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recovered a total of 264 interments there. It was thought that the 

 brief stay during the 1961 season would exhaust the burial area and 

 give a good statistical sample of a single population. However, it 

 became evident that more burials are to be found there and plans 

 were made to continue the work in the 1962 season. The Sully site 

 unquestionably offei-s a better opportunity than any other to obtain 

 a really meaningful sample of the protohistoric Arikara physical 

 types in the Missouri Basin. Numerous artifacts were recovered 

 with the burials. They include catlinite pipes, wooden pipe stems, a 

 whole pottery vessel, glass and copper beads, woven mats, and bone 

 tools. 



The 1962 field season began early this year with a brief survey of the 

 area to be flooded by the several proposed small reservoirs in the 

 Salt-Wahoo Drainage Basin in Lancaster and Seward Comities, 

 southeastern Nebraska. Robert W. Neuman, assisted by Lionel A. 

 Brown and John W. Garrett, the latter a member of the staff of the 

 Nebraska State Historical Society, spent April 5 and 6 investigating 

 the areas designated as Dams 4, 8, 13, and 17. This initial survey re- 

 vealed nothing of archeological interest in proposed flood areas of 

 these four reservoirs. Construction activities at these dams should be 

 watched, however, when the time comes for building the dams, as 

 buried sites of the Archaic and Woodland periods might then be 

 discovered. 



The second Missouri Basin Project field party for the new season 

 began work in the Pony Creek Drainage area of Mills County, south- 

 western Iowa, on IMay 1. There the Soil Conservation Service is 

 building a series of small reservoirs and terracing large areas as 

 protection against erosion. Lionel A. Brown, assisted first by Wilfred 

 M. Husted, and later by Lee G. Madison, made an intensive survey of 

 the area in immediate danger of destruction, and then with a crew of 

 3 men tested 7 of the 16 sites located. They completed the season's 

 work on May 25. One house was excavated in each of three sites, 

 13IML205, 13ilL206, and 13ML216. Extensive tests were made in sites 

 13ML201, 13ML204, 13ML208, and 13ML215. This party recom- 

 mended further investigations in all of the sites, 13ML201 through 

 13ML216 except 13ML201, 13ML213, 13ML214, and 13I^IL215, which 

 will either be out of danger of damage from construction or have no 

 promise of yielding useful archeological information. The houses 

 excavated were square to rectangular in shape and provided artifacts 

 suggestive of the Aksarben Aspect and related materials. 



The third field party, consisting of G. Hubert Smith and Jeriy L. 

 Livingston, visited the historic site of Fort Sully (39SI^5) in Sully 

 County, north of Pierre, S. Dak., during the period of May 15-18 for 

 the purpose of making a topographic map of the site, but heavy rains 

 made this impossible. 



