Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . de a secondreport ^ concerning his field-work in Peru during the past year, inconnection with the Panama-California Exposition at San Diego, forwhich a very important exhibit in physical anthropology is beingprepared. The investigations extended over several hundred milesof the Peruvian coast and over hitherto unexplored regions in thewestern Cordilleras. The objects of this trip, which occupied the firstfour months of 1913. were to determine the anthropological relations ^ Anthropological Work in Peru in 1913, with No
Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . de a secondreport ^ concerning his field-work in Peru during the past year, inconnection with the Panama-California Exposition at San Diego, forwhich a very important exhibit in physical anthropology is beingprepared. The investigations extended over several hundred milesof the Peruvian coast and over hitherto unexplored regions in thewestern Cordilleras. The objects of this trip, which occupied the firstfour months of 1913. were to determine the anthropological relations ^ Anthropological Work in Peru in 1913, with Notes on the Pathology ofthe Ancient Peruvians. Smithsonian Misc. ColJ., Vol. 61, No. 18, 1914. 48 SMITHSONIAN .MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 63 of the ancient Peruvians of the mountains with those of the coast,and to extend the investigations which Dr. Hrdhcka has carried onfor many years, re,2;arding- Indian and especiahy ])re-Cokimbianpathology. The expedition was a very strenuous one. but proved remarkablysuccessful. Over lOO ancient cemeteries and many ruins, a large. Fui. 48.—The picturesque town of Huarochiri, in the western Cordillera ofcentral Peru. Photograph by Hrdlicka. percentage of which were previously unknown to science, were ex-amined and over 30 boxes of skulls and other material for futurestudy were collected for the I*. S. National Museum and the Museumat San Diego. Dr. Hrdlicka reports that skeletal material, which formerlyabounded in Peru and is essential to scientific research, is fast dis-appearing, and in a few years can not be gathered without the ex-l)enditure of much tiiue and mone}-. NO. 8 SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I913 49 The results of the expedition will prove of unusual value to an-thropology. While some of the links in the chain of evidence arestill missing, it can now be said with certainty that the Peruviancoast from Chiclayo, in the north, to Vauca. in the south—a distanceof over 600 miles—was peopled predominantly before the advent oft
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