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California the University of Southern California completed a series of 

 investigations at the Casitas Keservoir on Coyote Creek. The Univer- 

 sity of California at Los Angeles excavated a site in the Terminus 

 Eeservoir area on the Kaweah Eiver. The University of California 

 at Berkeley completed its excavations in the Trinity Keservoir Basin 

 on the Trinity Eiver, and San Francisco State College made studies 

 at the Whiskey town project on the Upper Sacramento Eiver. The 

 University of Oregon continued operations in the John Day Eeservoir 

 in the Columbia Eiver. The University of Washington completed its 

 investigations in the Priest Eapids Eeservoir area, also in the Columbia 

 Eiver, and the State College of Washington continued its excavations 

 in the Ice Harbor Eeservoir area on the Snake Eiver. A number of 

 local groups and institutions continued to assist on a voluntary basis. 

 These mainly were in New York State, Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, and 

 southern California. 



ARCHIVES OF ETHNOLOGY 



The Bureau archives continued during the year under the custody 

 of Mrs. Margaret C. Blaker. On June 8 Nicholas S. Hopkins entered 

 on duty as a summer intern to assist in arranging and describing 

 manuscript collections, and on June 15 Winfield H. Arneson, sum- 

 mer intern, entered on duty to assist with photographic collections. 



The use of the manuscript collections by anthropologists and his- 

 torical researchers continues to increase. Approximately 329 manu- 

 scripts were consulted by 92 visitors to the archives, and an equal 

 number were consulted by the archivist in preparing replies to 87 mail 

 inquiries concerning the nature and extent of manuscript information 

 on specific topics or tribes. There were 22 purchase orders for a total 

 of 2,897 pages of manuscript reproductions. In the course of exami- 

 nation, new and more detailed descriptions of about 50 manuscripts 

 were prepared for the catalog, and a number of descriptive lists of 

 manuscripts were prepared for distribution. 



An anonymous English- Arikara vocabulary in a homemade note- 

 book of 48 pages, thought to have been recorded ca. 18G9-74 by an 

 associate or acquaintance of Washington Matthews, was donated by 

 Dr. John A. Pope of Washington, D.C. 



Scholars, publishers, and the general public have continued to draw 

 heavily on the photographic collections of the Bureau as a source of 

 illustration and documentation. There were a total of 504 written 

 inquiries, purchase orders, and personal inquiries concerning photo- 

 graphs, and 1,208 prints were distributed through purchase, gift, or 

 exchange. As in previous years, a number of lists describing photo- 

 graphs in the Bureau's collection were prepared for distribution. 



