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the course of the work documents of unusual interest were found 

 which concerned tribes covering most of North and South America 

 and the islands of the West Indies. 



COOPERATR'E ETHNOLOGICAL AND ARCHEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS 



In 1928 an appropriation of $20,000 was authorized by Congress 

 for cooperative ethnological and archeological investigations in the 

 United States. Proposed investigations were to be approved by the 

 Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, who allotted from this ap- 

 propriation a sum equal to that raised for the work by the organiza- 

 tion proposing it. Seven projects were approved during the past 

 year and sums were allotted to them as follows : 



Allotments from the fund for cooperative ethnological and archeological 

 itwestigations during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1931 



1930 



July 3. Laboratory of Anthropology, to conduct archeological investigations 

 of Basket Maker culture in the Guadalupe Mountain area of south- 

 eastern New Mexico for the purpose of locating, exploring, and 

 thoroughly examining both disturbed and undisturbed Basket Maker 

 sites and establishing the principal characteristics of this area. 

 A study and recording of pictographs found in this area will also 

 be made, $900. 



July 8. University of Utah, to conduct archeological investigations and explora- 

 tions in the State of Utah and the intensive excavation of one or 

 two sites chosen as a result of the explorations, $800. 

 1931 



Feb. 18. Laboratory of Anthropology, to continue the reconnaissance and 

 excavation, where desirable, of Basket Maker sites in the Guadalui^e 

 Mountains and adjacent sections on the north and west, $213.15 

 (together with unexpended balance of $386.85 from previous allot- 

 ment). 



Mar. 26. University of Utah, to conduct archeological investigations at 

 Promontory Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah, and to continue the 

 archeological reconnaissance begun in the fall of 1930 in the 

 drainage of the Sevier River in west central Utah, $250. 



Mar. 26. Logan Museum, to conduct archeological investigations along the upper 

 Missouri River, excavating earth-lodge villages belonging to the 

 Arikara before 1850, $250. 



Apr. 21. The State Historical Society of Colorado, for a general investigation, 

 reconnaissance, and mapping of the so-called Paradox Valley 

 country with intensive work on a single site to be selected as a 

 result of the i-econnaissance, $175. 



May 28. University of Denver, to complete the archeological survey of eastern 

 Colorado begun during the summer of 1930, $250. 



At the beginning of the fiscal year the balance of the fund for 

 cooperative ethnological and archeological investigations was very 

 low, but by combining the unexpended balances on a number of the 

 allotments it was possible to make the above grants. 



