To give students in anthropology an opportunity for field work, Bishop Museum from time to time attached a mainland student to the Museum staff as assistant ethnologist and assigned him to study the archaeology of one of the Hawaiian Islands. The appointments made and the fields of study in archaeology are as follows:

1920	Haleakala	Kenneth P. Emory, B.A., Dartmouth (Occasional Papers, VII, 11, 1921)
1921-22	Lanai	Kenneth P. Emory (Bulletin 12, 1924)
1924	Nihoa, Necker	Kenneth P. Emory, promoted from assistant ethnologist to ethnologist (Bulletin 53, 1928)
1928	Kauai	Wendell C. Bennett, Ph.B., Chicago (Bulletin 80, 1931)
1928	Maui (west)	Winslow M. Walker, M.A., California (manuscript)
1929	Oahu	J. Gilbert McAllister, B.A., Texas (Bulletin 104, 1933)
	Kahoolawe	J. Gilbert McAllister; study made from Museum specimens (Bulletin 115, 1933)
1931	Hawaii	Alfred E. Hudson, Ph.B., Yale (manuscript)
1937	Molokai	Southwick Phelps, graduate student, Yale (manuscript)