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...Louisiana, Smithsonian Institution men reported traces of Mayan influence in pottery and ornaments taken from "kitchen middens" or mounds of clam shells, upon which doubtless lived prehistoric ancestors of the Chitimachan mound-dwellers observed there in the 17th century by Frenchmen...
Near Flagstaff, Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, chief Smithsonian ethnologist, has taken up summer quarters to study the Hopi ruin of Wupatki, which he first described 25 years ago and last year succeeded in having preserved as a national monument...
...Smithsonian Institution of Washington, greatest of all expedition-senders, has announced many new projects, five being of prime interest...
...Richard P. Strong of Harvard, with Smithsonian assistants, is to cross Africa from Liberia to Mombasa studying diseases of men, plants, animals. (The University of Witwatersrand, Transvaal, lately sent far and wide through Africa for specimens of herbs, roots, flowers, barks, saps used by ebon witchdoctors in their religious rites, to discover new medicinal agents...
...California, Ethnologist J. P. Harrington of the Smithsonian Institution sought to aid archeological Americana by questioning old, feeble Indians possessed of knowledge of their race's ancient settlements. One Francisco Laus rode with Mr. Harrington into Lost Valley and showed him, among other sites, a spot where Indians once caught eagles by lowering a brave down the face of a cliff in a rabbit-net made of red milkweed fibre. Down the Canada de las Uvas, (little canon of the grapes) one Angel Cuilpe, aged 104, showed him traces of wigwam towns; in Palm Canyon, one Juanito Razon, over...