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River Basin Surveys of the Smithsonian Institution and took part in 

 a discussion of the future needs of the salvage program. Mr. Cooper 

 served as the chairman of the Ninth Conference for Plains Arche- 

 ology, which met at Lincoln in April. On June 6 he left Lincoln 

 for the Oahe Reservoir in South Dakota and at the end of the fiscal 

 year was directing a party excavating aboriginal sites along the Mis- 

 souri below the mouth of the Cheyenne River. 



Franklin Fenenga, archeologist, was in charge of a reconnaissance 

 party from the beginning of the fiscal year until September when he 

 returned to the Lincoln office. During the field season his party 

 visited 15 proposed reservoir areas. Probably the most interesting 

 part of the season was that devoted to a boat trip down the Bighorn 

 River Canyon in Wyoming-Montana to examine the area of the pro- 

 posed Yellowtail Reservoir. On June 8 he went to the Oahe Reservoir 

 and started a series of excavations near the dam site a few miles above 

 Pierre, S. Dak. Those activities were well under way by June 30. 

 During the months spent at the headquarters in Lincoln Mr. Fenenga 

 prepared preliminary appraisal reports for seven reservoir projects. 

 He presented two papers before the Ninth Conference for Plains 

 Archeology, and served as editor of the News Letter for that confer- 

 ence. He was reelected to that office for the year 1952-53. He also read 

 a paper before the 62d annual meeting of the Nebraska Academy of 

 Sciences. During the 1952 meeting of the Academy he served as acting 

 chairman of the anthropological section and was elected its chairman 

 for 1953. Mr. Fenenga had two papers published during the year: 

 "The Archeology of Slick Rock Village, Tulare County, California," 

 American Antiquity, volume 17, No. 4, April 1922, and "The Wabino, 

 a One-time Rival of the Midewiwin," Proceedings of the Nebraska 

 Academy of Sciences, 62d Annual Meeting, 1952. 



Donald D. Hartle, archeologist, was in charge of an excavating 

 party at the Rock Village site in the Garrison Reservoir area of North 

 Dakota from July 1 to August 20. From August 20 to October 27 

 he directed the excavations at the Star site in the same reservoir basin. 

 The latter part of October, in collaboration with James H. Howard of 

 the North Dakota State Historical Society, he recorded 12 Indian 

 songs, including several of those known as "Custer" songs. Two 

 Arikara Indians, Jonie Fox and Davis Paint, did the singing for 

 Hartle and Howard. From November 1 to June 1, Hartle spent his 

 time at the Lincoln headquarters studying his materials from the Rock 

 Village and preparing a technical report on the results of his investi- 

 gations. Further work was contemplated at Rock Village and the 

 manuscript could not be finished until that was done. Hartle left 

 Lincoln on June 2 with a party to continue his studies at Rock Village 

 and by the end of the month had completed the additional excavations. 



