70 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1958 
Harold A. Huscher, temporary archeologist, on the staff at the 
beginning of the year, was transferred to the Washington office on Jan- 
uary 27 to carry on the explorations in Alabama-Georgia previously 
discussed. Between his return from the field on September 16 and 
his departure for the Southeast, Mr. Huscher wrote a rough draft of 
a manuscript covering his work in the Missouri Basin in the summers 
of 1956 and 1957—“Appraisal of the Archeological Resources of the 
Big Bend Reservoir, South Dakota.” He also prepared the prelimi- 
nary draft of a brief technical manuscript on earth-lodge village forti- 
fications in the Missouri Basin, and presented it as an oral report at 
the 15th Plains Conference for Archeology in Lincoln on November 
28. He participated in the initial stages of the Missouri Basin 
Chronology Program. 
William M. Bass III, temporary physical anthropologist, left the 
staff on August 28. He rejoined the staff in the same capacity on June 
2 and remained in the Washington office until June 20, when he pro- 
ceeded to the Lincoln office where he spent five days working on a com- 
parative human skeleton. He left for the field in the Oahe Reservoir 
area on June 28. | 
William N. Irving, temporary archeologist, was appointed to the 
permanent staff on May 18. When not in the field directing excava- 
tions, he was in the Lincoln office analyzing materials he excavated 
during the preceding summer and investigating the geological possi- 
bilities of the Medicine Crow site (39BF2). He presented a prelimi- 
nary report on the archeology of the Medicine Crow site at the 15th 
Plains Conference for Archeology on November 28, and a report on 
the chronology of the Medicine Crow site at the annual meeting of the 
Nebraska Academy of Sciences on April 19. On May 1 he went to 
Norman, Okla., and presented a paper on the chronological relation- 
ships of the early part of the Medicine Crow site at the annual meet- 
ing of the Society for American Archeology. During the second half 
of the year he served as geology chairman of the Missouri Basin 
Chronology Program. 
James J. F. Deetz, temporary archeologist, joined the staff on June 
2, and on June 10 left Lincoln for South Dakota to excavate a series 
of sites in the Big Bend Reservoir area. 
Alan H. Coogan, temporary field assistant, joined the staff on June 
2,and on June 10 left Lincoln for the field to serve as assistant to Wil- 
liam N. Irving in the geological-archeological work in the vicinity of 
Old Fort Thompson in the Big Bend Reservoir area. 
Bernard Golden, temporary archeologist, joined the staff on May 19 
and on June 10 left Lincoln to begin excavations in an earth-lodge vil- 
lage site in the Big Bend Reservoir area. 
Charles H. McNutt, archeologist, when he was not in the field, de- 
voted most of his time to analyses and the preparation of reports. He 
