4 BUREAU OF AMERTCAN ETHNOLOGY 



Dr. Collins organized a symposium on Arctic anthropology as part 

 of the program for the Twenty-ninth International Congress of 

 Americanists held in New York in September 1949, the participants 

 being anthropologists, archeologists, and linguists from the United 

 States, Canada, and Denmark who have specialized in Eskimo 

 research. 



Dr. Collins continued to serve as chairman of the directing commit- 

 tee of the Bibliography of Arctic Literature and the Eoster of Arctic 

 Specialists, two projects that the Arctic Institute of North America 

 is carrying out under contract with the Office of Naval Research for 

 the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, and the Defense 

 Research Board of Canada. He also participated in organizing the 

 forthcoming Alaska Science Conference to be held under the auspices 

 of the National Research Council in November 1950, serving as a 

 member of the steering committee and chairman of the social sciences 

 division. 



During August Dr. William N. Fenton spent 2 weeks studying the 

 archives of the Ontario County Historical Society at Canandaigua, 

 N. Y. In August and September he made tape recordings in the 

 field at Tonawanda and Allegany Seneca reservations. In October 

 he completed a survey of Iroquois materials in the Massachusetts 

 Archives at the State House, in Boston, and found additional Pickering 

 letters in Salem. In December, 34 volumes of the printed journals 

 of the Continental Congress (1774-89) were surveyed and extracted 

 for Iroquois material. During March-May Dr. Fenton was detailed 

 to assist the Department of Justice in the preparation of a case for 

 the Court of Claims concerning Indian lands. In June he was detailed 

 to the Ofiice of Indian Affairs on problems of tribal organization 

 among the Pueblos, the Klamath Indians of California, and the 

 Blackfeet of Montana. Dr. Fenton was in the field on this assign- 

 ment at the close of the fiscal year. 



In September Dr. Gordon R. Willey, anthropologist of the Bureau 

 of American Ethnology, assumed the temporary duties of Acting 

 Director of the Institute of Social Anthropology for the remainder of 

 the fiscal year. However, research under Bureau auspices continued, 

 and preparation of various manuscripts was carried forward. He 

 continued the preparation of the manuscript ''Prehistoric Settlement 

 Patterns in the Viru Valley of Northern Peru." Subsequently he 

 began studies on collections from the Canaveral and Ormond Beach 

 Mounds in east Florida, completing these studies in May. The 

 month of June was then devoted to rewriting and revising a manu- 

 script, ''Early Ancon and Early Supe: Chavin Horizon Sites of the 

 Central Coast of Peru." This report, approximating 125,000 words, 



