SECRETARY’S REPORT 8&5 
Reservoir on Johns Creek. The University of Missouri and the 
Missouri Archeological Society again cooperated in making surveys 
in a number of reservoirs and in excavating sites in the Missouri por- 
tion of the Bull Shoals Reservoir and in the Clearwater and Pomme 
de Terre basins on the Black and Pomme de Terre Rivers, respec- 
tively. At the end of the year Montana State University was 
starting field work at the Canyon Ferry Reservoir on the Missouri 
River near Townsend, Mont. 
The Laboratory of Anthropology of the University of Nebraska 
was excavating in sites at the Harlan County Reservoir on the Re- 
publican River in the southern part of the State at the start of the 
fiscal year and had returned to the same locality for further activities 
in June 1949. The work done during the summer of 1948 was de- 
scribed by Dr. John L. Champe, in a report, ‘“‘White Cat Village,” 
published in American Antiquity, vol. 14, No. 4, April 1949. The 
Nebraska State Historical Society excavated a number of sites in the 
Medicine Creek Reservoir area in the early months of the year and 
in June had a party digging in the Mullen Reservoir area on the 
Middle Loup River in the north-central part of the State. The Uni- 
versity of Nebraska State Museum continued its paleontological and 
archeological investigations in the Harlan County and Medicine 
Creek Reservoir areas. One site in the Medicine Creek basin that 
proved of particular interest because of its implications of consider- 
able antiquity was described in an article, “The Frontier Culture 
Complex, a Preliminary Report on a Prehistoric Hunter’s Camp in 
Southwestern Nebraska,” written by Preston Holder and Joyce Wike 
and printed in American Antiquity, vol. 14, No. 4, April 1949. 
The University of North Dakota and the North Dakota Historical 
Society cooperated in excavations at the Baldhill Reservoir in the 
eastern part of the State in the summer of 1948, and toward the close 
of the fiscal year were preparing for intensive survey work in the 
Garrison Reservoir on the Missouri River near Sanish, N. Dak. The 
results of the previous summer’s work were discussed by Dr. Gordon 
W. Hewes in “Burial Mounds in the Baldhill Area, North Dakota,” 
which appeared in the April 1949 issue of American Antiquity, vol. 
14, No. 4. The Ohio State Museum did some survey and excavation 
work. The University of Oklahoma, as previously mentioned, did 
some digging at the Fort Gibson Reservoir and made independent 
surveys in other areas. The University of Utah assumed responsi- 
bility for surveys at a number of projects in the southwestern corner 
of that State but at the close of the year had not yet started field 
work. In Wisconsin, Beloit College made surveys and did some 
digging in the Black River project. 
