84 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1959 
operation, a grand total of 1,074,418 specimens from 1,795 numbered 
sites and 54 collections not assigned site numbers, in 92 reservoir areas 
within the Missouri Basin. During the current fiscal year, 7 pottery 
vessels, 23 pottery vessel sections, and 1 stoneware bowl were restored, 
and 154 nonvessel artifacts were repaired. Archeological specimens 
from 38 sites in 2 reservoirs were transferred to the division of archeol- 
ogy, U.S. National Museum, and human skeletal remains from 26 
sites in 8 reservoirs were transferred to the division of physical an- 
thropology, U.S. National Museum. Archeological specimens 
(mostly trade goods) from three sites in one reservoir were trans- 
ferred to the Region Two Office, National Park Service, for display 
at the Jefferson National Westward Expansion Memorial Museum in 
St. Louis, Mo. The Missouri Basin project received, by transfer, 
from the University of Kansas, through the courtesy of Dr. Carlyle 
S. Smith, sample rim sherds of the Campbell Creek Indented type 
from the Talking Crow site (89BF3), and sample rim sherds of three 
varieties of the Cadotte Collared type from the Two Teeth site 
(89BF204). These specimens have been added to the Missouri Basin 
project comparative collections. 
On July 26-27, archeologists of the staff of the Missouri Basin 
project joined with archeologists of the National Park Service and 
of State agencies at work within the Missouri Basin in a roundtable 
field conference in Pierre, S. Dak. This session, called the 1514th 
Plains Conference, was devoted to basic technical problems arising 
from the current field activities, and such conferences are to become 
a regular feature each summer. During the Thanksgiving weekend, 
members of the staff participated in the 16th Plains Conference for 
Archeology, held in Lincoln. On April 17, members of the staff 
participated in the annual meeting of the Nebraska Academy of 
Sciences, also held in Lincoln. On April 30 and May 1 and 2, mem- 
bers of the staff attended and participated in the annual meeting of 
the Society for American Archaeology, held in Salt Lake City, Utah. 
Dr. Robert L. Stephenson, chief, when not in charge of field 
parties, devoted most of his time to managing the office and labora- 
tory in Lincoln and preparing plans and budgets for the 1959 summer 
field season. He spent a portion of his time working on a summary 
report of the Missouri Basin Salvage Program for the calendar years 
1952-58 and on the preparation of a manuscript reporting the “Arche- 
ological Investigations in the Whitney Reservoir, Texas.” He com- 
pletely revised and submitted a manuscript, “Excavations at Pueblo 
Pardo, New Mexico,” which he had prepared in collaboration with 
Joseph H. Toulouse, Jr., in 1941, for publication as a monograph of 
the School of American Research, Santa Fe, N. Mex. He prepared 
and submitted for publication by the Alice Ferguson Foundation of 
