SECRETARY'S REPORT 61 



The sixteenth JVIissouri Basin Project field party, directed by Carl 

 F. Miller, with a crew of nine, left for the field on June 15 and estab- 

 lished headquarters in the town of Blue Eapids, Kans, By the end 

 of the year this party had examined three of the sites in the upper 

 reaches of the Tuttle Creek Eeservoir in Marshall County, north- 

 eastern Kansas, and had begun testing one of them (14MH70). 



Cooperating institutions working in the Missouri River Basin at the 

 beginning of the fiscal year included six field parties, representing 

 five State agencies in Nebraska, Kansas, South Dakota, and Missouri. 

 Dr. Preston Holder, with a crew of students from the University of 

 Nebraska, completed work during July on the Leavenworth site 

 (39C09), 10 miles north of Mobridge, S. Dak., in the Oahe Reservoir 

 area. Dr. Carl H. Chapman and a crew from the University of Mis- 

 souri continued the survey and testing of sites in the Kaysinger Bluff 

 Reservoir area on the Osage River in west-central Missouri during the 

 period July to September. In addition. Chapman had a University 

 of Missouri crew at work on the survey of the Stockton Reservoir in 

 a branch of the Osage River in Cedar and Dade Counties, Mo. 

 Thomas A. Witty with a group from the Kansas State Historical So- 

 ciety was excavating the Woods site (14CY30) and testing several 

 other sites in the Milford Reservoir area on the Republican River in 

 Geary County, Kans. Roger T. Grange and a crew from the Ne- 

 braska State Historical Society was at work in the Red Willow Reser- 

 voir basin in Frontier County, southwestern Nebraska. This reservoir 

 is nearly completed and by the end of this field season will begin to 

 fill. Dr. Preston Holder, assisted by Dr. Emily Blasingham and a 

 crew of students from the University of Nebraska, was at work on 

 excavation, testing, and survey of sites in the Norton Reservoir area of 

 northwestern Kansas. Dr. Carlyle S. Smith, assisted by Walter 

 Birkby and a crew of students from the University of Kansas, began 

 work in June excavating two key sites and testing several others in the 

 ^lelvem Reservoir area in Osage County, east-central Kansas. Dr. 

 Carl H. Chapman and a crew from the University of Missouri were 

 continuing the survey and testing of sites in the Kaysinger Bluff 

 Reservoir area in west-central Missouri and, with a second crew, was 

 at work sampling sites in the Stockton Reservoir area in Cedar and 

 Dade Counties, Mo. All the cooperating institution parties men- 

 tioned above were operating under agreements with the National Park 

 Service and cooperating with the Smithsonian Institution in the 

 Inter- Agency Archeological Salvage Program. 



During the time 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 manuscripts of 

 technical reports and wrote articles and papers of a more popular 

 nature. 



