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particularly in the area to be flooded by the Whitney Dam. On May 

 19 he went to Wliitney and conferred with the Kesident Engineer. 

 On May 20 he began the actual survey of the Whitney Dam area and 

 continued with that work to the end of the fiscal year. During the 

 course of his investigations he interviewed numerous local residents, 

 obtaining all the information possible pertaining to the occurrence of 

 archeological sites, and studied collections of artifacts which had been 

 gathered from sites in the area. In addition he made note of various 

 historic remains and obtained such data as were available about them. 

 This information was forwarded to the regional office of the National 

 Park Service at Santa Fe, N. Mex., for the benefit of the Park Service 

 historians. 



California. — Archeological surveys were started in California in 

 May 1947. Through the cooperation of the Department of Anthro- 

 pology of the University of California, at Berkeley, headquarters for 

 the Surveys were made available. During the period from March 21 

 through June 28, 1947, six Corps of Engineers proposed reservoir 

 basins were surveyed. They were Pine Flat on King's River, Terminus 

 on Kaweah River, Success on Tule River, Isabella on Kern River, 

 Folsom on American River, and Coyote Valley on the east fork of 

 the Russian River. A total of 59 sites were located, and of this number 

 8 have been recommended for excavation or partial excavation. 



Some immediate contributions to the archeological Imowledge of 

 California were derived from the surveys. Two aboriginal soapstone 

 quarries and three pictograph sites, none of which had been described 

 p]"eviously in archeological literature, were located. Surface collec- 

 tions of sherds of the unique and little-known Yokuts-Mona pottery 

 will permit a more extensive description of the type from archeological 

 sources than has previously been possible. 



Franklin Fenenga, archeologist, was appointed to the California 

 surveys on March 21. He made all the surveys in the six reservoirs 

 listed above, prepared the preliminary reports on their archeological 

 resourceis, and made recommendations for further work. On June 

 28 Mr. Fenenga left Berkeley, Calif., for Eugene, Oreg., and at the 

 end of the fiscal year was starting a survey of the Detroit Reservoir 

 in the Willamette Valley. 



During the course of the surveys in California Mr. Fenenga em- 

 ployed several student assistants, Stephen C. Cappannari served in 

 that capacity from May 8 to 11 inclusive; Francis A. Riddell, May 

 29-June 1, and June 12-15; Harry S. Riddell, Jr., April 17-20; and 

 Clarence E. Smith, April 1--6, May 1-4 and 19-25. 



Columbia-Snake Basin. — The progi'am for surveys in the Columbia- 

 Snake Basin was just getting under way at the close of the fiscal year. 

 Dr. Philip Drucker, anthropologist on the regular staff of the Bureau 



