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study of the materials obtained during the summer and analysis of 

 the information contained in his field notes. He also read proof on 

 his report, "The Archeological and Paleontological Salvage Program 

 in the Missouri Basin, 1950-61," which appeared in April in the Smith- 

 sonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. 12, No. 2. Because of the short- 

 age of funds and the necessity of curtailing the staff of the Missouri 

 Basin Project, Mr. Cooper's employment was terminated November 20 

 by a reduction-in-force action. 



Harold A. Huscher, assistant archeologist, was in charge of the 

 party excavating at the Oldham site in the Fort Randall Reservoir area 

 from July 1 to July 24. He returned to headquarters at Lincoln on 

 July 27. During August, September, and the early part of October he 

 devoted his time to analyzing and studying the materials obtained 

 during the field season and in correlating his results with those of 

 previous seasons' work at the site. He resigned from the Ikiissouri 

 Basin Project on October 15 to return to Columbia University and 

 continue his work on an advanced degree. 



George Metcalf , formerly a member of the regular staff of the Mis- 

 souri Basin Project but now a member of the division of archeology, 

 U. S. National Museum, completed and turned in a manuscript, "Notes 

 on Some Small Sites on and about Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, 

 Garrison Reservoir, North Dakota." The data contained in the man- 

 uscript were collected by Mr. Metcalf during several seasons of field- 

 work while a member of various River Basin Surveys parties. 



At the beginning of the fiscal year G. Hubert Smith, archeologist, 

 was in charge of the Missouri Basin Project party which was cooper- 

 ating with the North Dakota State Historical Society party in the 

 Garrison Reservoir where excavations at the sites of Fort Berthold I, 

 Fort Berthold II, and Like-a-Fishhook Village were being brought to 

 completion. The work was finished on July 10 and Mr. Smith pro- 

 ceeded to Bismarck, N. Dak., where he devoted a week to the study of 

 documentary records in the archives of the State Historical Society. 

 Materials there contain considerable information about both of the 

 forts as well as the Indian village and JSIr. Smith deemed it advisable 

 to be familiar with the records because of the light they might throw 

 on the evidence obtained by the digging. Lir. Smith was on duty at 

 the Lincoln headquarters from July 19, 1954, to May 20, 1955. From 

 August 16 to August 31, during an absence of Robert L. Stephenson, 

 he served as archeologist in charge. He again took over in the latter 

 capacity from September 3, 1954, until May 20, 1955. While at the 

 project headquarters Mi*. Smith revised and completed the draft of his 

 report on excavatioTis at the site of Fort Berthold II, made largely in 

 1952 and completed in 1954, and in collaboration with Al&n R. Wool- 

 worth of the North Dakota State Historical Society prepared a pre- 



