50 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1958 
tion brought back to the Smithsonian Institution somewhat more than 
a ton and a half of material for study and exhibit purposes. 
RIVER BASIN SURVEYS 
The River Basin Surveys, in cooperation with the National Park 
Service and the Bureau of Reclamation of the Department of the 
Interior, the Corps of Engineers of the Department of the Army, and 
various State and local institutions, continued its program for salvage 
archeology in areas to be flooded or otherwise destroyed by the con- 
struction of large dams. During the fiscal year 1957-58 the program 
was financed by a transfer of $175,624 from the National Park Serv- 
ice to the Smithsonian Institution. Of that amount $157,624 was 
for use in the Missouri Basin and the remainder covered operations 
in other areas. A carryover of $15,902 from the Missouri Basin 
funds for the preceding fiscal year made the total available for the 
Missouri Basin $173,526. The over-all total for the year was $191,526. 
The amount of available money was somewhat larger than during 
the previous fiscal year, and the increase was reflected in the work 
accomplished. 
Field investigation during the year consisted mainly of excavations, 
although some surveys were carried on in several areas. On June 1, 
1957, nine parties were in the field. Four were doing intensive dig- 
ging in the Great Bend Reservoir area and four were making ex- 
cavations in the Oahe Reservoir area, both projects being located 
in South Dakota. A survey party covered portions of the Big Bend 
area, which had not been visited during the previous summer’s work, 
and carried on test operations in 14 sites. In September that party 
moved to the Oahe Reservoir basin where it started similar oper- 
ations. Most of the field parties had returned to their headquarters 
by the end of September. Early in the spring a party conducted 
excavations in the Dardanelle Reservoir area on the Arkansas River 
in Arkansas. During the period February—June, a survey party 
worked in three reservoir areas along the lower Chattahoochee River 
in Alabama and Georgia, and in April—June another party excavated 
in two sites in the Hartwell Reservoir area in South Carolina- 
Georgia. At the end of the fiscal year nine parties were conducting 
excavations along the Missouri River in South Dakota. Five were 
working in the Great Bend Reservoir area and four in the Oahe 
Reservoir Basin. 
By June 80, 1958, reservoir areas where archeological surveys and 
excavations had been made since the salvage program got under way 
in 1946 totaled 254 in 29 States. The survey parties have located 
and recorded 4,889 archeological sites, and of that number 997 have 
been recommended for excavation or limited testing. In general 
