SECRETARY'S REPORT 59 



The fourth party, Smith and Livingston, made a survey of the 

 area to be flooded by the Arcadia Dam in Custer Comity, Nebr., on 

 May 19 and 20. One site, 25CU202, was located within the reservoir 

 area, but it appeared to be of little archeological value. 



On June 12, the fifth and sixth Missouri Basin field parties left for 

 the field. Party No. 5, directed by Kobert W. Neuman and assisted 

 by John J. Hoffman and a crew of 10, began work on the early circular 

 house village known as the Mostad site (39DW23-4) and by the end 

 of the year was well along on the excavation of the fortification 

 system of that site. Party No. 6, also directed by Neuman but as- 

 sisted by James J. Stanek and a crew of 10, began work on the 2 

 burial momids at the Swift Bird site (39DW233) . By the end of the 

 year this partj^ had cleared a large part of one mound and was ex- 

 cavating the burial chamber within it. Both sites are on the right 

 bank of the Mssouri River some 8 miles south of Mobridge, in Dewey 

 Comity, S. Dak., and will be in the bank-slumping area of the Oahe 

 Reservoir. The two parties were camped together in the area between 

 the two sites. 



The seventh and eighth Missouri Basin Project field parties left for 

 the field on June 7. Party No. 7, directed by Dr. Warren W. Caldwell 

 and assisted by Richard T. Jensen and a crew of 11, began work on 

 the Langdeau site (39LM209) in the neck of the Big Bend in the 

 Big Bend Reservoir just above Lower Brule, Lyman County, S. Dak. 

 By the end of the year this crew was well along with the excavation 

 of three houses of long-rectangular pattern. Party No. 8, also directed 

 by Dr. Caldwell but assisted by Richard E. Carter and a crew of 

 nine, began work on site 39LM2, overlooking Medicine Creek, near 

 the neck of the Big Bend in the Big Bend Reservoir, some 8 miles 

 above Lower Brule, Lyman County, S. Dak. By the end of the year 

 this crew had completed the excavation of one circular house but was 

 finding evidence of an earlier occupation of the long-rectangular house 

 period. These two parties were camped together at the Crazy Bull 

 School House near Lower Brule. 



The ninth Missouri Basin Project field party, under the direction 

 of G. Hubert Smith assisted by Lee G. Madison and a crew of eight, 

 left for the field on June 12. Based in Pierre, S. Dak., this crew at 

 the end of the fiscal year was making progress on the excavations at 

 the historic site of Fort George (39ST202) some 15 miles downstream 

 from Pierre in Stanley County, in the area to be flooded by the Big 

 Bend Reservoir. Prehistoric occupations lie beneath the historic fur 

 trading post at that site and both liistoric and prehistoric components 

 were being excavated. 



The tenth Missouri Basin Project field party, directed by Dr. Wil- 

 liam M. Bass and assisted by Jon Muller and a crew of six, left Lin- 



