Brand, D.

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New Mexico Anthropologist
Volume 2 | Issue 3 Article 3
1-1-1938
Corrections Anent The Status of Anthropology in
the Western United States
D. Brand
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CORRECTIONS ANENT "THE STATUS OF ANTHROPOLOGY 
IN THE WESTERN UNITED STATES" 
Catalog Material 
If one may judge from the lack of critical comment, the state- 
ments made concerning "The Status of Anthropology in the Western 
United States" were essentially correct (New Mexico Anthropologist, 
vol. II, no. 1). Doctor F. H. H. Roberts Jr. wondered if the conclu- 
sions were based on courses listed in catalogs or upon courses actually 
given. The survey published was based entirely upon catalog offer- 
ings. At this time it might be pertinent to remark that, in the behalf 
of academic honesty, certain departments and institutions might well 
eliminate from their catalogs certain courses that never have been 
given actually, or that most probably will not be taught during the 
ensuing biennium. Another improvement that might be made is to 
indicate the instructor who will probably teach each course. Other- 
wise, a student might be attracted to a particular school in order to 
take some specific course from an advanced member of the staff, only 
to find that it was actually being given by a graduate fellow, or the 
like. 
Museums and Libraries 
Corrections and additions include: The Colorado State Museum, 
Denver, has a good collection of Southwestern archaeologic material, 
especially from the Mesa Verde and McElmo Canyon regions. The 
Laboratory of Anthropology, Santa Fe, has an outstanding collection 
of historic Southwestern Indian ceramics, textiles, and silver work. 
The Denver Art Museum possesses the Anthropological Library of the 
Department of Indian Art, which contains more than six thousand se- 
lected items on North American Anthropology, to which Mr. F. H. 
Douglas is adding about one thousand titles a year. 
Publications 
The Denver Art Museum has commenced a series entitled "Ma- 
terial Culture Notes" (1-, May, 1937-; 10 numbers issued). The 
University of New Mexico no longer co6iperates with the School of 
American Research in publishing El Palacio. In the Biological Series 
of the University of New Mexico Bulletin, five numbers have appeared 
of "Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest." The "Tree 
Ring Bulletin" is now edited and published at the University of Ari- 
zona's Tree Ring Laboratory for the Tree Ring Society. The Labora- 
tory of Anthropology, Santa Fe, has added a General Bulletin and a 
eries of Memoirs to its Technical Series Bulletin. The Departmer: 
of Sociology and Anthropology has commenced a Publications series 
in the Bulletin of the University of Utah. 
51 
52 NEW MEXICO ANTHROPOLOGIST 
Staff 
Colorado College now offers twenty-eight hours of Anthropology, 
within the School of Social Sciences. The staff at Colorado College is 
composed of: Mr. James H. Breasted, Jr. (instructor), Mr. W. W. 
Postlethwaite (lecturer), and Mr. F. Martin Brown (lecturer). Pro- 
fessor W. Holden (Texas Tech. Col.) obtained his Ph.D. from the 
University of Texas in 1928. Miss Viola Garfield (Univ. Washington) 
secured her PhD. from Columbia University in 1935. Doctor R. G. 
Fisher is no longer part-time assistant professor at the University of 
New Mexico; he is now full-time assistant director of the New Mexico 
State Museum and of the School of American Research, Santa Fe. 
Mr. Paul Reiter, formerly Curator of Archaeology in the New Mexico 
State Museum, is now instructor in the University of New Mexico. 
D.D.B. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NEW MEXICAN ETHNOLOGY, AND 
ETHNOGRAPHY, 1936 AND 1937, WITH RESUME OF 
SOUTHWESTERN FIELD WORK 
The past two years have seen a continued interest in research in 
Southwestern ethnology and ethnography. The work has been espe- 
cially gratifying since it has resulted in a de-emphasis of Pueblo 
research and a more intensive study of the non-Pueblo tribes. For 
the first time it is possible to view the interrelations of the South- 
western province as a whole rather than as an adjunct of Pueblo 
culture. It is sincerely to be hoped that this present trend will 
continue. 
A thabascans 
Apache: Dr. Morris Opler, Reed College, has continued his re- 
searches on the Apache and has contributed papers on the Mescalero, 
Chiricahua, and Jicarilla. Mr. Grenville Goodwin, Santa Fe, working 
with the Western groups, has offered contributions on the Tonto, 
Cibecue, San Carlos, and White Mountain. 
Navaho: Under the auspices of Harvard University Dr. Clyde 
Kluckhohn, assisted by Mr. Harry Tschopik, Harvard University, and 
Mr. John Adair, University of Wisconsin, carried on work in the 
Ramah-Atarque district. Results of the researches on pottery and 
basketry by Tschopik are in press. Also in press is "A Classifica- 
tion of Navaho Song Ceremonials" by Dr. Kluckhohn and Dr. Leland 
Wyman of the Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Wyman is 
continuing his investigation of the medical aspects of Navaho culture. 
Other studies among the Navaho include: work on Navaho cere- 
monial plants by Mr. Milton Wetherill and on Navaho ethno-botany 
by Mr. Paul Beaubien, both of the National Park Service; Navaho 
ethno-botany by Mr. Francis Elmore, New Mexico State Museum; 


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