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No. 60. A Caroline Islands script, by Saul H. Riesenberg and Sbigeru 

 Kanesbiro. 



No. 61. Dakota winter counts as a source of Plains history, by James H. 

 Howard. 



No. 62. Stone tipi rings in north-central Montana and the adjacent portion 

 of Alberta, Canada : Their historical, ethnological, and archeological as- 

 pects, by Thomas F. Kehoe. 



Publications distributed totaled 28,131 as compared with 28,558 

 for the fiscal year 1957. 



COLLECTIONS 

 Ace. No. 



216667. Late 18th-century wine bottle. 



219119. Miscellaneous archeological objects. 



FROM BIVEE BASIN SURVEYS 



216556. Archeological and human skeletal material from Nebraska, excavated 

 by River Basin Surveys archeologists in the summer of 1948. 



217608,218413. Archeological material excavated from Buffalo Pasture site in 

 Oahe Reservoir, Stanley County, S. Dak. 



214120,217212. (through Dr. Robert L. Stephenson) 21 land and fresh- water 

 moUusks from Oregon, Wyoming, and South Dakota. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Dr. John R. Swanton, ethnologist on the staff of the Bureau from 

 1900 to 1944 and a research associate since his retirement, died at 

 his home in Newton, Mass., on May 2, 1958. Dr. Swanton is best 

 known for his extensive work on the Indians of the Southeastern 

 United States and as chairman of the DeSoto Commission. He was 

 the author of 5 extensive articles in the Annual Eeport series of the 

 Bureau, 12 complete Bulletins, 2 Anthropological Papers, and 2 pa- 

 pers in the War Background Studies. He was coauthor of three Bul- 

 letins and edited Byington's Choctaw Dictionary. His The Indians 

 of the Southeastern United States, Bulletin 137, and The Indian 

 Tribes of North America, Bulletin 145, are outstanding contributions. 

 The report of the DeSoto Commission, of which he was the unnamed 

 author, is in continuing demand. Dr. Swanton was a member of the 

 National Academy of Sciences. He received the Viking Medal and 

 Award for Anthropology in 1948. 



Dr. John P. Harrington and Dr. A. J. Waring continued as re- 

 search associates of the Bureau of American Ethnology. Dr. M. W. 

 Stirling, as research associate, used the facilities of the Bureau 

 laboratory and continued his study of collections made on field trips 

 to Panama and Ecuador in previous years. 



There were 2,772 letters of inquiry about American Indians and 

 related problems received in the Director's office during the year. 



