38 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1954 



As of June 30, 1954, archeological materials from 1,496 sites in reser- 

 voir areas and from 43 sites outside reservoir areas where loss from 

 other construction was imminent had been cataloged. The work in 

 the laboratory also included: reflex copies of record sheets, 9,488; 

 photographic negatives, 2,160; photographic prints, 12,367; prints 

 mounted to illustrate manuscripts, 220 ; photographic transparencies 

 mounted in glass, 188 ; drawings, tracings, and maps, 211 ; pottery ves- 

 sels restored, 5 ; pottery vessel sections restored, 145 ; specimens drawn 

 for illustration, 57; plate layouts for manuscripts, 122; restorations 

 of human crania, 10. 



Interpretative displays showing the scope and results of archeologi- 

 cal investigations in the Missouri Basin were installed from time to 

 time in the windows of the laboratory in the business section of Lin- 

 coln and in one of the main banks of the city. A special display ex- 

 plaining the archeological salvage program was also installed at the 

 Nebraska State Fair held at Lincoln during September. The latter 

 attracted considerable attention from visitors to the fair. 



Paul L. Cooper, archeologist, was at the Lincoln headquarters at 

 the beginning of the fiscal year and did not make any field trips during 

 the summer of 1953. He devoted the months at the laboratory to the 

 completion of a summary report of the INIissouri Basin salvage pro- 

 gram during the calendar years 1950-51. He also completed for pub- 

 lication a technical report on the excavations made at the Heart Butte 

 Reservoir during a previous season. In addition he worked on a report 

 of investigations in three burial mounds, two near the location of the 

 former Wlieeler Bridge and the White Swan Mound which was in the 

 area of the spillway of the Fort Randall Dam. A report on the human 

 skeletal material is being prepared by Dr. ^Marshall T. Newman of the 

 U. S. National Museum and will appear as an appendix to the archeo- 

 logical report. Mr. Cooper participated in the sessions of the Eleventh 

 Conference for Plains Archeology held at Lincoln in November. On 

 May 16 he proceeded to the Fort Randall Reservoir area in South Da- 

 kota and directed an intensive test survey of 13 sites and carried on 

 excavations in 3 sites. Some of them had already been partially inun- 

 dated and others were flooded shortly after they were investigated. 

 At the end of the fiscal year he was continuing his operations in the 

 Fort Randall area. 



Robert B. Cumming, archeologist, was at the headquarters in Lin- 

 coln at the start of the fiscal year. On July 27 he left for the Fort 

 Randall Reservoir area in charge of a party which was to make inten- 

 sive test surveys during the period extending to September 12. After 

 instructing the party as to the proper procedure, he returned to the 

 Lincoln headquarters and devoted his time to analj^zing and prepar- 

 ing a report on the results of his previous investigations in that area. 

 During the time he was at the laboratory Mr. Cumming completed a 



