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During the period when Mr. Smith was absent from the office, Mr. 

 "Wheeler performed such duties of the archeologist in charge as were 

 required. At the end of the fiscal year he was preparing to take a 

 field party to the Oahe Dam area in South Dakota where excavations 

 were planned for two sites. 



Cooperating institutions. — A number of State and local institutions 

 continued to cooperate in the Inter- Agency Salvage Program through- 

 out the year. Some of the State gi'oups worked independently but 

 correlated their activities closely with the over-all program. A ma- 

 jority of the projects, however, were under agreements between the 

 National Park Service and the various organizations. The Historical 

 Society of Indiana continued making surveys of proposed reservoir 

 areas as part of its general program for archeological studies in that 

 State and made reports on the results of its work. The Ohio State 

 Archeological and Historical Society carried on salvage operations in 

 several localities. In a number of cases the sites involved were not 

 in reservoir areas but the need for the recovery of materials was just as 

 great as though they were ultimately to go under water. The Archeo- 

 logical Survey Association of Southern California continued its volun- 

 tary recovery of matenals at several projects in the San Diego area, 

 and the University of California Archeological Survey included sev- 

 eral proposed reservoir areas in its general survey program. 



A number of institutions worked under agreements with the Na- 

 tional Park Service. The University of California Archeological 

 Survey had a party under Dr. Adan E. Treganza, research associate, 

 excavating in sites in the Berryessa Valley in the Monticello Kes- 

 ervoir basin in Napa County, California. The area is an important 

 one for linking known Indian groups with specific types of prehis- 

 toric remains and the California party obtained valuable information. 

 In the Columbia Basin a party from the University of Oregon, under 

 the direction of Dr. L. S. Cressman, excavated several sites on the 

 Oregon side of the river at The Dalles. At that locality there is a 

 record of long occupation extending possibly from the closing days 

 of the last glacial period to historic times. Dr. Cressman and his 

 associates collected valuable data and interesting specimens in the 

 course of their digging. On the Washington side of the Columbia 

 River, above The Dalles, a party from the University of Washington 

 under Warren Caldwell excavated at the Wakemap Mound, an im- 

 portant site in the area because of its depth and stratified deposits. 

 Parties from the University of Missouri, under the direction of Carl 

 II. Chapman, excavated at a number of sites in the Table Rock Res- 

 ervoir area, on the White River in Missouri. They investigated five 

 open village locations and one cave. At one site evidences were found 

 for three different Indian occupations. Several cultural complexes 



