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processed the materials collected by excavating parties in the Mis- 

 souri Basin and also handled those from the Chattahoochee Basin. 



Washington o-fjice. — Tlie main headquarters of the Kiver Basin 

 Surveys at the Bureau of American Etluiology continued throughout 

 the year under the direction of Dr. Frank H. H. Koberts, Jr. Carl 

 F. Miller, archeologist, was based at that office and from time to tune 

 assisted the Director in some of the general administrative problems. 

 Harold A. Pluscher, archeologist, worked under the general super- 

 vision of the Washington office but because of lack of space and labora- 

 tory facilities continued to work at the field headquarters in Lincoln, 

 Nebr. 



At the beginning of the fiscal year Mr. Miller was occupied with 

 the technical report on excavations which he previously conducted 

 at the Hosterman Site in the Oahe Keservoir basin in South Dakota. 

 In September he attended a conference on eastern archeology held 

 at Ligonier, Pa., under the auspices of the Carnegie JMuseiun of 

 Pittsburgh and composed of a gi-oup of invited guests. The problems 

 discussed were mainly concerned with the Paleo-Indian, Eastern 

 Archaic, and Woodland cultures. In October Mr. Miller made a 

 survey of the Sutton Reservoir area in West Virginia. In November 

 he attended the Southeastern Archeological Conference held at Macon, 

 Ga. He completed his report on the Hosterman Site in February. 

 Durmg April he made a survey of archeological sites along the Cow- 

 pasture River in Bath County, Virginia, investigating a number of 

 small rock mounds and several open sites. Durmg the year Mr. 

 Miller examined and reported on several collections of artifacts which 

 were sent in from various areas in the East and Southeast. He also 

 gave a number of talks before various groups and societies in the 

 Washington area. 



At the beginning of the fiscal year Mr. Huscher was in the Lincoln 

 office working on maps, records, and collections from the Oliver Dam 

 and Reservoir, the Columbia Dam and Ix)ck, and the Walter F. George 

 Dam and Lock in the Chattahoochee Basin between Alabama and 

 Georgia. In July he attended a field conference held at Pierre, S. Dak. 

 In November he went to Macon, Ga., and participated in the South- 

 eastern Archeological Conference held there. On his return to 

 Lincoln he attended the Plains Conference which was held at the 

 University of Nebraska. His three appraisal reports on the Chatta- 

 lioochee projects were completed in October, November, and December. 

 They were processed at the Lincoln office and were distributed from 

 the Washington office in April. In January Mr. Huscher returned to 

 the Alabama-Georgia area where he resumed his field investigations 

 in the Walter F. George Reservoir area. He returned to Lincoln late 

 in June and at the end of the fiscal year was on annual leave. 



