1913 
During the year the Head Curator made two field 
trips for the purpose of obtaining data relating to 
collections previously acquired by the Museum. The 
first was to Georgia and the Carolinas, the second to 
Tllinois. In Georgia certain ancient village and stone- 
working sites were studied and interesting material was 
secured; while in South Carolina the colleetions of the 
museum at Columbia, 5. C., were examined and a visit was 
made to a large Indian mound on the Congaree River, 12 
miles below Columbia, where many relies of stone and 
earthenware had been obtained from an ancient burial 
pyeued, In western North Carolina a number of the more 
important of the pwehistoric mica mines were investigated. 
The old workings were found to be very numerous and ex- 
tensive; some of the excavations, traces of which still 
remain, extended to a depth of nearly a hundred ‘feet, and 
‘the amount of mica extracted and carried away by the ab- 
origines may be estimated at many hundreds of tons. By 
peste in the ancient pittings, many specimens of the 
mica and of the stone implements employed by the natives 
in their mining work were secured. In southern I1l- 
inois an examination was made of an ancient flint quarry 
where the aborigines obtained the material for their 
