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CURRICULUM REVISION AT CHICAGO In this, its ma,iden issue, the CSB inallgurates the custom of ruill'..._ing fea With the inauguration of its course on ture articles written by outstanding 11 Peo:ples of the World, 11 two-thirds of its new anthropologists who are interested in anthropology curriculum. is now in effect at the Central States area. The editors the University: of Chicago" Under the depart- are grateful to Professor Fay-Cooper 1ent' s new plan, three full one-year courses Cole for having consented to be. tht-J
...,.:Jnsti tute a program in general anthropology .first guest wTi ter o which gives the basic training for the Master's degree. Every student, regardless of special interest, must show competence in all of this material. GROwrH OF ANTHROPOL(X}Y IN THE Mimmsr Last year the first of the three courses, 11Human Origins," was given, and this year for Fay--Cooper Cole the first time the new course 11 Peoples of the Wcrld, 11 based on a syllabus prepared by Pro fessor Fred Eggan, will be offered. The third In this first issue of The Bulletin it ie cour,se, "Cu1ture, Society and. the Individual," perhaps desirable to 10ok ·back and to observe will come into existence in the Autumn of 1947 how and why Anthropology has developed to its at which time all three courses w111 be offer present status in the mid,west. Because the ed simultaneously" Meanwhile, together with I ·writer has been associated with Chicago this 11 the new course, "Peoples of the World, the I article will lay special stress on Illinois.~ iritroductory course·' 11Human Origins, 11 is but without intention of belittl1.ng the contri offered for the second time with its sylla-:- butions of nearby states. bus and reading volumes revised on the basfs of the experience of the first year, The new The f:i.rst large-scale attempt to deve1op syllabus and reading volumes are stocked by -Anthropological interest came in connection the University of Chicago Bookstore. with the World's Columbia.ri Expoei tion in 1892 ,, Expeditions were sent to South America., to The series of maps showing the development Indian tribes in the United States and Ca~ada, of culture and of racial types from about while foreign governments were induced to send 225 ,OOO years ago to the year 1900_, which was to Chicago vast collect.ions rela.~ed to the ab prepared last year, has been thoroughly re original i;:-',Jmbi tants of their colonioe. Among vised on the basis of criticism from anthro the young scientists who were in part respon pologists_, both in the United States and a sible for the gathering and exhibition of ma broad, and is now published in three colors terials were men whose names rank high in by the University of Chicago Press, under the Anthropology - Holmes, Boas, Dorsey, Harlan Io title, Time, Space and Man. Smith, and many others. ·
Sol Tax At the conclusion of the Fair the Field Columbian Mnseum was organized and for -three / 1?I\ years the extensive collections secured from r ! ( ,...--. ) - INVITATION TO MEMBER~ ..P -2- PSYL ,LOGICAL srUDIES AMONG THE OJIBWA )
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The bulletin published during the war by Dr. and Mrs n A, Irving Hallowell arid a the Chicago Anthropological Society has been group of graduate students did field work· a +,aken over by the Central States Branch, under mong the Ojibwa last July and August at the the editorship of Professor Mischa Titiev. Lac du F181Ilbeau Indian Reservation in northern All members of the CAS--and any others in Wisconsin. The problem was to obtain psychol o terested in Anthropology in the midwest--are gi.cal data to be utilized in a comparative urged to ijoin the Central States Brancho Full study of :personality under acculturation, uaing memberships - including membership in the AAA Hallowell~ s material from the Canadian Ot1ibwa and the CSB, and subscriptions to the American as a base-line against which the data from the Anthropologist and to the Bulletin - are $6"00 more acculturated Wisconsin Ojibwa could be per yearo Those who wish to become affiliated measured. or 1y with the CSB as Associate Members may do Of the 800 Indians in residenc'e on the reser ao for $1000 per year, which includes a sub vation, some data were secured from 260 persons,, scription to the Bulletin. Subscription blarks These ir-cluded 230 Rorschach protocols, 110 will be found on the ninth page o T1~ematic Apperception Test records, free_ d.raw Send your dues to Madeline Kneberg, Secret ingH ·t,y 84 subjects, and general et.bnological ary-Treasurer, Central States Branch, Uni ver material" Of the 227 chilclren between the ages sity of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, as of 6 and 16 li.st.ed on the rollo o:f the reser soon as possible. vation school, both Rorschach and Themg.+,ic Ap :percep+;ion Test recordB were obtainecl from lOl Fred Eggan The.children used as subjects were :proportional President, CSB ly distri.butecl within the same age cat.egGries utilized by the Indian Educat1on Research and ******* by Dr. Hallowell ir: obtaining Rorschachn from the Canadiar. Otjibwa.. As nmch as possible the EDITORIAL NorE adult records gathered were from tho parents of t,hi s group of children, The current number of the CENTRAL srATES The adult Rorschach protocols :were collected BULLETIN marks a ne-w undertaking by the Cen by Messrs" Melford Spiro and Ruy Coelho, and tral States Branch of the American Anthro Misses Beatrice Moaner and Ericr.a Eichhorn, of pological Association. As its major purpose Nortilwestern University,. Mrn Coelho also +he Bulletin will report anthropological secured all of the children's free drawing ma act1vities through-out the Midwest. It will terial Mrs" Robert vTat..rous of Northwestern also serve as an outlet for anriom1cements of gathered the children's Rorschach protocoln, meetings, plans for research prctjects, and and. Mrc W, A. Caudill, of the University of other news events of general. interest to the Chicago., obtained Thematic Apperception Tent
CSB o records from the same group of child.reno MrA, To secure adequate coverage of the var:i'.ouf:' Wat.rous and Mr. Cauclill aloo collected four subdivisions of anthropology_, Drs" Kimball, detailed life histories from adolescent and Mekeel, Morgan, Snow_, Tax .• and Voegelin, have post-ado.l.esce:c.t sub jecta ~ _ The field party col-· beer.. appointed associate editors. The editor lat·crated fer par+.. of f:,he summer with M.r,, V:lctor 1 s truly thankful to them for having agreed Barno~w, from C:j} umbia Uni vnroi ty, who had pr8~ +o serve, and for their diligence in securing vioualy dore +.wo seasons f.leld work on -t:;ho and. :preparing copy for the opening issue o reserva-i.icm,, All members of the CSB are urged to feel W.A. Caudi 11 free to co:atrlbute material -pertaining to them se.l ve sand the institutions with which they a.re a.ffiliated. Reports of local B.nthrcpology EXCAVATIONS AT KILIARNEY clubs, digests of lectures by visiting speci alists, summaries of Master~s and Ph.Do theses, For ~~he past nine years the University of news of staff and currlcular revisions, and Michigan~s Museum of Anthropology, rmder the similar items are :particularly welcome o Con leadership of Dr. Emerson F. Greenman, has t:ri buti ons must be typewritten and may be sub been conducting excavations near Killarney, mitted to the editor or to any member of the Ont·;aric 'There are three sites that have bem editorial board. The deadline for the next dated from their positions on raised beaches r:ur:rwer is November 30 n (:f lake Huron at 1400_, 2500, and 10 ,OOO ~.o 15_,00 ,Years ago,, The first and youngest. is Mischa Titiev (contd .. p )~) .. ,r- ~ I MIDWEsr ANTHROPOLOG ... -3- (continued fro~ Po l) deve1 up a dopar+-,ment but procably no man in the m5.c1west, e1ter made so many friend~ for, or stim-· ~;be Ex.posi.tion were organized under the direc'7. ul.ated. more ir:f srest ir:. Anttr7pblogy .. 1;han did t"ion of Dr,, W. H. Holmes" When he rei:;igned to heo in the U .So National Musewn, there, appeared -· un the scene a man, destined to p1.ay a great lliufer Becomes Curator part in the development of Anthropology in the Central Area. Young George A. Doreey had in Thus the st.age wa.s ee+: 'for later deve1 op terrupted his training at Harvard ~ o con.duct ment s" In 1915 Dr, Berthold Laufer became an expedition to Peru for t-.he Fair., In 1896 Cur·at.or at the Museum ard at; once ad.ded to hte he joined the staff of Field.Museum and the staff several yriunger men who now play an im-· following year. succeeded Dr.- Hc-,lmes,, Then portant rclo in ·.Yur dlsclpline, V..aeon, I.intm.9 began a period of expansion proba-b1y un:paral-· Strong, and ':Pho:rrrpson are among those vhc; work- leled In American Museums. D0rsey with a great ed w:i r.h h:im. . . flatr for :populariz.ation,, enlisted the interest . In 1922 ·"' tte ·wr:l tl3r was asked to initiate and support of men of wealth vi.th ~--he rem1lt Anthro:pc1ogica~ work at Ncrthweetern University, -l:hat ex.pedi ti ens were sent 0ver roth Americas; This ·"1-aa soc:r in.tArri.11::;-~-ed by a tr1:p to t.te +c Melanesia to the Philippines and to China" Orient, U:pon his ret;urn he joined the staff' Cnllect.ions-big collections-were deBired to at, the UniveraJ+y cf Chicago a.I.id Dr. Molv.1.118 fiJ.1' the vast balls of 1.he old art :palace of Horskcvits tCJok over in Eva.net~ono The steady + '~~ Fair, but Dorsey demanded more than ob- a_evelopment of inte.res.f. there j s reflec+0a. by _;ts ,. Always his instructic,nti were "know the· growth of -:;he deparfar1ent ~-o i te present y 1")Ur people; learn their life and cuBtorre, size and positi.i:r~ of iILfluence. Upon -thn re arJi then illus~:rate that life, so far ag poB tirement of Profe,~scr Starr +he writer was ln si l:J e ·' ·by collections, 11 vited +_o lay pJsns for the de:relo:pmert of a Ample time was allowed fer the study of research dnpa:.rt.rr:ent at Ch:ir3aw:,. .. · Prof0•3sor ~-he tribe:a investigated_, and the field mari Sapir was br' ,u_gh t. ln. frcm Canad.a and la~ er Pro - was encouraged to publish" Missionaries -· fessor Redfir.:.Jd was e.dded_,, 1i'or a tim(~~ Anthro Jike ~)th with the Hopi - and professional :p :logy was asscoiated w:llh Sociology rut in men like Hudson in the C~lifornia region 1929 U,8 pre ser+, dep&.rtment was inrnJgttraf ed, were brought +..o the Museum and trained :in the and clc1 so relat~~ 1:}m~hlps w:lth t-ho Field Mueeu.m ga-i-hering of fundamental'' data. wore c:ont,iriued.
Younger Men Join Staff
Sno~n younger'$ men - particu.larly 1 hc)~e ThA growth of i:t1+eretrt· in An.t.hropolcgy wus STlHiy~ng wi+.h Dro Boas - were added to Uw by no means restricted. to the Chicago area, At staff 0 Jones, Lewis and the -wTi.t.er were sent a very efil"ly p?3ricd ar::hoc·]_,ug1cal .. inirestiga- io Malaysia and the South Pacific, Laufer tions wero sponsored by the Davenport Acmlem,y, was drawn from the Americari Museum and r.:ient t.o by the Ohio s~ a+e Archaeological and Hh1t,nria1 Ch1.na,, With the intention of making the Museum! Society and the WiAcons1n Archaeological Society.. a center of anthrcpoJogicE:il frd·erest. Dorsey .. Under Hie infl" Ehrenreich, Sel.er and others 0 Never cuntent. Museum :pointed ~:;.p +ho develcpm.ent of s:ma ~.J. to te only an orgardzer and promoter,, Dorsey museums; whtle Rinsd.ale at M::tchigan etlrred up made intensive fi.eld studies and published in a 1ivo.1y interest by hi8 archa.eologice.1 mt-rveys .. all some seventy papers and books , Under such Soon An~hropol.ogy becam eLtrm-:ched at the Uni·.. stimulus Field Museum became one of the· world's: versity of Mlchigan Museum and. then wan ox.- leading anthropological centers, ' tended on into the Unlver8ity as an imlopondent Coincident with the organization of the . departmer!t" _ Museum was the chat>teTing C)f the University of f'>..t. tbis point note 'shc)uld be made of the CM.cago n Professor Frederick Starr was d.rawr~ growth of Mississippi Valloy Archaeolog1ca1 in- from the American Museum of Natural History ~~o terests; of the many field conferences held to 1gurate work in Anthropology, For the ·next, discusA problems and meth:;ds; and of the vigor- quarter century Professor Starr macle trips to · ous leadenihip r>f Gu.the as chairman of the Sta1 e many· parts of the world and then sought to in·- Archaeo1og:ica1 Surveys__ '.' terpret the llfe of "the other fellow" to Americanso Never a t-eam worker., he did not (con~;d. .. ·p .. 4) .. r---. ---"-. r CHRISTMAS MEETINGS -4- UNIIATERA_ JRGANIZATION AND NAGUALISM IN SOUTHEASI'ERN MEXICO Chicago will be the Mecca of all Americ&~ Alfonso Villa Rojae anthropologist during the Christmas hoUdays when, on invitation of the Chicago Anthropolo gical Society, the American Anthropological As (At. the March 1946 meeting of the Chica.go sociation and all of its affiliated societies Arrthropol.ogical SC'c.iety .~ Alf on so Villa Roja.a, will meet at the Palmer House. Be sides the AAA cf Mox.ico.? described the results of hie re there will be official meetings of the American searches a.s part of the Ethnological project. Folklore Society, the Linguistic Society of of th7 Carnegi.o Insti.t.ut:.on 1 a Midd.le American Ame!:ica, the Society for American Archaeology Re search program") and the Society· for Applied Anthropology 0 According to Fred Eggan, Chairman of the Program Committee of the AAA, plans are afoot As new evidence supporting the. hypothee ls for a joint dinner of all of the societies and adva1~.ced by Beals) Olson., Eggan,. and others- a series of joint symposia on the state of each that ~.he Indians of Southeastern Mexico had a. 1 field of anthropology. Of special interest will 1111ilat 3ral system of s0c1.al organization--Mr 0 be the discussion of the report of the commi tt:e3 Villa presented a case of patrilineal exogamo-...rn c:n the reorganization of anthropology and what cl.ans that exi et at the pTosent time in the ever action may be taken to implement it. Tzeltal co:rrmu.:Jity of Oxchuc situated ·1n tho The meetings will begin on December 27 and highlands of c::1iapas.~ Mex.ico. There are four continue through December 30 although the LSA. clans distinguished by Spanish surnames~ meetings will extend to the 31st. The Palmor Lopez,, Mendez, Gomez, and Santio. Ea.ch clan House has assured the committee on arrangements is di vid0d into a:-:. :tndefinlte number (ton or (George Quimby, Sol Tax, Richard Waterman) that more) cf liaeages, :identified by m.ea.no of ro9~s will be available at the hotel for as man Indian m:i.rnam.es that. follow the Spanish or1ee. as want them. FGr example J there ie Juan Gomez Nich who., a.a Sol Tax his rn1rr~ame indicates, belongs to the Gomez clan and the Nich lineage. Since each lineage * * * * * * * * * * is ir~cluded within a single clan and no other·' amcmg themselves the Indians use only tho MIDWEST ANTHROPOLOGY Indian surname, since this immediately 1dont1. (contd. from Po3) fies both .. he lineago and. t;he c.clan t;o whlch an individual belongs. The kinship nomenclature Out cf such beginnings, so recent as to be is classificatory, and consi nt o of the same spanned by the lifetime of one person, have terms that were in use before the conquest;,. come the healthy developments of the present. Today Anthropology is represented in most of Supernatura.1 Aspects the larger Universities and in many smaller Intimately re.la-!_jed with t.hia system is an colleges of the midwest; all museums recognize other system., sacred in character, in which it as a major field, while a score of societies supernatural powerrJ a.re attributed to tho old . extend its influence beyond campus and institu est males of each clan and lineage. Tho social t ion.al walls. Instit-l1tional rivalries have function of these individualn is to maintain a largely disappeared and today we find very high moral. l.e7el and good social inter-relaticma real cooperation between the departments in within the group; this is accom:pli shed through Uni versi ties and with the Museums 0 No better practlces akin to sorcery. Each of t.hese witness to this cooperation is needed than the specialists obtains his power through his cordial relationships built up in the Central nagual, or· spirlt. animal·' that is within him Section Branch of the Anthropological As and which permits him to divine the future ard sociation o to know unseen things,, The system of practice a_, *********** beliefs and institutions which form this sacred complex constitute a special form of Nagualiem, KILLARNEY EXCAVATIONS or Shamanism knmm in different. aspects among (contd. from p.2) most American Indiana" Woodland, the second is probably an earlier phase of the first, and the third and most an Killarney Excavations cient is non-ceramic. The latter is probably a have been collected. All are made of quartz.it1- w,>rJ:;:,13hop, and has yielded flaked, but not and during the past summer th0 basal half of a ground, stone objects. Yuma type. stemmed poi_nt was found which suggests the possibility of early relationships with Since the beginning of these excavations a the West. bout 25,000 flakes and other stone artifacts (contd. 2nd col.) (Emerson F. Greenman) r I -5- NOTES FROM HERE AND do such as Gontour mapping and. clearing the ___ .-::._ ---- THERE area" I hope to keep my·hand in with recon 1 naissance to the local shell moundrs and. possibly a survey of Jekyll Islando There Fisk University is still a lot of archaeology to be done on Dre Mark Hanna Watkins of Fisk University the Georgia Coast" has left for Guatemala to undertake a linguis The trcut are just beginning to bite and ':"; ic survey for the National Indian Institute survey work may be slowed up a bit 0 Dr .A "R ,, of Guatemala in cooperation with the Division Kelly and I hope to get something out on of International Exchange of Persons of the previous coastal archaeology if time :permitsc Department of Stateo (Chas. H. Fairbanks) ·During the year he will spend in Guatemala his researches will determine which of the nia lects in Guatemala should be standardized for literary and educational purposes. It is of Indiana University interest that he will be working with a former North American Indian Mythology and In Chicago student, Antonio Goubaud, who is now troduction to Anthropology were given during Director of the Guatemalan National Indian Indiana Universitys Summer Session., June 20 Institute. ~ August 16, 19460 Both were in the charge Dr, Watkins is on leave of absence from of Ermin,ie W. Voegelin, Indiana University. Fisk University and expects to return there The North American Indian Mythology courso ter a yearo was part of the offering of the Folklore In (Sol Tax) stitute of America, which was resumed by Indiana UniverAity this year, again under the directorship of Stith Thompson. Sven Lilje Florida Park Service blad of Harvard University who was in Bloom The Florida Park Service has recently in ington most of the summer as a member of the augurated an archaeological program" The pur Institute staff, presented and discussed ma pose of this program is to make an archaeolo terial in his large folklore collection from gical survey of the state, including excavation the Ft " Hall Shoshoni and t.he Bannock tribes, of key sites, to work toward preserving at in the American Indian Mythology course. least a portion of the sites in the state, and , Indiana University will offer for tho first to prepare exhibits for the State Parks con time this academic year, MoAa and Phc D" de taining archaeological. sites, It is hoped that grees in linguistics, The program of studies t1:1e program may be expanded to include a cer leading to these degrees includes an Intro tain amount of in situ exhibition of findsc duction to Descri:pti ve Linguistics, by John W" Griffin is serving as archaeologist and Thomas A S0beck, and advanced courses in Hale G. Smith as assistant archaeologisto Their field techniques and aboriginal linguistics present headquarters is Highlands Hammock State by C. F" Voegolin, who also heads the Lin Park, Sebring, Floridao guistic Semtnar. In addition, there are (John W. Griffin) \ courses in historical and comparative lin guistics, as well as dialect geography, and specific languageso A PhaDc d1ssertation on the grammar of the Kutenai language in now in preparation at Indiana, and structural Fort Frederica National Monument work is in progress also in Seneca, Winnebago, FinniBh, Turkish, and other languages. Ft. Frederica National Monument at St. ( C ~Ir. Voegelin) Simons Island, Georgia, has been activatedo We plan to do a fairly thorough excavation of the colonia fort and town of Fredericac Most Miami University of the more :pretentious buildings were tabby (a mixture of shell, lime,sand and wa+,er) A. T. Hansen has returned to teaching and it should make quite good diggi:r~. The anthropology and sociology this fall'o From site had formerly been an Indian village so we January 19l.~4 to September 19i~6, he was on 1uld get some "dirt" archaeology besides the leave of absence with the War Relocation Au '--u1-0nial stuff. thority and its successor, the War Agency We have no funds for excavation just now Liquidation unit." He worked as Comm.unity An- but hope to get started next year. In the 1 alyst iri a crur'-}) for Japa..~ese evacuated from meantime I have a lot of preparatory work to the Pacific Coast at Heart Mountain, Wyoming, Ir" until the camp closed in Novek~dr 1945. There-- - (h...J.O Stat.o University after, he made" two brief studies of the read~ I:icreased enrollmentrn at both the graduate ~iustment of the evacuees who had returned to and nnd.ergraduate level have necessitated the -t:he West Coast, and assisted in the preparation hirir:.g 0f a seccnd anthropologist at Ohio of the final report of the W.R.A State" This is the first time we have had During the coming year, he plans to write two anthrc-·pologiats in the Department of Soc~ 'J.:P some of the materials he collected at Heart lc'g/ ::Jince John Gillir... started anthropology Mountain and on the Pacific Coast a.nd to serve here ir- 1936" The second man is James N. :periodically as a consultant in connection with Spuhler, of Harvard, whose specialty is :physl a study 'of the resettled Japanese that the War cal unthro:poJ.ogy but who has had broad train Agency Liquidation Unit is conduc+,i.ng,. ing in a.rchaeology and social anthropology as (A.T. Hansen) well. We plan eventually to work ou+: a re ciprr:cal rel ationshi:p wi t.h the biology de partment to share hi.s services. This Fo.11, Spuhler will teach introdu'.ctory cnlt.ural Northwestern University arLthropology and a graduate seminar in the biological background of social systems. In addition to the field trip led by Dr. A growir_.g reJationshi.p, at the graduate Hallowell (described on page 2) there was a student level: with t.he Dopartment of Psych (_;;onsiderable amount of anthropological work ology -premises well for the f-u;ture .. The both on and off the campus at the Northwestern. wri +,er conducted a gra,duate seminar this past Professor Herskovits spent the summer in Summer on anthropological theory and 10 o:f tr California, (at work on a textbook it is 22 stuc:i.c_cnt s enrolled wern psychologi. st s. Thi i:, rumored), and Professor Ralph Beals came from plus our Eeed_s in the etrmology field, permits California to Evanston, where he served as us to oegin thinking abou-b a third ant.hropo- vi.siting Professor for the summer session. 1.cgi s·i.; wi.Lhin the n8xt few ye&..rfJ - i1robably George Quimby also taught the archaeology of some enc:; 1n. the culture and personaJJty area. North America at Northwestern is downtown campus If :presen_t pians are c;arried out, tho Oh1o Dr. Bascom was in Micronesia on a survey being State M1H:1,=rt~m and the Department of Sociology conducted by the U. S" Commercial Company, but wi 11 u.nder+:ake a summer fi.eld party in arc.h was expected to return to Northwes+,ern for the aeo logy in 191n. Richard Morgan will lead fall term. the group and excavati ems may be directed (Fred Eggan) tcward. the Horewe.11 i.m1 village site })roblem. Bulletins on the dig will be sent mrt.; later. Bre~0n Berry, forrr~erly of the Department of Sociology_, Uni versi-ty of Missour1.. , has Ohio State Museum, Department of been ap:pcinted an Assoc:i.ate Professor :tn the Archaeology Department. of Sociology. He will harnlle the Sociology eif Race Relations& No excavating was carried on. During the ( tTohn W, Bennett) I mcnth of July surveys were made of the Def.aware Reservoir Area &"1.d the Dillon Reservoir Area. Plans are underway to salvage as much archae • r University- af Chicago- ... ological material as possible before proposed reservoir areas are flooded by dam construc Professc)r Robert H1:;d.f.ie ld, who has served tion. R.S. Baby of Western Reverve University as De:c,;_n o:f the Social Sciences for eleven. years took part in the survey work. has resigned his position as Dean in order to A small museum was installed at Fort Hill de-1rote more tin:Le to research work. During the State Memorial. in August 0 In i.t the archaeolo Autumn and Wint.er quarters he w:i.11 also assist gical artd natural features of the park are in in t.he reorgardzation of tho Social Sciences terpreted. in the C nlJ cge . A special exhibit of American Indian Art_, Professor Abraham Ha.l:pern has resigned his extending for two months, has just opened at position in order ta conduct work for the War the Ohio S~ate Museum. (Sept .15 to Nov. 17). Department in Japan. While there, he :hopes to Outstanding specimens from the Hopewell culture study some of the less k:nom1 dialects on out are featured. lying :islands. Work in Linguistics in the On January 9, 1947, W. M. Krogman will lec dep~tmcmt w-L l1 be d.irected by Professor ture on "Race:Fact and Fancy" and on March 13, Norman McQuow:s,. who also conti.nue the Mi:tya l~t7, Loren C. Eiseley speaks on "Ancient Man sti.1dies initiated by. the lat.e Professor 11 in America • Andrade. (R" G ,, Morgan) .'I .-7- Professor Kenneth Orr of the University of I University of Kentucky ~lahoma joins the Chicago faculty as Assist- 1t Professor in American Archaeology.· Pro- l In August the Department of Anthropology 3Ssor Orr will give particular attention to and Archaeology of the University of Kentucky Leld work in the Mississippi Valley. excavated the Fisher Mound, Unit C of the Mr. The working relationship existing between Horeb Earthworks group~Fa 1, Fayette County ie department at the Chicago Natural History near Lexington" This Adena mound covered one rneum an.d the University has been made closer of the richest caches of flint and copper f the appointment of Dro Alexander Spoehr as artifacts ever reported in Kentucky •. Three research associate in the University, with skull containers fashioned of ~wnan brain teaclling schedule in University College. gases were found along with.four.human lover Lss Charlotte Otten has received the Museum jaws all coated with red ochre o These recent 3llowshi p in Anthropology and wi 11 di vi de her finds demonstrate again the significant rela ~me between the two institutions" tions of the Adena Comples .to thgt of· Ohio Miss Rosalie Hankey and Robert Armstrong Hopewello In addition, exploratory trenches ive been appointed graduate assistants in were cut across the two village sites of the ie department. These appointments represent group, Unit B, Peter Village, and Site Fa 14, new departure in which two advanced students Grimes Y'"illage" Work has begun on the exca .11 devote approximately half time to assist vation of another nearby mound site, the :g in the general courses. Tarleton Mound, Fa 15 c These excavations The course of lectures on Middle and South will be reported in one of the early pnblica ::iertca:n Pre-Columbian Art, giver. ·by Professor ti ons of tho Departmento ;orge Kubler of Yale, attracted a l.arge The Indian Knoll, Site Oh 2, Ohio County, lilber of anthropological students during the . Kentucky, Report No 3, Pa.rt I of Volume IV, illlI!Jer quarter. ' published by the Department, was distributed Mr 0 Bi.chard S. MacNeish of the department in August. This describes the type Shell '-nducted. an archaeological survey of coastal Heap Site first partially excavated in 1915. unaulipas from November 1945 to June 1946, The skeletal remains of approximately 1200 in ie survey was concerned primarily with the dividuals were recoveredo Measurable skeletons ·oblem of prehistoric Southeast-Mexico re- numbering 500 are so well preserved as to merit 1.ticnships in light of the materials found in careful description and statistical treatment. lis area. The results of tho survey appear Part II dealing wi.th +,he :physical anthropology ) present considerable evidence for solution of this early people is in preparationo · some other problems., particularly those Academically, the enrollm~nt in departmental mcerned with the route., the time :i and the course offerings has surged to an all time tlture involved in making these contactB:~· high of 325 students. Many students have shom Professor Jack Harris, recently of Ohio their inter.tion to concentrate in the fieldo ,ate University has joined the faculty of All of this activity presages moro progress Le College to teach in the general Sccial for anthropology at KeEtucky" :ience courses" (C. E. Snow) The Chicago Anthropological Society will ,ve good representation in Wisconsin this aro Lawrence College at Appleton is introducing University of Michigan thropology in the Autumn Quartero Chandler iwe, formerly with the Archaeological Projects Greatly increased enrollments have placed a · the Uni ver si ty of Tennessee has been ap heavy teaching burden on the Departments staff inted Assistant Professorc at the University of Michigan. The load has Beloit College will find Andrew Whiteford been shared, however, by three members of the .d Moreau Maxwell in charge of anthropology, Museum of Anthropology, Greenman, Griffin and ·placing Jam.es Watson -vfuo goes to the Univ Jones, who now hold professorial titles and 'Sity .of Oklahoma. offer courses in the Department, and by the ap (Sol Tax) pointment of two teaching fellows, Barbara He~ (A .Mc, U .of Mich) and John Witthoft (A .M., U. of Pa.) (contd o on p 08) '.; -8- · Duri~ig the past yea:r Professor James B. More dams are under construction in the Griffin was appointed director of the Museum of Tennessee area, but no provision has a.s yet Ar.thropology. Soon after he left on a field been rnado for archaeological field work in trip to Mexico that lasted from February to the rGservoir areas. September, 1946. He visited many archa.eologic81 Duri :1.g the rast two years we have been --~'\ :ii tea, made an extensive surface col.leci;ion of successful :in crganizing the amateur archaeo materials, and discussed numerous prcblems with lcgi st s and collectors within the state Mexican archaeologists, with particular em through correspondence and a quarterly publi phasis on the influences and interrelationships cation titled TENNESSEE ARCHAEOLOGIST. All beti:,.reen Mexico and the eastern United States. articles are contributed by members of the Professor EF. Greenman bas returned from a Society_, and whilo the job of editing these surn~rs work ( se_e :page 2) near Killarney, articles is a tirne-consum.ing one, the educa Ortario,, Five students accompanied him as part tional accompJishments have been more than a of fl. field course given under the auspices of ful_-:__ reward, the Summer Session, an arrangement which is expected to continue in the future. Richard S. MacNeish received the Fellowship .in Aboriginal North American Research, and will Uni 1~er si t.y of Wl sc ont3in devo-'-:e his time to library work on the Delaware and. the preparation of some of his fi.eld data W. W" Howells has returned~ to his University ' fc.r publication duties as Assocj_ate Professor. He was·' duriD!'1 At the Linguistic Institute held at the the war_, stationed at Washington in the Oper University of Michigan this summer) C, F" tions Division of the Navy~ Voegelin of India:n.a University conducted John Useem has ,joined the Rural Sociology courses in the Anthropology Department in f:.ield De:partment's staff to engage on a special re methods, morphological analysis, and :phonemic search :project" During the war he was with recording, Fer the first course·' twc Seneca MG in tho Navy an.d did outstanding work in the Ind.ians were brought to Ann Arbor, Charles South Paci.fie. 'I'his spmmer be spent with a B SUBSCRIPI'ION BLANK The BULLETIN is distributed without extra charge to alllilillnhera and. associate members of the CSB. To become a subcriber please use this blank. Name .. Address. . .City . . . . . Zone. State .. 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