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operation, a grand total of 1,074,418 specimens from 1,795 numbered 

 sites and 54 collections not assigned site numbers, in 92 reservoir areas 

 within the Missouri Basin. During the current fiscal year, 7 pottery- 

 vessels, 23 pottery vessel sections, and 1 stoneware bowl were restored, 

 and 154 nonvessel artifacts were repaired. Archeological specimens 

 from 3 sites in 2 reservoirs were transferred to the division of archeol- 

 ogy, U.S. National Museum, and human skeletal remains from 26 

 sites in 8 reservoirs were transferred to the division of physical an- 

 thropology, U.S. National Museum. Archeological specimens 

 (mostly trade goods) from three sites in one reservoir were trans- 

 ferred to the Region Two Office, National Park Service, for display 

 at the Jefferson National Westward Expansion Memorial Museum in 

 St. Louis, Mo. The Missouri Basin project received, by transfer, 

 from the University of Kansas, through the courtesy of Dr. Carlyle 

 S. Smith, sample rim sherds of the Campbell Creek Indented type 

 from the Talking Crow site (39BF3), and sample rim sherds of three 

 varieties of the Cadotte Collared type from the Two Teeth site 

 (39BF204) . These specimens have been added to the Missouri Basin 

 project comparative collections. 



On July 26-27, archeologists of the staff of the Missouri Basin 

 project joined with archeologists of the National Park Service and 

 of State agencies at work within the Missouri Basin in a roundtable 

 field conference in Pierre, S. Dak. This session, called the 15%th 

 Plains Conference, was devoted to basic technical problems arising 

 from the current field activities, and such conferences are to become 

 a regular feature each summer. During the Thanksgiving weekend, 

 members of the staff participated in the 16th Plains Conference for 

 Archeology, held in Lincoln. On April 17, members of the staff 

 participated in the annual meeting of the Nebraska Academy of 

 Sciences, also held in Lincoln. On April 30 and May 1 and 2, mem- 

 bers of the staff attended and participated in the annual meeting of 

 the Society for American Archaeology, held in Salt Lake City, Utah. 



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

 parties, devoted most of his time to managing the office and labora- 

 tory in Lincoln and preparing plans and budgets for the 1959 summer 

 field season. He spent a portion of his time working on a summary 

 report of the Missouri Basin Salvage Program for the calendar years 

 1952-58 and on the preparation of a manuscript reporting the "Arche- 

 ological Investigations in the Whitney Keservoir, Texas." He com- 

 pletely revised and submitted a manuscript, "Excavations at Pueblo 

 Pardo, New Mexico," which he had prepared in collaboration with 

 Joseph H. Toulouse, Jr., in 1941, for publication as a monograph of 

 the School of American Kesearch, Santa Fe, N. Mex. He prepared 

 and submitted for publication by the Alice Ferguson Foundation of 



