4 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



Arctic regions of America, Siberia, and Europe. About 40 percent 

 of the material is in English, 30 percent in Russian, and the rest mainly 

 in Scandinavian, Finnish, German, and French. The first 3 volumes 

 of the Bibliography, of approximately 1,500 pages each, will be issued 

 as a publication of the Department of the Army in July 1953. A 

 fourth volume of the same size, representing the work of the past 2 

 years, was turned over to the printer at the end of the present fiscal 

 year. 



Dr. Collins participated in the preparation of a Program of His- 

 tory of America, which the Comision de Historia of Mexico is or- 

 ganizing under the sponsorship of the Rockefeller Foundation. In 

 January he attended a meeting in Havana at which plans for the 

 program were discussed, and prepared a paper on the subject assigned 

 to him — the Arctic Area — which summarized existing knowledge of 

 the archeology, ethnology, physical anthropology, and history of the 

 Eskimo and Indian tribes of the American Arctic. 



On June 23 Dr. Collins and his assistant, William E. Taylor, were 

 flown by the R. C. A. F. from Montreal to Cornwallis Island in the 

 Canadian Arctic Archipelago to conduct further archeological ex- 

 cavations for the National Museum of Canada and the Smithsonian 

 Institution. The principal objective of the work is to obtain addi- 

 tional information on the prehistoric Dorset culture, traces of which 

 were found there, with Thule culture remains, by Dr. Collins and Mr. 

 Taylor in 1950 and 1951. 



The beginning of the fiscal year found Dr. John P. Harrington, eth- 

 nologist, engaged in the preparation of a study of the Abenaki In- 

 dians of Maine, Quebec, and formerly also of Vermont, who speak the 

 nearest related living language to the extinct tongue of the Massa- 

 chusetts Indians, in whose language the Eliot Bible was written. The 

 two tongues were so closely akin that an Indian speaking one could 

 with a little practice have understood the other. A complete treatise 

 on the Abenaki has been assembled, including unique lists of the terms 

 referring to their culture, and the material awaits completion of the 

 typing to make it ready for the printer. 



On December 20 Dr. Harrington proceeded to Santa Barbara, Calif., 

 where he continued his studies of the Chumash Indians of the Santa 

 Barbara Channel region. In 1542 the Cabrillo Expedition visited 

 these shores, and, contrary to the custom of the time, put on record 

 about 42 place names, nearly all of which can be identified. All the 

 sites along the coast were visited. The coming of Cabrillo antedated 

 that of the Pilgrim Fathers to what is now Massachusetts by nearly 

 80 years, and the Indian words written down are far older than any 

 others recorded in California. During the four centuries which have 

 elapsed since Cabrillo came, the language has evidently changed but 

 little. Through good fortune Dr. Harrington was able to locate the 



