64 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1952 



After his return to active duty Mr. Solecki spent the time until 

 June 30 working on manuscripts and reports. He also made prepara- 

 tions for an aerial survey of certain reservoir areas in the Missouri 

 Basin and was to proceed to the latter area at the beginning of the 

 new fiscal year. 



California. — The only work in California during the fiscal year was 

 at the Cachuma Reservoir on the Santa Ynez River in Santa Barbara 

 County. From April 28 to June 30 Albert D. Mohr, field assistant, 

 supervised excavations at two sites. At one of them a cemetery be- 

 longing to what is called the Hunting Culture, the middle stage of a 

 three-culture sequence, was dug, and in addition the remains of a house 

 belonging to the same horizon were uncovered. The latter are of par- 

 ticular interest because only two such structures were known pre- 

 viously and the one discovered this year has added considerable 

 information with respect to construction methods. Opening of graves 

 in the cemetery produced skeletal material useful in determining the 

 physical characteristics of the people and also good data on burial 

 customs. The other site, also mainly a burial ground, belongs to a 

 later horizon probably attributable to the Chumash. 



A report by Martin A. Baumhoff, field assistant the previous year, on 

 the investigations at the Cachuma Reservoir in late fiscal 1951 was 

 completed early in June 1952 and the manuscript is now available for 

 publication. A summary report on the results of the excavations 

 made at the Terminus Reservoir on the Kaweah River in Tulare 

 County was completed by Franklin Fenenga, archeologist, during the 

 autumn months and was published in American Antiquity, volume 17, 

 No. 4, April 1952. 



As indicated in the preliminary section of this report, the River 

 Basin Surveys will have no further projects in California, as the 

 operations there are to be under the direction and supervision of the 

 Region Four office of the National Park Service. 



Columbia Basin. — The field oflice at Eugene, Oreg., was closed from 

 July 1 to September 10 because of lack of funds, and during that 

 period there were no activities in the region. After the office was 

 reopened and until the close of the fiscal year the operations for the 

 Columbia Basin were, as in the previous year, under the supervision 

 of Joel L. Shiner. Office and laboratory work during the fall and 

 winter months was mainly concerned with the processing, study, and 

 cataloging of materials from the surveys and excavations of the pre- 

 vious year. Most of the materials and data were from a habitation 

 site in the McNary Reservoir area which had been buried beneath a 

 thick mantle of volcanic ash which is estimated to be several thousand 

 years old. A summary report on the results of that excavation was 

 finished, mimeographed, and distributed to the operating agencies. 

 Study of the materials from another site in the McNary area, a village 



