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part of the long- rectangular-house period and the earlier part of the 

 circular-house period. The two main sites each appear to have a 

 single bastion in the fortification system. Excavations were well 

 underway by the end of the year. 



Cooperating mstitutions working in the Missouri Basin at the be- 

 ginning of the fiscal year included five field parties from State agen- 

 cies in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Missouri. 

 W. Eaymond Wood of the University of Oregon had a crew at work 

 for the State Historical Society of North Dakota at the Huff site 

 (32M011) in the upper reaches of the Oahe Eeservoir some 18 miles 

 below Mandan, N. Dak. Wood's party excavated eight housed and 200 

 feet of palisade, and cross-sectioned the fortification ditch. This was 

 the location of a fortified, bastioned village of long- rectangular houses 

 with the houses loosely arranged in rows. One unusual house was 

 nearly square and had four center posts comparable to the circular 

 houses of other sites. Dr. Preston Holder of the University of Ne- 

 braska had a crew at work at the Leavenworth site (39C09), 7 miles 

 north of Mobridge in Corson County, S. Dak., in the Oahe Eeservoir. 

 This site, visited by Lewis and Clark in 1804 and attacked by Col. 

 Henry Leavenworth in 1823, was an Arikara village (or pair of 

 villages) of circular houses. Holder's crew excavated four houses and 

 tested several midden areas. Dr. Wesley E. Hurt, Jr., with a Uni- 

 versity of South Dakota crew, spent July and August excavating 

 portions of the No Heart Creek site (39AE2) in old Armstrong 

 County on the right bank of the Missouri Eiver in the Oahe Eeservoir. 

 This small, compact, fortified. La Eoche-type village had an unusual 

 series of small bastions and entry ways. Thomas A. Witty with a crew 

 from the Kansas State Historical Society excavated four sites and 

 tested several others in the Wilson Eeservoir area on the Saline Eiver 

 in Eussell and Lincoln Counties, Kans. All four excavated sites re- 

 late to the Central Plains Phase. Dr. Carl H. Chapman had a Uni- 

 versity of Missouri crew in the field surveying and testing sites in the 

 Kasinger Bluff Eeservoir on the Osage Eiver in Henry, Benton, and 

 St. Clair Counties, west-central Missouri. 



At the end of the fiscal year six field parties representing four 

 cooperating institutions were in the field in the Missouri Basm. Dr. 

 Preston Holder was back at the Leavenworth site (39C09) in the Oahe 

 Eeservoir for a second season of work by the University of Nebraska. 

 Dr. Carl H. Chapman was back at the Kasinger Bluff Eeservoir in 

 Missouri with a University of Missouri field party surveying and 

 testing sites in that area. In addition. Chapman had a survey crew 

 at work in the Stockton Eeservoir area in Cedar and Dade Counties, 

 Mo. Thomas A. Witty had a crew at work excavating the Woods 

 site (14CY30) and testing several other sites in the Milford Eeservoir 

 on the Eepublican Eiver in Geary County, Kans., for the Kansas 



