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He returned to duty with the River Basin Surveys on February 27, 

 when he prepared a report on the results of his activities in the Fort 

 Randall area. 



Donald D. Hartle worked at the Oahe Reservoir as assistant to 

 Donald J. Lehmer from the beginning of the fiscal year until Decem- 

 ber 1. During February and March he was employed on a Texas 

 project. On April 17 he was appointed archeologist and from then 

 until June 1 assisted in the laboratory at Lincoln. He then proceeded 

 to the Rock Village site in the Garrison Reservoir, N. Dak., where he 

 started a series of excavations which were still under way on June 30. 



Donald J. Lehmer, archeologist, was in active supervision of the 

 excavations at the Oahe Reservoir in South Dakota from July 1 until 

 December 1. From the latter date until March he worked at the 

 Lincoln office preparing the report on the results of his investigations 

 at the Dodd site. In March he was transferred from the Missouri 

 Basin headquarters to a project in Oklahoma, where he remained until 

 the first of June, when he returned to the Lincoln headquarters. On 

 June 20 he proceeded to the Oahe Reservoir and resumed excavations 

 at the site where he was working when the field season ended the pre- 

 vious November. That work was continuing at the end of the fiscal 

 year. While at Lincoln Mr. Lehmer completed a paper giving pre- 

 liminary descriptions of the pottery types found at the Dodd site. 



George Metcalf, field and laboratory assistant, was at the Angostura 

 Reservoir in South Dakota assisting Richard Page Wheeler at the 

 beginning of the fiscal year. On July 10 he returned to the Lincoln 

 office, where he worked on material obtained during the course of 

 excavations at the Medicine Creek Reservoir. On August 12 he pro- 

 ceeded to the Garrison Reservoir and joined the party under G. Ellis 

 Burcaw. From August 22 until October 18 he carried on a reconnais- 

 sance of the area around the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation and 

 located and recorded 55 sites, including historic buildings, the remains 

 of earth-lodge villages, camp areas, deeply buried hearths, tipi-ring 

 sites, burial sites, and one reputed battleground. After completing 

 the survey he remained at the Rock Village excavation assisting Mr. 

 Burcaw until the end of the field season, when he returned to Lincoln. 

 During the winter months he assisted in the processing and analysis 

 of materials from the various excavations and helped to prepare sec- 

 tions of some of the reports on the previous season's work. On June 1 

 he left Lincoln for the Garrison Reservoir to assist in the work at the 

 Rock Village. At the end of the fiscal year he was continuing his 

 activities at that location. 



James M. Shippee, field and laboratory assistant, was at the field 

 headquarters in Lincoln until July 17, when he left to join the excavat- 

 ing party at the Angostura Reservoir in South Dakota. He assisted 

 in the activities there and accompanied the party when it moved to 



