By. No 26) SMALL SITES ABOUT FORT BERTHOLD—METCALF 7 
University of Montana—National Park Service party, investigated a 
number of sites in the vicinity of Sanish, N. Dak. 
Owing to a cut in appropriations it was impossible for the Missouri 
Basin Project to send out any parties in 1953. The only archeological 
investigations in the reservoir area during that season were carried 
out by Alan R. Woolworth, with a small party from the State His- 
torical Society of North Dakota, who continued the work begun by 
the two Missouri Basin Project groups at the site of Grandmother’s 
Lodge (82ME59). 
In 1954 the State Historical Society of North Dakota and the 
Missouri Basin Project had a small joint party at Like-a-Fishhook 
Village and the adjacent area, the party being headed by Woolworth 
and Smith. The Missouri Basin Project party was forced to return 
to headquarters in midsummer, after which Woolworth finished the 
excavation of Grandmother’s Lodge (82ME59) and excavated the site 
of Fort Kipp (82MN1), an early fur-trading establishment. 
Reports on the sites investigated by the various agencies have been 
completed or are in preparation. Many small sites, often of some 
interest but too small to merit a full-scale investigation, were present 
in the area, and it is to some of these that the following paper is 
devoted. Although these sites are small and not individually 
noteworthy, collectively they have provided a considerable amount 
of previously unreported data. It is felt that as many as possible 
of these available data bearing on the pre-White occupation of the 
area should be placed on record, and it is to this end that the present 
paper has been prepared. The sites scattered along the 200 miles of 
the Missouri River above Riverdale, N. Dak., are now many feet under 
the waters of the Garrison Reservoir, and the opportunity for archeo- 
logical investigation in the area has ceased to exist. 
The following report is based primarily upon data collected for the 
Missouri Basin Project, River Basin Surveys, Smithsonian Institu- 
tion, during the latter half of the 1950 field season and during the 
summer and fall of 1951. To this material has been added infor- 
mation on sites above and below the Fort Berthold Reservation that 
was gathered for the same organization by the survey party under 
Kivett in 1947. Data on the Arikara ceremonial lodge at 32ME16 
were gathered by Donald D. Hartle, Missouri Basin Project archeol- 
ogist; those on the ceremonial structure at 32ML2, by Glenn Klein- 
sasser for the State Historical Society of North Dakota. 
It is impossible to mention individually or to express adequately my 
thanks to all who have helped in the collection of the data and aided 
in preparing this report. However, I wish particularly to thank 
Ralph Vrana, G. Hubert Smith, and Lee G. Madison, who at different 
times formed part of the reconnaissance parties. I am particularly 
grateful to those officials of the U.S. Indian Service who were stationed 
