SEVENTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT 11 



Trade materials are present in the deposits at both locations. Those 

 on the Georgia side, however, are much less numerous than those on 

 the Alabama side and may indicate an earlier abandonment of that 

 part of the village. There is close similarity between the specimens 

 from both sites. The Georgia site actually may represent the loca- 

 tion of one of the towns called Hlekatchka and also seems to be the 

 most promising location for the original Captain Ellich's (Yuchi) 

 town which was settled in the early 18th century. If it was 

 Hlekatchka, the latter is reported to have been destroyed in 1814. 

 Excavations on the site produced large quantities of debris indicating 

 the burning of a house or houses, possibly the entire village, which 

 supports the idea that it may have been that particular village. It 

 is unfortunate that time and funds did not permit further and more 

 extensive excavations on both sides of the river. The other sites 

 which were tested during June contributed still more information 

 pertaining to several aboriginal periods in the Chattahoochee Valley. 



Missouri Basin. — For the sixteenth consecutive year the Missouri 

 Basin Project continued to operate from the field headquarters and 

 laboratory in Lincoln, Nebr. Dr. Robert L. Stephenson served as 

 chief of the project throughout the year. Activities included surveys, 

 excavations, analyses of materials, and reporting on results. During 

 the summer months the work consisted mainly of excavations. Analy- 

 ses and preparation of reports received the major attention through- 

 out the rest of the year. The chronology program, begun in January 

 1958, was especially emphasized. 



At the beginning of the fiscal year the permanent staff, in addition 

 to the chief, consisted of three archeologists, one administrative assist- 

 ant, one administrative clerk, one secretary, one scientific illustrator, 

 one photographer, and four museum aides. On the temporary staff 

 were two assistant archeologists, one cook, and 25 field crewmen. 

 At the end of the year there were five archeologists in addition to 

 the chief, one administrative assistant, one administrative clerk, one 

 secretary, one clerk typist, one scientific illustrator, one photographer, 

 and four museum aides on the permanent staff. The temporary staff 

 included 4 archeologists, 5 field assistants, 3 cooks, and 83 field 

 crewmen. 



During the year there were 19 Smithsonian Eiver Basin Surveys 

 field parties at work in the Missouri Basin. Two of these were 

 operating in the Oahe Reservoir area and two in the Big Bend 

 Reservoir area of South Dakota during July and August. One 

 small party investigated the Salt-Wahoo Watershed area in Nebraska 

 in April; one party conducted surveys and excavations in the Pony 

 Creek Watershed area in Iowa in May; a small party visited the 

 Fort Sully Site in the Oahe Reservoir area in May ; a survey of the 



