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Texas to Lincoln, Nebr., and resumed his activities in the Missouri 

 Basin. 



California, — At the beginning of the fiscal year a party under the 

 direction of Franklin Fenenga was excavating a site in the Terminus 

 Reservoir area on the Kaweah Eiver, in Tulare County. That work 

 was continued until August 1, and upon its completion detailed in- 

 formation had been obtained about a small village consisting of 14 

 houses and 3 distinct milling places. The site was important be- 

 cause it provided an opportunity to study the remains left by a group 

 of people who occupied the region in historic times and concerning 

 whom there is an extraordinarily complete ethnographic record. The 

 lower end of the Kaweah Canyon was formerly occupied by a small 

 band of the Yokut Indians known as the Wukchumne or Wickchamni. 

 Correlations of the data from both the ethnological and archeological 

 sources of information will make it possible to prepare an archeolog- 

 ical report containing an almost unique amount of information on 

 the function and significance of the artifacts and the various features 

 of the site. Many items of the material culture previously known only 

 through tradition are now represented by actual objects recovered 

 during the archeological researches. 



Upon the completion of the digging at the Terminus Reservoir, 

 Mr. Fenenga moved his party to the Folsom Reservoir located on the 

 American River, in Eldorado County, where excavations were carried 

 on from August 3 to September 16. About 75 percent of the site was 

 investigated. The returns were small in that only a single burial 

 and 214 artifacts were found. The burial was that of a child about 

 12 years old and had no accompanying offerings. The artifacts con- 

 sist for the most part of stone and, as most of them are unspecialized 

 forms making functional identifications or comparisons with objects 

 from other sites difficult, they are not particularly significant. A 

 small series of arrow points, about half of which were made from 

 a native opal, will be useful in the matter of correlation with other 

 sites, but at present there is so little material available for study from 

 that particular region that conclusions are not warranted. Until 

 more data are obtained, it will not be possible to give a reasonably 

 complete picture of the material culture of the people who occupied 

 the site. 



Two field parties excavated at the Cachuma Reservoir on the Santa 

 Ynez River, in Santa Barbara County. One of them, under Albert D. 

 Mohr, worked from August 1 to September 12, while the other, under 

 Martin Baumhoff, worked from April 3 until May 18. The first party 

 excavated in a site that contained evidence of three cultures previously 

 described by David Banks Rogers. They are the Oak Grove, Hunting, 

 and "Chum ash." The evidence obtained there substantiated the re- 



