SECRETARY'S REPORT 63 



Publications distributed totaled 17,018 as compared with 24,533 for 

 the fiscal year 1955. 



COLLECTIONS 

 Ace. No. 

 208851. 4 specimens of birch bark bearing pictographs incised and etched by the 



Passamaquoddy Indians of Maine and the Abnaki of New Brunswick. 

 209009. 35 vials and 39 envelopes of insects from Southampton and Walrus 



Islands, 300 plants, mollusks, fossils, lemmings, and 38 mammals, 



collected by Henry B. Collins. 



FROM RIVER BASIN SURVEYS 



207595. Archeological material consisting of pottery, stone, bone, glass, and 



metal objects collected by reconnaissance parties of the Missouri 

 Basin Project in and about 16 reservoir areas in Nebraska, and human 

 skeletal material from 4 sites. 



207596. Archeological specimens from North Dakota. 



208180. 149 fresh-water mollusks from Nebraska and Wyoming, collected by 

 Carl F. Miller. 



209283. Archeological specimens consisting of pottery, stone, bone, glass, and 

 metal objects collected by parties of the Missouri Basin Project, in 

 and about two sites in area of Fort Randall Reservoir, Charles Mix 

 County, S. Dak., and human skeletal material from 39CH7. 



209694. Archeological material consisting of rim and body sherds from Clay 

 County, Kans. 



209962. Archeological material consisting of pottery, stone, bone, and shell ob- 



jects collected by reconnaissance parties of the Missouri Basin Project, 

 from two mound sites in South Dakota, 1947-48, human skeletal 

 material. 



209963. Shell beads collected by reconnaissance parties of the Missouri Basin 



Project from site in Stanley County, S. Dak., human skeletal 

 material. 

 210409. Archeological and human skeletal material from site in Fort Randall 

 Reservoir, S. Dak. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Dr. John R. Swanton, Dr. Frances Densmore, Dr. Antonio J. 

 Waring, Jr., and Ralph S. Solecki continued as collaborators of the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology. Dr. John P. Harrington is continu- 

 ing his researches with the Bureau as research associate. Dr. William 

 C. Sturtevant, ethnologist, joined the staff of the Bureau on March 

 29, 1956. 



Information was furnished during the past year by staff members in 

 reply to numerous inquiries concerning the American Indians — past 

 and present — of both continents. Many new descriptive lists and in- 

 formation leaflets were prepared in answer to requests for information 

 on the Bureau's photographic and manuscript collections and other 

 subjects. There continued to be a constant demand for information, 

 published material, and photographs from teachers, particularly of 



