Report on the Bureau of American 

 Ethnolgy 



Sm: I have the honor to submit the following report on the field 

 researches, office work, and other operations of the Bureau of Ameri- 

 can Etlinology during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1960, conducted 

 in accordance with the act of Congress of April 10, 1928, as amended 

 August 22, 1949, which directs the Bureau "to continue independently 

 or in cooperation anthropological researches among the American 

 Indians and the natives of lands imder the jurisdiction or protection 

 of the United States and the excavation and preservation of archeo- 

 logic remains." 



SYSTEMATIC RESEARCHES 



Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., Director of the Bureau, devoted part 

 of the year to general supervision of the activities of the Bureau and 

 the River Basin Sui'veys. In July he inspected the work of excavat- 

 ing parties operating in the Pomona Reservoir area in Kansas, the Big 

 Bend and Oahe Reservoir areas in South Dakota, and a portion of the 

 Oahe Basin in North Dakota. Three of the parties were from co- 

 operating agencies and three represented the River Basin Surveys. 

 In addition, he visited two excavations that were not a part of the 

 salvage program, one conducted by a University of Nebraska field 

 party and the other by a group from the State Historical Society of 

 Nebraska. Dr. Roberts was accompanied by Carroll Burroughs from 

 the Branch of Archeology of the Washington office of the National 

 Park Service and Dr. Robert L. Stephenson, Chief of the Missouri 

 Basin Project of the River Basin Surveys. "While at Pierre, S. Dak., 

 they participated in an informal conference attended by leaders of 

 all the parties working in the Plains during the summer, many of 

 their student helpers, and representatives from various universities 

 and museums in the area. Virtually every phase of Missouri Basin 

 archeology was discussed. 



In November Dr. Roberts went to Lincoln, Nebr., where he reviewed 

 the operations of the field headquarters and laboratory of the River 

 Basin Surveys and took part in the sessions of the Plains Archeologi- 

 cal Conference at the University of Nebraska. At Omaha he met with 

 representatives of the Corps of Engineei-s and the Region Two Office 



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