LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 



Smithsonian Institution, 

 Bureau of American Ethnology, 

 Washington, D.C., June 28, 1963. 

 Sir: I have the honor to submit the accompanying manuscript, 

 entitled "Archeology of the Yakutat Bay Area, Alaska," by Frederica 

 de Laguna, Francis A. Riddell, Donald F. McGeein, Kenneth S. Lane, 

 and J. Arthur Freed, with a chapter by Carolyn Osborne, and to 

 recommend that it be published as a bulletin of the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology. 



Very respectfully yours, 



Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., 



Director. 



Dr. Leonard Carmichael, 



Secretary, Smithsonian Institution. 



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FEB 1 7 1955 



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