SIXTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT 



OF THE 



BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



M. W. Stirling, Director 



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, 1952, conducted 

 in accordance with the act of Congress of April 10, 1928, as amended 

 August 22, 1949, which provides for continuing "independently or in 

 cooperation anthropological researches among the American Indians 

 and the natives of lands under the jurisdiction or protection of the 

 United States and the excavation and preservation of archeologic 

 remains." 



Information was furnished during the year by members of the 

 Bureau staff in reply to numerous inquiries concerning the American 

 Indians, past and present, of both continents. The increased number 

 of requests from teachers of primary and secondary grades and from 

 Scout organizations indicates a rapidly growing interest in the Ameri-^ 

 can Indian. Various specimens sent to the Bureau were identified 

 and data on them furnished for their owners. 



SYSTEMATIC RESEARCHES 



Dr. M. W. Stirling, Director of the Bureau, devoted most of his 

 time during the fiscal year to administrative affairs and to the prep- 

 aration of manuscript on previous field studies in Panama and 

 southern Mexico. During the year he prepared three reports for 

 publication : "Stone Monuments of the Rio Chiquito, Mexico," "The 

 Use of Jade in Aboriginal America," and "An Archeological Survey 

 of Southern Veracruz, Tabasco, and Northern Campeche." 



Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., Associate Director of the Bureau 

 and Director of the River Basin Surveys, devoted most of his time dur- 

 ing the year to the management and direction of the River Basin Sur- 

 veys. In August he went to Lincoln, Nebr., to inspect the Missouri 

 Basin headquarters. From Lincoln, accompanied by Paul L. Cooper, 

 field director, he proceeded to the Fort Randall Reservoir area near 

 Chamberlain, S. Dak., and visited a number of archeological sites that 

 were being excavated by field parties of the River Basin Surveys and 

 also the excavations being conducted by the Nebraska State Historical 

 Society. He also took part in a conference on local archeological 

 problems held at the field camp of the University of Kansas party 



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