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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. ix+258 pages with maps (one large folding), plates, tables, charts, appendix and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6") bound in original publisher's olive green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 166. First edition. The archeological sites described herein were excavated during August and early September of 1948 in the McNary Reservoir, as part of the River Basin Surveys' program for the salvage of scientific and historic remains from areas to be flooded by the dams being built or to be built by the Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army, and the Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior. McNary Reservoir itself will occupy the Columbia River from Umatilla, Oregon, up to some 12 miles beyond Pasco, Washington, and will also extend up the Snake River about 8 miles. Two sites are reported herein. The burial site, 45-BN-3, 2 had a fair midden and had, apparently as recently as before the great 1948 flood, shown evidence of house pits. It is located on the north (Washington) side of the Columbia River at Berrian's Island. This island is some 9 miles above Plymouth, Washington. Another 1~ miles above 45-BN-3 is 45-BN-53, a large pit-house village. When the River Basin Surveys were established in 1945 as a separate unit of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Associate Director Frank H H Roberts, Jr, was the only member of the staff capable of organizing and supervising the additional work; therefore, he was appointed director of it, despite an already full-time job. As reports from his field representative began to arrive, Roberts followed Stirling's practice of publishing several under one cover. In his foreword to Bulletin 154, containing the first six such reports, Director Roberts identifies the River Basin Surveys as the product of a co-operative program undertaken by the Smithsonian Institution, The National Park Service, The Bureau of Reclamation and the Corps of Engineers, U S Army. Condition: Spine ends lightly rubbed else a very good copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.x; 94. Publisher's green cloth titles in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket with printed price of 15s. to front flap. A little dustiness to edges, dust-jacket lightly handled, toned to spine. Near fine.