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in Georgia provided, valuable assistancei in numerous ways wliile 

 investigations were being made in the portion of the Walter F. George 

 Reservoir basin which lies in the Fort Benning Reservation. In addi- 

 tion, the Georgia Historical Commission, the University of Georgia, 

 and various local clubs and groups of citizens in both Alabama and 

 Georgia assisted the leader of the River Basin Surveys party while 

 he was working along the Chattahoochee River. In the Missouri 

 Basin the project engineers for the Oahe Reservoir provided space 

 for temporary living accommodations and also for the storage of 

 equipment. In a number of cases the construction agency lent mechan- 

 ical equipment which was most helpful in the stripping of the topsoil 

 from sites and the backfilling of trenches and test pits. In the IVIis- 

 souri Basin the Corps of Engineers also cooperated with the staff of 

 the Missouri Basin Project of the River Basin Surveys in the prepara- 

 tion of a number of small informative pamphlets telling about several 

 of the reservoirs along the Missouri River. 



General supervision of the program was from the main office in 

 Washington, but the activities in the Missouri Basin operated from 

 the field headquarters and laboratory at Lincoln, Nebr. At the be- 

 ginning of the year the latter provided office assistance and some 

 equipment for the Chattahoochee River Project, but subsequently most 

 of that activity was transferred to the main office in Washington. 

 The Lincoln laboratory processed all the materials collected by ex- 

 cavating parties in the Missouri Basin and also some of those from 

 the Chattahoochee. 



Washington o-ffice. — Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., continued to 

 direct the main headquarters of the River Basin Surveys at the Bureau 

 of American Etlmology throughout the year. Carl F. Miller, arche- 

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

 Director in some of the general administrative problems. Harold A. 

 Huscher, archeologist, worked under the general supervision of the 

 Washington office, but at the beginning of the fiscal year was based 

 on the field headquarters for the Missouri Basin Project at Lincoln, 

 Nebr. After completing his field activities along the Chattahoochee 

 River, Alabama-Georgia, in late December, he joined the Washington 

 office and continued to work there the remainder of the fiscal year. 



Mr. Miller spent the entire time in the Washington office working 

 on materials and data he had collected during previous seasons in 

 the field. He spoke before various groups interested in archeological 

 subjects and answered numerous inquiries pertaining to artifacts and 

 cultural materials from the southeastern archeological area. He also 

 identified artifacts from 15 collections of southeastern material. In 

 October he attended the sessions of the Eastern States Archeological 

 Federation in Toronto, Canada, and in May he presented a paper on 



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