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Nebraska Academy of Sciences held at the University of Nebraska. 

 At that time he also read a preliminary statement relating to a study 

 of aboriginal dwellings and settlement types in the Northern Plains. 

 During the period when Mr. Smith was absent from the office, Mr. 

 Wheeler performed such duties of the archeologist in charge as were 

 required. At the end of the fiscal 3^ear he was preparing to take a 

 field party to the Oahe Dam area in South Dakota where excavations 

 were planned for two sites. 



Cooperating mstitiitions. — A number of State and local institutions 

 continued to cooperate in the Inter- Agency Salvage Program through- 

 out the year. Some of the State gi'oups worked independently but 

 correlated their activities closely with the over-all program. A ma- 

 jority of the projects, however, were under agreements between the 

 National Park Service and the various organizations. The Historical 

 Society of Indiana continued making surveys of proposed reservoir 

 areas as part of its general program for archeological studies in that 

 State and made reports on the results of its work. The Ohio State 

 Archeological and Historical Society carried on salvage operatio3is in 

 several localities. In a number of cases the sites involved were not 

 in reservoir areas but the need for the recovery of materials was just as 

 great as though thej^ were ultimately to go under water. The Archeo- 

 logical Survey Association of Southern California continued its volun- 

 tary recovery of materials at several projects in the San Diego area, 

 and the University of California Archeological Survey included sev- 

 eral proposed reservoir areas in its general survey progi'am. 



A number of institutions worked under agreements with the Na- 

 tional Park Service. The University of California Archeological 

 Survey had a party under Dr. Adan E. Treganza, research associate, 

 excavating in sites in the Berry essa Valley in the Monticello Res- 

 ervoir basin in Napa County, California. The area is an important 

 one for linking known Indian groups with specific types of prehis- 

 toric remains and the California party obtained valuable information. 

 In the Columbia Basin a party from the University of Oregon, under 

 the direction of Dr. L. S. Cressman, excavated several sites on the 

 Oregon side of the river at The Dalles. At that locality there is a 

 record of long occupation extending possibly from the closing days 

 of the last glacial period to historic times. Dr. Cressman and his 

 associates collected valuable data and interesting specimens in the 

 course of their digging. On the Washington side of the Columbia 

 River, above The Dalles, a party from the University of Washington 

 under Warren Caldwell excavated at the Wakenuip j^lound, an im- 

 portant site in the area because of its depth and stratified deposits. 

 Parties from the University of Missouri, under the direction of Carl 

 H. Chapman, excavated at a number of sites in the Table Rock Res- 



