AMERICAN ANTIQUITY

VOLUME XVI NUMBER 3 JANUARY 1951

PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY FOR AMERICAN THE SOCIETY FOR AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY OFFICERS

President: FRANK H. H. ROBERTS, JR., Bureau of American Ethnology, Smiths­ onian Institution, 25, D. C.

First Vice-President: H. MARIE WORMINGTON, Denver Natural History Museum, Denver, Colorado.

Second Vice-President: DONALD COLLIER, Chicago Natural History Museum, Chicago 5, Illinois.

Secretary: GEORGE I. QUIMBY, Chicago Natural History Museum, Chicago 5, Illinois.

Treasurer: GLENN A. BLACK, Angel Mounds, R. R. No. 3, Newburgh, Indiana.

Editor: JESSE D. JENNINGS, Department of , University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Associate Editor: ERIK K. REED, National Park Service, Region Three, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Assistant Editors: J. Louis GIDDINGS, Arctic; CARROLL BURROUGHS, Pacific Coast; KATHARINE BARTLETT, Southwest; CARLYLE S. SMITH, Plains; DAVID A. BAERREIS, Northern Mississippi Valley; WILLIAM A. RITCHIE, Northeast; JOHN M. GOGGIN, Southeast; J. ERIC THOMPSON, Middle America; JOHN H. ROWE, South America; and ALEX D. KRIEGER, Early Man. Members of the Executive Committee: the President, First Vice-President, Second Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Editor; PAUL S. MARTIN, PHILIP PHILLIPS, and GORDON R. WILLEY to 1951; JAMES B. GRIFFIN and ALEX D. KRIEGER to 1952. American Antiquity is printed by the University of Utah Press, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 1, Utah.

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