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sites merited excavation. In early June he started excavations at 

 the site of the Whetstone Agency and was continuing operations 

 there at the end of the fiscal year. 



James M. Shippee, field and laboratory assistant, spent the early 

 part of July with the Wheeler party at the Keyhole Reservoir in 

 Wyoming. The last 2 weeks of the month he joined the Fenenga 

 party for the boat trip through the Bighorn Canyon. He returned 

 to the Keyhole area in August and remained with the Wheeler party 

 until it returned to Lincoln in September. During the fall and win- 

 ter months he was occupied with various duties at the field head- 

 quarters. In March he spoke before the Great Bend chapter of the 

 Missouri Archeological Society and in May read a paper at the annual 

 meeting of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences on salvage work at an 

 archeological site destroyed by flood prevention work near Kansas 

 City, Mo. 



G. H. Smith, archeologist, spent the period from July 1 to October 

 1, 1951, excavating in the remains of Fort Stevenson. During that v 

 period five of the more important building sites were completely or 

 largely excavated and there was some digging in a few lesser ones. 

 In October Mr. Smith, accompanied by George Metcalf , made a recon- 

 naissance in a previously unsurveyed part of the Garrison Reservoir. 

 Some test excavations were made at that time at the supposed site of 

 the fur-trading post of James Kipp. From October 28 to June 2, Mr. 

 Smith was at the Lincoln headquarters where he prepared a report on 

 the results of the Fort Stevenson investigations. The first draft was 

 completed and referred to the Chief for review. In May Mr. Smith 

 accompanied a party of National Park Service historians on a visit 

 to historic sites in the Gavins Point, Fort Randall, Oahe, and Garri- 

 son Reservoirs. In June he returned to the Garrison Reservoir and 

 started excavations at the supposed site of the original Fort Berthold, ^ 

 and at Fort Atkinson, its successor, which is also known as Fort Ber- 

 thold II. By June 30 a section of the site of the latter had been 

 opened and considerable information was being obtained concerning 

 the post and Indian trade in general. 



Dr. Waldo R. Wedel, curator of the division of archeology, U. S. 

 National Museum, was detailed to the River Basin Surveys for the field 

 season of 1951. He directed excavations at the Cheyenne River 

 village site in the Oahe Reservoir area from June 21 to September 14. 

 During the winter months at his regular station in Washington Dr. 

 Wedel worked on the materials and data from the site. As there is 

 considerable more digging to be done there, however, it will not be 

 possible to write the detailed technical report until that has been 

 accomplished. 



Richard Page Wheeler, archeologist, spent the period from the start ^ 

 of the fiscal year through September 25 excavating at sites in the Key- 



