. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. CARE OF COLLECTIONS 63 of specimens brought back from the 1958 excavations of Drs. CKfford Evans and Betty J. Meggers in coastal Ecuador, no rearrangements of storage were made of the Latin American collections. Storage col- lections of Old World archeology were examined by associate curator Ralph S. Solecki, and with the help of aide Jenkins one-third of the collection was rearranged to facilitate study and conserve space. Certain collections from various localities in Latin America that were excavated by former Sm
. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. CARE OF COLLECTIONS 63 of specimens brought back from the 1958 excavations of Drs. CKfford Evans and Betty J. Meggers in coastal Ecuador, no rearrangements of storage were made of the Latin American collections. Storage col- lections of Old World archeology were examined by associate curator Ralph S. Solecki, and with the help of aide Jenkins one-third of the collection was rearranged to facilitate study and conserve space. Certain collections from various localities in Latin America that were excavated by former Smithsonian Institution scientists have. Summer intern measuring a bone snow-shovel blade to prepare data for accessioning into the archeological collections a large collection of artifacts from near Point Barrow, Alaska. been sent to advanced graduate anthropology students at various universities for classification and study under the supervision of their professors. John Glass, at Harvard University, reports good progress on the large collections from Honduras excavated b}^ Strong, Kidder, and Paul in 1936. He hopes to complete his report in 1960. The large sherd collection from Panama excavated by Stirling and Willey in 1948 was shipped to the Peabody Museum, Harvard University. John Ladd reports that he lias classified about 50 percent of the material and hopes to complete the job, including a monograph, during the next school year. Robert Squier, of the University of Kansas,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum. [Washington] : Smithsonian Institution
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