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in the Columbia Basin reservoirs, including sites of major and minor 

 importance, and a total of 80 in those in California. 



Dr. Philip Drucker, detailed from the regular staff of the Bureau 

 to serve as field director, was in charge of activities in this area. Dur- 

 ing the period from July 1 to September 30 he made field headquarters 

 at Eugene, Oreg., utilizing office space made available to the Surveys 

 by the Department of Anthropology of the University of Oregon. He 

 divided his time about equally between the Eugene office, where he 

 planned the survey work and carried out the routine necessary for its 

 operation, and the field, where he at times accompanied the survey par- 

 ties, and checked on the results of their investigations. At the end of 

 September he departed for Washington, D. C, having closed the field 

 headquarters for the winter. In Washington he prepared the reports 

 previously mentioned on the basis of the data collected by the field 

 parties, in addition to his activities as a member of the staff of the Bu- 

 reau of American Ethnology. 



On May 13 he left Washington for the Pacific Coast, stopping en 

 route at Milwaukee, Wis., for the purpose of conferring with the 

 Committee for the Recovery of Archeological Remains which met 

 in that city on the 14th and of participating in a symposium on the 

 River Basin Surveys program. He arrived at Portland, Oreg., where 

 he conferred with the officials of the Columbia Basin Recreational 

 Survey Office concerning the status of various reservation projects 

 of the Bureau of Reclamation and the Corps of Engineers in the 

 Columbia Basin. On May 18 he arrived in Eugene, Oreg., where he 

 completed arrangements for office and laboratory space at the De- 

 partment of Anthropology of the University of Oregon. From May 

 20 to 28 he conferred with officials of the Region Four Office of the 

 National Park Service at San Francisco on plans for the field season, 

 and also with representatives of the departments of anthropology at 

 the University of California, Berkeley, University of California at 

 Los Angeles, and the University of Washington. As the result of 

 these conferences, arrangements were made for two cooperative pro- 

 grams of research. The Department of Anthropology of the Univer- 

 sity of Washington arranged to put a party in the field under the direc- 

 tion of a member of the River Basin Surveys staff, to make an intensive 

 survey and preliminary testing of the Potholes (O'Sullivan) Reservoir 

 area in eastern Washington. The corresponding department at the 

 University of California arranged to undertake investigations during 

 the latter part of the summer in reservoirs in the upper San Joaquin 

 drainage that had previously been examined by the survey. 



During the month of June Dr. Drucker was occupied with planning 

 the itineraries of survey field parties and obtaining the necessary per- 

 sonnel and equipment for them. On June 28 the parties were as- 

 sembled, given the necessary instructions, and sent into the field. At 



