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JlPGif OF THE CURATOR OF ARCHAEOLOGY FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST* 1963 Work In the Museum was comprised mainly of continuing the analysis of Falcon Hill cordfge and correspondence. A start was made in the analysis of the Museum1® Wash© basketry - a very valuable assemblage due to the documentation of Dr* S.L. Lee and the many baskets he collected* I guided a class of Mr* Jay Crane*s through the Museum* I had conferences with several people regarding findings they had made throughout the state* One day was spent checking sites with Mr* Harry Norcross (of Sacramento) in the Wall Canyon Creek Ranch area of northern Washoe County. An interesting buried site (wa-2?2) and a surface site (Wa-273) were recorded* Another day was spent with Mrs* William (Stella) Biesbeck (of Reno) in the Truckse area checking petroglyph sites. One was recorded and subsequently written about la the August 11* 1963* issue of the Nevada State Journal on page 10* giving credit to the Museum for having checked the find* In addition* several Reno residents who had contacted the Museum regarding items they had found and wanted to have identified were visited and their finds examined. A week was spent on San Miguel Island with Paul Schumacher (regional archaeologist for the National Park Service)* Richard Presil (region biologist for the N.P.S.) and Boss Holland (historian for Cabrillo and Channel Islands National Monuments) in the capacity of "Collaborator WCC" for the National Park Service* guiding them over the Island and checking with the® the scientific values of the island for the Navy for protection and potential development by the National Park Service. Two days were spent in the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History rechecking the basketry from the caves excavated by Phil Orr on Lake Winnemucca, in the light of new information regarding additional technical details learned from Lawrence Dawson on another trip this month to the Lowie Museum of Anthropology in Berkeley. Valuable information was obtained on the latter trip which will be of vital importance in the analysis of the Falcon Hill materials.