SIXTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT 



OF THE 



BUEEAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



M. W. Stirling, Chief 



Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report on the field 

 researches, office work, and other operations of the Bureau of Ameri- 

 can Ethnology during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1946, conducted 

 in accordance with the act of Congress of June 27, 1944, which pro- 

 vides "* * * for continuing ethnological researches among the 

 American Indians and the natives of Hawaii and the excavation and 

 preservation of archeologic remains. * * *" 



systematic researches 



Dr. M. W. Stirling, Chief of the Bureau, left Washington January 

 6, 1946, in order to continue work on the Smithsonian Institution- 

 National Geographic Society archeological project in southern Mex- 

 ico. From the latter part of January until the middle of April, arche- 

 ological excavations were conducted at the site of San Lorenzo on the 

 Rio Chiquito in southern Veracruz. This was the site discovered by 

 Dr. Stirling the preceding year at the conclusion of the work in Chi- 

 apas. During the season's work just concluded a map of the site was 

 completed, several of the mounds were cross-sectioned, and a number 

 of stratigraphic trenches dug. 



During the course of the work 24 stone monuments were located, in- 

 cluding 5 colossal heads of La Venta type, and 2 table-top altars. 

 In addition, there were a number of miscellaneous monuments repre- 

 senting jaguars and seated figures, both human and anthropomorphic. 

 The collections made during the course of the work, after inspection 

 in Mexico City, were shipped to Washington. During the period of 

 this work, Dr. Stirling was assisted in the field by Dr. Philip Drucker. 

 Dr. Stirling returned to Washington on May 9. 



During the fiscal year Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., Assistant Chief, 

 read and corrected page proof for the article, "The New World 

 Paleo-Indian," which was printed in the general appendix to the 

 Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1944. He prepared 

 an article, "Prehistoric Peoples of Colorado," to be used as one chap- 

 ter in a forthcoming history of Colorado which is being published by 

 the State Historical Society of Colorado, and another article, "One 

 Hundred Years of Smithsonian Anthropology," to be published in 



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