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forming an all but lost link between the cultures of northern and 

 southern California. 



After the death of Dona Ascension at the end of January, 1930, 

 Mr. Harrington spent some weeks in checking up on the information 

 in every way possible, copying from the archives at San Juan Mission, 

 working at the Bancroft Library at Berkeley, Calif., and interview- 

 ing many individuals, and returned to Washington in April, since 

 which time he has been engaged in preparing a report on the work 

 for publication. 



Dr. F. H. H. Roberts, jr., archeologist, devoted the fiscal year to a 

 number of activities. July, August, and the first part of September, 

 1929, were spent conducting excavations at the Long H Ranch, 

 between St. John's and Houck, in eastern Arizona. The work was 

 begun in May and continued through June of the preceding fiscal 

 year so that the investigations extending from July to the middle of 

 September were a continuation of work already under way. At the 

 completion of the summer's work the remains of three different types 

 of houses had been uncovered. These included 18 pit houses, the 

 vestiges of three jacal, pole and mud structures, and a pueblo ruin 

 with 49 rooms, and 4 kivas or circular ceremonial rooms. 



The pit houses were found to correspond in many respects with 

 those dug up by Doctor Roberts in the Chaco Canyon, in north- 

 western New Mexico, during the summer of 1927 and described in 

 Bulletin 92 of the Bureau of American Ethnology. The jacal houses 

 were found to have been quite comparable to a similar type found 

 in southern Colorado during the field season of 1928. The latter 

 were extensively described in Bulletin 96 of the bureau. The pueblo 

 revealed an unusually clear cut story of the growth and changes 

 in a communal dwelling. The building had not been erected ac- 

 cording to a preconceived plan but had grown by degrees through the 

 addition of new units. It was quite evident that such additions 

 had taken place at four different periods in the occupation of the 

 building. 



Doctor Roberts returned to Washington in October. The autumn 

 months were devoted to reading and correcting galley and page 

 proofs for the report on the investigations of the 1928 field season. 

 This paper is called " Early Pueblo Ruins in the Piedra District, 

 Southwestern Colorado," and is Bulletin 96 of the bureau. 



The winter months were devoted to working over the specimens 

 obtained from the summer's excavations and preparing a report on 

 the investigations. This included the drawing of 31 text figures, 

 consisting of 70 drawings, 1 map showing the region in general 

 and the location of the sites, and the writing of a 600-page manu- 



