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technical report on the excavations which he had made at the Tuttle 

 Creek Dam in Kansas the previous year. He also prepared a special 

 report concerning the archeological potentialities of the Powder River 

 Basin in Wyoming. In November he participated in the Eleventh 

 Conference for Plains Archeology, presenting 3 papers. On May 17 

 he returned to the Fort Randall Reservoir area and resumed excava- 

 tions at a site where work had been done during two previous field 

 seasons. On May 31 he returned to the field headquarters leaving his 

 party under the direction of Harold A. Huscher. Mr. Gumming re- 

 signed from the River Basin Surveys on June 6 after having been 

 with the Missouri Basin Project from its inception in 1946. 



Harold A. Pluscher, field assistant, was in direct charge of the field 

 party in the Fort Randall area from July 27 to September 12. He 

 worked under the general supervision of Robert B. Cumming. Dur- 

 ing the time he was in the field he supervised the testing of 18 sites and 

 located 5 which were previously unrecorded. After returning to the 

 field headquarters at Lincoln, Mr. Huscher completed a report on the 

 summer's work. He returned to the university for graduate work dur- 

 ing the fall and winter and rejoined the River Basin Surveys in June 

 when he took charge of the excavating party, which had been under 

 Mr. Cumming's direction, in the Fort Randall area. At the end of the 

 fiscal year, Huscher and his group were busy stripping a large area 

 and uncovering house remains at the important Oldham site. 



G. H. Smith, archeologist, rejoined the staff of the Missouri Basin 

 Project in May and proceeded to the Garrison Reservoir area in North 

 Dakota where he resumed excavations at the site of Fort Berthold II 

 and Like-a-Fishhook village. Smith was subsequently joined by Alan 

 R. Woolworth, curator of the Museum of the State Historical Society 

 of North Dakota, and his group of laborers and the combined parties 

 worked as a unit in carrying on the excavations. In addition to com- 

 pleting the investigation of Fort Berthold II which Smith had started 

 in the summer of 1952, various Indian house remains were cleared and 

 the original Fort Berthold, which was established by the American Fur 

 Company in 1845, was located. In addition to those activities, the 

 general base map of the entire area which had been started in 1952 

 was completed. This provides for the first time an adequate historical 

 and archeological map of the entire site. The joint field party was 

 still at work there at the close of the fiscal year. During the year Mr. 

 Smith completed the detailed technical report on the excavations which 

 he made in a previous season at the site of Fort Stevenson, also in the 

 Garrison area. 



During the fiscal year Robert L. Stephenson, chief of the Missouri 

 Basin Project, devoted the major portion of his time to directing the 

 operations of the project. In addition, however, he prepared a series 



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