64 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1949 
at the Norman Site in the Fort Gibson Reservoir basin. That work 
continued until September 22. Mr. Caldwell returned to Washington 
on September 25 and on October 3 was granted leave of absence to 
join an expedition of the Universities of Chicago and Pennsylvania in 
Iraq and Iran. He returned to duty on the staff of the River Basin 
Surveys June 26, 1949, and began work on materials from the Alla- 
toona Reservoir basin in Georgia. 
Ralph S. Solecki devoted the summer and fall months to the prepara- 
tion of reports on his work at the Bluestone and West Fork projects in 
West Virginia. The Bluestone paper was mimeographed and dis- 
tributed in December and that for the West Fork in March. Mr. 
Solecki also prepared a detailed article, “‘An Archeological Survey of 
Two River Basins in West Virginia,’ which was published in West 
Virginia History, vol. 10, Nos. 3 and 4. In December he was tempo- 
rarily transferred to the regular staff of the Bureau of American 
Ethnology and was sent to Natrium, W. Va., to excavate a mound on 
the property of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. The latter organiza- 
tion planned to level the mound to make room for new buildings and 
in order that nothing of value might be destroyed made arrangements 
with the Bureau to have it done properly, providing the necessary 
labor for the project. Mr. Solecki returned to the River Basin Sur- 
veys on January 12. In following months he continued to work on 
the material from West Virginia and on May 8 was transferred to the 
Smithsonian Institution staff so that he could accompany a party of 
the United States Geological Survey to Alaska for an archeological 
reconnaissance along the upper Kukpowruk and Kokolik Rivers in 
northern Alaska. At the close of the fiscal year he reported having 
located some 59 late Eskimo sites. 
California.—Investigations in California were not as extensive as 10 
previous years and were limited to three reservoir projects. In 
October David A. Frederickson and Albert Mohr, field assistants of 
the River Basin Surveys, working under the general supervision of 
Francis A. Riddell, assistant archeologist of the California Archeologi- 
cal Survey, University of California, and in cooperation with the latter 
organization, examined the areas to be flooded by the Black Butte, 
Farmington, and New Melones Reservoirs, all Corps of Engineers 
projects. 
The Black Butte Dam is to be built in Stony Creek, and the basin 
it will flood lies in Glenn and Tehama Counties, a region formerly 
occupied by the Wintun. The survey located 26 sites in the area and 
it is believed that excavations in a number of them would provide a 
reasonably accurate and balanced picture of the material culture of the 
Indians who lived there. 
The Farmington Dam is planned for Littlejohn Creek, and the 
