66 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1962 



As of June 30, 1962, the Missouri Basin Project had cataloged 

 1,339,396 specimens from 2,152 numbered sites and 59 collections not 

 assigned site numbers. 



Specimens restored : 5 pottery vessel sections. 



Specimens donated to the Missouri Basin Project for comparative use : 

 Thirty-one pot rim sherds representing Fort Rice and Huff wares — State 



Historical Society of North Daliota, courtesy of W. Raymond Wood. 

 Thirty-one trade beads — University of Texas, courtesy of Edward B. Jelks. 

 Three United States Army buttons dating 1850-70 — courtesy of S. J. Olsen, 

 Florida Geological Survey, 



Table 2. — Record material processed, July 1, 1961-June 20, 1962 



MISSOURI BASIN PROJECT 



Reflex copies of records 3,809 



Photographic negatives made 1, 135 



Photographic prints made 3, 392 



Photographic prints mounted and filed 1, 673 



Transparencies mounted in glass 564 



Kodaehrome pictures taken in lab 156 



Cartographic tracings and drawings 55 



Illustrations 29 



Lettering of plates 10 



Profiles drawn 33 



Plate layouts made for manuscripts 10 



Virginia. — An archeological reconnaissance was made during the 

 period from April 3 to May 11 at the Smith Mountain Project on 

 the Eoanoke Kiver in southern Virginia. That is an Appalachian 

 Power Co, undertaking and consists of the construction of two dams — 

 Smith Mountain and Leesville — which will provide water for power 

 purposes. The two reservoirs they will form will be located in Bed- 

 ford, Franklin, and Pittsylvania Counties, Va, The survey was made 

 by Carl F. Miller. His work was greatly facilitated by complete 

 cooperation on the part of personnel of the Appalachian Power Co. 

 and the Nello L. Teer Construction Co. The power company provided 

 a helicopter which made possible a study of the reservoir areas from 

 the air and also the taking of aerial photographs of the more important 

 sites. 



]Mr. Miller located and recorded 35 sites in the Smith Mountain basin 

 and 17 sites in the Leesville basin. Of the total of 52, only 1 will 

 not be endangered by the inundation of the 2 areas. However, 

 after careful examination of the surfaces and the testing of some 

 sites, Mr. Miller concluded that only four of them merited excavation 

 and detailed study. Three are in the Smith Mountain basin, while 

 the fourth is in the Leesville basin. The sites cover the Early, Middle, 

 and Late Woodland periods, involving a timespan beginning about 

 3000 B.C. and lasting to about A.D. 1000. They are significant be- 



