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Jaimary 31, 1949 
Dr. Alexander Wetmore, Secretary 
Smithsonian Institution 
shington 25, D.C. 
Dear Dr. Wetmore: 
We received your letter of January 19 only yesterday, 
have "been in camp on. the Utive river since January 19,.re- 
turning yesterday afternoon. The Utive is a headwater tributary 
of the Cabobre, which in turn runs into the Pacora. We had a 
really beautiful camp site at the base of the mountains, with, 
crystal clear water and a fine swimming hole as added attractions. 
We" built a palm roofed shelter without walls, under which we put 
our cots and moso uito nets. There are lots of birds, since areas 
of savannah at this point join with the heavy jungle. You and 
Perrygo might find it interesting and profitable to make use of 
our abandoned shelter for a short stay. The majority of the 
people have recently moved to Utive from Las Tablas to avoid be¬ 
ing* fenced in. The" one who knows the region best at the present * 
time, having lived there 15 years, is Manuel Martinez 
workers are Vicente Gutierrez and Jacinto Cardenas.:"' 
$2.50, with which they are well content. y'vx 
We are quite pleased with our archeological results from 
this region. V The work was in the nature of a prospect and we 
located 5 sites, none of which are very extensive. Apparently 
the aboriginal population was not particularly dense in this re¬ 
gion, but nevertheless it was here their villages were located 
rather than near the coast. We did a fairly intensive.piece of 
excavation at the best looking of these sites and obtained a very 
good representative pottery, collection. It is a brand new culture 
and the first site that has been investigated south of the Zone 
with the exception of some prospecting alon^ the coast and the 
Pearl Islands a number of years ago by Linne. The pottery con¬ 
sists of a monochrome ware with modelled designs outlined by in¬ 
cising. The decorative motives are all animals; frogs, alligators, 
turtles, snakes, monkeys and birds. A curious feature of this is 
that the designs are similar in concept to those on the polychrome 
painted ware from Code. The designs are real modelling and not 
applique like the Chiriqui ware. In our Utive culture we also 
found some painted ware, usually red and black on buff and the 
designs always geometric. 
Until our arrival, we were informed that no car had been to 
Utive for 3 years, at which time some mahogany was taken out. It 
happened by coincidence that right here was the center of the re-, 
cent so-called yellow fever epidemic. When we reported our location 
to the Gorgas Laboratory, Doctors Trapedo and Fairchild accompanied 
by Dr. Pedro Galindo, head of the Panamanian Health Board, looked 
us up. Dr. Galindo found his first haemogogus and to his delight 
