SECRETARY'S REPORT 73 



in the Davidson Journal of Anthropology, vol. 3, No. 2 ; and a mimeo- 

 graphed statement issued by the Missouri Basin Project, "Missouri 

 Basin Project, Progress Report No. 4." On July 24, he participated 

 in the IGi^th Plains Conference in Pierre, S. Dak., and November 

 26-28 attended the 17th Plains Conference for Archeology in Lincoln, 

 where he served as chairman of the session on "Field Reports" and 

 presented a paper, "Excavations in the Lower Brule-Good Soldier 

 Creek Area, Big Bend Reservoir." On April 23 he presented a 

 paper, "Clay Figurines in the Prehistory of the Northwest," before 

 the Nebraska Academy of Sciences in Lincoln. It was published in 

 abstract in the Proceedings of the Academy. During the year he 

 continued to serve as chairman of the dendrochronology section of 

 the Missouri Basin Chronology Program. In February, he accepted 

 appointment as collaborator for the Plains area for Ahstracts of Neio 

 World Archeology, and in April accepted appointment as assistant 

 editor for Reviews and Literature for the Plains Anthropologist. In 

 March he addressed the Sigma Gamma Epsilon, national earth- 

 sciences honorary, on "The Smithsonian Institution and the Archeo- 

 logical Salvage Program." On annual-leave time, he served as part- 

 time assistant professor of anthropology on the faculty of the Uni- 

 versity of Nebraska during the second semester of the academic year 

 (February to June) and taught a lower-division course, "The Amer- 

 ican Indian." 



Dr. Charles H. McNutt, archeologist, when not in the field conduct- 

 ing archeological excavations, spent much of his time in studying 

 materials he had obtained in previous seasons and in the preparation 

 of reports on the results of those excavations. He attended and par- 

 ticipated in the 16i/^th Plains Conference in Pierre in July, and the 

 l7th Plains Conference for Archeology in Lincoln in November. At 

 the latter he presented two papers, "The Thomas Riggs Focus, Addi- 

 tional Data" and "Comments on Two Southwestern Pottery Types." 

 In April he attended the Seventieth Annual Meeting of the Nebraska 

 Academy of Sciences and presented a paper, "Comments on Prehis- 

 toric Contacts between the Southwestern United States and the Areas 

 to the East." It was published in abstract in the Proceedings of tlie 

 Academy. In September he prepared an article, "The Missouri Basin 

 Chronology Program," which appeared in the Progress Report of 

 the Interior Missouri Basin Field Committee for October-December 

 1959. In January he collaborated with Warren W. Caldwell and 

 G. Hubert Smith in the preparation of a popular photographic book- 

 let, "Fort Randall Raservoir," to be published by the Coi-ps of Engi- 

 neers, Omaha. Throughout the year he served as chairman of the 

 carbon-14 section of the Missouri Basin Chronology Program. Dur- 

 ing the course of the year he cojnpleted manuscripts on "The Okobojo 



