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ered are stemmed projectile points, one of obsidian, and a shaft 

 wrench made from a deer metapodial decorated with incised lines. 

 A specimen somewhat similar to the latter was recovered in 1946 

 from the Woodruff ossuary, a Kieth focus burial, in the Harlan 

 County Reservoir area (Kivett, 1953, pi. 22, a, 2). 



It appears that the work of the Historical Society at the Trenton 

 Reservoir has extended the range of the Keith focus to the west and 

 has indicated the existence, although it does not permit the compre- 

 hensive definition of, two or three new Woodland variants. One of 

 the more conspicuous results of expanded research in the central 

 Plains during recent years has been the steadily expanding list of 

 variants assignable to the Woodland pattern, a list which, it seems, 

 cannot yet be considered exhaustive. 



The results of the 1950 investigations at the various Woodland 

 sites in the Trenton Reservoir area have been reported in a publica- 

 tion of the Historical Society (Kivett, 1952). 



NORTH DAKOTA 



Responsibility for the archeological investigation of certain sites 

 in the Garrison Reservoir was assumed under memoranda of agree- 

 ment with the National Park Service by the North Dakota Historical 

 Society in both 1950 and 195 1 and by Montana State University in 



1951- 



One of the sites that will be lost with the filling of the Garrison 

 Reservoir is Like-a-Fishhook (32ML2), the last village occupied by 

 the Three Affiliated Tribes — the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara. 

 Founded in 1845 by the Hidatsa and some Mandan, it was augmented 

 about 1862 by the arrival of the Arikara and the remainder of the 

 Mandan and was occupied by these three groups until about 1890, 

 when the inhabitants moved to individual allotments distributed 

 throughout the Fort Berthold Reservation. There are numerous con- 

 temporary records, as well as a considerable body of ethnographic 

 information collected during and after the occupation of the site, 

 relative to the character of the village and of the life within it. Origi- 

 nally consisting entirely of earth lodges and still predominantly com- 

 posed of such structures in 1865, by 1872 it contained a preponder- 

 ance of rectangular, windowless log cabins. The Mandan and Hidatsa 

 occupied the section of the site near the river bank and the Arikara 

 quarter was immediately adjacent, to the north. A trading post, Fort 

 Berthold, was established at the village in 1845 ^"^ a second, compet- 

 ing post was built in 1858. Originally known as Fort Atkinson, the 



