84 Report of the President 



EXISTING AND EXTINCT RACES OF MEN 

 Department of Anthropology 



Clark Wissler, Curator 



A number of small collections were presented during the 



year, the full list of which will appear under the appropriate 



head. Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt presented 



cquisi ions a ^^ series of stone implements from the Carib 

 Indians, and G. Whitfield Smith, Grand Turk, B. W. I., some 

 interesting skeleton material from caves in the islands. Mr. 

 Ralph Curtis gave an unusually fine series of paleolithic 

 chipped implements, some of which have secondary ornamen- 

 tal workings. Mr. G. C. Longley enriched his Jamaica collec- 

 tion by a number of interesting specimens from the District 

 of Vere, Island of Jamaica. Among the most notable of these 

 specimens are pestles and pendants of clay and stone, beads, 

 a number of celts, and some decorated potsherds. Finally, 

 acknowledgment should be made to Mrs. Mary E. K. Turner 

 for donating a collection of early hafted stone implements 

 from the Alaskan Eskimo. These were given in the name of 

 the late Dr. John B. Driggs. 



Among the purchases from the Jesup Fund is a large series 

 of archaeological specimens from Las Matas, Venezuela; a 

 general collection from the natives of New Guinea, and sev- 

 eral important lots of Indian specimens from the Penobscot, 

 Cheyenne, Eskimo, Tsimshian, etc. Collections resulting from 

 field-work were from the Goajiro and Parahuana Indians of 

 Venezuela, the Hopi, Zufii, Pawnee and Crow; also archaeo- 

 logical collections from Aztec, Zufii, Bonito and Kentucky, in 

 the United States, and from Porto Rico and Venezuela. 



The major problem of the season was the coordination of 

 historical and archaeological research in southwestern United 



States, supported by Messrs. Archer M. Huntington 

 ^ ield , and J. P. Morgan. Early in the year a concession 



was received from Mr. H. D. Abrams, the owner of 

 the "Aztec" ruin near the town of Aztec, New Mexico. This 

 is a pueblo ruin to which the term Aztec is applied erroneously, 



