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writing reports. He prepared descriptions of the artifacts and fea- 

 tures recovered from the Langdeau site (39L1M209) , the Jiggs Thomp- 

 son site (39LM202), and the Pretty Head site (39L1VI232), which he 

 excavated in conjunction with Dr. CaldwelL They include various 

 statistical analyses relative to sequential alinements and relation- 

 ships to other sites. In July he gave a report of his current lieldwork 

 at the 1914 Plains Conference in Pierre. During Thanksgiving he at- 

 tended the 20th Plains Conference in Lincoln. On May 18, accom- 

 panied by J. J. Hoffman and Dr. Stephenson, he attended an informal 

 conference on Dakota pottery typology in Vermillion, S. Dak. He 

 and Hoffman proceeded from Vermillion to the Big Bend Reservoir 

 area to select campsites for the summer. At the end of the year he 

 was again in the field excavating archeological sites in the Big Bend 

 Reservoir area. 



Oscar L. Mallory, archeologist, when not in the field was at work 

 in the laboratory examining materials previously collected. He stud- 

 ied the background data and analyzed the specimens obtained from 

 the "Missouri Breaks" area of Montana and prepared a report on 

 the work entitled "An Archeological Appraisal of the Missouri Breaks 

 Region, Montana." He then began a detailed analysis of the unusual 

 collection of perishable goods from the Mouat Cliff Burial site 

 (24:TE401) excavated last year by the Billings Archeological Society, 

 in central Montana, near Hardin. He spent much of liis evening and 

 weekend time working on "A Comparative Cultural Analysis of Tex- 

 tiles from McGregor Cave, Wasliington," his thesis for a master of 

 arts degree at Washington State College. In April he served, with 

 Robert W. Neuman, as adviser to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 

 in conference with the local community developers of Mobridge, S. 

 Dak., on a project to reconstruct an earth-lodge village in that area 

 He presented a paper, "Survey of the Missouri Breaks Area," at the 

 20th Plains Conference in Lincoln on Thanksgiving weekend. At 

 the close of the year he was conducting archeological excavations in 

 the Oahe Reservoir area. 



Robert W. Neuman, archeologist, when not in the field was mainly 

 at work in the laboratory doing research on materials excavated by 

 him in past years in the Oahe and Big Bend Reservoir areas. From 

 October 6 to 13 he was on loan to the University of South Dakota to 

 assist in salvage excavations at the Wolfe Creek Mound site (39HT- 

 201) in Hutchinson County, S. Dak. In the laboratory, lie corrected 

 galley proof on his monograph "The Good Soldier Site (39LM238), 

 Lyman County, South Dakota," being publislied by the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology as a River Basin Surveys Paper. He did re- 

 search on materials from his Big Bend excavations and brought to 

 near completion a manuscript on "Preceramic Occupations in the Big 

 Bend Reservoir Area, South Dakota." He also served as chairman of 



