86 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1949 
The various cooperating organizations send progress and completed 
reports to the River Basin Surveys so that the results of their work 
may be coordinated with those for the over-all program. In this way 
the information obtained by them becomes a part of the general 
record of the River Basin Surveys. 
EDITORIAL WORK AND PUBLICATIONS 
There were issued one Annual Report and two Publications of the 
Institute of Social Anthropology as listed below: 
Sixty-fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1947-1948. 
32 pp. 
Institute of Social Anthropology Publ. No. 8. Sierra Popoluca speech, by 
Mary L. Foster and George M. Foster. 45 pp. 
Institute of Social Anthropology Publ. No. 9. The Terena and the Caduveo 
of southern Mato Grosso, Brazil, by Kalervo Oberg. 72 pp., 24 pls., 4 maps, 
2 charts. 
The following publications were in press at the close of the fiscal 
year: 
Bulletin 143. Handbook of South American Indians. Julian H. Steward 
editor. Volume 5, The comparative ethnology of South American Indians. 
Volume 6, Physical anthropology, linguistics, and cultural geography of South 
American Indians. 
Miscellaneous publications. List of publications of the Bureau of American 
Ethnology, with index to authors and titles. Revised to July 30, 1949. 
Bulletin 144. The Northern and Central Nootkan tribes, by Philip Drucker. 
Institute of Social Anthropology Publ. No. 10. Nomads of the long bow: The 
Siriono of eastern Brazil, by Allan R. Holmberg. 
Institute of Social Anthropology Publ. No. 11. Quiroga: A Mexican Municipio, 
by Donald D. Brand. 
Institute of Social Anthropology Publ. No. 12. Cruz das Almas: A Brazilian 
village, by Donald Pierson. 
Publications distributed totaled 19,660, as compared with 25,037 for 
the fiscal year 1948. 
LIBRARY 
Accessions in the library totaled 112 volumes, bringing the total 
accession record as of June 30, 1949, to 34,719. 
ILLUSTRATIONS 
During the entire year the work of restoration on the valuable 
collection of old Indian photographs was continued. Approximately 
150 restorations were completed. 
The remainder of the time of the illustrator and of his assistant 
was spent on the regular work of preparation of illustrations and maps 
for Bureau publications. 
