80 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1958 
No. 60. A Caroline Islands script, by Saul H. Riesenberg and Shigeru 
Kaneshiro. 
No. 61. Dakota winter counts as a source of Plains history, by James H. 
Howard. 
No. 62. Stone tipi rings in north-central Montana and the adjacent portion 
of Alberta, Canada: Their historical, ethnological, and archeological as- 
pects, by Thomas F. Kehoe. 
Publications distributed totaled 28,131 as compared with 28,558 
for the fiscal year 1957. 
COLLECTIONS 
Acc. No. 
216667. Late 18th-century wine bottle. 
219119. Miscellaneous archeological objects. 
FROM RIVER BASIN SURVEYS 
216556. Archeological and human skeletal material from Nebraska, excavated 
by River Basin Surveys archeologists in the summer of 1948. 
217608, 218413. Archeological material excavated from Buffalo Pasture site in 
Oahe Reservoir, Stanley County, S. Dak. 
214120, 217212. (through Dr. Robert L. Stephenson) 21 land and fresh-water 
mollusks from Oregon, Wyoming, and South Dakota. 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Dr. John R. Swanton, ethnologist on the staff of the Bureau from 
1900 to 1944 and a research associate since his retirement, died at 
his home in Newton, Mass., on May 2, 1958. Dr. Swanton is best 
known for his extensive work on the Indians of the Southeastern 
United States and as chairman of the DeSoto Commission. He was 
the author of 5 extensive articles in the Annual Report series of the 
Bureau, 12 complete Bulletins, 2 Anthropological Papers, and 2 pa- 
pers in the War Background Studies. He was coauthor of three Bul- 
letins and edited Byington’s Choctaw Dictionary. His The Indians 
of the Southeastern United States, Bulletin 187, and The Indzan 
Tribes of North America, Bulletin 145, are outstanding contributions. 
The report of the DeSoto Commission, of which he was the unnamed 
author, is in continuing demand. Dr. Swanton was a member of the 
National Academy of Sciences. He received the Viking Medal and 
Award for Anthropology in 1948. 
Dr. John P. Harrington and Dr. A. J. Waring continued as re- 
search associates of the Bureau of American Ethnology. Dr. M. W. 
Stirling, as research associate, used the facilities of the Bureau 
laboratory and continued his study of collections made on field trips 
to Panama and Ecuador in previous years. 
There were 2,772 letters of inquiry about American Indians and 
related problems received in the Director’s office during the year. 
