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Nebraska. From July 16 to September 2 archeological research was 

 carried on in historic and prehistoric Arikara and Mandan sites in 

 South Dakota. Some ethnological work was also accomplished 

 among the former people. From September 16, 1932, to January 28, 

 1933, he was in Washington, where the collections were unpacked, 

 classified, and the writing of reports commenced. 



On January 28, 1933, Dr. Strong left Washington for 6 months* 

 anthropological research in northeastern Honduras. This included a 

 6 weeks' expedition up the Patuca Kiver, where archeological sites 

 were mapped, some excavating was carried on, and the Sumu and 

 Miskito Indians were briefly studied. An accident occurring on this 

 trip caused a delay of several weeks at Puerto Castilla for hospital 

 treatment. From April 24 to May 24 an archeological survey of the 

 Bay Islands was accomplished. This yielded unusually valuable 

 results. On June 4 the party made a muleback trip across the moun- 

 tains to the interior town of Juticalpa. From here they flew to 

 Tegucigalpa to interview officials. On July 1 the party was return- 

 ing by mule to the coast. Many new archeological sites, some of 

 very large size, were discovered on this trip. Valuable contacts were 

 also made with the Paya Indians in the interior. 



Winslow M. Walker, associate anthropologist, resumed investiga- 

 tions in the mound area of the Mississippi Valley from the middle of 

 August to the middle of November 1932. Excavations made on the 

 site of the former great mound at Jonesville, La., revealed evidences 

 of more than one period of occupancy, the earliest containing pottery 

 of a type similar to that found in the Hopewell mounds of Ohio. 

 Other interesting features discovered include portions of a log palisade, 

 a kind of stairway of logs, a lone human skull, minus the lower jaw, 

 lying in the mud beneath the lowest step, and great sheets of cane laid 

 down with careful regularity throughout the mound. Other mounds 

 in this group, formerly known as the Troyville group, were examined, 

 and the conclusion was reached that they probably stand on the site 

 of the great Indian town of Anilco visited by De Soto in 1542. A 

 report on this work has been prepared entitled ''The Troyville 

 Mounds, Catahoula Parish, La." Mr. Walker also spent some time 

 while in Arkansas endeavoring to locate the sites of the Quapaw 

 villages shown on the Ross map of 1765, but changes in the river 

 course have obliterated all trace of them. A start has also been made 

 on a card catalog listing the locations of early historic Indian villages, 

 to serve as a guide for further profitable archeological work in the 

 Southeast. 



J. N. B. Hewitt, ethnologist, devoted considerable time to a study 

 of the probable date of the formation and organization of the League 

 of the Five Iroquois Tribes. This required especial research in the 

 early writings of the first explorers in the valley of the St. Lawrence 



