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ervoir area, on the White Kiver in Missouri. They investigated five 

 open village locations and one cave. At one site evidences were found 

 for three different Indian occupations. Several cultural complexes 

 were represented in the materials recovered by the excavations. The 

 Table Kock area is important because of the large number of sites 

 occurring there and the variety of cultures represented. It is the 

 only area remaining in which extensive remains of the Ozark Bluff 

 Dwellers are still to be f omid. Special funds were appropriated for 

 fiscal 1956 for the Table Eock area and the University of Missouri 

 will continue its operations there throughout the year. Mention has 

 already been made of the work of the cooperating institutions in the 

 Missouri Basin. The Eiver Basin Surveys aided the field activities 

 of those groups by the loan of vehicles and other equipment and in 

 one instance by making a survey of the site and preparing a detailed 

 map locating the numerous features involved. One other project 

 in the IVlissouri Basin consisted of a basin-wide survey of archeologi- 

 cal resources by Dr. Jesse D. Jennings of the University of Utah. 

 That also was a cooperative agreement with the National Park Service 

 and while it was not strictly a salvage undertaking, various phases 

 of the survey had a direct bearing on the problems of salvage 

 archeology. 



ARCHIVES 



The Bureau archives continued during the year under the custody 

 of Mrs. Margaret C. Blaker. 



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS 



There has been increasing utilization of the manuscript collections 

 of the Bureau during the year by students through personal visit, 

 mail inquiry, and the purchase of photoreproductions. Approxi- 

 mately 225 manuscripts were used by research workers as compared 

 with 150 last year. Visitors frequently express surprise as well as 

 considerable satisfaction at having located little-known, unpublished 

 sources. Publication of at least a skeleton catalog of the collection is 

 being considered. 



Additions to the manuscript collection included the personal papers 

 of Alice Cunningham Fletcher and her adopted son, Francis La 

 Flasche, an Omaha Indian, which were deposited with the Bureau 

 by Mrs. G. David Pearlman, Washington, D. C, on indefinite loan. 

 Preliminarj' examination indicates that the collection contains little 

 unpublished ethnographic data ; its principal interest is biographical 

 and historical. 



Dr. Frances Densmore made several additions to her personal 

 papers which are in the Bureau, the most substantial being her diaries 

 for 1899 and 1905-50. 



The following short manuscripts were received in the past year : 



