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draft, with an accompanying map showing the location of all sites 

 found to that date in the reservoir area, of a supplementary report 

 on the Fort Randall basin. From June 10 through 17, 1953, he super- 

 vised the work of the excavating party in the Tuttle Creek Dam area 

 in Kansas. Mr. Gumming presented a resume of the 1952 field work 

 at the Tenth Conference for Plains Archeology in November. 



From July 1 to September 15 Franklin Fenenga, archeologist, was 

 in charge of an excavating party in the Oahe Reservoir area and 

 also took part in additional surveys in the general vicinity of the dam. 

 He directed the digging at the Buffalo Pasture, Mathison, and Indian 

 Creek sites. In August he installed a special display to interpret the 

 archeology of the Oahe Dam area in the observation building main- 

 tained by the Corps of Engineers at a spot overlooking the east wing 

 of the dam. During the remainder of the year, at the Lincoln head- 

 quarters, he completed appraisal reports on the archeology of the 

 Gavins Point Reservoir in Nebraska and South Dakota and for the 

 Middle Fork Reservoir in Wyoming. He also completed a detailed 

 technical report on the results obtained at the Indian Creek site and 

 had finished approximately 75 percent of the report on the Buffalo 

 Pasture Village by the end of the fiscal year. He presented three 

 papers on archeological field methods before the Seminar on Plains 

 Archeology at the Laboratory of Anthropology of the University of 

 Nebraska. He took part in the Tenth Conference for Plains Arche- 

 ology and was reelected to a third term as editor of the Plains 

 Archeological Conference News Letter by that group. He presided 

 as president at the anthropological section of the 63d annual meeting 

 of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and j^resented a paper, "The 

 Ice-Glider Game, an 18th-Century Imiovation in Northern Plains 

 Culture." He also prepared an article, "The Weights of Chipped- 

 Stone Projectile Points, a Clue to Their Functions," for publication 

 in the Southwestern Journal for Anthropology. While in the field 

 he addressed several organizations, telling about the work of the 

 River Basin Surveys, and during the months in Lincoln acted as 

 preceptor of the Indian Project of two groups of Campfire Girls. 

 Because of the curtailment of funds for the Missouri Basin Project 

 it was necessary to terminate Mr. Fenenga's appointment in a reduc- 

 tion-in-force action on June 30, 1953. 



During July, August, and early September Donald D. Hartle, 

 archeologist, was in charge of the excavations at the Night- Walker's 

 Butte site and Grandmother's Lodge in the Garrison Reservoir area. 

 In September he also measured and photographed a modern dance 

 lodge in the Santee Bottoms. Throughout the remainder of the year 

 he was at the Lincoln headquarters where he completed the detailed 

 technical report on the excavations, carried on during 2 previous 

 years at the Rock Village site (32ME15). He completed a series 



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