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explorations on the coast and islands at the joint expense of the Smithsonian 

 Institution and the Peabody Museum, the party under Dr. H. C. Yarrow, 

 acting assistant surgeon, United States Army, detailed by you for the pur- 

 pose, were also exploring the ancient sites in Santa Barbara County. 



Since the collection was made by your special party, to which this 

 report particularly relates, Mr. Schumacher has made another exploration 

 on the islands of San Clemente and Santa Catalina, acting under the direc- 

 tion of the Peabody Museum ; and Mr. Bowers, who was with Dr. Yarrow 

 at La Patera, has made extensive collections on the mainland for the Smith- 

 sonian Institution and for private parties. The amount of material that 

 has thus been obtained from the numerous burial-places and village-sites 

 along the coast of Southern California and the adjacent islands is very 

 large, and our knowledge of the archaeology of California will soon be 

 more complete than that of many other portions of our country. 



The field report which was submitted by Dr. Yarrow on the return of 

 the party sent to explore the region about Santa Barbara, contains so much 

 of interest and importance in relation to the conditions under which the 

 various articles described in the succeeding pages were found, as to make it 

 essential to reprint it here from the Annual Report of the Chief of En- 

 gineers for 1876,* and for this purpose he has kindly rewritten some 

 portions of the report and made numerous additions of interest. 



'Appendix J J, Annual Report Chief of Engineers, 1876, p. 312. 



