology and ethnology 

 especially of the eastern regions of the United States. 

 These men were chosen particularly for their respective 

 abilities in certain fields to contribute to a coordinated 

 plan of North and South American research. During the past 

 ten years the Museum has added 75,000 specimens, including 

 North and South American, Philippine and African collections. 

 The field research has been devoted to an intensive study 01 

 the customs and traditions of the Indians of the Plains. 

 Twenty-three separate tribes have been studied in the field, 

 especially by Messrs. Goddard and Lowie. The material 

 culture, the sun dance and the ritualistic ceremonies have 

 been carefully investigated and photographs as well as moving 

 pictures obtained. 



In 1909 Mr. Archer M. Huntington began his support of 

 the extension of the work in the Southwest, in the region 

 immediately contiguous to that of the Great Plains, where 

 was commenced a survey of the tribes of the Rio Grande and 

 of their past history, and a study of the Apache, the Hopi 

 and Zuni, the results of which are shown in the remarkable 



