SECRETARY’S REPORT 91 
California the University of Southern California completed a series of 
investigations at the Casitas Reservoir on Coyote Creek. The Univer- 
sity of California at Los Angeles excavated a site in the Terminus 
Reservoir area on the Kaweah River. The University of California 
at Berkeley completed its excavations in the Trinity Reservoir Basin 
on the Trinity River, and San Francisco State College made studies 
at the Whiskeytown project on the Upper Sacramento River. The 
University of Oregon continued operations in the John Day Reservoir 
in the Columbia River. The University of Washington completed its 
investigations in the Priest Rapids Reservoir area, also in the Columbia 
River, and the State College of Washington continued its excavations 
in the Ice Harbor Reservoir area on the Snake River. A number of 
local groups and institutions continued to assist on a voluntary basis. 
These mainly were in New York State, Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, and 
southern California. 
ARCHIVES OF ETHNOLOGY 
The Bureau archives continued during the year under the custody 
of Mrs. Margaret C. Blaker. On June 8 Nicholas S. Hopkins entered 
on duty as a summer intern to assist in arranging and describing 
manuscript collections, and on June 15 Winfield H. Arneson, sum- 
mer intern, entered on duty to assist with photographic collections. 
The use of the manuscript collections by anthropologists and his- 
torical researchers continues to increase. Approximately 329 manu- 
scripts were consulted by 92 visitors to the archives, and an equal 
number were consulted by the archivist in preparing replies to 87 mail 
inquiries concerning the nature and extent of manuscript information 
on specific topics or tribes. There were 22 purchase orders for a total 
of 2,897 pages of manuscript reproductions. In the course of exami- 
nation, new and more detailed descriptions of about 50 manuscripts 
were prepared for the catalog, and a number of descriptive lists of 
manuscripts were prepared for distribution. 
An anonymous English-Arikara vocabulary in a homemade note- 
book of 48 pages, thought to have been recorded ca. 1869-74 by an 
associate or acquaintance of Washington Matthews, was donated by 
Dr. John A. Pope of Washington, D.C. 
Scholars, publishers, and the general public have continued to draw 
heavily on the photographic collections of the Bureau as a source of 
illustration and documentation. There were a total of 504 written 
inquiries, purchase orders, and personal inquiries concerning photo- 
graphs, and 1,208 prints were distributed through purchase, gift, or 
exchange. As in previous years, a number of lists describing photo- 
graphs in the Bureau’s collection were prepared for distribution. 
