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major project accomplished during the year was the classification of 

 the great collection of Iroquois material assembled by J. N. B. Hewitt. 



The addition of five new metal storage cabinets greatly improved 

 the conditions for protecting the manuscripts. Since more cabinets 

 could not be obtained, another method of storage for the material in the 

 archives annex was developed. Using heavy cardboard filing boxes, 

 graded to size, does away with the wrappings formerly used and makes 

 the material much easier to consult. 



A method of preserving the rare Indian drawings in the collections 

 by the process of lamination was adopted on advice from the preserva- 

 tion division of the National Archives. 



Through the librarian of the Geological Survey, the collections have 

 been enriched by the addition of the original catalog of the photo- 

 graphic negatives made on the famous Grand Canyon expedition of 

 J. W. Powell. This list in Major Powell's handwriting, removes all 

 doubt as to the identification of the pictures made by J. K. Hillers 

 and E. O. Beaman. The original negatives have long constituted an 

 important sector of the Bureau's Indian photographic archives. 



COULECTIONS 



Ace. No. 



185184. Archeological materials and skeletal remains of 7 individuals from the 

 Addicks Reservoir, on South Mayde Creek in Harris County, 16 miles 

 west of Houston, Tex., collected 1947 by Joe Ben Wheat, River Basin 

 Surveys. 



187265. Archeological materials from 12 sites in Tenkiller Ferry Reservoir area, 



located on the Illinois River about 13 miles above its confluence with 

 the Arkansas River and about 7 miles northwest of Vian, in Sequoyah 

 and Cherokee Counties, Okla., collected by David J. Wenner, Jr., River 

 Basin Surveys. 



187266. Archeological materials surface-collected from 2 sites in the Hulah 



Reservoir area on Caney River about 15 miles northwest of Bartles- 

 ville, near Hulah, northeastern Osage County, Okla., collected in 1947 

 by David J. Wenner, Jr., River Basin Surveys. 



187267. Archeological materials surface-collected from 17 sites in the Fort Gibson 



Reservoir area, a Corps of Engineers water-control project on the 

 Grand (Neosho) River, beginning 7.7 miles above its mouth and in- 

 cluding portions of Wagoner, Cherokee, and Mayes Counties, Okla., 

 collected in 1947 by David J. Wenner, Jr., River Basin Surveys. 



187539. Archeological material from Postcontact Eskimo sites on Itkillik Lake 



and at Anaktuvuk Pass in the Brooks Range, northwestern Alaska, 

 collected during the summer of 1949 in the Colville Basin by Arthur 

 Bowsher and Dr. George Llano. 



187540. Archeological material, mainly stonework, from the West Fork Reservoir, 



Lewis County, W. Va., collected in April 1948 by Ralph Soleckl, River 

 Basin Surveys. 



187541. Archeological material from Bluestone Reservoir area, on the New River, 



100 miles south of Charleston, between Hinton and Narrows, W. Va. ; 

 in Giles County, Va. ; Monroe and Summers Counties, W. Va., collected 

 March-May 1948 by Ralph S. Solecki, River Basin Surveys. 



