SECRETARY’S REPORT 65 
Work was continuing at this site at the end of the year. The field 
parties of Irving, Neuman, and Deetz shared a joint field camp near 
the Medicine Crow site. 
The fourth River Basin Surveys field party in the Big Bend Reser- 
voir area in June was composed of a crew of 13 directed by Dr. War- 
ren W. Caldwell. It began work on June 10 at the Black Partizan 
site in an effort to complete excavations started last season. By the 
end of the year a circular (or more exactly an octagonal) earth lodge 
had been completely excavated and a midden area trenched. 
The fifth River Basin Surveys party in the Big Bend Reservoir 
area consisted of a crew of seven led by Bernard Golden. It began 
work on June 10 at the Hickey Brothers site (89L.M4) and spent the 
remainder of the year excavating midden deposits and one circular 
depression that appeared to be an earth-lodge ruin. Artifact inven- 
tory was small as of the end of the year. The Caldwell and Golden 
parties shared a joint camp at the Black Partizan site. 
In the Oahe Reservoir area, four River Basin Surveys parties were 
in the field during the month of June and a fifth party was scheduled 
to begin work early in the next fiscal year. The first party in the 
area had a crew of 10 under the direction of Charles H. McNutt. 
This group began on June 16, and spent the rest of the month con- 
tinuing excavations begun last season at the Sully School site 
(39SL7). There, a long expanse of the fortification stockade was 
uncovered, and work was well under way toward excavation of cir- 
cular earth-lodge structures. 
The second River Basin Surveys party in the Oahe Reservoir area 
in June consisted of a crew of 23 under the direction of Dr. Robert 
L. Stephenson, with Lee G. Madison as assistant. They began work 
on June 16 on the Sully site (39SL4) and by the end of the year had 
exposed the floors and other features of three circular earth-lodge 
structures. Artifact inventories were abundant in all 3, and an area 
surrounding 38 sides of each of 2 of the houses was being exposed in 
order to learn the nature of materials outside the houses. 
The third River Basin Surveys party at work in the Oahe Reservoir 
area by the end of the year was that of Richard P. Wheeler. It con- 
sisted of a crew of eight and was working on the Fort Bennett site 
(89ST12), on the right bank of the Missouri River near Old Fort 
Bennett in Stanley County, S. Dak. That party began work on June 
19, and by the end of the year had started the clearing of three circular 
earth-lodge structures. 
On the last day of the year, a fourth River Basin Surveys party 
started work in the Oahe Reservoir area. It was comprised of a crew 
of six, under the direction of William M. Bass ITI, and was to excavate 
the extensive burial area at the Sully site (39SLA4). 
