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negatives of color transparencies, and laboratory photographs. Two 

 hundred and six transparencies were cataloged and filed; 78 enlarge- 

 ments were printed and mounted; and 1,782 black-and-white contact 

 prints were made, cataloged, and filed. More than 4,000 photo- 

 graphic copies of archeological records were made to bring the basic 

 record file up to date. A considerable number of animal bones taken 

 from archeological sites were identified and there was some restora- 

 tion of fragmentary pottery. 



G. Ellis Burcaw joined the staff as an archeologist on May 31 and 

 left Lincoln on June 7 for the Garrison Reservoir in North Dakota, 

 where he began a series of excavations at the so-called Rock Village. 

 That site, one of the farthest upstream of the known fortified earth- 

 lodge villages, was yielding considerable quantities of artifacts, in- 

 cluding some European trade material, as work progressed at the 

 close of the fiscal year. 



Early in the fiscal year Paul L. Cooper devoted his time to studying 

 materials pertaining to the archeological remains in the Oahe and 

 Fort Randall Reservoirs. During September he made two brief 

 trips to the Angostura and Oahe Reservoirs and late in October 

 accompanied Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., Director of the River 

 Basin Surveys, on a visit to the excavation projects at the Angostura 

 Reservoir and to inspect sites in other areas. During November he 

 made a reconnaissance along the east side of the Missouri River in 

 the Oahe Reservoir area. In December he accompanied Dr. Gordon 

 Baldwin, of the National Park Service, Dr. Carlyle Smith, of the 

 University of Kansas, and Wesley Hurt, of the University of South 

 Dakota, on a trip to the Fort Randall and Oahe Reservoirs in South 

 Dakota for the purpose of selecting sites for excavation by the Uni- 

 versities of Kansas and South Dakota during the summer of 1950. 

 On January 23, 1950, he was designated acting field director of the 

 River Basin Surveys, and thereafter his activities were mainly con- 

 cerned with planning and supervising the headquarters and field 

 activities of the organization. 



Robert B. Gumming, Jr., archeologist, served throughout the year 

 as laboratory supervisor at the Lincoln headquarters. During such 

 time as the acting director was absent from the office, he assumed 

 administrative responsibility for continuing its operations. In addi- 

 tion he carried on research work on the skeletal material from the 

 Medicine Creek and Harlan County Reservoirs and prepared an ap- 

 pendix on the skeletal remains from the Woodruff ossuary for the 

 technical report on the ossuary. He also did some work on the human 

 remains from ossuaries in Nebraska. 



Walter D. Enger, Jr., archeologist, joined the River Basin Surveys 

 staff on May 31 and left Lincoln on June 9 to begin the excavation of 



