74 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1949 
economical way of salvaging archeological remains on the scale needed. 
Application of the same procedures, including mechanized earth- 
moving operations, to other projects seems to be the only way of 
obtaining irreplaceable scientific data in the little time left for its 
recovery. 
In the laboratory 39 maps were drawn. Many of them were field 
maps, others were site and reservoir maps for use with published re- 
ports. Throughout the winter specimens were selected aad photo- 
graphed as analysis for technical reports proceeded. Including field 
photographs, a total of 918 negatives and 374 color transparencies 
were processed; 61 lantern slides were added to the slide series; 918 
prints were made, cataloged, and filed; 1,008 prints were made for 
report illustrations and reference purposes; and 350 enlargements 
were made for publicity and reference use. 
All specimens collected during the field season, a total of 45,233, 
were cleaned, numbered, cataloged, and stored. The majority of 
them came from Medicine Creek, Angostura, and Oahe Reservoirs. 
Samples of bone, shell, and vegetal specimens from various sites were 
packed and sent to specialists elsewhere for identification. In addi- 
tion, soil samples from some of the sites were sent out for analysis, and 
wood and charcoal specimens were sent away for tree-ring studies. 
The skeleton of an adolescent covered with thousands of shell beads, 
sent to Lincoln in a plaster case from the Harlan County Reservoir, 
Nebraska, in 1946, was mounted permanently for exhibit purposes. 
Pottery restoration, principally of Medicine Creek material, continued 
throughout the spring months, 17 earthenware vessels having been 
restored by June 30. 
Information concerning over 129 sites was added to the site file, 
and 45 maps were indexed and added to the map reference file. 
On July 1, J. Joseph Bauxar, archeologist, was stationed at the 
Lincoln, Nebr., headquarters, continuing the ethnohistorical research 
project he had started the preceeding year. The material collected 
consisted of such information as is pertinent to the archeologists’ 
problem of determining the ethnic affiliations of the archeological 
complexes in the Missouri River Basin. Some 30 tribes and subtribes 
are represented in the Tribal Culture File. On January 9, 1949, Mr. 
Bauxar was transferred to the Oklahoma project of the River Basin 
Surveys and proceeded to Norman for the purpose of analyzing 
materials from the Norman site in the Fort Gibson Reservoir. 
Wesley L. Bliss, archeologist, devoted the time from July 1 until 
January 8 in the preparation of a general article ‘‘Birdshead Cave, 
a Stratified Site in the Wind River Basin, Wyoming,” and a technical 
report on the same project. In late August he visited the sites in the 
Medicine Creek area being excavated by the State Museum of the 
