42 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1956 



furnished in a number of instances. Tlie River Basin Surveys men 

 received helpful assistance from the field personnel of the other 

 agencies, and for that reasori their accomplishments were much 

 greater than would otherwise liave been the case. As in previous 

 years the National Park Service served as the liaison between the 

 various agencies both in Washington and in the field. It also was 

 mainly responsible for preparing estimates and justifications and pro- 

 curing fmids to support the investigations. The wholehearted coop- 

 eration of Park Service personnel greatly aided all phases of tlie 

 operations. 



The main office in Washington continued general supervision over 

 the work, while the field headquarters and laboratory at Lincoln, 

 Nebr., was responsible for the activities in the Missouri Basin. The 

 materials collected by excavating parties in the ^Missouri Basin were 

 processed at the Lincoln laboratory. During the year there was a 

 general distribution of specimens and materials from the laboratory to 

 the U. S. National Museiun and to various State and local agencies. 

 The only activities outside the Missomi Basin pertained to the com- 

 pletion of reports on work done in previous years and a brief check 

 on the status of two construction projects in Tennessee. 



Washington office. — The main headquarters of the River Basin Sur- 

 veys, at the Bureau of American Etlmology, continued under the 

 direction of Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr. Carl F. Miller, archeolo- 

 gist, was based at that office and from time to time assisted the director 

 in general administrative problems. 



At the start of the fiscal year Mr. Miller was in the office continuing 

 his studies on the material obtained at the Joim 11. Kerr (Buggs 

 Island) Reservoir on the Roanoke River in southern Virginia and in 

 the preparation of his report on the results of investigations at that 

 locality. During the fall and winter months he completed a manu- 

 script, "Reevaluation of the Eastern Siouan Problem with Particular 

 Emphasis on the Virginia Branches: the Occaneeclii, Saponi, and 

 T\itelo." He also presented papers before several archeological socie- 

 ties and interested study groups. In June, at the request of the Bu- 

 reau of American Ethnology, he made a brief trip to visit and examine 

 various Archaic and Paleo-Indian sites m Alabama and Tennessee. 

 He made an examination of Russell Cave in Jackson County, Ala., 

 where three and possibly four occupation levels are present. He also 

 visited several Paleo-Indian sites in the vicinity of Decatur and Hunts- 

 ville, Ala., and studied collections of materials that had been obtained 

 from them. From Alabama Mr. Miller went to Nashville, Tenn., and 

 after conferring with the Corps of Engineers ofiicers in that city pro- 

 ceeded to the Cheatham and Old Hickory projects on the Cumberland 

 River to determine the exact status of the reservoir pools in relation 



