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liminary report of the investigations at the site of Fort Berthold I. 

 Throughout the fall and winter months Mr. Smith talked about salvage 

 archeology before numerous gi'oups in Lincoln. He reported on tlie 

 current work of the ^Missouri Basin Project at the 12th Plains Confer- 

 ence for Archeology which was held at Lincoln in November. He also 

 presented a paper at the May meeting of the Nebraska Academy of 

 Sciences. At the request of the Indian Claims Section, Lands Divi- 

 sion, Department of Justice, J^Ir. Smith was detailed to that organiza- 

 tion on May 20 to assist in gathering data for an Indian land-claims 

 case. He completed that assignment on June 30. A paper by 

 ISIr. Smith, "Excavations at Fort Stevenson, 1951," was published in 

 North Dakota History for July 1954. 



Robert L. Stephenson, chief of the Missouri Basin Project, was at 

 the headquarters in Lincoln on July 1. Shortly thereafter he left on 

 a tour of inspection of the field parties working in the Missouri Basin. 

 He accompanied Dr. John M. Corbett and Paul Beaubien of the Na- 

 tional Park Service. The party visited the excavations at the Old- 

 ham and Crow Creek sites and the several sites under investigation by 

 Paul L. Cooper. It also went to the Swan Creek site in the Oahe 

 Reservoir area. After his return to Lincoln, Mr. Stephenson, in addi- 

 tion to direx'.ting the operations of the project, continued work on sev- 

 eral technical reports. Mr. Stephenson left the field headquarters at 

 Lincoln on September 3 and proceeded to Ann Arbor, Mich. He was 

 still in leave status at the end of the year. 



Richard P. Wheeler, archeologist, returned to the Lincoln head- 

 quarters on July 1 from Jamestown, N. Dak., where he had been con- 

 ducting excavations and making surveys in the Jamestown Reservoir 

 basin. Wheeler remained in the office throughout the fiscal year. He 

 devoted his time to the preparation of reports on the results of his 

 excavations in previous years in the Angostura Reservoir area, South 

 Dakota, the Boysen and Keyhole Reservoir areas in Wyoming, and 

 on the Hintz site in the Jamestown Reservoir area. North Dakota. He 

 also prepared several short articles on specific artifact problems and 

 wrote several reviews for professional journals. His paper, "A Check 

 List of Middle Missouri Pottery Wares, Types, and Subtypes," was 

 published in the Plains Anthropologist, No. 2, December 1954. In 

 November Wheeler served as chairman of a symposium on the arche- 

 ology of the western plains at the 12th Plains Conference for Arche- 

 ology and read a paper simimarizing the results of his investigations 

 in the Jamestown Reservoir area in 1954. In April he served as chair- 

 man of the anthropology section at the 65th Annual Meeting of the 

 Nebraska Academy of Sciences held at the University of Nebraska. 

 At that time he also read a preliminary statement relating to a study 

 of aboriginal dwellings and settlement types in the Northern Plains. 



