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at the Norman Site in the Fort Gibson Keservoir basin. That work 

 continued until September 22. Mr. Caldwell returned to Washington 

 on September 25 and on October 3 was granted leave of absence to 

 join an expedition of the Universities of Chicago and Pennsylvania in 

 Iraq and Iran. He returned to duty on the staff of the River Basin 

 Surveys June 26, 1949, and began work on materials from the Alla- 

 toona Reservoir basin in Georgia. 



Ralph S. Solecki devoted the summer and fall months to the prepara- 

 tion of reports on his work at the Bluestone and West Fork projects in 

 West Virginia. The Bluestone paper was mimeographed and dis- 

 tributed in December and that for the West Fork in March. Mr. 

 Solecki also prepared a detailed article, "An Archeological Survey of 

 Two River Basins in West Virginia," which was published in West 

 Virginia History, vol. 10, Nos. 3 and 4. In December he was tempo- 

 rarily transferred to the regular staff of the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology and was sent to Natrium, W. Va., to excavate a mound on 

 the property of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. The latter organiza- 

 tion planned to level the mound to make room for new buildings and 

 in order that nothing of value might be destroyed made arrangements 

 with the Bureau to have it done properly, providing the necessary 

 labor for the project. Mr. Solecki returned to the River Basin Sur- 

 veys on January 12. In following months he continued to work on 

 the material from West Virginia and on May 8 was transferred to the 

 Smithsonian Institution staff so that he could accompany a party of 

 the United States Geological Survey to Alaska for an archeological 

 reconnaissance along the upper Kukpowruk and Kokolik Rivers in 

 northern Alaska. At the close of the fiscal year he reported having 

 located some 50 late Eskimo sites. 



California. — Investigations in California were not as extensive as in 

 previous years and were limited to three reservoir projects. In 

 October David A. Frederickson and Albert Mohr, field assistants of 

 the River Basin Surveys, working under the general supervision of 

 Francis A. Riddell, assistant archeologist of the California Archeologi- 

 cal Survey, University of California, and in cooperation with the latter 

 organization, examined the areas to be flooded by the Black Butte, 

 Farmington, and New Melones Reservoirs, all Corps of Engineers 

 projects. 



The Black Butte Dam is to be built in Stony Creek, and the basin 

 it will flood lies in Glenn and Tehama Counties, a region formerly 

 occupied by the Win tun. The survey located 26 sites in the area and 

 it is believed that excavations in a number of them would provide a 

 reasonably accurate and balanced picture of the material culture of the 

 Indians who lived there. 



The Farmington Dam is planned for Little John Creek, and the 



