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fill had been removed from several houses and a large cut had been 

 made across the defensive ditch. 



A final field party of two men, under the direction of G. Hubert 

 Smith, conducted a survey of historic sites in the Big Bend, Oahe, and 

 Fort Eandall Eeservoirs from June 23 to 28. As was the case with 

 the aboriginal sites, high water within the reservoirs has become a 

 threat to previously undamaged historic sites. The Smith party 

 examined a number of sites, made a photographic record of sites now 

 destroyed or in the process of destruction, and secured data necessary 

 for future work. 



There were seven cooperating institutions working within the Mis- 

 souri Basin at the end of the fiscal year. The St. Paul Science Museum 

 completed a survey of the Bowman-PIaley Reservoir of northwestern 

 South Dakota and in late May and in early June began a shoreline 

 reconnaissance of the Garrison Reservoir in North Dakota. In both 

 instances the field parties were directed by Vernon R. Helmen. Uni- 

 versity of Missouri field parties, mider the direction of Dr. Carl F. 

 Chapman, were surveying and excavating in the Stockton and Kay- 

 smger Bluff Reservoirs in Missouri, continuing the work of past sea- 

 sons. University of Nebraska parties, directed by Dr. Preston Holder, 

 were excavating in the Glen Elder and Milford Reservoirs of north- 

 western Kansas. A State University of South Dakota group, led 

 by Dr. James H. Howard, was continuing investigations within the 

 Lewis and Clark Lake area along the border of South Dakota and 

 Nebraska. A field group of the State Historical Society of North 

 Dakota, under the direction of Dr. Donald J. Lehmer, was excavating 

 at the Fire Heart Creek Village (32SI2) in the Upper Oahe Reservoir 

 of southern North Dakota. A field party of the Kansas State Histori- 

 cal Society, under the general direction of Thomas A. Witty, was 

 excavating in the Council Grove Reservoir of eastern Kansas, and a 

 field group from Iowa State University, directed by David Gradwohl, 

 was excavating in the Red Rock Reservoir of central Iowa. 



During the period that the Missouri Basin Project archeologists 

 were not in the field, they were engaged in analyses of their materials 

 and in laboratory and library research. They also prepared manu- 

 scripts of technical reports and wrote articles of a popular nature. 

 In addition to the regular staff, Dr. Alfred W. Bowers, of the Univer- 

 sity of Idaho; Dr. William M. Bass, of the University of Kansas; and 

 Dr. Elden Johnson, of the University of Minnesota, joined the Mis- 

 souri Basin Project to complete short-term laboratory and field 

 research assignments. Dr. Bowers again became a temporary staff 

 member on June 17, and David T. Jones, West Nottingham Academy, 

 Maryland, on June 22. Both were on duty through the end of the 

 fiscal year. 



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