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largest colossal heads of La Venta type yet discovered. Unique fea- 

 tures at the site are a stone aqueduct and a stone fount in the form of 

 a swimming duck, decorated with water symbols. 



Dr. Stirling returned to Washington on June 17, 1945. 



Dr. John P. Harrington, ethnologist, prepared during the fiscal year 

 12 articles on American Indian linguistic subjects. Outstanding 

 among these is one on the Guarani language of South America, pro- 

 duced through collaboration with Dr. G. T. Bertoni, and one on the 

 Quechua language, written with the help of Prof. J. M. B. Farfan of 

 Lima, Peru. A large proportion of Dr. Harrington's time throughout 

 the year was spent in translating letters and documents in obscure lan- 

 guages for the Office of Censorship. 



During the fiscal year Dr. Frank H. H. Eoberts, Jr., archeologist, 

 continued to work on the material obtained from the Lindenmeier site 

 in northern Colorado — the location where a group of so-called Folsom 

 men camped during the closing stages of the last glacial period — 

 expanding his studies to include comparisons with artifacts from 

 other sites attributable to early archeological horizons in the New 

 World. In this connection he prepared a manuscript "The New 

 World Paleo-Indian" for publication in the Annual Report of the 

 Smithsonian Institution for 1944, an article "A Deep Burial on the 

 Clear Fork of the Brazos River" for the Bulletin of the Texas Archeo- 

 logical and Paleontological Society, and a paper "An Early Texan" 

 for the Scientific Monthly. 



In March 1945 Dr. Roberts was designated as liaison officer between 

 the Smithsonian Institution and the Committee for the Recovery of 

 Archaeological Remains — a group representing the Society for Amer- 

 ican Archaeology, the American Anthropological Association, and 

 the American Council of Learned Societies — which was organized for 

 the purpose of providing ways and means for the recovery of ma- 

 terials that may be lost through the construction of dams and the flood- 

 ing of large areas along many of the river systems throughout the 

 United States. Dr. Roberts attended all meetings of this Committee, 

 presenting the Institution's viewpoint and assisting in the drafting of 

 plans for carrying out such a recovery program. Dr. Roberts devoted 

 considerable time during the latter months of the fiscal year to a study 

 of the maps and project reports of the Corps of Engineers and the 

 Bureau of Reclamation for the dams which they plan to construct, 

 and to research in the archeological literature relating to these areas 

 in an effort to determine the districts where sites will be inundated and 

 where provisions should be made for survey and excavation projects. 



In accord with the Smithsonian Institution's policy of cooperation 

 with the Library of Congress, Dr. Roberts annotated four books on 

 anthropological subjects for the United States Quarterly Book List. 

 He also continued to serve as a member of the Institution's Personnel 



