68 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1958 
TAasLe 2.—Record materials processed July 1, 1957-June 30, 1958 
Reflexcopies: Of! FECOTC Se: ei a eee i a eee 9, 240 
Photographic negativessmadeus.- 22 ae eee ee 2, 946 
Photographic (prints made 2) ee eee eee 11, 521 
Photographie prints; mounted) and) filed 22.22 eee ' 5, 182 
Transparencies mounted imeclass= 2 swe ee eee i, a, 
Color) pictures taken in) the Vaboratoryoos. 2-2-2 2 se eee 368 
Plateslayouts made tor manuscripts oe ee ee 92 
Cartographic tracings and revisions. _- - 22 =— 0 = ee 220 
Plates lettered st) 222 8 Sie ae Ue ee ee eee 37 
Artifactsusketched ee. cee fae, ee ta ie ein is oe oe ee 58 
Profilespdra wissen. dk Nt i oe ane, Fe 16 
As of June 30, 1958, the Missouri Basin Project had cataloged 
917,370 specimens from 1,762 numbered sites and 52 collections not 
assigned site numbers. During the current fiscal year, 8 pottery ves- 
sels and 387 pottery vessel sections were restored, and 104 nonpottery 
artifacts were repaired. Archeological specimens from 236 sites in 5 
reservoirs were transferred to the United States National Museum, as 
were selected specimens of dog, bird, and fish bones, and of shell. 
Pottery specimens and stone projectile points were transferred to 
Region Two of the National Park Service for use as display material 
at Wind Cave National Monument in South Dakota. The Missouri 
Basin Project received, by transfer from the Nebraska State His- 
torical Society, through the courtesy of Marvin F. Kivett, sample 
pottery specimens from four prototypical Nebraska sites. Cultural 
units and sites of these type specimens are: Dismal River, the Lovett 
site (25CH1); Lower Loup, the Burkett site (25NC1); Oneota, the 
Leary site (25RH1) ; and Valley Woodland, the Schultz site (25VY1). 
These specimens are now a part of the Missouri Basin Project com- 
parative collection. The Missouri Basin Project also received by 
transfer from the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History, 
through the courtesy of Dr. Carlyle S. Smith, archeological collec- 
tions from two sites in the Fort Randall Reservoir area, This was a 
permanent transfer of excavated materials which increased materially 
the research value of Missouri Basin Project collections. 
During the Thanksgiving weekend, members of the staff partici- 
pated in the 15th Plains Conference for Archeology, held in Lincoln. 
On April 19, members of the staff presented papers at the annual 
meeting of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences, also held in Lincoln. 
On April 30 and May 1 and 2, members of the staff attended and par- 
ticipated in the annual meeting of the Society for American Arche- 
ology held in Norman, Okla. 
Dr. Robert L. Stephenson, chief, when not in charge of field parties, 
devoted most of his time to managing the office and laboratory in Lin- 
coln and preparing plans for the 1958 summer field season. He spent 
