SECRETARY'S REPORT 69 



Seventy-eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1960-61. 



ii+33 pp., 2 pis. 1962. 

 Bulletin 175. Mohave ethnopsychiatry and suicide : The psychiatric knowledge 

 and the psychic disturbances of an Indian tribe, by George Devereux. 

 vi+.586 pp., 10 pis. 1961. 

 Bulletin 179. River Basin Surveys Papers, Nos. 21-24, Frank H. H. Roberts, 

 Jr., editor, sviii+337 pp., 56 pis., 43 figs. 1961. 

 No. 21. Excavations at Texarkana Reservoir, Sulphur River, Texas, by 



Edward B. Jelks. 

 No. 22. Archeological investigations at the Coral ville Reservoir, Iowa, by 



"Warren W. Caldwell. 

 No. 23. The McNary Reservoir : A study in Plateau archeology, by Joel L. 



Shiner. 

 No. 24. The Sheep Island site and the Mid-Columbia Valley, by Douglas 

 Osborne, Alan Bryan, and Robert H. Crabtree. 

 Bulletin 183. Seneca Thanksgiving rituals, by Wallace L. Chafe, iii+302 pp. 

 1961. 



Publications distributed totaled 19,326, as compared with 29,845 

 for the fiscal year 1961. 



COLLECTIONS 



The following collections were made by staff members of the River 

 Basin Surveys of the Bureau of American Ethnology and transferred 

 to the permanent collections of the Department of Anthropology, 

 U.S. National Museum : 



Ace. Nos. ,---^Tr-i^3s 



230771, 238626, 238627 11,560 miscellaneous stone, bone, and shell 



archeological specimens from various 

 localities in the United States. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Dr. M. W. Stirling, Dr. A. J. Waring, and Sister Inez Hilger con- 

 tinued as research associates. Dr. John P. Harrington, linguist on 

 the staff of the Bureau from February 20, 1915, imtil his retirement 

 on April 30, 1954, and later research associate, died on October 21, 

 1961, in San Diego, Calif., after many months' illness. 



Dr. Wallace L. Chafe worlvcd part time during the academic year 

 1961-62 so that he could teach linguistics in the graduate school at 

 Catholic University of America. 



Robert M. Laughlin reported for duty on June 10 as etlmologist 

 specializing in the Middle American area. 



The Bureau revised and reissued during the fiscal year the follow- 

 ing bibliographies and lists : 



SIIr-47, rev., 8/61 : Selected bibliography on the Battle of the Little Big Horn. 



5 pp. ''^ 



SILr-99. rev., 3/62: Bibliography on American Indian medicine and health. 



Compiled by William C. Sturtevant. 39 pp. 

 SIL-65, 3d rev., 3/62 : Introductory bibliography on the American Indian. 7 pp. 



