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vol. 22, No. 2. On June 1 Dr. Caldwell made a brief reconnaissance 

 with G. Hubert Smith in the Big Bend Reservoir area for the purpose 

 of determining where a camp should be established for the coming 

 season's fieldwork and also for inspecting the sites where he expected 

 to work. On June 11 he and his party moved into the field and were 

 engaged in excavations at the end of the year. 



Donald D. Hartle, temporary archeologist, joined the Missouri 

 Basin Project staff on June 6 and on June 12 left the field headquarters 

 with a party to begin excavations at several sites in the Oahe Reservoir 

 area. Mr. Hartle was formerly a full-time member of the staff at 

 Lincoln and is still working on reports of work which he did at that 

 time. He was in the field at the end of the fiscal year. 



Harold A. Huscher, field assistant and temporary archeologist, was 

 working in the Big Bend area at the beginning of the fiscal year, and 

 his activities there have been discussed in a preceding paragraph. 

 After his return to the Lincoln headquarters in the fall, he devoted 

 several months to the preparation of a preliminary appraisal report 

 on his summer's work. In his report he made specific recommenda- 

 tions for an excavation program in the area during the 1957 field 

 season. He left the project in January to complete work he was doing 

 for the Department of Justice but returned in the capacity of a 

 temporary archeologist late in June and proceeded to the Big Bend 

 area where he was just beginning a survey program at the end of the 

 fiscal year. 



William N. Irving, temporary archeologist, joined the Project staff 

 June 10 and on June 12 left Lincoln in charge of a party to begin 

 the excavation of a series of sites in the Big Bend Reservoir. His 

 activities there to the end of the fiscal year have previously been 

 described. 



Alfred E. Johnson, field archeologist and subsequently survey party 

 chief, was in the field at the beginning of the fiscal year as a member 

 of the Big Bend survey party under the direction of Mr. Huscher. 

 In October he took over the task of making a survey and tests in the 

 Toronto Reservoir area. He was in the field until mid-November 

 when he resumed his academic work at the University of Kansas. He 

 remained a part-time member of the staff, however, until early in 

 January and during that period completed a report, "An Appraisal 

 of the Archeological Resources of the Toronto Reservoir." Mr. 

 Johnson did not rejoin the Project staff when fieldwork was resumed 

 in the spring but went as an assistant with the party from the Uni- 

 versity of Kansas which was working in the Tuttle Creek Reservoir 

 area at the end of the year. His Toronto report was in the process of 

 being mimeographed on June 30. 



Charles H. McNutt, archeologist, was appointed a member of the 

 permanent staff of the Project on June 10. He devoted the following 



