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Table 2. — Record materials processed July 1, 1957-June SO, 1958 



Reflex copies of records 9,240 



Photographic negatives made 2, 946 



Photographic prints made 11, 521 



Photographic prints mounted and filed 5, 182 



Transparencies mounted in glass 1, 122 



Color pictures taken in the laboratory 368 



Plate layouts made for manuscripts 92 



Cartographic tracings and revisions 220 



Plates lettered 37 



Artifacts sketched 58 



Profiles drawn 16 



As of June 30, 1958, the Missouri Basin Project had cataloged 

 917,370 specimens from 1,762 numbered sites and 52 collections not 

 assigned site numbers. During the current fiscal year, 8 pottery ves- 

 sels and 37 pottery vessel sections were restored, and 104 nonpottery 

 artifacts were repaired. Archeological specimens from 236 sites in 5 

 reservoirs were transferred to the United States National Museum, as 

 were selected specimens of dog, bird, and fish bones, and of shell. 

 Pottery specimens and stone projectile points were transferred to 

 Region Two of the National Park Service for use as display material 

 at Wind Cave National Monument in South Dakota. The Missouri 

 Basin Project received, by transfer from the Nebraska State His- 

 torical Society, through the courtesy of Marvin F. Kivett, sample 

 pottery specimens from four prototypical Nebraska sites. Cultural 

 units and sites of these type specimens are : Dismal Eiver, the Lovett 

 site (25CH1) ; Lower Loup, the Burkett site (25NC1) ; Oneota, the 

 Leary site (25RH1) ; and Valley Woodland, the Schultz site (25VY1) . 

 These specimens are now a part of the Missouri Basin Project com- 

 parative collection. The Missouri Basin Project also received by 

 transfer from the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History, 

 through the courtesy of Dr. Carlyle S. Smith, archeological collec- 

 tions from two sites in the Fort Eandall Reservoir area. This was a 

 permanent transfer of excavated materials which increased materially 

 the research value of Missouri Basin Project collections. 



During the Thanksgiving weekend, members of the staff partici- 

 pated in the 15th Plains Conference for Archeology, held in Lincoln. 

 On April 19, members of the staff presented papers at the annual 

 meeting of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences, also held in Lincoln. 

 On April 30 and May 1 and 2, members of the staff attended and par- 

 ticipated in the annual meeting of the Society for American Arche- 

 ology held in Norman, Okla. 



Dr. Robert L. Stephenson, chief, when not in charge of field parties, 

 devoted most of his time to managing the office and laboratory in Lin- 

 coln and preparing plans for the 1958 summer field season. He spent 



