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Well I was, I think, before I went to graduate school, I had a fellowship with the then Laboratory of Anthropology which was an extraordinarily important element in the archaeological world, in the anthropological world at that time.
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The laboratory of Anthropology in Santa Fe had groups of students in three fields: archaeology, ethnology, and linguistics, every summer. And groups of 8 or 10 students in each field were taken into the field by someone who was doing such work.

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I spent the summer then with [[Emil Howrie?]] at the Harris site in the [[Membrize?]] valley.

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It was an extremely important experience for me because he was an extremely able archaeologist and I learned a great deal.

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From there I went on to register as a graduate student at Harvard and I began my work there in 1935, the spring of 1935.

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The actual experience in the field continued the next two summers. The first of these with, okay, with McKearn of the Milwaukee Public Museum. He was digging a site in northern Wisconsin and I spent another, I spent this summer with him,

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another very important field worker of the time. He was an innovator in analyses of
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