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The west half of the first floor was partitioned into seven office cubicles. 

 A map room was made and the filing and secretarial facilities were im- 

 proved. All the work was done by members of the staff. 



Dr. Eobert L. Stephenson, chief of the Missouri Basin project, re- 

 turned to Lincoln on January 10 after 16 months academic leave and 

 resumed his duties at the headquarters and laboratory. During the 

 remainder of the fiscal year most of his activities were directed toward 

 the preparation of plans for the summer's field program. In addition, 

 he started work on a summary report of the Missouri Basin Salvage 

 Program for the calendar years 1952-1955. He presented a paper, 

 "Topography of a Late Archeological Site," at the 66th Annual Meet- 

 ing of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences held in Lincoln on April 

 20-21. An abstract of the paper was published in the Proceedings of 

 the Nebraska Academy of Sciences. He also took an active part in 

 the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology held in 

 Lincoln May 3-5 and presented a paper entitled "Pottery from the 

 Accokeek Site, Maryland." At the close of the fiscal year he was pre- 

 paring to take a field party to the Sully site (39SL4-) in the Oahe area 

 north of Pierre, S. Dak. 



Harold A. Pluscher, field assistant, who worked several previous 

 seasons for the River Basin Surveys, rejoined the staff on May 28, and 

 on June 2 left Lincoln in charge of a survey party which proceeded to 

 Pierre, S. Dak., and began a reconnaissance of the proposed Big Bend 

 Eeservoir area on the Missouri River. The work of the Huscher party 

 was continuing on June 30. 



Robert W. Neuman, temporary field assistant, joined the staff on 

 June 11. Pie left Lincoln on June 12 as the leader of a party which 

 proceeded to the Lovewell Reservoir on White Rock Creek, Jewell 

 County, Kans. By the end of the fiscal year he had excavated for two 

 weeks in site 14JW1 and one week in site 14JW201. The work of 

 Mr. Neuman and his party was handicapped by severe rains but was 

 continuing at the close of the year. 



G. Plubert Smith, archeologist, as previously stated was in charge 

 of the Lincoln office during most of the period from July 1 to January 

 10. His work for the Department of Justice pertained to preparing 

 an ethnohistorical report on the Omaha tribe and appearing as a wit- 

 ness at a hearing held in "Washington late in September when his 

 report was introduced as evidence. During the fall and winter months 

 Mr. Smith completed the manuscript of a detailed archeological report 

 on excavations at the site of Fort Berthold II (32ML2) in the Garri- 

 son Reservoir area in North Dakota. In addition Mr. Smith worked 

 on a manuscript pertaining to excavations at Fort Berthold I and the 

 adjacent Like-a-Fishhook Village. The latter paper is being prepared 

 in collaboration with Alan R. Woolworth of the North Dakota His- 

 torical Society and James H. Howard who was formerly associated 



