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excavations at the Ferrell's Bridge project on Cypress Creek at the 

 Whitney Keservoir on the Brazos River and in the Diablo Reservoir 

 region along the Eio Grande. It also investigated remains hi the 

 Canyon and Iron Bridge project areas. East Texas State College 

 made paleontological surveys in the Iron Bridge area along the Sabine 

 River and the Panhandle-Plains Museum made surveys in the Green- 

 belt Reservoir area. The University of Utah continued its excavations 

 in the upper portions of the Glen Canyon Reservoir area on the Colo- 

 rado River. 



During the year various local groups and institutions continued to 

 cooperate in the salvage program on a voluntary basis. They were 

 mainly in Pennsylvania, New York State, Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, 

 and southern California. 



ARCHIVES 



The Bureau Archives continued during the year mider the custody 

 of Mrs. Margaret C. Blaker. On November 14 Mrs. Blaker attended 

 meetings of the American Indian Etlmohistoric Conference in New 

 York City and while returning to Washington she spent three days 

 in Philadelphia examining pictorial and manuscript collections relat- 

 ing to American Indians in the American Philosophical Society 

 Library and in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. 



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS 



The Bureau's manuscript collections continue to bo utilized by 

 anthropologists and other students. About 285 manuscripts were 

 consulted by searchers, of whom GO visited the archives in person and 

 28 purchased reproductions totaling 2,346 pages. Some 350 manu- 

 scripts were referred to by the archivist in obtaining information for 

 90 mail inquiries. In the course of this examination, ne^v and more 

 detailed descriptive lists of manuscripts were also prepared and are 

 available for distribution in response to specific inquiries. 



The papers of Alice Cimningham Fletcher and her adopted son, 

 Francis La Fiesche, which had been deposited on loan in 1955 by Mrs. 

 G. David Pearlman of Washington, D.C., were donated by JNIrs. 

 Pearlman in 1959 in memory of her husband, G. David Pearlman. 

 During the year just ended this collection was arranged and cata- 

 loged by Nicholas S. Hopkins, summer intern. The collection occu- 

 pies 36 boxes. In addition to correspondence and other personal 

 papers of both Fletcher and La Fiesche, there is extensive ethno- 

 graphic material relating to the Omaha, Osage, Pawnee, Dakota, and 

 Nez Perce tribes, with smaller amounts on the Winnebago, the In- 

 dians of Alaska, and a number of other North American tribes. 

 Much of this material has not been published, and should be helpful 



