SECRETARY’S REPORT 89 
excavations in a series of mound sites in the Big Bend Reservoir 
area. 
G. Hubert Smith, archeologist, at the beginning of the fiscal year 
was on temporary-detached duty with the National Park Service, 
conducting excavations at Fort McHenry National Monument, in 
Baltimore, Md. He submitted a report on his findings in September. 
On October 1 he returned to duty with the Missouri Basin project 
and spent the period from then until February 9 compiling a com- 
prehensive report on several seasons’ work at Site 832ML2, Forts 
Berthold I and IJ, and Like-a-Fishhook Village. This report will 
combine the findings of five archeologists during four seasons of 
work at this site in the Garrison Reservoir of North Dakota. In addi- 
tion there will be an ethnohistoric account of the site. In February 
he was transferred to the Chattahoochee Basin project where he 
remained until June 17, when he again returned to the Missouri Basin 
project. In November he attended the annual meetings of the Ameri- 
can Indian Ethnohistorical Conference and the American Anthropo- 
logical Association, held in Washington, D.C. At a symposium of 
the latter group he contributed a paper on “Interpretive Values of 
Archeological Evidence in Historical Research.” During the year 
he had a previously written article entitled “Great Carrying Place” 
published in the Naturalist, a quarterly publication of the Natural 
History Society of Minnesota. He prepared reviews of “The Indians 
of Quetico,” by Emerson S. Coatsworth, for publication in the fall 
1958 issue of L'thnohistory, and of “New Light on Old Fort Snel- 
ling,” by John M. Callender, for publication in a future issue of 
Nebraska History. He also prepared a brief article describing 
the work at Fort McHenry and submitted it for publication in the 
Maryland Historical Magazine. At the end of the year he was again 
at work on the comprehensive report on Site 89ML2, Forts Berthold 
Tand IJ, and Like-a-Fishhook Village. 
Richard P. Wheeler, archeologist, when he was not in the field, 
devoted his time to analyses of materials and preparation of reports 
on sites excavated by him in past years. He completed the final] draft 
of his manuscript, “The Stutsman Focus: An Aboriginal Culture 
Complex in the Jamestown Reservoir Area, North Dakota.” He 
also completed the major portion of a draft of a manuscript entitled 
“Mounds and Earthworks in the Jamestown Reservoir Area of North 
Dakota” and of another entitled “Three Stratified Occupation Sites 
in the Oahe Dam and Reservoir Area, South Dakota.” In July he 
participated in the 1514th Plains Conference held in Pierre, and in 
November attended the 16th Plains Conference for Archeology, held 
in Lincoln, presenting papers on “Investigations near Old Fort Ben- 
nett, Oahe Reservoir” and “Dendrochronology in the Central North- 
