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lishing the relation between the prehistoric cultures of the two re- 

 gions. Dr. Robert Rands accompanied Dr. Stirling in the field as 

 archeological assistant. 



Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., Associate Director of the Bureau 

 and Director of the River Basin Surveys, devoted most of his time 

 during the year to the management and direction of the River Basin 

 Surveys. In October he went to Lincoln, Nebr., to inspect the Missouri 

 Basin headquarters. Accompanied by Paul L. Cooper, field director, 

 he then proceeded to the Fort Randall Reservoir area near Chamber- 

 lain, S. Dak., and visited a number of archeological sites that were 

 being tested by one of the field parties. From Chamberlain he went 

 to Pierre, S. Dak., and inspected the investigations being carried on 

 in the area of the Oahe Dam. Dr. Roberts also went to several other 

 sites that will be flooded by the Oahe Reservoir and discussed with 

 Mr. Cooper plans for excavation projects at those locations when field 

 work got under way in the spring months. After returning to the 

 headquarters at Lincoln, Dr. Roberts went to Colorado where early 

 in November he spent two days at the Lindenmeier site seeking char- 

 coal that could be used for carbon-14 dating. He also spent two days 

 testing a rock shelter near Livermore, which had been reported to 

 contain materials belonging to the Folsom complex. Dr. Roberts 

 found considerable evidence of occupancy of the shelter by recent In- 

 dians but saw nothing to indicate the older horizon. In April he 

 went to Clarksville, Va., where excavations were under way in sites 

 that will be flooded by the Buggs Island Reservoir. In May he went 

 to Evanston, 111., to attend the annual meeting of the Society for 

 American Archaeology, of which he was President, and then pro- 

 ceeded to Lincoln, Nebr., where he assisted in the preparation of plans 

 for the summer field season in the Missouri Basin. From Lincoln 

 he went to Oklahoma and spent several days visiting sites in the 

 Tenkiller Ferry Reservoir and observing the excavations that were 

 being made by a River Basin Surveys' party near Tahlequah. 



At the begimiing of the fiscal year Dr. Henry B. Collins, anthropolo- 

 gist, left for a second season of field work on Cornwallis Island in the 

 Canadian Arctic. As in the two preceding years the work was con- 

 ducted under the joint auspices of the Smithsonian Institution and 

 the National Museum of Canada. Dr. Collins and his assistant, Walter 

 E. Taylor, anthropology student at the University of Toronto, were 

 flown by the Royal Canadian Air Force from Montreal to the Reso- 

 lute Bay weather station on Cornwallis. Island, stopping en route at 

 Churchill on Hudson Bay. The excavations yielded a large collection 

 of the Thule culture material, most of it from in and around an 

 unusually large stone and whalebone house at the site designated as 

 M 1, a mile from the weather station. Just to the rear of this house 

 was a small and inconspicuous house ruin, indicated only by a shal- 



