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IN view of recent references in NATURE to the stimulation of local interest in archaeological research in the United States of America through Federal, National and State funds, it may be of interest to note that the Research Committee of the American Philosophical Society, in awarding grants in the natural and exact sciences from the Penrose Fund in 1938-39, allocated amounts as follows for localized anthropological and archaeological investigations. These are additional to continuing grants for researches to which reference is made in another column of this issue of NATURE (see p. 558). To Emil W. Hanry, of the University of Arizona, for the excavation of a prehistoric village on Forestdale Creek, Fort Apache Indian Reservation, Arizona, an area of direct contact between the Mogollon and Anasazi cultures, 500 dollars; Margaret Lantis, University of California, for an ethnographical study of the complete seasonal round of the year of Alaskan Eskimo, 950 dollars; and Louis W. Chappell, West Virginia University, for the collection and preservation of folk-lore in West Virginia, 500 dollars. The last-named research should prove of special interest in view of its bearing upon cultural exchange between the three strains of white, Indian and Negro. The Indian in the past has suffered in both directions of over-idealization and undue depreciation arising from culture clash. The scientific study of Indian cultures by ethnographical and archaeological methods is rapidly widening appreciation in truer perspective.
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American Archæology and Local Research. Nature 145, 546 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145546c0
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