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86 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1953 



Ralph S. Solecki, archeologist, was transferred to the Missouri 

 Basin Project early in July. During the period from then until Oc- 

 tober 4 he was in charge of the surveys of the five Kansas reservoirs 

 and in July and August flew three aerial photographic missions over 

 other Missouri Basin areas. After completing the aerial missions 

 Mr. Solecki prepared an article, "Photographing the Past," which ap- 

 peared in the September issue of the Missouri River Basin Progress 

 Report. While at the Lincoln office during the latter part of October 

 and early November appraisal reports on the five Kansas Reservoir 

 surveys were completed by Mr. Solecki. 



Robert L. Stephenson, acting chief of the Missouri Basin Project, 

 devoted a major portion of his time to managing the operations of 

 the project. However, he was able to prepare a series of summary 

 statements on the past 7 years of Missouri Basin Project activities 

 in detail, reservoir by reservoir. He also did extensive work on a 

 technical report of the excavations he supervised during previous 

 years at the Whitney Reservoir on the Brazos River, Hill County, 

 Tex., and made some analysis of notes and materials from the Acco- 

 keek site in Maryland. He served as chairman of one section of the 

 Tenth Conference for Plains Archeology in November, attended the 

 annual meeting of the Society for American Archeology at Urbana, 

 111., where he presented a paper, "Accokeek : A Middle- Atlantic Cul- 

 ture Sequence," and acted as a discussant for two other papers. He 

 served as chairman for an informal conference of Plains archeolo- 

 gists held at the Lincoln headquarters in April, and was host for the 

 meeting of the Interior Missouri Basin Field Committee meeting in 

 May. At the end of the fiscal year he was on a tour of inspection 

 of the Missouri Basin. While in the field he visited White's paleon- 

 tological party at Canyon Ferry Reservoir in Montana. 



At the start of the fiscal year Richard Page Wheeler, archeologist, 

 was in charge of the survey and excavation party at the Jamestown 

 Reservoir in North Dakota. He continued his investigations there 

 until September 26 when he returned to the headquarters at Lincoln, 

 Nebr. Throughout the remainder of the year he worked on a major 

 technical report summarizing the results of excavations and surveys 

 made by himself and others in the Angostura Reservoir, S. Dak., and 

 in the Boysen and Keyhole Reservoirs in Wyoming, between 194G 

 and 1951. That report was virtually completed at the close of the 

 year. In addition he prepared a paper, "Plains Ceramic Analysis: 

 A Check-List of Features and Descriptive Terms," which was pub- 

 lished in the Plains Archeological Conference News Letter, vol. 5, 

 No. 2. He also wrote an interim report, "Appraisal of the Archeo- 

 logical and Paleontological Resources of the Jamestown Reservoir, 

 North Dakota: Supplement," which was mimeographed and dis- 

 tributed to the cooperating agencies. At the Tenth Conference for 



