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granted facilities by the courtesy of these institutions. Results of 
researches conducted by him before entering the service of the Bureau 
have been elaborated and necessary additional material has been 
obtained. 
On May 29 Mr. Harrington went to Santa Inés mission where 
he found among the old records preserved at the mission a manu- 
script bearing the title, “ Padron que contiene todos las Neofitas de 
esta Mision de la Purisima Concepcion con expresion de su edad, y 
partida de Bautismo segun se halla hoy dia 1° de Enero de 1814,” 
by Father Mariano Payeras. This document, which appears to have 
been unknown to historians, is of the greatest value for the study 
Fic. 135-—A Yuma fiesta. 
of the Indians of La Purisima and Santa Inés. A copy of it was made 
for the Bureau and a large amount of other material was extracted 
from the archives of the mission. While at Santa Inés Mr. Harring- 
ton succeeded in locating the sites of some of the former rancherias 
mentioned in the records of the mission. 
On June 19, Mr. Harrington proceeded to Arroyo Grande, where 
he worked for a week with a poor, sick old woman, the sole survivor 
of the San Luis Obispo Indians. The importance of the immediate 
rescuing of her language and the other information which she can 
furnish can hardly be overestimated. 
The latter part of July and the month of August were spent in 
San Diego working with a Chumashan informant. The period from 
September 1 to December 31 was spent at San Diego and Los 
Angeles in the elaboration of the San Luis Obispo and other material. 
