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by the Universities of Nebraska, Oregon, Georgia, and Texas. The 

 Universities of Oklahoma and Kentucky furnished temporary bases 

 of operations for the parties working in their States. The University 

 of Oklahoma took over the responsibility for the excavation of sites 

 in the Fort Gibson Eeservoir, and the University of Georgia con- 

 tinued making surveys along the Flint River in the southern part of 

 that State. The University of Missouri and the Missouri Archeologi- 

 cal Society continued to make surveys in a number of proposed reser- 

 voir areas and carried on excavations in others. The University of 

 Arkansas also made surveys and did some digging in reservoir areas 

 in that State. In June, parties with which the River Basin Surveys 

 were cooperating began excavations in the McNary Reservoir and at 

 Lind Coulee in Washington. The McNary party came from the Uni- 

 versity of Washington at Seattle ; that at Lind Coulee from the Wash- 

 ington State College at Pullman. 



The program developed by the National Park Service late in the 

 previous year whereby various scientific agencies carried on salvage 

 work in proposed reservoir areas continued throughout fiscal year 

 1951. On the basis of agreements between the agencies concerned 

 and the National Park Service, certain funds were made available 

 to the agencies to help finance specified investigations. The River 

 Basin Surveys served in a consultative and advisory capacity only in 

 the carrying out of that program. Agreements were made, how- 

 ever, with the University of Nebraska, the Nebraska State Museum, 

 the Nebraska State Historical Society, the University of Kansas, the 

 University of South Dakota, the North Dakota Historical Society, 

 the University of Wyoming, and the University of Montana for work 

 in the Missouri Basin. Similar agreements were made with the 

 University of Mississippi for a survey of the Grenada Reservoir in 

 that State, with the University of Oklahoma for excavations at the 

 Eufaula Reservoir, with the University of Texas for excavations at 

 the Falcon Reservoir, wdth the Museum of New Mexico at the Chamita 

 Reservoir, with the University of California for excavations at the 

 Farmington Reservoir, and with the University of Washington for 

 work in the McNary area. The final results of the work accomplished 

 under those agreements will be published by the institutions con- 

 cerned, but they will correlate with and augment the information 

 obtained by the River Basin Surveys. 



INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY 

 (Report prepared by G. M. Foster) 



General statement. — The objectives of the Institute of Social 

 Anthropology are anthropological research on the community life of 

 rural peoples of Latin America and the training of Latin American 



