SIXTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT 



26-28 at the Allegany State Park, N. Y. Discussions were devoted 

 to ethnology, linguistics, and archeology with reference to the Lower 

 Great Lakes area. The proceedings of the conference, written by Dr. 

 Fenton, were distributed to the 20 persons in attendance and to others 

 interested. Dr. Fenton attended a similar conference on the pre- 

 history of eastern New York and New England, held February 22, 

 1946, at the New York State Museum, Albany. 



"Area Studies in American Universities" reclaimed D. Fenton's 

 attention, when the Commission on Implications of Armed Services 

 Educational Programs, of the American Council on Education, re- 

 quested him to prepare a report for publication on the Ethnogeo- 

 graphic Board's Survey of the Foreign Area and Language Train- 

 ing Programs of the ASTP and the Civil Affairs Training Schools 

 during 1943-44. The manuscript for the final report, totaling some 

 180 pages, was virtually completed at the close of the fiscal year. 

 Completion of this report coincided with the end of the Ethnogeo- 

 graphic Board and discharged a final obligation to that wartime 

 activity. 



The following publications by Dr. Fenton appeared during the year : 



Place names and related activities of the Cornplanter Senecas (Pennsyl- 

 vania Archaeologist) : 



III. Burnt-house at Cornplanter Grant, vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 88-96. 



IV. Cornplanter Peak to Warren, vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 108-118. 



V. The Path to Conewango, vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 42-56. 



(With J. N. B. Hewitt) Some mnemonic pictographs relating to the Iroquois 



Condolence Council (Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 



vol. 35, No. 10, October 15, 1945, pp. 301-315). 

 An Iroquois Condolence Council for installing Cayuga chiefs in 1945 (Journal 



of the Washington Academy of Sciences, vol. 36, No. 4, April 15, 1946, pp. 



110-127). 



Dr. Philip Drucker, anthropologist, resumed his duties at the Bu- 

 reau of American Ethnology on December 17, 1945, after release to in- 

 active duty by the Navy. He departed almost immediately for Mexico 

 to assemble equipment, set up camp, and make preparations for exca- 

 vating a site in southeastern Veracruz, San Lorenzo, that had been 

 selected by Dr. M. W. Stirling, Chief of the Bureau, for this season's 

 work by the National Geographic Society-Smithsonian Institution 

 cooperative expedition. On Dr. Stirling's arrival, in the latter part 

 of January, Dr. Drucker remained as his assistant. Intensive exca- 

 vations were carried out in various mounds and other features of the 

 site, and numerous stone monuments, including altars, statues, and 

 tremendous monolithic heads of "Olmec" or "La Venta" type were 

 found. While Dr. Stirling occupied himself with a study of the 



