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use, Smith and Mallory pinpointed the significant cultural features 

 and made recommendations for their development. 



On June 7 the Pony Creek field party began work in that part of 

 Mills County, southwestern Io%Ya, where the Soil Conservation Serv- 

 ice is constructing several very small reservoirs and terracing most of 

 the adjacent valley area. Headquartered in the town of Glen wood, 

 this party of eight, directed by Lionel A. Brown, had by the end of the 

 year visited and tested six sites (three of which had not previously 

 been recorded) and begun excavations in sites 13IML4 and 131VIL18, 

 both of which appear to be villages of rectangular (or square) houses 

 of the Nebraska Aspect. 



On June 6 Dr. Elden Johnson of the University of Minnesota joined 

 the staff of the Missouri Basin Project and spent 4 days in a brief 

 investigation of the area of the James Diversion Project for detailed 

 survey and excavation early in the next fiscal year. 



The single field party in the Yellowtail Reservoir area of Montana 

 and Wyoming, directed by Wilfred M. Husted, consisted of a crew 

 of seA^en which left Lincoln on June 11. This crew started in the upper 

 reaches of the reservoir where Husted's party left off the previous 

 season. By the end of the year they had completed excavation of a 

 small rock shelter and were continuing investigations on downstream. 



In the Oahe Reservoir area of central South Dakota, three field 

 parties were operating at the end of the year. Robert W. Neuman, 

 in charge of a crew of eight, began work on June 11 at the Grover 

 Hand site (39DW240), a group of Woodland burial mounds on the 

 right bank of the ISIissouri River some 9 miles below Mobridge. By the 

 end of the year, Mound 1 at this site had been excavated. This mound 

 contained a burial pit covered with timbers. Bison skeletons were 

 found on the mound floor. 



The second Oahe party was directed by Oscar L. Mallory. With a 

 crew of eight he began work on June 11 at site 39DW231, a presumed 

 village or camp occupation site of the Plains Woodland Period that 

 may be related to some of the burial mounds being dug by the Neuman 

 party. The site is situated some 11 miles below Mobridge on the right 

 bank of the Missouri River. Both the Neuman and Mallory crews 

 camped at the Molstad ranch about a mile above the Grover Hand 

 site, and both crews utilized 16-foot motorboats with 10-horsepower 

 motors as their main means of transportation. This was necessitated 

 by the high water of the Oahe Reservoir and the lack of roads in the 

 area south of the Molstad ranch. 



The third Oahe party also began work on June 11 under the direc- 

 tion of Dr. Alfred W. Bowers, who again joined the Missouri Basin 

 Project staff for the summer, taking leave from his regular position 

 at the University of Idaho. Dr. Bowers' crew of 10 camped at the east 



