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Society at Marshall, Mo. On April 10, he presented an illustrated 

 lecture, "Archeological Salvage within the Missouri Basin," before the 

 annual meeting of the Mhmehaha County Historical Society at Sioux 

 Falls, S. Dak., and on May 2 he read a paper entitled "The Viking Site 

 in Newfoundland" before the anthropological section of the Nebraska 

 Academy of Sciences (published in abstract in the Proceedings of the 

 7If-th Annual Meeting of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences, Lincoln, 

 p. 5) . In April Mr. Smith became contributing editor for reviews for 

 the Plains Anthropologist. At the end of the year he was at work in 

 the Lincoln Laboratory of the Missouri Basin Project. 



Virginia. — Carl F. Miller, at the beginning of the fiscal year, had an 

 excavation crew at work on the Hales Ford site (44FR14) in the Smith 

 Mountain Reservoir area near Rocky Mount in southern Virginia. He 

 completed the work at this site on July 2, having excavated 144 arche- 

 ological features and recovered various tool types, burial patterns and 

 offerings, and, of particular interest, a series of bone flutes that sug- 

 gested much in the way of social life of these Early to Middle Wood- 

 land Indians. The power screen was used during these excavations, 

 making possible a nearly complete recovery of the cultural remains. 



Mr. Miller and his crew of five men moved to the Booth Farm site 

 (44FR15) on July 2, and between then and July 28, when the field 

 work ended, they excavated 202 archeological features. A number of 

 Savannah projectile points of the Late Archaic and Early Woodland 

 Periods were found lying on sterile hardpan at the base of the site and 

 in association with several random post molds. Noteworthy were the 

 remains of 70 feet of stockade found at the south edge of the site. In 

 this stockade, posts had been placed at intervals and reinforced with 

 rocks in the postholes. Wooden stringers had connected the vertical 

 posts, and to these had been attached other posts, much as a modern 

 fence would be built. 



Idaho-Oregon. — Under an agreement with the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, the Idaho State University Museum continued the work on the 

 Hells Canyon Reservoir material that was excavated during the latter 

 part of last fiscal year. The project, under the direction of Dr. Earl 

 H. Swanson, director of the Museum, was continued by Max G. Pavesic, 

 a graduate student at the University of Colorado. Work was confined 

 largely to laboratory analysis of the excavated material, rechecking a 

 few of the field locations, and preparation of the report. 



ARCHIVES 



Mrs. Margaret C. Blaker continued her duties as archivist, assisted 

 until August 1 by Regina M. Solzbacher and for the remainder of the 

 fiscal year by Margaret V. Lee. 



An extensive series of photographic prints and lantern slides, made 



