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verify several ground plans of the post and gather a representative 

 series of specimen materials of the period. 



Cooperating institutions working in the Missouri Basin at the begin- 

 ning of the fiscal year included a party from the University of Kansas, 

 directed by Dr. Carlyle S. Smith, excavating at the Strieker Village 

 site (39LM1) in the Big Bend Reservoir and t-esting two nearby sites, 

 39L1VI226 and 390I227; a joint party from the University of North 

 Dakota and the State Historical Society of North Dakota, directed by 

 Dr. James H. Howard, excavating at the Huil site (32M011) in the 

 Oahe Eeservoir area ; and two parties from the University of ^Missouri, 

 directed by Dr. Carl F. Chapman, excavating a series of sites in the 

 Pomme de Terre Reservoir area and making preliminary surveys in 

 the Kassinger Bluff Reservoir area of west-central Missouri. In July 

 and August, a party from the Kansas State Historical Society, under 

 the direction of Roscoe Wilmeth, excavated one site and tested three 

 others in the Pomona Reservoir area of east-central Kansas. In 

 October a party from the University of South Dakota, directed by 

 William Buckles, excavated a cemetery area at the Four Bears site 

 (39DW2) in the Oahe Reservoir area of South Dakota. In April the 

 Nebraska State Historical Society had a party, under the direction of 

 Marvin F. Kivett, surveying sites in the Red Willow Reservoir in 

 southwestern Nebraska. At the end of the fiscal year, four cooperating 

 institutions had archeological crews in the field: The State Histor- 

 ical Society of North Dakota, at the Huff site (32M011) in the Oahe 

 Reservoir area, under the direction of W. Raymond Wood ; the Uni- 

 versity of Nebraska, at the Leavenworth site (39C09) in the Oahe 

 Reservoir area, directed by Dr. Preston Holder; the University of 

 Missouri, surveying and testing sites in the Kassinger Bluff Reservoir 

 area, directed by Dr. Carl F. Chapman ; and the Kansas State Histor- 

 ical Society, in the Wilson Reservoir area in central Kansas, directed 

 by Roscoe Wilmeth. All these parties were operating through agree- 

 ments with the National Park Service and were cooperating in the 

 Smithsonian Institution research program. 



During the time that the archeologists were not in the field, they 

 were engaged in analysis of their materials and in laboratory and 

 library research. They also prepared manuscripts of technical, 

 scientific reports and wrote articles and papers of a more popular 

 nature. 



The Missouri Basin Chronology Program, started by the staff 

 archeologists of the Missouri Basin Project in Januaiy of 1958, and 

 described in the Seventy-sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology, continued to operate throughout the year. The 

 program has continued to have marked success and the entire group 

 of 34 individuals and 20 research institutions has continued to co- 



