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excavated in the Table Rock Reservoir area on the White River in 

 Missouri during the summer of 1953 and returned to the same area in 

 June 1954; during the first quarter of the year the University of 

 Kansas completed excavation at four sites in the Fort Randall 

 Reservoir basin in South Dakota; the Nebraska State Historical 

 Society started a series of excavations on June 10 at the Crow Creek 

 site in the Fort Randall Reservoir basin and had just gotten well under 

 way at the end of the fiscal year; the University of Nebraska State 

 Museum completed work on a portion of one site in the Medicine 

 Creek Reservoir area in western Nebraska at the end of July and then 

 moved to the Big Sandy project in southwestern Wyoming where a 

 number of sites were investigated during the month of August, 

 paleontological studies being conducted on a voluntary basis at several 

 locations in the Missouri Basin by the same organization ; as previously 

 noted, the State Historical Society of North Dakota resumed its 

 activities at the Garrison Reservoir, North Dakota, in May and was 

 still at work at the end of the fiscal year ; the University of Oklahoma 

 was preparing to start surveys late in June at the Norman, Foss, and 

 Fort Cobb reservoir projects in that State ; the University of Oregon 

 excavated at sites in The Dalles Reservoir on the Oregon side of the 

 Columbia River in the summer of 1953 and returned to the same 

 locality for the 1954 field season; a joint party of the W. H. Over 

 Museum of the University of South Dakota and South Dakota 

 Archeological Commission completed excavation at the Spotted Bear 

 and Cottonwood sites in the Oahe Reservoir area in South Dakota in 

 the first quarter of the year and in June returned to the same basin 

 and started digging at the Swan Creek site; the University of Utah 

 was preparing to start a basin-wide survey in the Missouri Basin at 

 the close of the fiscal year ; the University of Washington carried on 

 excavations at the Wakemap Mound on the Washington side of the 

 Columbia River at The Dalles Reservoir project during the first quar- 

 ter and returned to the same location in June. In the case of the three 

 cooperating groups in the Missouri Basin, the River Basin Surveys 

 assisted the field activities by the loan of vehicles and other equipment. 



ARCHIVES 



Mrs. Margaret C. Blaker, archivist for the Bureau, continued her 

 program of reorganizing the manuscript and photographic collections 

 in addition to the usual daily routine. 



From time to time the photographic and manuscript collections of 

 the archives are enriched by gifts from persons who find old or rare 

 items in their possession. During the past fiscal year among the more 

 important additions received were the following : 



About 100 prints and IG glass-plate negatives of California Indians made 

 ca. 1889-95 by the Rev. H. C. Meredith, a missionary. Received through John 

 Witthoft, Pennsylvania State Museum. 



