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program. All the information obtained by these groups thus becomes 
a part of the general record of the River Basin Surveys. 
EDITORIAL WORK AND PUBLICATIONS 
There were issued 1 Annual Report, 2 Bulletin volumes (Hand- 
book of South American Indians), and 4 Publications of the Institute 
of Social Anthropology as listed below: 
Sixty-fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Hthnology, 1946-1947, 
30 pp. 
Bulletin 148. Handbook of South American Indians. Julian H. Steward, 
editor. Volume 38, The Tropical Forest tribes. 986 pp., 126 pls., 184 figs., 8 maps. 
Volume 4, The Circum-Caribbean tribes. 609 pp., 98 pls., 79 figs., 11 maps. 
Institute of Social Anthropology Publ. No. 4. Cultural and historical geography 
of Southwest Guatemala, by Felix Webster McBryde. 184 pp., 48 pls., 2 figs., 
25 maps. 
Institute of Social Anthropology Publ. No.5. Highland communities of Central 
Peru: A regional survey, by Harry Tschopik, Jr. 56 pp., 16 pls., 2 maps. 
Institute of Social Anthropology Publ. No. 6. HEmpire’s children: 'The people 
of Tzintzuntzan, by George M. Foster. 297 pp., 16 pls., 86 figs., 2 maps. 
Institute of Social Anthropology Publ. No. 7. Cultural geography of the 
modern Tarascan area, by Robert C. West. 177 pp., 14 pls., 6 figs., 21 maps. 
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. 
Institute of Social Anthropology Publ. No. 8. Sierra Popoluca speech, by 
Mary L. Foster and George M. Foster. 
Institute of Social Anthropology Publ. No. 9. The Terena and the Caduveo of 
Southern Mato Grosso, Brazil, by Kalervo Oberg. 
Institute of Social Anthropology Publ. No. 10. Nomads of the Long Bow: 
The Siriono of Eastern Bolivia, by Allan R. Holnberg. 
Publications distributed totaled 25,037 as compared with 8,205 for 
the fiscal year 1947. 
LIBRARY 
Accessions in the library of the Bureau totaled 145 volumes, bring- 
ing the total accession record as of June 30, 1948, to 34,607. 
ILLUSTRATIONS 
Work on the restoration of Indian photographs consumed the 
greater part of the year. The rest of the time was spent on work for 
the editors and on the preparation of maps and illustrations for 
Bureau publications. 
