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area at the end of the fiscal year. A house or two and several cache 

 pits will be dug in each, and a map made of each village plan and site 

 location. Dr. Robert L. Stephenson and a party of 25 were at work 

 at the end of the fiscal year at the Sully site where preliminary studies 

 were made the previous season. The major effort will be the excava- 

 tion of that site, but seven other small nearby sites that may be related 

 to it will be tested. Charles H. McNutt and a party of eight were 

 making test excavations at 14 sites on the left bank of the Missouri 

 River in the general vicinity of Old Fort Sully. They were excavat- 

 ing a house or two and several cache pits in each and making a map 

 of the village plan and site location. None of these parties had been 

 in the field long enough, at the end of the fiscal year, to report any 

 specific results. 



In May and June Dr. Theodore E. White, National Park Service 

 geologist at Dinosaur National Monument, was detailed to the Mis- 

 souri Basin Project for a period of 6 weeks. During that time Dr. 

 White made an osteological analysis, in the Missouri Basin Project 

 laboratory, of all of the un worked animal bones from the sites exca- 

 vated over the past four field seasons by the Smithsonian Institution's 

 River Basin Surveys field parties. Work was also done on bones col- 

 lected by field parties of several of the cooperating institutions. This 

 included over 300,000 individual bones from 63 archeological sites in 

 eight reservoir areas. Dr. White selected numerous specimens for the 

 Missouri Basin Project's comparative collection and set aside others 

 that will be sent to the United States National Museum for further 

 study or for exhibit purposes. The bulk of the identified bone mate- 

 rials remaining was transferred to the Nebraska State Museum. Dr. 

 White amassed voluminous notes on this bone material for use in 

 continuing his series of reports on "Butchering Techniques of Aborigi- 

 nal Peoples." Material was gathered for at least eight additional 

 papers in this series. Seven have already been published. One of the 

 particularly interesting results of this osteological analysis was the 

 identification of the remains of a nmnber of unusually large dogs in 

 the canid material. 



During the time the archeologists were not in the field, they were 

 engaged in analyses of their materials and in laboratory and library 

 research. They also prepared manuscripts of technical scientific re- 

 ports and wrote articles and papers of a more popular nature. The 

 laboratory and office staff devoted its time to processing specimen ma- 

 terials for study, photographing specimens, preparing specimen rec- 

 ords, and typing and filing records and manuscript materials. The 

 accomplishments of the laboratory and office staff are listed in the 

 following tables. 



