64 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1959 
The main office in Washington continued general supervision of 
the program, while the field headquarters and laboratory at Lincoln, 
Nebr., was responsible for the activities in the Missouri Basin, and 
in addition provided equipment and office assistance for the parties 
engaged in the Chattahoochee River project. The materials collected 
by excavating parties in the Missouri Basin, as well as those from 
the Chattahoochee Basin, were processed at the Lincoln laboratory. 
Washington office —The main headquarters of the River Basin Sur- 
veys at the Bureau of American Ethnology continued under the 
direction of Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr. As previously men- 
tioned, Carl F. Miller, archeologist, was detailed to the regular 
Bureau staff for the period July 3 to December 14, 1958. After 
his return to the River Basin Surveys staff, Mr. Miller completed 
the final revision of his report on the “Archeology of the John H. 
Kerr Reservoir, Southern Virginia and Northern North Carolina.” 
The report includes a summary of the many sites located during the 
course of the original survey of the area, as well as detailed informa- 
tion on those which were excavated by Mr. Miller. After submit- 
ting the John H. Kerr report, Mr. Miller began work on the final 
report pertaining to the investigations that he made at the Hoster- 
man site (838PO7) in the Oahe Reservoir area, South Dakota, dur- 
ing a previous field season. The report was approximately one-half 
complete at the end of the year. During the winter and spring 
months Mr. Miller spoke before several teachers’ organizations in the 
Washington area, addressed a meeting of the Narragansett Archeo- 
logical Society at Providence, R.I., the Archeological Society of 
Virginia in Richmond, and the Southern Branch of the Archeologi- 
cal Society of Maryland at Bethesda, Md. Most of his talks pertained 
to the Russell Cave explorations, although the one given at Bethesda 
compared the materials from the John H. Kerr Reservoir with those 
from the Shepard Barracks site in Maryland where excavations were 
carried on by the Maryland Society. In June, Mr. Miller read proof 
on an article about Russell Cave, which is to appear in a book on 
National Parks and Monuments in the United States being issued 
by the National Geographic Society. In January Mr. Miller received 
the Franklin L. Burr Award from the National Geographic Society 
in “recognition of his outstanding contributions to the science of 
geography and early American history through the archeological 
investigations of Russell Cave, Alabama.” At the end of the fiscal 
year Mr. Miller was working in the Washington office. 
On October 13, 1958, Harold A. Huscher was transferred from 
the Missouri Basin project to the Chattahoochee River project. He 
was under the general supervision of the Washington office but con- 
tinued to work at the headquarters in Lincoln, Nebr., where he 
