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program. All the information obtained by these groups thus becomes 

 a part of the general record of the Kiver Basin Surveys. 



EDITORIAIi WORK AND FUBLIOATIONS 



There were issued 1 Annual Report, 2 Bulletin volumes (Hand- 

 book of South American Indians) , and 4 Publications of the Institute 

 of Social Anthropology as listed below : 



Sixty-fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1946-1947, 

 30 pp. 



Bulletin 143. Handbook of South American Indians. Julian H. Steward, 

 editor. Volume 3, The Tropical Forest tribes. 986 pp., 126 pis., 134 figs., 8 maps. 

 Volume 4, The Circum-Caribbean tribes, 609 pp., 98 pis., 79 figs., 11 maps. 



Institute of Social Anthropology Publ. No. 4. Cultural and historical geography 

 of Southwest Guatemala, by Felix Webster McBryde. 184 pp., 48 pis., 2 figs., 

 25 maps. 



Institute of Social Anthropology Publ. No. 5. Highland communities of Central 

 Peru : A regional survey, by Harry Tschopik, Jr. 56 pp., 16 pis., 2 maps. 



Institute of Social Anthropology Publ. No. 6. Empire's children : The people 

 of Tzintzuntzan, by George M. Foster. 297 pp., 16 pis., 36 figs., 2 maps. 



Institute of Social Anthropology Publ. No. 7. Cultural geography of the 

 modern Tarascan area, by Robert C. West. 77 pp., 14 pis., 6 figs., 21 maps. 



The following publications were in press at the close of the fiscal 

 year: 



Bulletin 143. Handbook of South American Indians. Julian H. Steward, 

 editor. Volume 5, The comparative ethnology of South American Indians. 

 Volume 6, Physical anthropology, linguistics, and cultural geography of South 

 American Indians. 



Institute of Social Anthropology Publ. No. 8. Sierra Popoluca speech, by 

 Mary L. Foster and George M. Foster. 



Institute of Social Anthropology Publ. No. 9. The Terena and the Caduveo of 

 Southern Mato Grosso, Brazil, by Kalervo Oberg. 



Institute of Social Anthropology Publ. No. 10. Nomads of the Long Bow: 

 The Siriono of Eastern Bolivia, by Allan R. Holmberg. 



Publications distributed totaled 25,037 as compared with 8,205 for 

 the fiscal year 1947. 



LIBRARY 



Accessions in the library of the Bureau totaled 145 volumes, bring- 

 ing the total accession record as of June 30, 1948, to 34,607. 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



Work on the restoration of Indian photographs consumed the 

 greater part of the year. The rest of the time was spent on work for 

 the editors and on the preparation of maps and illustrations for 

 Bureau publications. 



